• As per the Census 2001, total work force in India is 400 million of which 68.37 percent are male workers and 31.63 percent are female workers @
  
  
• Almost 75.38% of all women workforce are engaged in agriculture. Within agriculture, 94% of women in crop cultivation are in cereal production and other crops, 1.4% in vegetable production and horticulture, while 3.72% are engaged in fruits, nuts, beverages, and spice crops @
  
  
• The FAO estimates that women produce over 50 percent of all food grown worldwide #
  
  
• In over all farm production, women's average contribution is estimated at 55% to 66% of the total labour with percentages, much higher in certain regions %
  
  
• According to 1991 census the male cultivators has increased in the country by 11.67 percent from 76.7 million in 1981 to 85.6 million in 1991. The female cultivators however have increased at much faster rate of 45.23 percent from 14.8 million in 1981 to 21.5 million in 1991 %
  
  
• The share of agricultural workers in the female workforce is very high, 72.8 per cent in 2004-05, while for males it is much lower at 48.9 per cent *
  
  
• Casualisation of the workforce in agriculture occurred from 1983 to 2000 for men and women and in 2004-05 when the feminisation of the workforce seemed to have occurred, there was no further casualisation of the workforce *

@ The EU India FTA in Agriculture and Likely Impact on Indian Women by Roopam Singh & Ranja Sengupta, December, 2009, CENTAD,
http://www.esocialsciences.com/data/articles/Document1432010510.149914.pdf

# Factsheet: Women Farmers and Food Security, produced by The Hunger Project,
http://www.thp.org/system/files/Factsheet+on+Women+Farmers+and+Food+Security.pdf

% Agriculture Sector in India,
http://ncw.nic.in/pdfreports/Impact%20of%20WTO%20Women%20in%20Agriculture.pdf

* Report on Conditions of Work and Promotion of Livelihoods in the Unorganised Sector,
http://nceus.gov.in/Condition_of_workers_sep_2007.pdf