A Participatory Outline of Tribal Women of Andhra Pradesh in Farming Activities

The present study was made known from the data collected from 100 tribal women, who were involved in farming. The study was undertaken in randomly selected two villages Rajam (plain) and Palakonda (hilly) of Srikakulam district. District Srikakulam was randomly selected out of all the five districts of Andhra Pradesh, having tribal population to find out the participation of tribal women in different farming activities. The data were collected through a structured interview schedule, personally from tribal (SAVARA) woman who was involved in Farming. Appropriate statistical analysis was used, to explore the results. The results of the study revealed that, 63% of the total respondents were participating in farming activities. Maximum involvement of women was seen in activities like cleaning, storage structure with a weighted mean score (1.95) ranking first, followed by manure preparation (1.91) ranking second and seed treatment (1.75) among the farming activities. Less involvement of tribal women was studied in hard activities like ploughing transportation of produce, levelling of land ethic, as they require high energy and are strenuous.