Fetch water. Grind torn. Feed the Fetch firewood. Work the fields. Head to market, to buy and sell. Hoe tbe garden. Wash and mend. Feed the family, three times a day. Tend the sick. Knit and weave, spin and fete and sow..."Poor female farmers are probably the busiest people in the world," says the 1993 FAO report Agriculture extension and farm women in the 1980s. Yet somehow they ako find time to grow at least half the world's food, assuming the burdens of planting, transplanting, weeding, thinning,threshing and harvesting, marketing and livestock care. In Africa, "women contribute two-thirds of all hours spent in traditional agriculture and three-fifths of the hours spent in marketing," according to the re-port of a 1987 FAO workshop in Zimbabwe.
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