Abstract
The women of Pakistan are actively playing their vital roles in all daily life activities, not only in industrial but also
in agriculture sector. In spite of enjoying socio-economic status and educational facilities, they are deprived of
social, mental, educational and professional status and facing different types of violence especially at rural level.
To enhance their performance in agricultural operations, the professional education and improvement in skills is
need of the hours and Extension Agencies/Organizations are responsible to provide such technical guidance to
them so that they can develop their abilities to perform different agricultural activities effectively and efficiently for
the achievement of Green Revolution objectives. But, due to lack of information, resources and facilities, they are
still deprived of from modern techniques. Keeping in view the above said facts, the present study was designed to
determine the participation of women in agricultural activities and their access to modern sources of information
by gender, preliminary, a case study of district Muzaffargarh which was a part of doctoral research of first author.
All four tehsils of the said district with all the married farm families were under consideration: serving as
population of the study. From each tehsil, five villages were selected by using simple random sampling technique.
Twenty five households were selected from each selected village at random and one married couple was further
selected randomly from each selected household. Thus five hundred farm families made a total of 1000
respondents for the study. The data was collected through pre-tested interview schedule and analyzed by using
statistical computer package i.e. SPSS. It was concluded from the results of the present study that women were
deprived of almost in all the fields of life especially in education and agricultural extension education with
neglecting the extension services especially by the Government. The result of present study are showing that if,
the women spawn access towards modern techniques and independence from illiterate customs, they can over
come with the objectives of Green Revolution and sustainability of agriculture sector.
