Participation of tribal agroforestry practicing women in different farming operations

A study was conducted at Jawhar Tahsil of Palghar district of Maharashtra during 2018 to find out the participation of tribal woman traditionally practicing different agroforestry systems and their knowledge about farming oeprations. It was found that household work was wholly performed by the women followed by weeding, harvesting, threshing, sowing of rice/finger millet/prosso millet with 96.67, 93.33. 86.67 and 83.33 per cent involvement respectively. Their minimum role was in adoption of modern technologies (16.67%) followed by plant protection (23.33%) and decision making in crop management activities (26.67%). More than half of the women (51.67%) were having low followed by medium (45.00%) and high (3.33%) level of knowledge about different agroforestry practices and agricultural operations. Study showed that the maximum agricultural operations about agroforestry were performed by tribal women but they were less involved in decision making.