Empowerment is being the slogan since ninth plan and encouraging group formation. Empowerment is defined a collective undertaking, involving both individual and collective action. Group farming is a collective action introduced by Kerala Government in 1989. There are mainly two vital processes in the empowerment viz., social mobilization and collective action embedded in the GALASA Programmes (Group Approach for Locally Adapted and sustainable Agriculture). Hence, an attempt was made to study the empowerment dynamics of farmers before and after joining in the programme. Sixty farmers belonged to two farmers groups were selected from Thrissur district by applying simple random sampling. All the major components were measured before and after joining of farmers in the group. It was noticed that considerable enhancement in the empowerment dimensions of all the major components (0.30-0.45 to 0.35 to 0.71). The Empowerment Dynamic Index (EDI) was computed for the situation before and after joining of farmers in the group (0.24 to 0.42). Hence, it could be concluded that GALASA programme played a significant role in the empowerment of rice farmers and set up a stage for sustainable development of paddy cultivation in the state

Keyword: Dynamics; Empowerment; GALASA