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Gender Sensitivity in Agricultural Extension
Agriculture is the mainstay of the global economy and women play a significant role in the sustainable development of the economy. They contribute in agricultural activities often at par with men by justifying the ancient African proverb ‘without women we all go hungry’. Women play the main role in agriculture from manually growing crops to agroprocessing to homemaking. More than half of the world’s food is grown by women, but worldwide her hard work has been unpaid1. Most of the time their inputs are less recognized, their importance and contributions are never acknowledged, because their service does not contribute enough in the direct material income2,3.
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