Loan money is used by women in many different ways. 
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"Buy 'em, sell ''em." The most frequent method for women to make a quick profit is to buy cheap at one small market, and sell dear at a large market. These women offer a variety of merchandise.

This woman treks to a nearby city, buys frozen fish brought by refrigerated truck from a seaport 200 miles away, then returns to her village to sell in the market. Lucrative, but a lot of work.

Preparing a farm plot for planting.

Piglets are bought for about $8, fattened up over 6-9 months, then sold at $115-150. When asked the pigs' names, one woman replied "Money...Money...
Money."

A woman ready to take a 100 pound bag of beans to market.

Planting corn and beans mid-March.

Farming

Some women rent cows to fertilize farm plots ($4 a week).

Selling in the market.

Buy 'em, sell 'em.

Taking farm produce to Market

Basketmaking

Many women purchase frequently used items for sale at their small village compounds.

A small "teahouse" restaurant to serve people who have come to stay all day at the "Big Market."

A woman selling
fresh-water crayfish.

This woman is part of a group of seamstresses, a profession usually dominated by men.