Rural women's participation in crop and livestock production activities in Faisalabad, Pakistan

Rural women in Pakistan, under small holding system of farming, play a pivotal role in farming. They are actively participating in all range of activities related to crop production and livestock management. Rural women remain busy from dawn to dusk in various agricultural activities including pre-harvest, post- harvest and livestock management activities. Their participation is well dispersed but less perceived, because of insufficient data to show their active involvement in various agricultural activities. Keeping in view these facts, the present study had been designed to explore the extent of their participation in crop and livestock production activities in the Punjab, Pakistan. District Faisalabad was selected as the universe of present research study. A total of 125 rural women were selected through multistage random sampling technique and interviewed with well designed and pre-tested interview schedule, finally analyzed by using SPSS. The results of the data analysis revealed that rural women's participation was high in harvesting of vegetables (M = 2.58). On the other hand among post harvest activities women's participation was maximum in storage of cereals (M = 2.87). Similarly, among livestock and poultry management activities rural women's involvement was maximum in cleaning of animal's sheds (M = 2.90).