Box 2 .

Mr. Galato Kumsa, one among the participant in focus group discussion said that “agriculture activity in our country requires huge amount of labor for achieving our desire and feeding our families but currently we are working with one hand due to unavailability of our women in agricultural activity. They are running here and there for looking water and almost all their time was spent on fetching water. During the earlier period it was the traditional barriers that hinder us not to participate our female in field work like provision of assistance for male in field work rather than restricting them in home. Awareness creation made by our government and extension worker help us to see our females and women as one wing for success of our agricultural activity and economic development. However, currently our great enemy and bottleneck in our kebele was lack of access to drinking water that prevent participation of our family members mainly girls and females in agriculture. This coupled with change in climatic condition were strongly hampering our economic income and livelihood activity”.