Participation of the Tribal Farm Women in Crop Management

Farmwomen are the backbone of Indian agriculture. Growing food has been an interminable saga of her life. Like other rural women, tribal farmwomen also play an important role in agriculture. Farmwomen play vital role within home as housewives in managing the domestic affairs and they work as co-partners in the farming profession. No field operation is beyond the reach of women.They take important decisions in the home and outside the home. Scientific achievements and modernization are yet to make an impact on them. Like other rural women tribal women also play an important role in agriculture. From the study it was observed that.Farmwomen’s participation in pre-sowing and sowing operations revealed that the highest respondents engaged with sowing followed by stubble collection, clode crushing, manuring and seedbed preparation. Incase of interculturing operations the participation of the farmwomen were observed the highest in weeding followed by gap filling, application of fertilizer, bird scaring, irrigation, bunding and hoeing with hand. In harvesting and post harvesting operations, the highest participation was obtained in nipping / picking and threshing followed by harvesting, winnowing, storage, making threshing yard, bagging, packing and marketing of agriculture products. Majority of the decisions regarding farm management was dominated by husband and majority of the farm management decision was taken by their husband’s .The relationship between independent variables like age, education, herd size, land holding, family size and number of children of the respondents and their participation in crop husbandry was observed positively significant. Whereas the negative relationship was observed incase of occupation, type of family and age at marriage.