Women are the major workforce in agriculture. About 80% women are engaged in agricultural operations like sowing

Transplanting,weeding,,interculture,harvesting, threshing ,shelling, cleaning ,grinding, pounding etc.these are tedious

as well as .

Time consuming operations perform by women manually or by using traditional tools. They are slow and cause considerable

fatigue and drudgery. Also many operations are traditionall y done by varying body postures which causes body pain.

All these factors result in physical and mental fatigue, monetary hardships,exploitation ,pain, economic strss,