Proliferation of Shrimp Farms in India Displacing Women Workers
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Hindu] P.V. Srividya - October 6, 2015
The once ubiquitous figure of the toiling woman on farmlands has long faded. Today, a landscape once dotted by direct-sown fields that summoned the woman worker has been altered by shrimp farms that have made inroads from the creeks to inlands, on farmlands from Velankanni to Thiruthuraipoondi here.
Against this proliferation of shrimp farms on farm lands, the loss of women workers and the impact of shrimp farms has been ignored.
Two decades after shrimp industry made entry with claims of local employment, its actual employment pattern was as follows. Irrespective of the size of the pond (.5 ha to 1 ha), each seed-...
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