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collected from published and unpublished materials Method of data analysis was qualitative 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