Helping Women
Farmers
Reduce female labour for sowing seeds
Weeding tools
Facilitating line sowing for Maize is important because it produces a lot of manual labour. By implemeting a new light-weight jab planter one could minimize labour by about 75%. You can find more at AG nepal farmers.
In order to stop women from removing corn kernels manually, one can introduce low-cost corn shellers. Moreover, the corn shellers are easy to use and will greatly reduce female drudgery.
One way to reduce labour when plowing is by introducing
community rental of petrol/diesel-run mini-tillers.
The mini-tillers will reduce drudgery and labour. More importantly only 1-2 mini-tillers will be needed per village, so it can be shared throughout the village.
Reduce manual shelling of corn
Reduce female labour for plowing
Some Simple Solutions
These are some simple solutions that you can get aquainted with. You can always find out more by going to 'Learn More'. Remeber the more you know the more help you are!
Reduce manual grain threshing
In order to reduce the manual labour that goes on from
women beating panicle heads of finger millet, the introduction of a community rental of electric grain threshers can be implemented. This again will reduce women drudgery and can be rented throughout the village.
A proper weeding tool can greatly improve efficiency during weeding. By improving efficiency less labour will be needed thus allowing girls to stay in school that would otherwise have to stay home and help weed. Moreover, there are low-cost low-weight weeders that have been developed by the Gates Foundation.