The declaration of the 2014 as the International Year of Family Farming by United Nations as it reflects a growing global consensus that family farming is key to feeding a global population that is expected to reach more than nine billion people by 2050.The national problems like environmental degradation, groundwater contamination, climate change and prolonged dry spells affecting farming activities and hence, male members in the family are migrating from rural areas in search for jobs. In India, agriculture is largely house hold enterprise and women are major producer of food, since they...