Abstract:
Women usually have limited accesses to resources and opportunities and their productivity
remains low relative to their potential. As a result, gender roles and issues in potato
production and management practices was conducted in Wolmara District. Specifically, the
study intended to analyze gender roles and issues in potato production and management
practices in study area, to investigate gender related constraints in potato production and
management practice in the study area, to examine gender issue in potato production and
management practice in study area, to analyze women empowerment levels in potato, and to
explore opportunities for gender-based potato production and management in the study area.
The Research approach used a mixed research design where data collections were joined
with qualitative and quantitative methods. Relevant information was gathered from 139
potato producers by using and secondary sources of data. The data were analyzed by using
descriptive statistics. In regards to gender role in potato production and management in the
study areas, the result indicated that 127 (91.4%) were women to have workload increased
in potato production activities. Very few respondents 12 (8.6%) reported that workload
increased to men potato farmers On the other hand, both males and females play equal roles
in planting, fertilizer and herbicide application watering soil conservation and management
During the collection of primary data, triangulations of different methods were used to
ensure the reliability and validity of the collected data. The secondary data sources were
collected from published and unpublished materials Method of data analysis was qualitative
by using thematic analysis to triangulate the quantitative data to achieve the stated specific
objectives of this study. The summary of the analyzed qualitative data was presented in pair wise matrix ranking chart Gender Issues in potato production and management practices. To
generate a better result, descriptive research design and exploratory research design were
combined. To enable analysis of data collected through questionnaire, Statistical Package for
Social Sciences (SPSS) software (version 25) was used. The analyzed data may be presented
in tables, lines, charts, and graphs
