The 15th Indian Census noted a 24% increase in the number of women as agricultural labourers in the decade from 2001-2011. At 61.6 million, it is more than half (58%) of the 98 million women who are employed in agriculture in the country. The same period saw a 10% decline in the number of female farmers as the main cultivators and a 20% decrease in the number of marginal female farmers.