Analysis of time utilization pattern of farm women of Punjab Kaur Rupinder1,*, Mittal Ritu2 1Ph.D. Research Scholar, Department of Extension Education and Communication Management, College of Community Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab 2Scientist, Department of Extension Education and Communication Management, College of Community Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab *Corresponding author email id: patwinderpalkaursidhu@gmail.com
Online Published on 18 March, 2024. Abstract The study was carried out from five agro—climatic zones of Punjab. Ten districts were selected from five agro climatic zones. This research consisted sample of 500 farm women. In the present study, time utilization pattern of the respondent for various household and agricultural livestock activities was recorded for 24 hours by using the recall method. Findings of the study revealed that most of the farm women were housewives and had no personal income. They spent their maximum amount of time on kitchen work (4.15 hours/day) and other household work (2.40 hours/day) and minimum amount of time on care of children/elderly and community related work. They spent medium time on kitchen work, teaching children and occupational work followed by spent less time on community related work and agricultural and livestock work. Farm women spent medium time i.e. 466.8-690.2 hours/month on different household activities. Top Keywords Different activities, Farm women, Time utilization pattern. Top |