Though women compose between 60 and 80 percent of the labour force in peasant agriculture (FAO, 1983), they have little or no access to productive resources, especially land and credit. However, where they have access, they lack ability to demand and take control of these resources. Thus, the possibility for them to perform their pivotal role in alleviating poverty and food insecurity because of their strategic position in the households is greatly hampered (Tanko, 1995; Udoh, 1999). In Nigeria, women contribute substantial amount of labour for both domestic and farm work and are involved in planting, weeding, harvesting, transporting, processing, marketing and storing of agricultural produces (Mijindadi, 1993). It therefore follows that women are equally important stakeholders in farming and also equally efficient farm manager as their men counterparts (Blindlish & Robert, 1993; Saito, 1994). In this regards, the need for the women to demand and control productive financial resources in light of their multiple responsibilities cannot be overemphasized; especially, in the situation of insufficient equity capital to meet the requirements for increase productivity.

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