Goals

• Establish the central role of women in agriculture decision making
• Enhance technical knowledge of women as practitioners of modern agriculture
• Enhance Productivity
• Establish farming as a profitable and sustainable livelihood
• Reduce distress migration from families

Objectives

• Crop intensification of paddy, maize, wheat and gram and diversification into pulses and commercial vegetable farming
• Protective irrigation from harvested rainwater to 950 ha of cropland during kharif season and 380 ha during rabi and summer
• Enhanced production of cereals by 100% with the intervened families
• Multi-cropping including long-tenure plantations of fruit trees and timber plants in 300 ha
• Introduction of small agricultural equipments/machines to reduce drudgery of women farmers
• Creation of an appropriate mechanism for market linkage for crops produced

Area of the project

• Implementation in two districts- Balaghat and Mandla
• In Balaghat district Balaghat and Paraswada blocks
• In Mandla district Mohgaon and Narayanganj blocks

Duration of the project

Project Investments

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