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In the agrarian district of Ikole-Ekiti, smallholder cassava farmers long struggled with high post-harvest losses due to the rapid deterioration of harvested tubers within forty-eight hours. The recent installation of a community-owned, solar-powered flash-drying facility transformed local economic dynamics. Previously, farmers were forced to sell raw tubers immediately to itinerant middlemen at heavily discounted prices or risk complete spoilage. With the flash-dryer, tubers are processed into high-quality cassava flour on the day of harvest, extending shelf life to over twelve months and enabling direct supply to urban confectionery industries. However, while overall household incomes have risen by thirty percent, local processors report that women—who traditionally controlled manual gari processing and retained its revenues—now represent less than fifteen percent of the technical operators at the mechanized solar plant. Consequently, gender advocates emphasize that economic metrics alone fail to capture shifts in resource control within farming households.
Based on the passage above, evaluate whether the following statement is True or False: The introduction of mechanized cassava flash-drying inadvertently displaced women from their traditional role as primary financial beneficiaries of processing.
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