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Always Women are strong enoaf in physically and mentally, they have sufficient potentials within, and in globally Women play a significant and major role in agricultural development and allied fields. The nature and extent of women's involvement in agriculture varies greatly from region to region. But regardless of these variations, women are actively involved in various agricultural activities. Rural women perform numerous labor-intensive jobs such as weeding, hoeing, grass cutting, picking, cotton stick collection, separation of seeds from fiber, keeping of livestock and its other associated activities like milking, milk processing, preparation of ghee, etc. Details of activities taken up by women in Agriculture and its allied activities are as follows.Women constitute 43% of agricultural workers in much of the developing world, most of who are forced to make do with less access to resources such as water, fertilizer and market outlets than men. Experts say that by providing these basic services to women, agriculture productivity could grow 20-25% to meet food security and reduce hunger at a time when food import bill is soaring. In India, the gender dimension in agriculture and its link with nutrition is revealed by the numbers.