• Dr. Sunita Roy

Women work force participation rate in India has been increasing after reform period. Women have a multi-dimensional role. They have a major role to play in the development process also. For the last few years programmes for women have been receiving particular attention under community and rural development programmes. The desirable socio-economic development can be achieved only when women in large are stimulated and motivated to accept and adopt new techniques. The largest number of women in India is engaged in farming operations either as cultivators or as supervisor or as agricultural labourers. They are the main decision makers and participants in various agricultural operations like seed sowing, transplanting, weeding, harvesting, threshing, application of manure, storage of seed and food grains and post harvest home level processing. Apart from all these they also involve in bringing fodder from field, chaff cutting, feeding and cleaning of cattle, maintaining cattle shed and compost making. In this paper an attempt has been made to study the socio economic condition of female agricultural labourers and suggest suitable measures for improving their living condition. The present study focuses on women agriculture labourers in Jehanabad where marginal agriculture labourers has been increasing since 1991 compared to male counterpart due to globalization effect.

Agricultural labourers, Rural households, Sanitation, Socio-economic status, Economic activity.

"A Socio-Economic Condition of Women Agricultural Labourers in Bihar with Special Reference to Jehanabad District.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.263-271, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907V40.pdf

"A Socio-Economic Condition of Women Agricultural Labourers in Bihar with Special Reference to Jehanabad District.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp263-271, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907V40.pdf