Women Farmers: From Raising Livestock To Growing Food In Backyards
On Women’s Day, empowering stories of ladies successfully raising livestock and growing food in backyards, with some help from ICRISAT joint projects Outlook Web Bureau Mar 08, 2021
Women farmers in rural Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are being encouraged to start small vegetable gardens in their backyards and animal husbandry as part of the key activities undertaken by ICRISAT.
Among watershed projects to improve household nutrition, these ‘nutri-gardens’ help augment household incomes, especially during times of job losses and restricted mobility due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The following are some heartening stories told by enterprising women beneficiaries of two joint projects of ICRISAT – one with the Rural Electrification Corporation Limited (RECL), India, and another with AB InBev.