PARTICIPATION OF TRIBAL WOMEN IN DIFFERENT FARM ACTIVITIES IN KISHANGANJ DISTRICT OF BIHAR

Abstract

The present study was conducted in Kishanganj District of Bihar to find out the 
participation of tribal women in various farm activities. A total of 124 respondents were 
selected randomly for the present study.  The data were collected through a pre-structured 
interview schedule and later appropriate statistical analysis was done to find out the 
meaningful result. The results showed that the tribal women were engaged in almost all the 
farming activities like preparation of field, sowing of seeds, transplantation, weeding,  
manureing, harvesting, threshing, winnowing, storage of grains ,marketing, disposal of farm 
produce etc. however, they were  actively participating in farm activities like, transplantation, 
weeding, raising of nurseries, preparation of field, storage of grains , cleaning and grading etc  
but they were having less participation in farm activities like, threshing, plant protection 
measures, fertilizer and pesticide application, marketing etc. The maximum extent of their 
participation found in transplanting having mean score 2.88 (rank Ⅰ), followed by harvesting 
having mean score 2.87 (rank Ⅱ).