A Study of Women Participation and Decision Making in Farm Management

Woman has always been an important and prominent partner in agriculture sector. Since ages women continues as important stakeholder in farming activities in India. The present study of three villages of block Ranbir Singh Pura of District Jammu of Jammu and Kashmir state was conducted to find out the extent of involvement of women in various farm management operations along with the various constraints use and importance of information sources and the drudgery level associated with these operations. The study revealed that extent of women involvement was maximum in operations like transplanting, weeding, harvesting and storing. The farm women face constraints like non-availability of inputs on time, low price of produce less involvement in decision making. Farm women also reported heavy drudgery level in operations like field preparation, threshing and marketing.