Third, especially during the work-intensive rainy season, when most of the income for the rest of the year is secured, intra and inter-household labor substitution requires additional domestic work from adolescents, negatively affecting adolescents' ANC attendance.
The banana plantations are mostly located on the rainy slopes of Basse-Terre and intensive pesticide use controls insects, nematodes and fungi in these plantations.
The rainy season is the most work-intensive period for Jarai farmers, often leading to increased sleeping at forest farms and rice fields.
Rainfall is concentrated in a short rainy season (about three to five months), with a few intensive bursts – it is highly variable, and impossible to forecast.
She had done this all before in April during the height of the year's first rainy season, when both she and her five-year-old son suffered from intensive vomiting, diarrhoea and dehydration.
Alternatively, it might be because the mosquito captures were undertaken at the end of the rainy season, when most breeding sites had dried up and/or due to the intensive use of pesticides to control blood sucking insect vectors during outbreak.
Ms. Vandy, who is a Model Mother in her group, points out that it is challenging to sustain exclusive breastfeeding during the rainy season, especially for poor women who must work in the fields during this labour-intensive phase of rice cultivation.
