AGRICULTURE INDIA (1)Crops cultivated in vedic period(2)Role of Women in Agriculture during Vedic Period

Crops cultivated in vedic period

• In the later vedic period (1000 – 600 BC) agricultural implements were improved. 
• Iron ploughshare was used also improved. 
• people possessed the knowledge of fertility of land, selection of seed, seed treatment, harvesting maturing and rotation of crops. 
• Barely sesame and sugarcane ware the main crops. Cucumber and bottle ground were also mentioned in vedic period, 
• Aryans were accustomed to barley diet. Barley is good for men cattle and horses. 
•  For cloths, wool and cotton were used.
• The agriculture implements mentioned in vedic literature include the plough (langala, -a  pointed type having smooth handle, Sira – a large and havy plough).
• Sickle was used harvesting sieves were used for 

Role of Women in Agriculture during Vedic Period

•  The economy of people largely depended on agriculture with cattle rearing as their main occupation.
•  In all agriculture activities, women took active part as in sowing, ploughing, weeding, reaping threshing etc. 
• They also assisted their husband went to fields and performed hard duties with them like harvesting crops with sickle, collecting bundles, beating them out on the floor of the granary, separating the grains from the chaff by a sieve and storing the grain safely. 
•  cloth making, stitching, waving, spinning, dyeing were some of the subsidiary occupation for wome.
• There was also mention of the work like carpentry gold and black smithy and military training undertaken by women to earn their livelihood. 
•  in vedic period, women contributed a lot to build the economy not only of their own families but of the country too.
• Role of Women in Agriculture during Vedic Period