INVOLEMENT OF THE FARM WOMEN IN DIFFERENT POST - HARVESTING ACTIVITIES IN KANPUR.

India is a one of the world's largest agriculture economy and has the second largest agricultural work force with two hundred sixty million workers. Agricultures in developing countries heavily dependent on manual labour and the major contribution comes from women. Women are central to selection, cultivation, preparation and harvest of food crops. Involvement of the farm women in post-harvesting activities belonged to both near by and faraway city in different post harvesting operations. 83.33 per cent and 16.67 per cent resource poor farm women of far away city were found having full and partial involvement in carrying farm produce to threshing floor respectively. Hence, it can be summarized that resource poof farm women of far away city had their full involvement in all post harvesting operations except threshing through machine.