Grover, InduBala, Saroj2018-07-072018-07-071991http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810058397Some historians believe that it was women who first domesticated crop plants and thereby initiated the art and science of farming. While men went out hunting in search of food. women started gathering seeds from the native flora and began cultivating those of interest from the point of view of food, feed, fodder, fiber and fuel. Women have played and continue to play a key role in the conservation of basic life support system such as land. water and flora. They have protected the health of the soil through organic recycling and promoted crop security through the maintenance of varietal diversity and genetic resistance. Therefore, without the total intellectual and physical participation of women it will not be possible to popularize alternative systems of land management to shifting cultivation. arrest gene and soil erosion, and promote the care of the soil and the health of economic plants and farm animals (Swaminathan, 1982).enHome Science Extension EducationThesis