Historically, the agriculture sector has been male-dominated. While, historically, women have been known to work side by side with men in the sugar industry and to develop and sustain ‘kitchen gardens’ to keep the family pot ‘boiling, men, apart from being dominant on large farms across the sector have been known to dominate various other disciplines associated with food production. On the whole, the role of women in agriculture in contemporary Guyanese society has been long under-acknowledged. That notwithstanding, the work of Andrea Seechun as a farmer and, beyond that, as a source of knowledge about the agriculture sector has caught the attention of the Stabroek. In this issue the of the Stabroek Business the first in our series titled Women at Work focuses on Sndrea and her work in the agriculture sector.
