Study of women issues assumed great importance in global context. Geographical research on female work participation in agriculture, especially in remote North Eastern areas of India is still very limited, despite the fact that rural tribal women's contribution is significant toward the economic development of the family and the society. Beyond the conventional market-oriented narrower definition of 'productive workers', almost all women in rural India today can be considered as 'farmers' who works as agricultural labours, unpaid workers in the family farm enterprise, or a combination of the...