By means of PTI
BARAMULLA: A bunch of girls residing on this north Kashmir the city abutting the India-Pakistan LoC are scripting a luck tale via rising mushrooms of their houses and the usage of the sale benefit to fund their schooling and different wishes.
The agriculture place of job of the district, positioned alongside the banks of the Jhelum river, introduced a “vertical farming” programme together with girls self-help teams (SHGs) about two years again and the initiative is now bearing fruit.
“We’ve 88 mushroom farming clusters on this district as a part of which 22 girls had been engaged until now. The purpose is to financially empower the ladies inside of their family, the place they spend their most time,” Yadvinder Singh, the manager agriculture officer of the district, informed PTI.
The district management supplies an preliminary strengthen fund of Rs 15,000 to every girls entrepreneur together with 100 baggage of mushroom seeds referred to as spawn, he stated.
The luck tale of those clusters are encouraging extra girls to return ahead and officers really feel that is serving to smash the proverbial glass ceiling within the rural Kashmiri neighborhood the place girls don’t seem to be a lot noticed stepping outdoor the family to make money.
Baramulla stocks about 105 km of the India-Pakistan Line of Keep an eye on (LoC) this is on the subject of 35-40 km from the principle the city.
It’s positioned about 54 km north-west from the summer time capital of Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar.
Kulsum Majeed, a category 12 scholar and resident of Fatehpora locality of the city, is likely one of the girls marketers who’re operating at the initiative after her mom Shakeela Begum enrolled with the district management.
“Some huge cash is spent on my schooling and that of my siblings. When we were given to understand if this initiative, my mom and I considered taking over the job of rising mushrooms at house and promoting the produce within the native marketplace,” Majeed stated.
We were given involved with the agriculture place of job they usually gave us 100 baggage of seeds to begin the farming, she stated.
The daughter-mother duo ready a small room at the floor flooring in their two-storey space following which an inspection used to be performed via officers and a inexperienced sign used to be given to them.
The seeds are planted in poly baggage containing compost and are stored on lengthy picket benches throughout the small room inside of the home and the typical general produce from this sort of established order is set two quintals inside of a duration of 2 months, every other officer stated.
A small heater is from time to time used when the temperature falls beneath 0 as a way to stabilise the room weather for mushroom enlargement.
We harvest the micro-climate of this area, he stated.
Singh knowledgeable that the mushroom produce is bought at a value of round Rs 180-200 according to kg within the native marketplace and different portions of the Kashmir valley.
“A unmarried entrepreneur earns about Rs 40,000 from one harvest that takes about two months and after deducting the expenditure incurred, the web benefit is set Rs 20,000-25,000,” Singh stated.
Any other girls entrepreneur stated she has been enterprise mushroom farming for over a yr and she or he has earned a just right benefit that she makes use of to complement her circle of relatives source of revenue and for the development of her space.
Baramulla deputy commissioner Syed Sehrish Asgar stated some girls marketers have reported an incomes of Rs 8,000-Rs 10,000 per thirty days from mushroom farming.
“We’re attaining out to increasingly girls in Baramulla in order that they may be able to be made self-reliant and financially robust. Many have proven pastime and this initiative can be widened via serving to them to develop unique vegatables and fruits like mushrooms,” Singh stated.
BARAMULLA: A bunch of girls residing on this north Kashmir the city abutting the India-Pakistan LoC are scripting a luck tale via rising mushrooms of their houses and the usage of the sale benefit to fund their schooling and different wishes.
The agriculture place of job of the district, positioned alongside the banks of the Jhelum river, introduced a “vertical farming” programme together with girls self-help teams (SHGs) about two years again and the initiative is now bearing fruit.
“We’ve 88 mushroom farming clusters on this district as a part of which 22 girls had been engaged until now. The purpose is to financially empower the ladies inside of their family, the place they spend their most time,” Yadvinder Singh, the manager agriculture officer of the district, informed PTI.
The district management supplies an preliminary strengthen fund of Rs 15,000 to every girls entrepreneur together with 100 baggage of mushroom seeds referred to as spawn, he stated.
The luck tale of those clusters are encouraging extra girls to return ahead and officers really feel that is serving to smash the proverbial glass ceiling within the rural Kashmiri neighborhood the place girls don’t seem to be a lot noticed stepping outdoor the family to make money.
Baramulla stocks about 105 km of the India-Pakistan Line of Keep an eye on (LoC) this is on the subject of 35-40 km from the principle the city.
It’s positioned about 54 km north-west from the summer time capital of Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar.
Kulsum Majeed, a category 12 scholar and resident of Fatehpora locality of the city, is likely one of the girls marketers who’re operating at the initiative after her mom Shakeela Begum enrolled with the district management.
“Some huge cash is spent on my schooling and that of my siblings. When we were given to understand if this initiative, my mom and I considered taking over the job of rising mushrooms at house and promoting the produce within the native marketplace,” Majeed stated.
We were given involved with the agriculture place of job they usually gave us 100 baggage of seeds to begin the farming, she stated.
The daughter-mother duo ready a small room at the floor flooring in their two-storey space following which an inspection used to be performed via officers and a inexperienced sign used to be given to them.
The seeds are planted in poly baggage containing compost and are stored on lengthy picket benches throughout the small room inside of the home and the typical general produce from this sort of established order is set two quintals inside of a duration of 2 months, every other officer stated.
A small heater is from time to time used when the temperature falls beneath 0 as a way to stabilise the room weather for mushroom enlargement.
We harvest the micro-climate of this area, he stated.
Singh knowledgeable that the mushroom produce is bought at a value of round Rs 180-200 according to kg within the native marketplace and different portions of the Kashmir valley.
“A unmarried entrepreneur earns about Rs 40,000 from one harvest that takes about two months and after deducting the expenditure incurred, the web benefit is set Rs 20,000-25,000,” Singh stated.
Any other girls entrepreneur stated she has been enterprise mushroom farming for over a yr and she or he has earned a just right benefit that she makes use of to complement her circle of relatives source of revenue and for the development of her space.
Baramulla deputy commissioner Syed Sehrish Asgar stated some girls marketers have reported an incomes of Rs 8,000-Rs 10,000 per thirty days from mushroom farming.
“We’re attaining out to increasingly girls in Baramulla in order that they may be able to be made self-reliant and financially robust. Many have proven pastime and this initiative can be widened via serving to them to develop unique vegatables and fruits like mushrooms,” Singh stated.