article · Journal of Management and Science
A study of 398 farmers in Mezam Division, Cameroon, examines the factors influencing women farm labour participation and the role of agricultural training. Approximately 70.1 percent of women surveyed engage in farm labour, while 29.4 percent have received professional agricultural training. Overall, marital status, land ownership, farming experience, agricultural training, and land size positively influence participation, whereas larger household size has a negative effect. However, among women with agricultural training, household size, crop production, access to credit, and land ownership all positively and significantly increase the likelihood of farm labour participation. Factors such as general education, financial status, and credit access are not significant predictors across the full sample. Enhancing targeted agricultural training, credit access, and female land ownership could expand women farm labour participation and boost agricultural production.
Understanding what drives women to participate in agricultural work helps policymakers and development organisations design targeted interventions. By showing how agricultural training alters the influence of household dynamics, crop production, and credit access, these findings highlight the need for supportive land ownership reforms and specialised training programmes that can strengthen rural food production and female economic inclusion.
The abstract does not indicate an explicit commercialisation pathway or commercial product. Instead, the findings offer empirical evidence that could inform the design of rural agricultural training programmes, microfinance credit services, and land administration initiatives managed by public agencies or agricultural service providers. As socio-economic research, the work is at an applied level suited to guiding programme design rather than near-market technology transfer.
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Considering the importance women play in farm production, this paper seeks to investigate the determinants of women farm labour participation by large and by agricultural training in Mezam, Cameroon. Data was collected from 398 farmers using a structured questionnaire and was analyzed using descriptive statistics and Binary logistic regression. On average 70.1% of women were into farm labour participation and 29.4% received agricultural professional training. The mean number of women into farm labor participation is further revealed to be higher for those with training than those with no training. The logistic regression results indicate that marital status, land ownership, farm experience, agricultural training and land size all have a significant and positively associated with women farm labour participation while Household size exhibits a significant but negatively associated participation. Education, crop production, financial status and access to credit are all insignificant. When decomposed by agricultural training, household size, crop production, access to credit and land ownership are positive and significant in influencing the likelihood of women farm labour participation. This finding concludes that, improvements in agricultural training, credit facilities and women access to land can significantly improve women farm labour participation and may contribute positively to farm production Mezam Divison. It is recommended that land reforms and laws should be in favour of female farmers to increase their access and ownership of land and female-agricultural training should be augmented.
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DOI: 10.26524/jms.16.25
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