p>The proposed activities of the proposal when achieved will provide additional income which will help to reduce the women farmers’ drudgery. Presently women are involved to earn merger income for their subsistence and this whole process is full of hardships and resultant drudgery. After the proposed project inputs, proper training and capacity building their knowledge as well as risk bearing capacity will increase and they will become capable to earn more income by adopting quality measures. Further special care will be taken to find out such activities in their daily routine as well as work circle which involves drudgery. The steps are as under;

S.No.	Task	Role of Woman	Technology application	Impact on Drudgery Reduction
A	Agriculture Operations
1	Sowing (SRI)	Maintain proper distance and space	Marker application	Proper distances maintained in less time and effort
2	Weeding	Manually using hands and bare feet	Cono-weeder	Physical effort is reduced drastically
3	Mulching	Manual operation by women with bare hand and feet	shoes and gloves	It saves vital body parts by protecting
4	Spray of pesticide/insecticide	Manually mixing with hand and spray by hand	Spray pump	Easy to operate more output, saves from harmful inorganic products
5	Irrigating/water management	Manually through wells and ponds using buckets	Low cost irrigation application	Saves lots of time and effort and proper water management
6	Harvesting of crop	Manually with old instruments	Improved sickle	Easy operation using less labour
B	Household chores
1	Routine home work	Improper light and fuel source makes it hell	Transparent roof sheet, Solar light	Low cost, easy to operate, help children study and health enviroment
2	Kitchen	Rolutine cooking task	Improved smokeless chullah	Easy to operate, help in health improvement
3	Fetching water from wells	Manually fetched	Ball bearing	Easy to operate, less physical power
4	Fetching potable water from far away	Manually fetched	Hand pump or water cleaning devices	saves time and energy and improves health
5	NTFP/fuel wood collection	Manually fetched by head load	Cycle or small pulling device	Less energy much more output and more money

CARD has built in capacity building programmes for training women on drudgery reduction but no inputs are provided under the project budget to directly address it through project inputs. We propose to link them with routine government programmes for the purpose.