2023, Vol. 8, Special Issue 4

Women play an important role in the agriculture and rural economy of all developing countries. They play the double role of housewife and breadwinner and play an important role in agriculture. The purpose of this study was to assess the health problems of the female-headed farm women. This study collected data by interviewing 360 female-headed farm women in U.P. The health hazards were assessed using a self-made interview schedule. Simple random sampling was used to choose the data. The study shows that female-headed farm women suffer from physical health hazards. They faced problems with redness of the eyes, eye infections, difficulty in breathing, lung infection, back pain, shoulder pain, pain in the legs, skin allergies, skin infections, skin ailments and other problems – headache, tetanus, cut and accidental injuries are very common for women farmers from the finding of the study, it can be concluded that farm women faced types type of working health hazards. The majority of the women farmers frequently report that about physical health problems during the work at farm. Farm women faced general health problems like poor health conditions, anaemia, and iron or vitamin deficiency. Mostly female-headed women farmers faced different type’s health problems at the working place in daily life.