there is limited literature on how to engage the rural women in agriculture and improve their contributions to household food security and income. this study aimed to contribute to literature on women engagement in agriculture through vegetable production using good agricultural practices. the empirical data used were drawn from technology demonstrations and experimentation, learning fields, an...

agriculture is an important engine of growth and poverty reduction in much of africa, nigeria inclusive. but the sector is underperforming in part because women, who are often crucial resource in agriculture and rural economy, face constraints that reduce their productivity. an understanding of these constraints is a prerequisite to devising policies to improve agricultural production and produ...

a research was conducted to evaluate cassava production by women farmers in igbo-eze north local government area of enugu state, nigeria. one hundred and twenty smallholder female cassava farmers were selected using multi-stage sampling. data were collected from the respondents using questionnaire and interview schedule. then descriptive statistics (mean, frequency and percentage) were used in ...

the study focused on constraints affecting the adoption of innovative agricultural technologies disseminated by the women-in-agriculture (wia) unit of the akwa ibom agricultural development programme (akadep) to its women clientele. the study also ascertained the awareness and adoption levels of such introduced technologies. findings revealed that respondents were aware of 61.9% of introduced t...

Agriculture has undergone profound changes, and farmers face a wide variety of stressors. Our aim was to study the levels of anxiety and depression symptoms among Norwegian farmers compared with other occupational groups. Working participants in the HUNT3 Survey (The Nord-Trøndelag Health Study, 2006-2008), aged 19-66.9 years, were included in this cross-sectional study. We compared farmers (wo...

A research was conducted to evaluate cassava production by women farmers in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria. One hundred and twenty smallholder female cassava farmers were selected using multi-stage sampling. Data were collected from the respondents using questionnaire and interview schedule. Then descriptive statistics (mean, frequency and percentage) were used in ...

the study examined the effect of women led self help group on micro-financing of farms in isuikwuato local government area of abia state, nigeria. purposive and multistage random sampling technique was employed for collecting data from one hundred and twenty (120) women farmers in women led self help group by using structured interview schedule. the data were analyzed using descriptive statisti...

This paper examines the occurrence and impact of gender discrimination in access to production resources on the income, productivity, and technical efficiency of farmers. Through an empirical investigation of farmers from Koussin-Lélé, a semi-collective irrigated rice scheme in central Benin, we find that female rice farmers are particularly discriminated against with regard to scheme membershi...