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Interventions to improve working conditions:
drink during the midday break.
provision of taiPs for shade and water to
Interventions to improve workers' skills: basic record keeping including a weekly time sheet
a-.d how to ca:c,, ..Sde.
Packing and greenhouse ,orkers: female packers are comparatively young, often have a sixth
grade education, and are frequently single. Female greenhouse workers are more often
partnered or female household heads with children, and from households with access to
resources.
Interventions to improve packing and greenhouse workers' quality of life: information oil
family planning: provision of child-care and pre-school readiness activities; information on
crops and cultivation practices for crops that could be grown in ,,omen's household gardens.
Interventions to improve workers' skills: budgeting and household resource manag inent.
Permanent emplo)(es (mostly greenhouse morkers): permanent female employees are most
frequently either partnered or unpartnered female household heads who have had access to
education and may have access to land.
In:erventions to improve korkers' quality of life: family planning information;
establishment of an enterprise-affiliated credit/savings facility to promote savings and
encourage cash purchases of larger items; information on crops and cultivation practices for
women's household gardens.
ENCOURAGE INTRODUCTION OR EXPANDED CULTIVATION OF NTAE PRODUCTS
WITH A HIGHER RATIO OF POST HARVEST (VALUE-ADDED) PROCESSING TO FIELD
ACTIVITIES. Not only does the post-harvest processing greatly enhance the value of the NTAE
product in question, but it is also the site of the qualitatively better jobs.
ENCOURAGE EXPANDED CULTIVATION OF NTAE .PRODU S TItAT USE
GREENHOUSE CULTIVATION. It is not the greenhouse itself as much as the fact that a
greenhouse represents an investment that management must capitalize on to insure a profit that
makes it such a positive source of employment... Once the structure is in place, management
needs relialle, r-spornSM-b, permanent workers to insure the profitability of the busirL.ss. It
bypasses the constraints associated with other facilities such as.freezing plants in that it produces
the product it processes and is not heavily reliant on electricity to operate. On the other hand,
greenhouse production tends to require a much higher investment per job created.
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