Women's participation in Bangladeshi agriculture is growing day by day. While managing household work, they use limited opportunities to contribute to farming.
Fastest rise in the world
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), women's role in Bangladesh's agriculture was 36.2 per cent in 2005 and rose by 9.1 percentage points to 45.3 per cent in 2019, the highest growth in the world. Where women's role in agriculture worldwide is about 40 per cent, in Bangladesh it is about 5 per cent higher.
Livestock in women's hands
The programme's field reporting confirms this contribution, especially women's huge role in raising livestock at the grassroots. FAO data show Bangladesh has about one million livestock farms large and small, about 60 per cent of them run by women. Raising cattle, goats, ducks and chickens is a major way rural women bring financial stability to farm families. The episode features Halima Begum of Tangail, who has become self-reliant through farming.
Source: Shykh Seraj, Krishi Dibanishi. First published in Bengali on The Agro News.
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