Les besoins des agricultrices en matière de vulgarisation dans une zone de grande culture : le Groupement de vulgarisation agricole et ménagère (G.V.A.M.) du plateau d'Evreux-St-André

Though agricultural vulgarization aims at developing both humanly and economically the whole agricultural sector, the various branches of such developments have often proved rather unsuccessful!. The failure is encountered in feminine vulgarization : as an example, we study the situation in the GVAM of Evreux St-André (Eure) in a cereal area. Here natural surroundings should have allowed modern and remunerative farming : small family farms are still existing, though next to big cereal farm firms. Consequently women in the very same neighbourhood are wholly différents in the way they live and work, and their needs are different as well. The feminine adherents to this GVAM come mostly from big farms. They may have more free time and be more open-minded is that why the others don't join ? Are not many of them inevitably kept away by such gaps that appear in the organization and the qind of activities selected in the GVAM and -- let us say so - the agricultural policy itself in the department ?