Women In Agriculture In The South-east, Nigeria

Download or read book Women In Agriculture In The South-east, Nigeria written by Ajah Julius and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in agriculture programme is a gender sensitive and communication intervention programme designed by the federal government of nigeria to assist women farmers have access to agricultural extension services.The programme was disigned because there was an apparent consesus that women farmers were marginalized compared to thier male counterparts. It was believed that development efforts were skewed in favour of the male farmers. The priogramme was therefore established to act as gendder stablizer. It is being implemented as a component of agricultyural development programme (adp). This work assessed the impact of the programme on women farmers.