A farm labourer clutches her sickle tightly as she takes a breather from harvesting standing crop on the outskirts of Punjab, along with her husband and children. In India, of the 98 million women involved in farm jobs, around 63 per cent work as wage labour on land belonging to others, according to Census 2011. Even among the over 74 per cent of rural women who work in the fields as agricultural producers, only 13 per cent have any ownership rights over land, says a study Photo: Kamal Narang
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