Women Farmers & Sustainable Agriculture

As a next step the WGWLO network decided to enable women land owners to learn how to practice sustainable agriculture and become leaders in organic farming. Since 2017 Network promotes Organic Farming among women farmers and establishes linkages with KVKs and ATMAs to help women farmers with technical advice and support with latest farm inputs, especially for organic farming. The network has reached to an estimated 3500 women farmers with the idea of sustainable agriculture so far as per WGWLO secretariat’s MIS data for the past three years, helped about 500 women farmers across 12 districts, to take the leadership in practicing sustainable agriculture and supported 667 women farmers with demonstration kits, for trial of new varieties, organic fertilizers, pesticides and inputs for water conservation. Several of them have got linked with government training programs of agriculture and gained access to tool banks which help to reduce their drudgery in agriculture activities. A few women farmers have gained access to new markets which has enabled them to raise their income through better price realization.