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Agricultural mechanization is important to increase farm incomesthrough greater farm labour productivity, but could also have adversesocial consequences, for instance, by marginalizing the role of womenin agriculture. The study aims to gain better indulgent of howmechanization of the smallholder farming affects the role of andbenefits for women from agricultural work using case of mungbean inPakistan. Mungbean is an important summer pulse in Pakistan, butaverage yield is very low at about 1 t/ha. Mungbean production ispartially mechanized in all parts of the country, but harvesting andweeding are done using manual labour, most of it provided by women.Primary data come from interviews with 106 persons in two villages;one in which mechanical harvesting had been adopted and onecomparable village where it had not been introduced. The datacollection methods were mostly qualitative. The results indicate thatmen and women perceived mechanization of mungbean harvestinglargely as positive as it reduces the burden of work on women andreduces health risk from the field work.

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