Local Government Intervention in the Agricultural Initiatives of Kudumbasree in Kerala: A Review

The local planning envisages opening novel opportunities which are of direct benefit to women and enhances their skill and capabilities. The state of Kerala has ailing agricultural sector. The women collective under Kudumbasree in association with local self-government can play vital role in saving state’s agricultural sector from distress. The present study conducted in the selected panchayats of Kerala narrates the story of how the institutions under Local Self Government can instigate women collective endeavors in agriculture. Using the tools of primary survey, women farmers in the selected panchayat of Thrissur district in Kerala were came under the purview of the study. The commendable records of any local body owe largely to the congenial coordination between Kudumbasree and the local government. The study finds that the panchayats, which have wholeheartedly supported the SHG initiatives, can attain good records at the national space. Hence providing a space to the agricultural initiatives of women is ostensibly worthy in value addition as they are more gratified with the creation in the primary sector, simultaneously it is a boon to the alarming agricultural sector in Kerala.