Author(s):

Poonam Sharma, Irfan Bisati, Hilal Malik and Chesti MH

Abstract: Rural women play a major role in country’s economy through their active participation in agricultural activities. A study to equip farm women technologically for reducing their drudgery and enhancing their productivity was carried out to collect the required information on various agro based women drudgery reducing technologies transferred and farm women response to the innovative technologies. It was revealed that Women empowerment cell, SKUAST-Kashmir is playing a vital role in disseminating agri-technologies and thereby helping the farm women to aware the latest technical knowledge and developing new skill related to agriculture farm tools and implements. Agriculture technology is changing rapidly and high lightening the importance of documenting innovative technologies in agriculture would help in accelerating the agriculture production and also in improving the socio- economic conditions of the farming community.

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