Vineeta Chhetri
Vineeta is a development practitioner working closely with communities in PRADAN’s Kharika Mathani Team in West Bengal. She joined PRADAN in 2015 after pursuing her Masters in Development from Azim Premji University. She specialises in institution building for collective action and provides support to groom community leaders, enhance livelihoods and resource management. She is interested in the integration of ecological and livelihood sustainability with gender.
January 22, 2020
In 2017, Phulkali Mahato, Anjali Murmu, Pramila Singh and many other women experimented with the indigenous paddy Kerala Sundari for the first time. Many of them chose to do so, based on the experiences of a few farmers in nearby villages in the past year. Phulkali’s experience was especially significant. Whereas many women experimented on tiny bits of land (rightly so because of the small size of land holdings), which were also mostly in the uplands, Phulkali grew Kerala Sundari in 0.5 acres of her best lowland.