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.

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

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.

Activities

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

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $180
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $44,820
Total Funding Goal: $45,000

Additional Documentation

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

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Why this Project is Important

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

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Anil Singh
Chief Executive and Founder
39 - Neel Vihar
Near 14-Sector Power House
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226016
India
91-522-2712671
Email:

Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Organization

Network of Entrepreneurship & Economic Development Logo

Network of Entrepreneurship & Economic Development
39-Neel Vihar, Near 14-Sector Power House Indira Nagar
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226016
India
0091-522-2712671
http://www.indianeed.org

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in IndiaIndia and can also be found under Economic DevelopmentEconomic Development.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 13, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 30, 2009

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