PARTICPATION OF RURAL WOMEN IN AGRICULTRAL AND ANIMAL HUSBANRY – A STUDY

Women play significant role in agriculture and animal husbandry. World over today, women are engaged at different level of agriculture . In Indian agriculture women play significant role in all agriculture activities like sowing, weeding, manure and fertilization application, harvesting, drying as well as livestock management like shed cleaning fodder cutting, mulching e.t.c During the year 2014, survey was conducted at Rampurdas village of Kotwali block district Bijnor in which 100 farm women were selected. On the basis of survey it was found that 90.2% farm women participated in transplantation, 90.1% in harvesting, 88.4% in grain storage and 87% in livestock management.