Gender Role in Agricultural Productivity Training Programs: A Case Study of Sindh Wheat Production Pakistan
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Aijun Liu , Faria Waseem , Humayoon Khan , Rafay Waseem , Xiong Hang , Ghulam Mustafa Panhwar , Gershom Endelani Mwalupaso ,
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Abstract
Agriculture remains the mainstay of Pakistan economy and wheat is the one of major crop which highly contributes towards economic development of the country. Wheat is a staple diet for majority of the population and the dependents are higher on its consumption. However, due to lower labor force wheat production is declining and cannot meet the underlying demand of population. Thus the study aims to investigate the role of gender for wheat growers in agricultural productivity training program: a case study on Sindh wheat production Pakistan. The study used questionnaire for data collection and 360 sample size taken from the target population. The logit model of regression was also tested for investigating the factors that influence genders participation in Agricultural productivity training program. The result showed that males are more participated in the agricultural productivity training programs rather than female’s participation. The response of the female’s participation is less than male due to some barriers of culture and society in Pakistan. Frequently female’s over shadow men in many spheres of agricultural tasks in terms of their productive participation but usually their efforts gone recognized at national level. The due recognition of their role is constraint by many factors but gender is on the top. This scenario is further aggravated by negligence on the part of the policy makers who did not attempted any gender segregated moves to recognize and promote women’s participation in agriculture, resultantly the country is deprived to fully benefit from the productive talents and efforts of women. The research also suggest that to overcome this trend Pakistan has to develop women labor force in agriculture on preferred basis in order to fulfill the increasing population food demands.
Keywords
Gender Role, Agricultural Productivity Training Program, Wheat Production, Sindh, Pakistan
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