According to the passage, in Lao ….……

Among the Lao people, women have always had a central role in agriculture, being responsible for transplanting, weeding and much of the harvesting and threshing, while men have had charge of the ploughing and irrigation. In addition; women have been chiefly responsible for vegetable gardening, livestock raising and weaving; their working day is longer than men's. Weaving is usually a dry season activity; when the rice harvest is in, and women have “free” time from other tasks, time which is spent on spinning, dye production and weaving. Sale of the finished products is often one of the family's main sources of income.