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Gender | Empowering Tribal Women, Increasing Productivity Through NHGs -A Satish

Empowering Tribal Women, Increasing Productivity Through NHGs -A Satish

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published Published on Apr 28, 2015   modified Modified on Apr 28, 2015
-The New Indian Express

PALAKKAD: To strengthen the capacity of women and increasing their livelihood opportunities, tribal women in Attappadi are encouraged to undertake cultivation of traditional crops   through the Neighbourhood Groups (NHG) of the Kudumbashree. A total of 506 exclusive tribal women NHGs have been constituted in Attappadi and seeds will be distributed to them before the monsoon sets in.

This is being done under the Mahila Kisan Shashakthikarna Pariyojana (MKSP) which is a programme of the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM).

The Rs 50 crore MKSP was one of the schemes announced by former Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh and Chief Minister Oommen Chandy as part of the Attappadi package on a visit to Attappadi in June 2013.

“There was a co-ordination meeting with the Agriculture Department and it was decided to purchase seeds under MKSP. The list of seeds was collected from women farmers and the purchase is being made from the Tamil Nadu Agriculture University (TNAU) and the Desi Seeds Collective which is a network of farmers across the country,” said programme manager of the NRLM and special officer posted in Attappadi, Seema Bhaskaran.

In the past two years, we have constituted 150 tribal ooru samithis under Kudumbasree. The ooru samithis have developed a list of 1,100 women farmers (producer groups) interested in cultivation, details of acres to be cultivated, seed preservation methods, means of land preparation, water sources, weeding, harvesting plan, food requirements for the entire year and marketing, she added.

“We propose to distribute seeds of vegetables, millets and pulses sourced from the Tamil Nadu Agriculture University (TNAU) and the Desi Seeds Collective which is a network of farmers all over the country, said Seema Bhaskaran.

In the first year, there will be no sale of produce. The yield will be used merely for the consumption of families and to prepare seeds for the next season.

“We do not intend to promote group farming like the ones undertaken by Kudumbasree in other parts of the state.  However, seeds will be distributed only to tribal women.”

Says principal agriculture officer K K Shobhana, “We have also submitted another proposal to the state government costing Rs 10.4 crore under a centrally sponsored scheme for developing traditional agriculture in Attappadi.” Added Seema Bhaskaran, “ Under MKSP, we concentrate on reviving traditional farming, cattle rearing and collection of non-timber forest produce aimed at empowering women and attaining nutritional security.

The producer groups also consist of community resource persons who will train and guide tribal women to practise traditional farming.”
 

The New Indian Express, 27 April, 2015, http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/Empowering-Tribal-Women-Increasing-Productivity-Through-NHGs/2015/04/27/article2784881.ece


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