Indian Journal of Economics and Development

India has world's largest number of agriculture workers. Most of the farmers have small land holdings, therefore, activities like sowing, transplantation, weeding, manure and pesticide application, harvesting etc. are performed manually. Both males and females work hand-in-hand during most of the farm activities. Due to manual work, there are greater chances of farm accidents, mishap, fatality, production loss time and other burdens on farmer's well-being. For this, protective products can be used to avoid such mishaps at the root level. Keeping this in mind, waterproof garments were constructed i.e. mask, mixing mat, apron, gloves and hood by sandwiching the polythene sheet within two layers of waste/used fabric. The developed products were provided to the farmers/farm women working in fields engaged in different agricultural activities like mixing of pesticides, pesticide application, seed treatment etc. The results showed that gloves (WMS 5.66) were the most preferred protective product used for majority of the farm activities. It was followed by apron with WMS of 4.73. Since the hood was not used for all farm activities, so it was the least preferred product with WMS of 3.4. It was observed that these products if developed at home can help to save money. It can further help in capacity building of the rural women.