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Environmentally sound technologies for women in
agriculture
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Women are critical to the well-being of farm households. Aside from raising
children, women are expected to prepare all meals, maintain the homestead, and assist in
crop and animal production, all the while tending to the genral health of their families.
Perhaps, ironically, it is because they have so many responsibilities that they have
been overlooked by agriculturalists an policy makers.
This manual details 60 easy-to-use technologies that can help farm women by
increasing their output, raising their incomes, or reducing drudgery. Ranging from animal
husbandry to vegetable production and from safe drinking water to fish production, the
ideas in this book will prove valuable not only in South Asia (where this book was
developed), but also in many other parts of the world.
Contents
1 Animal husbandry and dairying
- Selection and breeding of cattle and buffaloes
- Selection and breeding of goats and sheep
- Selection and breeding of swine
- Community pasture management
- Cattle feeding
- Make hay to preserve fodder
- Make silage to preserve green fodder
- Improve dry fodder by adding urea
- Urea-molasses liquid mixture
- Urea-molasses-mineral lick
- Clean milk production
- Livestock diseases
- Common maladies in cattle
- Protect your cattle from poisoning
- Adaptation of livestock
2 Vegetables and post-harvest technologies
- Nutrition garden
- Preserving nutrients
- Preservation by fermentation
- Zero-energy cool chamber
- Bamboo iceless refrigerator
3 Organic farming
- Organic farming
- Compost making
- Vermi-composting
- Bio-inoculants
- Multipurpose trees and shrubs
4 Seed production and storage
- Produce your own wheat, rice and pulse seeds
- Storage of grain and seed
- Safe grain storage structures
- Improved rodent-free grain storage
5 Pests and pesticides
- Integrated pest management
- Neem for plant protection
- Neem oil as mosquito repellent
- Biological control of malaria
- Non-chemical methods of weed control
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- Safe use of pesticides
- Hazards of pesticides
- Pesticide facts and fiction
- First-aid measures for pesticide poisoning
- Save your crop from bird damage
- Beekeeping
6 Drudgery reduction
- Drudgery-reducing implements for farm women
- Fuel-efficient chulhas
- Solar cookers
- Biogas as a rural energy source
- Efficient fuel energy utilisation
- Water management for farm and home
- Safe drinking water
- Maintenance of community water sources
- Management of drinking water for the household
- Some simple ways to purify drinking water
- Use of indigenous plants for cleaning water
- Soakage pit for proper disposal of waste water
- Efficient use of irrigation water
7 Fish production
- Integrated fish farming
- Composite fish culture
- Paddy-fish culture
- Cattle-fish culture
- Duck-fish culture
- Pig-fish culture
- Horticulture on dykes
- Solar drying of fish
8 Appendices
- Glossary of local terms
- Banned and not approved pesticides
- Improved varieties of grasses and legumes in different regions
- Improved varieties of vegetables for nutrition garden
- Workshop participants
- Authors/Contributors
- List of resource institutions
- References
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213 pp. Published 1996 by the International Federation for Women in
Agriculture and the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, Silang,
Cavite, Philippines. ISBN 0-942717-69-4.
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 Available on the
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Development Library
Role of Paul Mundy: Writeshop management, editing, overall
responsibility for production |