Frontier technologies for empowering farm women

In agriculture sector, the farm women are assigned secondary roles with insignificant powers. Their significant contribution as labour input has generally remained unaccounted. They are far behind and need to be adequately empowered to take up future challenges. The nature and extent of women involvement in agriculture varies greatly from region to region, ecological sub-zones, caste, class and stages in the family cycle. Empowering farm women for better quality of life is an important and burning issue today. Knowledge coupled with efficient resource management is considered one of the most important factots for development. Extension approaches and strategies followed for transfer of technology to farm women are required to satisfy their specific needs and problems. Thrust needs to be given on cultivation technologies, improved agricultural tools and implements, institutional approach for empowerment and inculcating entrepreneurship skill in them. Coordination is to be made among technology generation, technology dissemination and technology receiving system. The empowering strategies would need to be further sharpened to make them effective and result oriented.