Women Participation in Sericulture Field District Surguja, Chhattisgarh, India

Employment of women has been recongnized as an effective strategy for their socio-economic empowerment for sustainable sericulture. Sericulture is a women intensive sector where 60% of the workers are either family workers or hired female workers. Sericulture is one of the important labour intensive agro-based rural industry in the world. This paper observed that impact of women workers dominance in sericulture sector upon the process of inclusive development in the rural womens of surguja. Present study reveals that the women are engaged about 60% work in various sector in sericulture from tasar & mulberry cultivation to silk weaving etc. and women are doing their works lucrative in every crops. Productive skill makes the presence of women invincible both in pre and post cocoon sectors. Sericulture provides scope for the direct involvement of women in the process of production and decision making for improving their economic conditions and its enable them to gain greater recognition and status in the family and society. Every years 3 crops of July to Feb. session. Mostly womens contribution to work in sericulture and their work field 11 center of departmental tasar & 7 center mulberry cultivation district surguja related blocks.