At this local palm oil processing mill, farmers boil, ferment and press the palm fruits to extract the palm oil that is poured into drums and taken to the big markets in town. Sometimes, the buyers come to book and pick up their drums of palm oil when business is good, though this not usual. Photo By Emmanuel Osodi
Photos By Emmanuel Osodi
At this local palm oil processing mill, farmers boil, ferment and press the palm fruits to extract the palm oil that is poured into drums and taken to the big markets in town. Sometimes, the buyers come to book and pick up their drums of palm oil when business is good, though this not usual. Photo By Emmanuel Osodi
Christiana Onybie, mother of seven, lost her husband to a malaria infection and has been supporting her children through farming and casual labour jobs in a local oil palm mill. Photo By Emmanuel Osodi
Evelin Micheal taking out the boiled oil palm fruits from the fire to be processed into palm oil, usually manually, and always by women. Photo By Emmanuel Osodi
Mrs. Veronica Atuye (left) with her two daughters, Patricia (right) and Chikwadi peal cassaver tubes they havested from their farm in Agbor town, Delta state. Photo By Emmanuel Osodi
Group of women who do different kinds of work on farms around Ute Erumu town, Delta State. These women work as pickers, palm kernel breakers. Photo By Emmanuel Osodi
Mrs. Philomina Achafor returning home with sacks of cassava harvested from the farm in Ekuku-Agbor town in Delta State, Nigeria. She rides her motorbike to her farm located some kilometres away and comes back home to make garri from the cassava after processing the tubers. Photo By Emmanuel Osodi
After many years of back-breaking farm work, Mrs Maria Omebiye, 60, with little or no healthcare delivery system by the governmen, is currently suffering from waist pain and arthritis. Photo By Emmanuel Osodi
Eighty percent of women in Ekuku-Agbor town are farmers and, in more ways than one, also traders, Says Charity Ebuniwa, 30, “my husband and I do oil palm farming together. He harvests them from the palm tree while I gather the bunches for processing. Photo By Emmanuel Osodi
Esther Ijeabo, 54, frying gari, a staple eaten in southern Nigeria, at the back of here house in Ute Erumu town in Agbor, Delta State, Esther has been in the business since she was a young teenager . Photo By Emmanuel Osodi
Roseline Gabriel (right) with her colleague in Ilutuntun camp Odigbo Local government area in Ondo State prepare kolanuts for sale in the big market in Ore. The work is often tedious and monotonous, but with very little profit. Photo By Emmanuel Osodi
Funmi Toluwalase, breastfeeds her toddler, Femi while Ayo (left) and Tope wait for their father at 7:33 pm, Mr. Kayode Toluwalase, to carry their harvest home on his motorcycle (the mother and sons will follow on foot) after the day’s job in the farm at Ajose camp near Ore in Ondo State. Photo By Emmanuel Osodi
Even with Nigeria’s unreasonable dependence on only oil to run her economy, many more exports abound. Mrs. Mary David, mother of six harvesting cocoa in her plantation farm in Ilutuntun camp in Odigbo Local Government Area, Ondo State. Photo By Emmanuel Osodi
The production line is not quite long but these women do so much for so long that they go home everyday, tired; and of course they age very fast due to many factors. Photo By Emmanuel Osodi
Twenty-three-year-old Bidemi Kehinde,strapped her baby to her back while working of the g production of palmoil in an oil palm mill in Ajose Camp, Ondo State, Nigeria. Photo By Emmanuel Osodi
These women, young, middleaged and some in their 60s, combine both farm work and produntion of local oil palm in an oil mill belonging to Mr. Kayode Toluwalase at Ajose Camp near Ore town in Ondo State, Nigeria. Photo By Emmanuel Osodi
