Vol. 11, Special Issue 12 (2022)

The present study was undertaken to find out the participation of women in agricultural activities and musculoskeletal discomforts among them while doing those activities. A sample of 30 women who were participating in the agricultural activities was selected using the purposive sampling method. The data was analysed using descriptive statistics such as means, percentages, and standard deviation. The results of the study showed that the majority of farm women were participated in crop production activities like weeding, picking, removing stalks and stubbles, cleaning of field, top dressing fertilizer, sowing, transplanting, irrigation, cutting, bundling and heaping/uprooting were 100%, 100%, 76.67%, 76.67%, 76.67%, 76.67%, 76.67%, 76.67%, 70% and 70% respectively. None of the respondents were participating the activities like spreading/Mixing the manure and spraying. Findings also indicated that the participation of farm women in post-harvesting activities such as threshing, cleaning of grain, grading, and bagging/matting were 10%, 80%, 73.33% and 70% respectively. No participation was found in activities like sieving and transporting. It was observed that agricultural labor was manually doing most of the agricultural operations. The most commonly used tools were likki, Kodali and picking tools.