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Food security is the foremost important issue of a state or a country. The development of a country or a state is highly dependent on it.Food unsecured population cannot think for other issues of their life. In the state of Assam, just after independence the state had enough food for the population, which gradually decreased until 1981-83. But, after 1981-83, the per capita availability of food grains had increased gradually due to use of modern practices of cultivation viz., high yielding varieties, fertilizers, etc. which led to increase in production. Nevertheless, this increase could not surpass the normative requirement of total food grains. Thus, although per capita availability of total cereals was marginally higher than the normative requirement, the state remains food deficit state since 1961-63 to 2000-02. Almost similar trend of change in per capita availability of food grains was observed in all the districts of the state with a few exceptions. Per capita availability of pulses as well as oilseeds was found to be very low, which was far below the normative requirement and in most of the cases revealed a declining trend.

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The knowledge, attitudes and practices of people hold towards any contagious disease like COVID-19 play an integral role in determining a society's readiness to accept behavioural change measures related to prevention of disease. Therefore, an effort was made to study the awareness toward COVID-19 among the farm women of Golaghat district of Assam. For the purpose, 110 numbers of farm women were selected from 5 different blocks of Golaghat district of Assam. A well designed questionnaire was developed as per the guidelines provided by World Health Organization on measures to be followed on time to time and distributed among the participants. The majority of respondents belong to the age group of 35 to 45 yrs old (34.55%) and 72 of total respondents were of OBC categories. Majority of respondent's education level was recorded to be in high school level (53.64%). The results of the present study revealed that there was high level of awareness especially among the farmwomen regarding nature, symptoms and preventive measures to be taken for preventing the spread of disease. Majority of respondents (80.90%) were aware that COVID-19 is a viral disease and 79.10 per cent of the respondents opined that the main mode of transmission of the virus is via respiratory droplets. All the respondents were of the view that farmers should take their own food and water from home to their agricultural field, along with that soap and water should also to be brought (84.54%). Besides that 74.54 per cent respondents were in the view that wearing mask and social distancing is important during agricultural operations.

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