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Rural women are the invisible lifeline of the agrarian rural community. They are not only the pioneer of the home but they give incomparable contribution in agriculture also. To study the socio personal profile, constraints faced by rural women during their participation in household production system, suggestions to develop extension strategies, a study with ex post facto research design was conducted in three talukas named Vansda, Chikhali and Khergam of Navsari district. The interview schedule was prepared and pre-tested to collect the data. Total 120 respondents were surveyed through personal interview technique from their home, farm, office or any other workplace. Majority of the rural women were found in middle age groups belonged to joint and medium size of family, had education up to middle school level and medium level of farming experience with marginal size of land holding. They had medium level of social participation, extension participation, utilization of source of information with medium level of risk orientation, innovativeness, market orientation and self-confidence. It was found that the prescribed roles of women in society was perceived by the respondents as main constraint followed by Higher time consumption for household work, Child care and agricultural work at same time were increase work load, Poor educational background, Dominance of male members in family. Out of all suggestions to overcome the constraints mentioned by rural women, majority of them said that Transformation of society through awareness programmes on gender issues followed by Family members should give support and guidance, Due importance should be given to women in decision making, should be appointed that provide all the information about government schemes.

A rural woman contributes a lot in the household production system by participating in agriculture activities, different income generating activities like teaching, selling matters etc. and family as well as social activities which are an essential part of rural economy. To study the participation pattern of rural women in household production system, an experiment with ex post facto research design was conducted in three talukas named Vansda, Chikhali and Khergam of Navsari district. Two villages from each taluka were selected randomly. From one village twenty rural women as respondent were selected. The interview schedule was prepared and pre-tested to collect the data. Total 120 respondents were surveyed through personal interview technique from their home, farm, office or any other workplace. It was found that majority of the rural women had medium to low level of participation in household production system with medium level of participation in farm activities, home activities, off farm activities and communal activities.

Attitudes are individually attributed emotions, beliefs and behavioural tendencies an individual has towards a specific abstract or concrete object. To measure the attitude of farmer members towards Farmers Producer Organizations (FPOs), need was realized to use a scale. So, Likert’s summated rating scale was developed by following the methodology given by Likert (1932) and Edward (1957). After in-depth reviewing of secondary sources and discussion with primary sources, six indicators were finalized to form the items for scale development. Based on 80 judge’s response 57 statements were selected for item analysis. The split half method was used to testing reliability and the reliability coefficient was 0.92. The face validity and content validity were examined. The developed final scale consists of 16 statements in which 11 were positive statements and 5 were negative statements. The developed scale was found highly reliable and valid.

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