The present study was undertaken in two randomly selected villages of Kaithal district namely Kaul and Deoban and from Kurukshetra district villages Mirzapur and Kirmich. Under phase-I a sample of 200 respondents actively involved in paddy cultivation were selected to study their involvement in various paddy activities. The result of the study showed that majority of the respondents were of young age, illiterate, belonged to middle caste, had medium level of family education status and had nuclear family system. Sixty per cent of the respondents had occupation as agriculture and 39 per cent of them were landless. Average number of days 40.82 spent annually by farm women in paddy cultivation were highest in transplanting activity and time spent hrs/day in harvesting activity was 9.39. Participation of women was found highest (84%) in transplanting activity.
Paddy cultivation, Average man days, Transplanting, Women involvement
