Role Performance of Tribal Farm Women in Livelihood Dealings

Role performance defined as the way women actually plays their role in a livelihood management. Farmwomen play vital role within home as housewives in managing the domestic affairs and they work as co-partners in the farming profession. No operation in field is beyond them. They are best in sowing, transplanting, weeding, manuring, harvesting, winnowing, threshing, storing, marketing and rearing livestock etc. Besides they are the manager to the household activities. They take important decision in home and outside the home. Scientific achievements and modernization are yet to make an impact on them. Therefore, it was felt necessary to carry out the investigation entitled “Role performance of tribal farm women in livelihood management”. The study was conducted with following objectives; To study the profile of the tribal farmwomen, to study the participation of the tribal farm women in agriculture, animal husbandry and household activities, to study the tribal farmwomen's involvement in decision making for home management, farm management and animal husbandry practices, to study the role performance of tribal farm women in crop and animal husbandry practices, to study the relationship between selected independent variables with role performance of tribal farm women in crop and animal husbandry practices and to study the constraints faced by tribal farm women in livelihood management and seek their suggestions to overcome the constraints and extension strategy.