Features – NPR
In this part of the world, nearly every chile pepper farmer is a woman
“More than 70% of agricultural activities in this region have always been carried out by women farmers,” says Vallal Kannan, a program coordinator for Krishi Vigyan Kendra, a government-run agricultural center. He says that’s because men prefer to take on the agricultural jobs that involve finances, such as supervising and selling, leaving the menial, labor intensive jobs to the women. The women farmers agree that in the chile pepper fields, the demanding nature of the work discourages men
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