ADOPTION OF SELECTED DRUDGERY REDUCTION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO AGRICULTURE BY THE FARM WOMEN

The present study was conducted in Gonda district of Uttar Prades. The purpose of the study was to know the adoption of selected drudgery reduction technologies related to agriculture by the farm women. The 100 farm women were randomly selected for technological empowerment through training from two purposively selected panchayat samities. Personal interview technique was used for collecting data. The findings of the study reveal that manual bund former, serrated sickle and maize sheller were the main technologies used by majority of the respondents as indicated by higher adoption index (60%). This may be due to reason that the technologies were easy to use and handle, cheap in cost, require less effort while operation as compared to traditional methods. Wheel hoe, manual seed drill and knapsack sprayer were the other technologies adopted by more than half of the respondents with adoption index 47.5- 50 per cent followed by manual rice transplanter and ground nut decorticator with adoption index 35-43 percent.