Article Written By: John Goldman
Farming give economic growth of the American economy with female currently provides around 8.6 per cent of the agricultural lands in America. Female are more and more selecting farming as their business but as per National Agricultural Statistics Service 36 % of female farm manage are more than 65 years of age, with around 26 % of female even more than 70 years of age.According to NASS, women are seen as best in the areas of ranches and livestock's especially following the care of goat or horse farming. They also have shown their capability and skills to manage their small farms.Even in the agriculture or in farming field which was mostly taken by male, now female are getting open space to expose their farming knowledge. They are getting lot of opportunities to till the plots and glean the lands that are of huge benefit to them.There is lot of programs which are being run either directly or indirectly to assist female in different fields of their activities. Few grants are also being declared from time to time basis to help female farmers for e.g. In 2004 CISA received the grant from the federal Risk Management Agency for working with women on the agriculture lands and giving them technical assistance in the various aspects of business planning and marketing.These grants plan for networking opportunities for women working in agriculture communities and giving them with different suggestions in marketing.Unluckily, there are not lots of grant programs for female agriculturalist, as they have to make their own direction through several venture and projects. Lot of these programs is in the mode of loans. Currently the 2501 program was commenced under the 1987 Agricultural Credit Act to carry progress in number of finances that could be fixed for the female agriculturist.In this agenda was also adding privilege for agriculturist belonging to unprivileged groups. Moreover there was also plan for the sincere technical support for the female agriculturist and other lowly individuals associating to agricultural group.Finding at the enhancing number of female agriculturist on the farming land and the difficulties being faced by them particularly in marketing and sales of their farming products, it is high time government should make all the efforts to commence the grant programs for these women as their progress is the progress of the whole nation.
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