Participation Level of Women in Paddy Cultivation and in Animal Husbandry

Women play a significant and crucial role in agricultural development and allied fields. Keeping in mind the role of rural women in agriculture and animal husbandry, a study was conducted in kurukshetra district of Haryana with objective to analyze the participation level of women in paddy cultivation and in animal husbandry. Semi structured interview schedule was used to collect the data, using personal interview. The analysis of the results indicated that majority of the respondents (100%) participated in storage with mean value 1.00 followed by seed treatment with mean score 0.96, cleaning/grading (mean score 0.78), weeding (mean score 0.68) and winnowing/processing (mean score 0.50). Other major activities performed by the respondents were threshing, transplanting, intercultivation and watching birds. Fertilizer application, crop care and nurturing and marketing were not performed by even a single respondent. In animal husbandry the result indicated that the main activity performed by women was cleaning followed by top feeding, grooming, hygienic milking, feeding of animal, colostrums feeding, deworming of calves, milking within 4 hours of calving and fodder storage.