{"id":73211,"date":"2020-12-16T10:36:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T05:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=73211"},"modified":"2020-12-17T10:45:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T05:15:13","slug":"only-12-9-indian-women-hold-agricultural-land-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/only-12-9-indian-women-hold-agricultural-land-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 12.9% Indian women hold agricultural land: Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/current-affairs\/the-landless-women-only-12-9-indian-women-hold-agricultural-land-120121300771_1.html\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>\u00a0Centre for Land Governance has released an index ranking states in terms of women holding land rights in percentage points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Land Holding by Women:\u00a0<\/strong>Women constitute a third(32%) of India\u2019s agricultural labour force and contribute 55-66% to farm production. However, they hold only 12.8% of the land in India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best States Providing Land Rights for women:\u00a0<\/strong>Lakshadweep and Meghalaya are best at providing land rights to women; Punjab and West Bengal are the worst.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Region wise Land Holdings:<\/strong>In the southern states, 15.4% of women hold land and in the northeast, 14.1%.Despite such low figures, these states outperform the northern states (9.8%) and the eastern states(9.2%).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Importance of Land rights for women:\u00a0<\/strong>Secure and impartial land rights for women are crucial for a country to achieve sustainable development goals such as ending poverty and achieving gender equality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Click here News:\u00a0Centre for Land Governance has released an index ranking states in terms of women holding land rights in percentage points. Key Takeaways: Land Holding by Women:\u00a0Women constitute a third(32%) of India\u2019s agricultural labour force and contribute 55-66% to farm production. However, they hold only 12.8% of the land in India. Best States&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/only-12-9-indian-women-hold-agricultural-land-index\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Only 12.9% Indian women hold agricultural land: Index<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1305],"tags":[1396],"class_list":["post-73211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-index-reports-bodies","tag-soc_5","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700784797,"cached_date":1701595489},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}