Women smallholder farmers are responsible for the majority of the postharvest processing, yet ineffective tools reduce their abilities to efficiently manage their tasks, leaving minimal time for tending to their domestic responsibilities of caring for their families or for themselves. By using grueling, outdated, postharvest methods, women spend an unnecessary amount of time and intensive physical labor on food processing that prevents them from focusing on anything beyond the immediate survival of their families. Women also lack access to beneficial income-generating resources that are more often available for men, including business education, technical support, financial capital, land ownership and decision-making authority. This limits their opportunities to grow as entrepreneurs, keeping them trapped within the poverty cycle.