“Access of female to the various agricultural inputs with respect to male and their labour pattern & composition in far western part of Nepal” (A Case Study Of Kanchanpur District)

Female labor force is as efficient as male population for the sustain and inclusive economic development of the society. Due to the out migration of male members of the family, women have both rsponsibilities as a family caretaker and agricultural labourer in the almost households in Nepal. But women have limited access to the various agricultural inputs in Nepalese society. They are still in traditional pattern of agricultural production system. From the above study and analysis, in the study area of far western part of Nepal, women's access to the various agricultural inputs (Land, Machine & Equipments, Implements, Loan, Livestock and fertilizer and pesticides) is in only 33% of total households where as male have the access to these factors in 67% of total households. In the study area, the women of 69% households are engaged in traditional agricultural production system and only the 31% household's women are applying modern techniques of agriculture production. From the view point of labour composition, the most of labour i.e. 56% is consumed by animal husbandry and dairy production, 4% of women labour is consumed by cash production and oil & seed production activities respectively. But it is depicted that women are not involved in poultry production in the study area.