Women In Agriculture In The South-east, Nigeria

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.