_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Corresponding author: E-mail: hulagurmugali@rediffmail.com; Journal of Experimental Agriculture International 43(5): 43-48, 2021; Article no.JEAI.70753 ISSN: 2457-0591 (Past name: American Journal of Experimental Agriculture, Past ISSN: 2231-0606) A Critical Analysis of Mode of Functioning of Women Collective Farming Groups in Palakkad District of Kerala State T. Shahlas Binth 1 , Basavaraj Hulagur 1* , S. B. goudappa 1 and Jagrati B. Deshmanya 2 1 Department of Agricultural Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Raichur University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur– 584 104, India. 2 Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, Raichur University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur– 584 104, India. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration among all authors. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734/JEAI/2021/v43i530688 Editor(s): (1) Prof. Rusu Teodor, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Reviewers: (1) Dr. R. Sudha, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India. (2) Ajmer Singh, National Dairy Research Institute, India. Complete Peer review History: https://www.sdiarticle4.com/review-history/70753 Received 05 May 2021 Accepted 10 July 2021 Published 16 July 2021 ABSTRACT Collective farming aims to bring significant changes among farmwomen through increased agricultural production and productivity. The present study was undertaken to analyse the ‘mode of functioning of different women collective farming groups’ in Palakkad district of Kerala during 2017- 2018 by the ex-post-facto research design with a sample size of 90 groups. The result revealed that the majority (67.78%) of the collective women groups were formed by the support of local self- governing bodies. The groups concentrated on location-based farming activities and the reason might be that these groups were operating at the grassroots level obliviously they got full support from the local bodies. Freedom of participation in the group process was expressed by 65.56 per cent of the participants. Three-fourth (75.56%) of respondents expressed that decision-making in groups done with consensus brings strong coherence among the members. Attendance of members in group meetings/activities was expressed by 84.44 per cent of the respondents. Further, the function of record maintenance was expressed by 92.20 per cent of the respondents which helped Original Research Article