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Synopsis The book on, Women in Agricultural Development has nineteen chapters that deal with a number of issues, practices, technologies, experiments and strategies in the context of rural women and development. The book is divided into two sections. The first section on, technologies and practices has eight chapters dealing on issues of technology generation, gender analysis of knowledge and adoption level, drudgery perception, acceptability of drudgery reducing implements, agricultural practices, energy saving pattern, and management of renewable natural resources. The second section on, technology dissemination, empowerment and development has eleven chapters that cover aspects of training, empowerment, agro processing for income generation, interventions for economic empowerment, technologies dissemination, gender and sustainable agricultural development, impact of agricultural extension programmes, implications for agricultural extension and adapted training and visit system. A large number of chapters are based on field studies and other discuss policy implications for change and development, especially among rural and farm women both in India and some other developing countries.