Women have traditionally been playing very important role in all sections of agriculture and the need of the hour is to strengthen their participation by empowering them with gender friendly technologies that help in increasing the production and also reduce drudgery for those who carry out the farming operations.

Sustainable agricultural development rests on the partnership between man and land. So on farm and home. Sustainability cannot be achieved without the partnership between men and women. They are like to wheels of a cart and together only they can move towards progress. The country has achieved much progress in agricultural and the growth can be further accelerated only by harnessing all resources including the human resource, fifty percent of which is women.

The Directorate of Research on Women in Agriculture is mandated to address the gender issues though technology refinement, farming system development, extension approach and capacity building of stakeholders in a gender perspective through basic, applied and strategic research, for gender equity is basic to achieving food and nutritional security.