Woman is the backbone of agricultural workforce but worldwide her hard work has mostly been unpaid. She does the most tedious and back-breaking tasks in agriculture, animal husbandry and homes. Therefore, without intellectual
and physical participation of woman, it may not be possible to popularize alternative system of land management to shifting cultivation and promote the care of soil and health of economic plants and animals. It is a fact that the
women of rural areas contribute to agricultural work in addition to their domestic work. Presently, they constitute one-third of the agricultural labour force and about 48 per cent of selfemployed farmers. Furthermore, management
and involvement of Indian women in farming enterprise has been on rise recent years especially in better endowed rural regions (Praveena et al.
2005).