"Indeed, female entrepreneurship is more present in agri-food processing. Processing activities concern all agricultural speculations, livestock, fishing, and forest products. We can affirm that Niger's agro-sylvo-pastoral and fishing products are subject to processing, and to varying degrees. However, as you pointed out, production equipment and processes are most often artisanal and the actions predominantly manual. This means that the quality of the products cannot be fully guaranteed, even if these women have a good command of the production processes."