Success Stories

Celebrating India’s Rural Women:Inspiring Stories of Women Farmers Bringing About Change

According to the World Bank, pastoral women comprise 43 percent of the agrarian labour force that produces, processes and prepares much of the food available in the world. In recognition of the donation of these women, the UN recognizes the role of rural women, including indigenous women, in enhancing agrarian and rural development, perfecting food security and eradicating poverty. With temperatures rising, rainfall patterns changing and climate- related disasters getting more frequent, food security has come a major challenge across the world, and especially in India.

As crucial players in the country’s husbandry sector and those in charge of icing acceptable nutrition for families, pastoral women are at the centre of this challenge. A FAO( Food and Agriculture Organization) report says that if women were given equal access to coffers as men, agrarian yield could increase2.5- 4 in developing countries, enough to feed at least 100 million further undernourished people! Empowering and investing in rural women is alsopre-requisite to fulfilling the vision of the Sustainable Development Goals that aims to end poverty and hunger, cover the terrain, ameliorate health parameters and empower all women. This fact is reflected in the inspiring stories of women across the globe who have fought legal, social and artistic obstacles to bring about significant social and provident reforms in their communities.

Jaharul Nisha’s Journey from nothing to be an success full Business woman”

This is the story of a woman, whose persistent efforts to support her family through hard work and dedication .Mrs Jaharul Nisha is a 62 yrs old women entrepreneur who belongs to the village Gaddopur, Loniapur,Block Amaniganj of the district Ayodhaya Ganpat Sonahar is a very small village of 40 households and the persisting population of the village is approximately 250 Nisha is flourishing herself by adopting the goat raring She is one of the most active member of the Nari sangh since last several yrs. Her success story is so motivated and inspiring for not only nari sangh members but also for the other woman’s of the adjacent area too.

As she has had only 0.25 acres of land and her family were she has no consistent source of income in her family 2.5 to 3 year back told about her desire for doing the goat raring our local re -presentative help her in terms of providing guidance and knowledge input . She stared goat raring with two goats with an investment of 6000. During the last year she attended the MED training program on goat Effect of the training was she started the goat rearing more professionally. Now she has 15 goats of worth of rupees 90,000 /= and she has also sold the goat of the worth of 20,000/=. Now she has more professionally confidant and excelling her business the most fasten pace She recently attended our MED training program which were held in the month of Dec 2022 and share her experiences and precisely motivated in regards goat raring to the other fallow nari- sangh members .