By HARIPADA GIRI | SECRETARY
We work closely with smallholder farmers to enable them to grow high-value products, engage with private-sector companies and sell in profitable markets. We provide business training and skills development support to farmer who want to create thriving, sustainable enterprises.Our market-led approach increases incomes for target groups, while also catalyzing economic and social development for the whole community.We integrate a gender lens throughout our programs and provide tailored support for female farmer to expand their opportunities for sustainable livelihoods.Barnamala Educational and Cultural Society is implementing a program, in the Kantageria Village of Kharagpur-II Block in Paschim Medinipur District of West Bengal, to bolster the economic empowerment of smallholder women farmers by improving their participation in farmer producer organizations. By engaging with the farmer producer organizations, smallholder female farmers within key agribusiness sectors will benefit from increased negotiating power, providing greater transparency and better price realization for their produce.
Barnamala Educational and Cultural Society Promote to farmer to use vermin compost.Vermi composting uses earthworms to produce cheap, effective fertilizer. Vermi composting has saved each farmer over Rs.7000 per year on chemical fertilizers, and farmers sold excess worms for additional profits. Farmers also make water based Vermi washes for their fields, prolonging field fertility by months over untreated fields
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