Most of the small work in value chain addition and finishing touches are carried out by women.

When we consider, harvesting, processing which involves shelling, washing, cleaning drying, sorting, packaging and some other minor work, women are the majority workers in this feed

Unfortunately, most of this little works has no machinery support to make work easy

Imagine the group of women growing soybean, it takes enormous work to harvest manually, deshelled it manually, destine manually, and then still manually do value addition of converting it to soybean cake nor soybean oil or animal feed etc all to be carried out manually.

It becomes a tedious task adding value because the machineries to reduce the stress are not available.

Many of the women farmers would rather sell it off unprocessed instead of adding value to earn more funds.

Machineries that can easevwork will greatly encourage value addition and processing for more women which in turn means an increase in income

The bank can upscale women participation in agriculture by bringing to the rural areas some financial lending benefits that rural women can easily addressed using woman led organisation that understand the plight of women.

The rural areas have so many woman led agricultural programmes that requires upscaling.

Agricultural equipments can be fabricated for the use of the women group to increase their productivity.

Financially empowering a woman amounts to empowering the family.

Most women in agriculture in Africa lack access to funds to upscale production.

Little processing material like 

Solar dryers

Grinder

Rototiller

Etc are required to see increase in agric productivity.

Most banks rarely consider women in whatever they do. The finance are concentrated on men