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DEVELOPMENT CONSTRAINTS ANALYSIS FOR GENDER GROWING GREENHOUSE VEGETABLES IN ANTALYA, TURKEY
Article number
536_50
Pages
411 – 418
Language
Abstract
The aim of this study is to determine and analyse the development constraints relating to gender in vegetable farming systems in Antalya.
For this purpose fifty vegetable farms that mainly produce under cover were surveyed in 1999. The development constraints are classified into four main domains namely economic, social, institutional and environmental.
Each constraint domain is then subdivided into topics.
Kendall’s
, a non-parametric rank order correlation coefficient was calculated for pairs of rank orders.
The results of the research provide insight into the development of constraints for women and men in the research area.
The differences between the two sets of respondents can be seen more clearly when topics are considered over the four main domain constraints.
Although women and men have the same responses for the constraints the relative importance of each constraint topic varies according to gender.
There are therefore important differences to note between the responses of women and men in the rank orderings derived from the frequency topics classified for each of the constraint domains and topics.
Over all the constraint topics, inadequate knowledge was ranked first by women whereas poor marketing was ranked first by men.
The analysis of constraint domains shows that the women stressed more constraints related to institutional and social domains than men did.
The men reported more constraints related to economic and environmental domains than were perceived by women.
The study revealed that there is however a general agreement among the respondents (both women and men) about the importance of the institutional constraints.
For this purpose fifty vegetable farms that mainly produce under cover were surveyed in 1999. The development constraints are classified into four main domains namely economic, social, institutional and environmental.
Each constraint domain is then subdivided into topics.
Kendall’s
, a non-parametric rank order correlation coefficient was calculated for pairs of rank orders.The results of the research provide insight into the development of constraints for women and men in the research area.
The differences between the two sets of respondents can be seen more clearly when topics are considered over the four main domain constraints.
Although women and men have the same responses for the constraints the relative importance of each constraint topic varies according to gender.
There are therefore important differences to note between the responses of women and men in the rank orderings derived from the frequency topics classified for each of the constraint domains and topics.
Over all the constraint topics, inadequate knowledge was ranked first by women whereas poor marketing was ranked first by men.
The analysis of constraint domains shows that the women stressed more constraints related to institutional and social domains than men did.
The men reported more constraints related to economic and environmental domains than were perceived by women.
The study revealed that there is however a general agreement among the respondents (both women and men) about the importance of the institutional constraints.
Authors
B. Ozkan
Keywords
Gender, Greenhouse, Vegetables, Constraints, Development
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