Technological Needs of Farm Women in Varied Farming Systems of Tamil Nadu.

Technological base for improving productivity and income of the rural population in the field of agriculture has broadened with the success of Green revolution. As a result of this research and transfer of technology programmes, the national production has increased over time in the decades, thus balancing the population growth and food production of our country. There is a serious and valid criticism that the modern technologies served only male farmers and not the resource poor small farm women who account for nearly 89.00 per cent of the women farmers. It has now been realised that participation of all sections of the farming community in particular the farm women, can be brought by developing appropriate technologies, keeping other issues of stability, sustainability, equity and productivity. The study was taken up in three districts of Tamil Nadu viz., Nagapattinam, Cuddalore and Perambalur districts comprising of maximum area under three different farming systems viz., wet land, garden land and dry land respectively. The respondent of 60 small farm women was selected from each of the selected farming systems by using proportionate random sampling technique. The technological needs of small farm women in farm operations were measured with the help of a specially constructed schedule, which was prepared by discussing with experts. The collected data were tabulated and analysed using statistical tools viz., percentage analysis, mean and analysis of variance. The majority of the farm women expressed high level of technological need in dairy farming, goat rearing and poultry farming with the overall mean score (2.752, 2.554 and 2.516) respectively