Role of women in Pakistan By Allah Dad Khan

1. Role of Women in Agriculture
in Pakistan

2. Pakistan's principal natural resources are arable
land and water. About 25% of Pakistan's total land
area is under cultivation and is watered by one of
the largest irrigation systems in the world.
Pakistan irrigates three times more acres than
Russia. Agriculture accounts for about 23% of
GDP and employs about 44%of the labor force.

3. The women are the backbone of agricultural workforce but worldwide her
hard work has mostly been
unpaid.
She does the most tedious and back‐breaking tasks in agriculture, animal
husbandry and homes.
As farmers, women in subsistence production ensure the survival of
millions of people in all World.
Women in sustenance economies, producing and reproducing wealth in
partnership with nature, are
experts in their own right with ecological knowledge of nature’s processes.
Women’s livelihood strategies, and their support and means of food
security are diverse and complex,
from cleaning seed, to cultivating field crops, to livestock rearing, to home
gardening, gathering, and
forests, woodlands, wastelands etc.
But these alternative modes of knowledge and livelihoods are not

4. According to Labor Survey of Pakistan (2006‐07),
70% of female labor force are engaged in
agriculture and its allied fields and play very tough
role like milking, feed and watch of the livestock.
Their brittle bodies transplant rice crop in the
burning month of May/ July. Likewise, cotton
grower’s spray with poisonous pesticides to the
crop; as women pick cotton from sunrise to sun
set, it develops allergies, their skin festers. They
are always besieged by ailments and medico
abnormalities and usually die untreated. The
growers are not providing them facilities of hand
gloves and umbrella.

5. 1. Access to land
2.Recognition of labor work
3. Access to credit
4. Women right
5. women Education
6. Services
7. Access to Justice
8. Vocational training/ skill development training
9. Women Agriculture Agent

6. 10. Short training programme in Agriculture and
livestock
11.