ISHS Acta Horticulturae 369: Symposium on Small Scale vegetable production and Horticultural Economics in Developing Countries
THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN VEGETABLE CULTIVATION IN GARUT, WEST JAVA |
| Author: | J. Hardjono |
| Abstract:
In the period since 1970 there has been rapid expansion in the area under vegetables and in total output of vegetables in Java. Expansion has been particularly striking in the case of higher-altitude vegetables, which for the most part are single-harvest crops like cabbages, potatoes and carrot. Research in Garut, West Java, has shown that the intensive cultivation of these crops requires a large in put of labor and that much of that labor is supplied by women, though relatively few women own or operate land. Since women work of wages well below those paid to men because of the lack of alternative employment, cultivation work is delegated to women laborers wherever possible. Without a readily available supply of cheap female labor, vegetable-growing could not have expanded to the extent that it has in this region. | |
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