Vol. 11, Special Issue 9 (2022)

Author(s):
Sarita Paradkar, Seema Narberia, Guneshori Lairenjam, Minakshi Meshram and Vishal Meshram

Abstract:
Women in general plays pivotal role in farming in Madhya Pradesh state. They carry out various activities in agriculture like cleaning of field areas, preparation of field, sowing, intercultural practices, weeding, harvesting, picking, cleaning of grains, drying of grains and so forth. But it is unfortunate that they remain invisible people. However, their involvement as choice-makers regarding those activities is questionable. Hence the study was carried out to decide the contribution of farm women in decision -making in agriculture. The objective of this paper was to find out the socio-economic profile of the tribal farm women in Decision Making towards Agricultural Operations in Madhya Pradesh state. For the study, the purpose of a total of 120 tribal farm women was selected as respondents from ten villages of a selected block. The tribal women have been a personal interview technique with the help of a well-structured and pre-tested interview schedule. The findings of the study revealed that the majority of the women were 45.00 percent of the respondents were middle-aged between 36 to 48 years, 42.50 percent with a level of education in primary school, 60.00% of the respondents belonged to a nuclear family type, 45.83 of the respondents belonged to medium family size, 49.16 percent have small size of land holding, 48.33 percent found to medium annual income, and 40.00 percent of the respondents belonged to farming as main occupation category.