The study was undertaken at Kunzer village located in the district Baramulla of Kashmir valley as Baramulla is known as one of the major paddy areas of the Kashmir valley A sample of 100 women who were actively involved in rice cultivation were selected. It was observed that maximum number of the farm women belonged to age group of 25-45 years and were illiterate. Majority of respondents live in joint family system comprising 46% and possess 5-10 kanal of paddy land. It was observed that respondents mostly (36%) having 6-9 members in their family. The activities performed by them included pre- and post-harvesting activities; where cleaning of boundaries, collecting stubbles, preparation of nursery, seed cleaning and treatment, Sowing, pulling out seedlings, transplanting and weeding were counted in Pre-harvesting activities. Harvesting was also found to be one of the major activities, performed by almost all the farm women. Post harvesting activities includes bundling, threshing, winnowing, bagging, stocking, storing and transportation of the paddy to safe place. The paddy is then required to be guarded in which the farm women participated equally. During the study it was observed that maximum of farmwomen (71%) work to collect stubbles and spend more than 4 hours a day in shift one. Similarly, women (41%, 61% and 52%) spent more than 4 hours a day in nursery preparation, seed cleaning and seed treatment respectively. Sowing is performed by 37% of respondents for more than 4 hours a day. Pulling out of seedlings is done by almost all the participants, 76% of respondents perform the said activity for more than 4 hours a day. Similarly, transplanting of seedlings is done by all the participants for more than 4 hours a day. Harvesting is energy and time-consuming activity and is performed by majority of farm women for more than 4 hours a day. Bundling (60%) and bagging (49%) activity was carried for more than 4 hours a day during shift one. Threshing and winnowing was carried out by 47% and stocking by 62% of the respondents for 2-4 hrs a day during shift one. Storing was carried out by 41% of the farm women for more than 4 hrs a day. Observations were made that 54% of the farmwomen received help by their husbands in farming and 71% of the respondents perform the last activity that is transportation. Finally, results show that overall farmwomen spent 6 hours a day in pre-harvesting activities, working for more than 4 hours during a shift. Whereas, during post harvesting season farmwomen work for 7 hours a day during in the fields. The workload gets increased during harvesting season.

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