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\hypersetup{pdftitle={Investigation the Role and Participation of Rural Women in Agroecosystems of Western Part of Iran},pdfauthor={Ashkan Asgari, Korous Khoshbakht, Roshanak Shahriary, Abdolkarim Zabet},pdfsubject={Tropentag 2016: Abstract},pdfkeywords={Crop type, evenness index, gender, kermanshah},pdfpagemode=None,colorlinks=true}
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\parbox[b]{13.4cm}{\centering \large{\textbf{Tropentag, September 18-21, 2016, Vienna, Austria}}\\[1ex] \Large{``Solidarity in a competing world ---\\fair use of resources''\\[2ex]}}
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\Large{\textbf{Investigation the Role and Participation of Rural Women in Agroecosystems of Western Part of Iran\footnote{\textbf{Contact Address:} Ashkan Asgari, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Department of Agronomy, Azadi square, Mashhad, Iran, \mbox{e-mail}: \email{asgariashkan@stu.um.ac.ir}}\\[0.8ex]}}
\normalsize{\textsc{Ashkan Asgari$^{1}$, Korous Khoshbakht$^{2}$, Roshanak Shahriary$^{3}$, Abdolkarim Zabet$^{4}$}}
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\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{1}$Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Department of Agronomy, Iran}}}
\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{2}$Shahid Beheshti University, GC, Environmental Sciences Research Institute, Iran}}}
\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{3}$Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Agriculture, Iran}}}
\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{4}$Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Deprartment of Biosystems Engineering, Iran}}}
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Women as the part of society play an important role in agriculture sector to the extent that any socio"=economic study cannot be done without considering their role. Current study aims to investigate women participation in agricultural activity in western part of Iran. Required data was obtained by survey and face to face interview with 120 farmers among the villages in Kermanshah province. Villages was randomly selected. 



The results showed that women involved just \mbox{14\,\%} of formers in the statistical society under consideration the farms which managed by women, applied more certified seed in compared to the farms managed by men. On the other hand, a significant relationship was found between farmer gender and using certified seed ($p < 0.01$). Women as farm manager tended to use female worker in the farm ($p < 0.01$). Actually, their participation were in relation with crop type. For instance, villages in which wheat and corn were the main crop, women played minimum role. Since wheat and corn usually cultivated by machinery; so, women cannot participate. Women usually participated in vegetable farm such as (tomato, cucumber, pea, bean$\ldots$). Furthermore, women worked more in the irrigated lands in compared to drylands ($p < 0.01$). Family head gender was significantly correlated to evenness index (0.19*) and evenness index was higher in the family which managed by a woman. This finding implies whether women willing to cultivation less crop types or to cultivation different crops at the same area. The main conclusion of present study was the importance role of women in agriculture. In common, some activity such as husbandry, weed control and yield harvest cannot be done without women participation.



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\noindent \textbf{Keywords:} Crop type, evenness index, gender, kermanshah
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