PATAUDI (INDIA) — Once a housewife in rural India, Ms Sharmila Yadav always wanted to be a pilot and is now living her dream remotely, flying a heavy-duty drone across the skies to cultivate the country's picturesque farmlands.
PATAUDI — Once a housewife in rural India, Ms Sharmila Yadav always wanted to be a pilot and is now living her dream remotely, flying a heavy-duty drone across the skies to cultivate the country's picturesque farmlands.This photograph taken on February 29, 2024 shows Himanshi, a certified remote pilot trained under the government-backed "Drone Sister" programme, operating a drone to spray liquid fertiliser over a farm in Pataudi.
It is also a portent of rural India's changing attitudes towards working women, who have traditionally found few opportunities to join the labour force and are often stigmatised for doing so. Ms Yadav was a homemaker for 16 years after marrying her farmer husband, with few job opportunities for women in her small rural hamlet near the town of Pataudi, a few hours' drive from the capital New Delhi.
The women trained as pilots are given the 30-kilogram drones for free, along with battery-run vehicles to transport them. "Women, who earlier could not step out of their houses owing to deep-rooted patriarchal attitudes and lack of opportunities, are coming forward with enthusiasm to take part," he told AFP.Mr Kumar said that spraying fertiliser by drone was cost-effective, used less water and took a fraction of the time of manual spraying.A little over 41 per cent of rural Indian women are in the formal workforce compared to 80 per cent of rural men, according to a government survey last year.
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