Home Gardens in Nepal

home garden but the contribution of females were more in vegetable production and
management activities in both sites and ethnic groups.

Table 1: Gender division of labour (Percent) in different activities of home gardens by eco site
Site Wealth Gende
r

Vegetabl

e

Fruit

s

Medicina

l

Ornament

al

Fodder

/Forag

e

Livestoc

k

Tota

l

Male 44 64 44 22 53 47 46

Rich Female 43^275049 41 49^43

Childre

n 13 9 6 29 6 4 11

Male 42 49 41 17 43 47 40

Mediu Female 40 35 45 40 43 42 41

m Childre

n 18 16 14 43 14 11 19

Male 22 60 70 18 47 39 43

Female 52 34 30 40 44 48 41

Gulmi

Poor Childre

n 26 6 - 42 9 13 16

Rupandeh
i

Male 26 32 25 1 28 36 25

Rich Female 69^596835 65 51^58

Childre

n 5 9 7 66 7 13 18

Male 32 36 35 19 49 51 37

Mediu Female 54 47 50 38 41 41 45

m Childre

n 14 17 15 43 10 8 18

Male 30 38 31 22 33 45 33

Female 60 59 64 71 59 52 61

Indigenou
s

Poor Childre

n 10 3 5 7 8 13 8

Male 36 51 46 18 46 49 41

Rich Female 51^355142 45 41^44

Childre

n 13 14 3 40 9 10 15

Male 39 52 48 23 42 49 42

Mediu Female 39 32 44 21 52 42 38

m Childre

n 22 16 8 56 6 9 20

Male 37 37 31 17 36 40 33

Female 48 43 49 39 44 40 44

Migrants

Poor

Childre

n 15 20 20 44 20 20 23

Fruit production
In Gulmi, the fruit production and management activities of home garden, male of all
categories were more responsible whereas in Rupandehi, female of all categories were
more responsible in indigenous group. But in case of migrant group of Rupandehi, male
were more responsible in rich and medium categories and female in poor categories. In
some activities like sapling purchase, weeding, irrigation, harvesting, seedling/sapling
exchange and marketing, children were also contributing their labour. Overall, male were
more responsible in Gulmi and migrant group of Rupandehi and female in indigenous group
of Rupandehi. This may be due to involvement of the male from indigenous group in
activities other than home garden i.e. wage labouring within or outside the country for