Economic Growth India Project #2022

Empower Women Farmers in India

by Seva Mandir

Project Report | Nov 11, 2022
Sita's journey to Advanced Agriculture

By Atul Lekhra | Programme Incharge

Hailing from Daboon village, in rural Southern Rajasthan, India, Sita is a 33 year old mother to 3 kids working a job as a small-scale farmerette. Her husband Mangi is a daily wage laborer. They both work extensively to make ends meet yet it is not always possible to. They have been cultivating seasonal crops as per availability of water in the nearby shared water resources.

This year Sita, associated herself with Seva Mandir’s agriculture program. In doing so she received agri inputs and training for onion cultivation in their 0.5 bigha of land. Once transplanted from the nursery, she used an improved method of farming by getting water from an open well and irrigated the farm 6 times. It is also noteworthy to add, that only farmyard manure was applied in the field. There was no fertilizer nor pesticide used.

Sita also attended the trainings imparted by Seva Mandir on package of practices of the crop. In June, 2022 they harvested more than 1,600 kgs of onion. After setting aside some onion for sustenance, they sold 1,500kgs of onion at Rs. 20 ($0.24) per kg and earned a sum of Rs.30,000 ($367) from selling their surplus. Sita shares gratuitously, “I have never earned this much when I sold Wheat or Maze. This is the first time my land has given me this much in return”.

This is just one example of the impact of Seva Mandir’s program on women farmers. A big thank you goes to you, our faithful supporters. With your help, we have been able to continue successfully running this program and impact more lives of farmers such as Sita.

We hope that you will continue lend a helping hand to support our programme. For only $50, you can help train 1 rural woman, like Sita, on advanced farming techniques of vegetable and floriculture cultivation. You can continue to show your support on: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/empower-women-farmers-in-india/

Thank you once again.

Best wishes,

Atul Lekhra & the Seva Mandir team

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Jul 19, 2022
Helping Women Farmers Become Self-Reliant

By Atul Lekhra | Programme Incharge

“It’s been 3 years I started Rose Cultivation and my life has never been the same, it changed completely. Associating with Seva Mandir’s project is best decision I have ever made in this lifetime” says Dharmi happily.

Darmi and her husband Pratap are traditional farmers in Aad village in south Rajasthan. They are family of 6 (3 son and 1 daughter in law). Dharmi got support for floriculture and attended various advanced agriculture trainings under the intervention through Seva Mandir. Doubtful about leaving their seasonal crop cultivation, she decided to give it a try in miniscule part of their farmland. She planted 950 saplings of rose and sold flowers worth Rs. 55,000 ($696) in the very first year. She used this hard-earned money for the education of her daughter-in-law.

Happy with her success, Dharmi decided to continue with floriculture. In 2021, she prepared a rose nursery and sold 5,000 saplings and earned Rs. 41,000 ($519). Additionally, she earned Rs. 20,000 ($253) through selling the flowers. Thus, she made around Rs. 61,000 ($772) through this activity. In 2022, Darmi encouraged 4 more farmers in her village to cultivate rose plants while they themselves are expanding the cultivation area in their farm. This year, they cultivated rose plants and prepared nursery of 12,000 saplings and are expecting a return of around Rs. 1.3 lakhs ($1,646).

Dharmi proved that it is important to take calculated risk and open to changes. The association with Seva Mandir’s project not only helped her increase her income but also provided a platform to become an entrepreneur and improve her family’s wellbeing.

Thank you so much for all your faith and continued support to our programme. We are happy to share that we are participating in GlobalGiving’s July Bonus Day Campaign. Donations of $100 USD and up will be matched on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, starting at 9 a.m. ET. The higher the amount, the higher will be the match. So, this is the chance to take one small action and it will have more impact on the lives of many women farmers. We do hope that you will consider supporting us again.

Best Wishes,

Atul Lekhra & the Seva Mandir team

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Apr 5, 2022
Creating New Opportunities for Women Farmers

By Atul Lekhra | Programme Incharge

Hailing from Kag-Mandara village, Doogli and her husband barely manage to sustain their family of 8 with their meagre income from agriculture and daily-wage labor work. They have very small land holdings, and were only cultivating seasonal crops of wheat and corn; just sufficient for their consumption. Therefore, they got no additional income through selling their harvest.

Last year, Doogli became associated with Seva Mandir through our agriculture program. Through our agriculture program, she received multiple trainings on short crops cultivation, use of organic manure and water efficient cultivation technologies. She attended these trainings and subsequently cultivated coriander in 500 sq meters of her farm. She was provided with 2kgs of coriander seeds through project and irrigated the land through channel water supply.

It is noteworthy that she applied only natural farm-yard manure and did not use any fertilizers or pesticides. In May-June she reaped a harvest of approximately 310 kgs of coriander which she sold in the nearby market. She earned around Rs. 10,000 ($132) from selling this harvest. It is very important that she continues to cultivates this crop in the mere 500 square meters of her farm.

Doogli is very happy with her income and plans to invest it back in her farm. She proudly says

“I never earned that much by selling the harvest of my entire farm, this is incredible. I am very thankful to Seva Mandir.”

This is just one example of the impact of Seva Mandir’s program for women farmers. A big thank you also goes to you, our supporters. With your help, we have been successfully running this program.

We are excited to share with you that we are participating in GlobalGiving’s Little by Little Campaign, which will run from 04^th to 08^th April 2022. It is a five-day crowdfunding campaign. All eligible donations of up to $50 will be matched at 50% during the campaign.

We need your support once again to help us get matching funds, which will then help us reach out to more women farmers in need. For only $50, you can help train 1 rural woman on advanced farming techniques of vegetable and floriculture cultivation.

Your donation will build brighter futures for these women farmers. Thank you once again.

Regards

Atul Lekhra & the Seva Mandir team

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