Plant Tissue Culture Industry and Women’s Participation: ‘Nimble Fingers’ or Docile Labor?

Reddy, C. Raghava

doi:10.1177/097185240701100203

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“…This indicates that female workers are better suited to monotonous and repetitive work for all tasks analysed inside the greenhouse and also observed in other studies (Elson and Pearson, 1981). One problem associated with these results is that, combined with the 'nimble fingers' stereotype often applied to women, this could lead to female workers being pigeonholed into specific tasks (Reddy, 2007).…”

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confidence: 80%

Women's Labour and Mechanization in Mediterranean Greenhouse Farming

Manzano‐Agugliaro¹,

García-Cruz²,

Fernández-Sánchez³

2013

Outlook Agric

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This paper analyses differences in productivity by worker's gender in greenhouse agricultural work, using time-study techniques applied to indoor tomato cultivation in Spain. The results show that women had on average a 107.5% greater efficiency compared with men, and that this was evident across all tasks subject to evaluation. Although they were rarely assigned to them due to gender stereotyping, the performance of female workers in tasks involving machinery operation, such as a motorized elevated platform, was shown to be superior to that of men. If the labour were exclusively female for the tasks studied, it would result in net time savings of 44.8%, or 1,286 hours of work per hectare for tomato cultivation. This analysis contributes to our understanding of the consequences of gender stereotyping in rural employment, and shows how greenhouse agriculture could be more sustainable if these issues were addressed.

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confidence: 80%

Women's Labour and Mechanization in Mediterranean Greenhouse Farming

Manzano‐Agugliaro¹,

García-Cruz²,

Fernández-Sánchez³

2013

Outlook Agric

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“…us, the demanding nature of these laboratory tasks needs proper execution by people with dexterity and patience. It is well perceived by tissue culture industries that such responsibilities are performed well by women who possess nimble fingers [17]. In line with this, the numbers of women participants with the educational status of diploma and below diploma are higher than men in all assessed PTC laboratories.…”

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confidence: 53%

Plant Tissue Culture Research and Development in Ethiopia: A Case Study on Current Status, Opportunities, and Challenges

Abebaw

Tobiaw

Abate

et al. 2021

Advances in Agriculture

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Plant tissue culture (PTC) is one of the well-adapted and practiced biotechnology tools in Ethiopia. After the initial success of tissue culture at the Ethiopian Institute of Agriculture Research and Addis Ababa University, the technology spread its roots to most of the research institutes and universities across the country. Consequently, the technology continues to extend at the commercial level. However, there is a lack of information at the national level on the capacity of national institutes in terms of available infrastructure and skilled human power, the potential of the laboratories for tissue culture-related activities, and existing challenges that hinder tissue culture research and development. This study aimed to assess the status of tissue culture research and development in Ethiopia and identify gaps that hinder its application in various economic sectors. The primary data were collected from 19 tissue culture laboratories across the country using questionnaires and physical observation. Accordingly, the results of the study revealed that Jimma Agricultural Research Center from the federal research institute and Amhara Regional Agriculture Research Institute, Bahir Dar Laboratory, from the regional research institute are relatively well equipped with facilities and equipment for tissue culture R&D activities. Among the commercial laboratories, Tigray Biotechnology Center is well equipped and has the highest production capacity with 40 million seedlings per year. Besides, the assessment revealed that a total of 54 plant species have been under in vitro protocol optimization and development process across all PTC laboratories. Nevertheless, tissue culture application in public and private sectors in Ethiopia is limited by several technical, administrative, and financial constraints. Therefore, to exploit the maximum benefit of PTC technology in the existing facilities, further intervention is critical in solving the identified challenges.

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“…Plant tissue culture techniques are considered as a productive small scale enterprise (Mascarenhas, 1999;Rajmohan, 2011), especially for the upliftment of rural places and rural women. It has also been recorded that there is a higher participation of women in the plant tissue culture industry (Reddy, 2007). However, substantial electricity cost is one of the critical factors that negate the popularisation of plant tissue culture-based enterprise (Pożoga et al, 2019).…”

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Sodium Dichloroisocyanurate: An eco-friendly chemical alternative for media autoclaving and explant sterilisation in plant tissue culture

Shetty¹,

Narasimhan²

2021

ijrps

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Autoclaving nutrient media is still considered as the optimum mode of sterilisation in plant cell and tissue culture. During the process steam under high pressure is maintained at 120 degrees Celsius, 15 psi for 15-20 minutes in a chamber, optimised to kill all possible microbial life forms. But the disadvantages related to the process of autoclaving are plentiful. They are, decrease in the media pH, salt precipitation, agar depolymerisation, carbohydrate hydrolysis, volatile obliteration and necessity of the infrastructure investment. Requirements of additional resources (time, human resources, electrical energy) have forced the lookout for a more viable alternative, that is, chemical sterilisation. The use of Sodium dichloroisocyanurate (NaDCC) is a useful alternative for media and explant sterilisation. NaDCC is stable, water-soluble, non-toxic and easy to use at room temperature, does not have any environmental hazards and is not phytotoxic. The use of NaDCC as a disinfectant has been documented well concerning water sterilisation, surface sterilisation and also as a broad spectrum disinfecting agent. Disinfecting property of NaDCC is due to the hydrolytic release of chlorine, and this can be utilised for sterilisation of media and explants in plant tissue culture. NaDCC is a useful alternative for autoclaving at a concentration range of 0.05 to 1.0 g/l. However, only a few reports are available for its use as a sterilising agent for media and explants for in vitro cultures of plants. This paper discusses and reviews the possibility of establishing NaDCC as an active agent for explant sterilisation and as a viable alternative to medium sterilisation through autoclaving.

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Plant Tissue Culture Industry and Women’s Participation: ‘Nimble Fingers’ or Docile Labor?

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

Women's Labour and Mechanization in Mediterranean Greenhouse Farming

Women's Labour and Mechanization in Mediterranean Greenhouse Farming

Plant Tissue Culture Research and Development in Ethiopia: A Case Study on Current Status, Opportunities, and Challenges

Sodium Dichloroisocyanurate: An eco-friendly chemical alternative for media autoclaving and explant sterilisation in plant tissue culture

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