Women do 13% of work, expected to inherit 20% of Irish farms

WOMEN pull more than their weight in Irish farming, according to the 2003 Teagasc National Farm Survey.

It indicates that, on average, women contribute 13% to total labour input in farming, well ahead of the 10% of farms which are owned by women in their own name.

Women do 5% of the work on tillage farms, and are indispensable in the most profitable sector of Irish agriculture, dairy farming, where they do 14% of the work, according to the Survey.