• Dr Usha Pant Joshi
• Kabindra Bahadur Chand

The agriculture sector is one of the key sectors of growth and poverty reduction in Nepal. Women from workers are the backbone of the agricultural and rural economy of Nepal. four types of data can contribute to measuring the contribution of women in the agricultural labour force i.e Statistics on key economic and labour indicators, land utilization status, population employed in agriculture and contribution of various crops in total domestic agriculture production of the study area kanchanpur district of Mahakali zone .apart from the labour burden of rural women in the agriculture sector, they also contribute for unpaid and unaccounted household jobs related to food, water, fuel, etc. this paper re-affirms that women make an essential contribution to agriculture and household jobs across the total domestic agriculture production in Nepal. The context is very relevant based on sound data analysis available by the different reliable sources which depicts the real picture of farmworkers particularly women in Nepal.

Agriculture, farmworkers, poverty, profession, informal sector, rural economics, unaccounted, household jobs

"Women’s participation in the Agriculture sector in Nepal - A Case Study of Kanchanpur district", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 6, page no.1878-1883, June-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2006597.pdf

"Women’s participation in the Agriculture sector in Nepal - A Case Study of Kanchanpur district", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 6, page no. pp1878-1883, June-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2006597.pdf