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SUMMARY :Women play a significant and crucial role in agricultural development and allied fields. It is most unfortunate that the role of women in agricultural has not highlighted. By and large they have remained as invisible workers. Therefore, efforts were made to role of farm women in agricultural activities. The study was undertaken in Deoria district of U.P. during 2013-14. The data were collected from 180 farm women by adopting the proportionate random sampling method. The results of study revealed that under agriculture related task, the data reveals that drying, cleaning, storage of grains and processing of farm produce were the major farm operations where in women role was cent per cent. In the terms of decision making majority of farm women did not take any decision single handly. Farm women took single hand decision regarding live stock management (40.55%) followed by farm supplies and inputs (28.88%), area for different crops (18.88%), maintenance of implements (14.44%), labour management (12.22%), capital management (9.44%), and marketing of agricultural produce only 8.88 per cent. It could be concluded that the women of Deoria district of U.P. state were highly involved in all agricultural practice. So, it is need to develop suitable, strategy training to women about modern technologies to make them more skilled for agricultural production.

Bee keeping is an ideal activity for the socioeconomic development of rural people. It does not require any sophisticated equipments and the technology employed is simple and within easy grasp of illiterate rural people. The study was conducted in Pusa block of Samastipur district selected purposively. A list of women trainees, who have obtained from Apiculture Research Training Centre, Pusa. From these lists 50 trained women were randomly selected who have attained seven days duration of training programme. Equal no of untrained women beekeepers, who have not undergone any skill oriented training, were also selected randomly, to serve as control group. Hence, trained from seven village selected for this study. The majority of trained as well as untrained women belonged to middle age group as (31-50years). Bee keeping was adopted by most of the backboard cost it was not influenced caste system of the society. Most of the trained women were belonged to high category of education while untrained women, maximum 50.00 per cent of respondents belonged to low level of education. Maximum percentage of trained as well as untrained respondents were enjoyed in laborer followed by farming, business and service, respectively bee keeping was adopted by most of the small family size. Most of the rural women preferred nuclear family and also it is in product. The maximum respondents do not possess any land in both groups hence they have opted divested to words bee keeping occupation for this livelihood. The percentages of women in for categories were more or less same in two groups i.e., trained and untrained. Maximum respondents had lived in pucca house and enjoy with traditional materials like radio, chair, cycle, watch indicating medium level of economic in study village. Both of groups one almost similar with respect to social participation. Bee keeping training might have somehow or the other helped in developing compel, tines among the trained group. As for as economic motivation trained as well as untrained women maximum percentage fell under the medium economic motivation category.

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