Women play a significant and crucial role in agriculture and allied fields. Apart from household chores tribal women spent substantial portion of their time in agriculture activities. The paper aims to explore tribal women’s time utilization pattern in subsistence production in terms of work structure. Tribal women on an average spent 232 minutes in a normal day in subsistence production with higher time spent in backward region as compared to advanced region. Intra work structure analysis showed that subsistence producers devote more time on agriculture and allied activities. Hence, it is important that in place of cumbersome equipment, simple, low cost, subsidized, user friendly technical equipment should be introduced which are also time and energy saving

Keyword: Women; Work Structure;