Women work for as long as 14-18 hours on an average daily and expend more total energy a day as compared to men women’s contribution in agriculture and allied activities yet their work continues to be unrecognized. With this backdrop, we are implementing the project in 2 districts (Hazaribagh & West Singhbhum) of Jharkhand state encompassing 4 blocks and 100 villages. Our core beneficiaries are 5000 women farmers coming from the poorest of the poor families through the collectivization process.
The aim of the project is to promote women farmers and capacitate them on various sustainable, efficient and organic models of agriculture to increase farm production and ensure household-level food security through better income and livelihood opportunities throughout the year.
The project is focused towards the direct benefit of the women farmers by giving them enough scope to learn, practice and replicate the same for their own will being and equally for the community. It also focuses on community-based institution building, ensuring food security, reducing women drudgery, developing alternative means of employment options for women, providing regular training and exposure besides creating scope to negotiate and participate for their own development through participation in mainstream developmental aspects. The project strategies are :