Gender and Marketing of Onion: Benefit Aggregation between Gender

Gender and Marketing: Benefit Aggregation Between Gender

In the process of social and economic transformation, production of agricultural commodities is steadily becoming more common in rural areas in Tanzania. Although, most of societies in rural areas believes in traditional distribution of roles based on gender, but the impact of Gender disparity is declining day to day. Distribution of benefits accrued from marketing of different agricultural commodity is determined by gender participation indifferent farming activities. Many society believes that marketing of most commercial agricultural commodities is done by men. This study entailed to determine distribution of benefit accrued from marketing of onion among household members in Eyasi valley. It was revealed that most of the market dominated by men while women do a rare vegetable marketing to earn daily money to run their family. A greater portion of the income accrued from selling onion were dominated by men. It is therefore important to consider the involvement of women and the portion they get in agricultural activities to reduce poverty and malnutrition.