Rural women play an essential role in agriculture. In addition, women perform tasks that are vital to food provision and the maintenance of the household. Women are involved in all phases of the agricultural cycle, including planting, weeding, the protection and maintenance of fields, and harvesting, conservation, storage, processing and marketing of produce.
Women play an important role in market gardening and in the processing of milk products.
In the fishery sector, women play an important role in the processing and marketing of fish and fish products. Division of Labour by Gender. Women's participation in nearly all aspects of agricultural and livestock activities is significant. Men are largely responsible for land clearing and for the cultivation of certain crops, such as wetland rice. Men also take care of the herding and watering of large animals, while the curing of skins, the processing of milk products, and the care of small ruminants and poultry is the task of women.