Shivamurthy, M.SHILPARANI, M. S.2018-03-012018-03-012016-10-20TH-11543http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810041469The present study wascarried out to find out theextent of empowerment of farm women in Eastern Dry Zone of Karnataka. Thirty villageswere selected from ten taluks in five districts of Eastern Dry Zone of Karnataka.Six respondents were selected from each village by applying simple random technique. Totally180 respondents were selected for the study. Data were collected using pre-tested interview schedule through personal interview method. Standardized scale to measure empowerment was developed and used in the study.The major findings about extent of farm women empowerment were, more than half (52.22 %) of the farm women were under medium level of empowerment, 25.56 per cent under high and 22.22 per cent of them were under low level of empowerment.Age, education, farming experience, land holding, participation in training, extension participation, exposure to print and electronic media, organizational participation, extension contact, scientific orientation, achievement motivation, level of aspiration and economic motivation was found to have significant relationship with extent of empowerment.Chi-square value of age and education was10.89 and 15.45 respectively, showing a significant association between empowerment of farm women.Variables like land holding, participation in training, extension participation, exposure to print and electronic media, organizational participation and extension contact were also significantly associated with the empowerment level.An observation of rank ordering of the direct effect of independent variables on the empowerment revealed that,extension participation (0.209), economic motivation (0.207), organizational participation (0.177), scientific orientation (0.167) and level of aspiration (0.117) had the greatest direct effect occupying first five ranks in the order.The major constraints faced by farm women were neglect of financialcontributions by family, lack of communication skills and lack of women doctors in Primary Health Centre.Providing education, assured economic security, presence of female doctors in PHCsand establishing sustainable income generating activitieswere some of the suggestions made by farm women.ennullThesis