text: ture. After the harvest women process, stock and market agricul­ ture produce. Cereals for example require long periods of work for sifting and milling. Grain mills are becoming more common place in urban areas but they are being introduced more slowly in the country side. Zairian women for example devote 4 to 5 hours in preparing cassava which the family would consume in two days. Some fruits, vegetables, fish and meat should be dried to be preserved. Women in addition prepare products and implement needed by the family or for suplementary revenues such as soap, pottery and baskets. They brew beer from millet or maize. 27. Agricultural produce are marketed by women and men. Sig­ nificant variations exist from one subregion to another. In West Africa, the selling of agricultural produce in the market place is done by women. Almost all women participate to varying degrees in produce marketing. They devote one or bJo days a week in this. 28. In certain Sahelian countries however men participate in agricultural trade at the level of wholesaling. That participa­ tion is particularly obvious in the imported agricultural foodstuffs trade. Retailing, however, is always d~ne by women. 155 E/ECA/CM.9/5 29. In Eastern and southern Africa livestock is sold by men while women handle the other agricultural produce. In the moslem countries of Northern Africa, however, trade is essentially car­ ried out by men even though in some cases women trade at home. 30. Women who go to markets to sell their goods sometimes travel considerable distances with loads on their heads. All these tasks are in addition to domestic chores like looking after the household, taking care of children and the aged, mending clothes, preparing meals for the the family as well as fetching water and firewood. 
analysis: The text primarily discusses the role of women in agriculture, particularly in processing, marketing, and trading agricultural produce. It highlights the time and effort women devote to these activities, often in addition to their domestic responsibilities. The text also touches on the variations in agricultural trade between different regions and countries.