Create Income for 100 Indian Villages

Summary

This project will promote conservation based enterprises in 100 Indian villages to create jobs and income and also preserve the environment.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

Many of rural women farmers are willing to take up organic way of producing medicinal and aromatic value added plants to enhance their economic condition. This directly contributes to conservation of natural resource including bio-diversity of mother earth. Simultaneously, these farmers would also plan to install extraction machine in collaboration with national technical agency called Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP) and venture into production of eco-friendly oil.

How will this project solve this problem?

Forming Farmers Interest Groups (FIG). 200 farmers to be trained. 50 demonstration centers on patches of farmers for these products. Periodic supervision and follow up. Interface with the markets and installation of oil extras

Potential Long Term Impact

Income with ecology, bringing gender with entrepreneurship and technology, public pvt. Partnership, local ownership and control, policy advocacy and lobbying for economic reform.

Project Message

As Anil explained it to me, he does not think of a dollar as money. Rather, he thinks of what that dollar can do to improve the lives of women and children, a distinction that makes perfect sense.
- Sherry Conrads, Free lance Consultant, New York, USA

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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