The purpose of this study was (i) to assess the role of rural women in relation to their practices on rice seed management (ii) to determine socio-economic and psychological attributes of rural women (iii) to examine impact of seed technology intervention towards improvement of the role of rural women in their practice on rice seed management (iv) to determine pre and post intervention quality of farm retained rice seed (v) to compute the relationship between the role of women and their selected personal, socio-economic and psychological attributes and (vi) to explore the contribution of surrounding socio-economic factors of the rural women to their role of rice seed management.