The Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare organized Mahila Kisan Diwas through Video Conferencing on Thursday which was attended by Narendra Singh Tomar, Parshottam Rupala, Sanjay Agarwal and other senior officers of the Department.
A series of activities were undertaken on this occasion. Interaction between Rupala and successful women farmers and women entrepreneurs was held during the event.
The e-book on ‘Inspiring Stories of Progressive Women Farmers’ was released and two short video films on ‘Mahila Krishak and her Contribution in Agriculture’ and ‘Global Examples of Successful Women Farmers’ were launched during this event.
Participants felt that value addition of agri produce should be done at village level through women Self Help Groups and supply chain should be developed for transportation to the urban area.
In addition, beekeeping, fishery, poultry, animal husbandry have major scope for women farmers and women centric schemes in these sectors need to be promoted in consultation with the representatives of women farmers.