Govt to acquaint women farmers with farming techniques

  • 23/12/2010

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)

With a view to improving the life of women farmers in the State and bringing consistency in them, arrangements have been made in all districts to provide training to the women farmers which would help them choose farming technique with lesser cost, to understand and also for adopting it. A scheme named 'Women's participation in farming in Madhya Pradesh' is running in the State. Under the scheme, 25 women farmers belonging to the scheduled caste category from Shujalpur, Kalapipal and Moman Badotia of Shajapur district on Wednesday met Farmers Welfare and Agriculture Development Minister Ramkrishna Kusmaria. On the occasion, Minister of State for Home, Jail and Transport Narayan Singh Kushwaha was also present. Kusmaria informed the women who had come on study tour, about bio-farming, installation of bio-gas plant, digging of wells under Kapildhara scheme, cow rearing, wormy compost, etc. He told them that under their study tour wherever they go, they should adopt the information received from these places at their own fields for the purpose of improving their farming. He advised them to use high quality seeds and compost manure in the farm fields. These women were taken to the Central Institute of Agriculture Engineering, Nabibagh, National Horticulture Research Centre, Intkhedi, State Agriculture Expansion and Training Institute, Barkhedi, Government Agriculture Farm, Phanda, and Indian Soil Science Institute, Berasia Road, Bhopal.