Decision Making Pattern of Tribal Farm Women

Role concert defined as the way women essentially plays their role in a source of revenue running. Farmwomen play fundamental 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 tribal farmwomen's involvement in decision making for home management, farm management and animal husbandry practices and to study the role performance of tribal farm women in crop and animal husbandry practices.

The results clearly indicates that the majority of the respondents (83.33 per cent) were in middle to young age groups, had secondary level of education, (92.50 percent) of the respondents were married, (55.83 per cent) had 3 to 5 number of children, (60.83 per cent) belonged to the joint family, (81.66 per cent) of the respondents belonged medium to big family size, more than half (54.16 per cent) of the respondents had medium herd size, two-fifth (37.50 per cent) of the respondents possessed skilled occupation, (92.50 per cent) had medium to big size of land holding, (58.32 per cent) respondents had medium to low annual income, (80.83 per cent) of the respondents sometimes to regularly used source of information, (85.00 per cent) involved in social activities, (80.00 per cent) of respondents had moderate level of scientific orientation, (93.33 per cent) of the respondents earned their livelihood from two to three enterprises, More than half of (52.50 per cent) the respondents had medium level of decision making in home management. Majority (73.33 per cent) of the respondents were medium level of decision making in farm management. Majority (64.16 per cent) of the respondents were medium level of decision making in animal husbandry practices. Majority (74.16 per cent) of the respondents were moderate role performance in crop practices. Majority (65.84 per cent) of the respondents were moderate role performance in animal husbandry practices.