Women are engaged in various agricultural operations like presowing, weeding, picking and post picking. All these tasks are time consuming and full of drudgery over the years though there is a paradigm shift towards women empowerment that is not enough. Access to affordable technology reduces drudgery, save time and increases work efficiency of women. Adoption of such technologies radically changes their life. Cotton picking is laborious work. Efforts have been made to develop women friendly cotton picking bag which would reduce the drudgery and increase their efficiency. The present study was carried out in pre dominantly cotton growing areas namely. Sirsa and Fatehabad districts of Haryana. Four villages, namely Nezadela and Bajekan from Sirsa and Bighar and Badopal from Fatehabad district were selected. Out of these four villages. 20 farm women from each village, totaling 80 respondents were selected for intervention programme. Perceived feasibility on 5 attributes was found 82.61 per cent. Physical and cultural compatibility attribute was "ranked highest with AFI 92.66 per cent. It was followed by relative advantage 89.58 per cent, friability 88.91 per cent. However, simplicity complexity was found 61.80 per cent comparatively low index because of cognitive complexity score. Impact of intervention programme was found 43.65 per cent. Grey cotton fabric of 54 inch width was perceived most appropriate for stitching, because of ease in measurements without wastage. Respondents got medium extent of skill acquisition regarding stitching of cotton picking bag.
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