technical interventions to improve productivity and production

developing input supply systems

access to inputs and services to produce marketable commodities

capacity building and knowledge sharing activities

a large majority married

most of the women could not read and write

ones who went to school seem to have opted for poultry, dairy, apiculture and vegetables

women from households with larger landholding entered fruit cultivation and forage production where irrigation was available

those with larger landholdings in drier areas took up small ruminant rearing