ABSTRACT
India is primarily an agrarian economy. Despite the forward leaps taken by our society in the different novel and pioneering areas of development, agriculture remains the force that supports rural India. The rural agricultural workforce all over the world comprises 37 per cent women and in low-income countries, it is as high as 48 per cent. Women represent close to 50 per cent of the world’s 600 million small-scale livestock managers and about half of the labor force in small-scale fisheries. Agricultural landholdings in India are highly fragmented and about 78% of farm holders have land areas less than 2 ha. Mechanization of agricultural operations on a farm reduces the drudgery, increases timeliness and efficiency of work, and increases profit. Agricultural machinery available today is more suited to male anthropometry.
