Gender Roles in Cacao Production and

Management Practices: Towards Sustainable

Production

Novaty Eny Dungga

Fachirah Ulfa
Rabina Yunus
 Objective
The key objective of this paper is to identify the constraints
facing both male and female farmers in Bantaeng district, to
analyze their needs and interests and to recommend
appropriate policy measures and strategies for effectively
redressing the identified challenges. The conceptual
framework on which this paper is anchored is the role of
rural women in cacao production and management
practices.

Figure 1 depicts the relationships between the social,

economic, productive and domestic roles of rural female
farmers. The components of the framework are briefly
described in the next subsections.
• Currently, he mentioned, there are 254,689
heads of households to be cocoa farmers in
South Sulawesi with productive age 35-40
years and above. From the age of 35 years
only 12 percent absorb, while the remaining
62 percent age 35 years and over due to lack
of good knowledge.
• Social and Economic Trends
• Productive Roles
• Domestic (Reproductive) Roles
Figure 1
 Metodologi
• Why Bantaeng? one of 7 cocoa development areas in South Sulawesi.
• Data Collection
 Both secondary and primary data were collected from the three selected
communities.
 An in-depth literature search was conducted to gather information on the scientific,
historical, and philosophical aspects of gender roles in agriculture. This information
provided guidance and insights for designing the field data collection instruments and
the analysis of the data.
 The primary data were collected through questionnaires, interviews, observations,
focus group discussions, participatory rural appraisal and gender and life history
analysis.
 Purposive sampling was used to select highly productive rural communities while
stratified random sampling was used to select male-headed and female-headed
farming households from each community. Farmers from both male- and
femaleheaded households were picked through simple random sampling. An equal
number of females (125) and males (125) farmers were interviewed from the
communities.
KENYATAAN TENTANG KAKAO DI
SULSEL
• Saat ini, ada 254.689 kepala keluarga menjadi
petani kakao di Sulsel dengan usia produktif
35-40 tahun ke atas. Dari usia 35 tahun hanya
12 persen menyerap, sementara sisanya 62
persen usia 35 tahun ke atas disebabkan
kurangnya pembekalan yang baik.