The intervention is women focused. It ensures women’s access to, and adoption of low cost, simple technologies for increased agricultural production even on marginal land. These enhance women’s food and nutritional security and hence graduate them out of poverty. Piara was extremely poor women who had a lack of both human capital, in the form of agricultural skill, and working capital for investing in agricultural inputs. This excluded her from the market and she did not have the necessary information on where she could find agricultural inputs such as seed, fertilizers, pesticides etc. This project has addressed these through: Giving CCT for starting business. This has enabled her to have capital for starting a business which was impossible before due to the lack of money or capital. Helping her to develop her own business plan through her own assessment of businesses most effective for her according to the perception and/or ranking of profit and risk. Giving her training or knowledge on agricultural technologies and hence increasing her skill. This has given her opportunity to use her skill for agricultural production even when the project ends. Linking her to both the input and output market. This has resulted into getting better input and marketing her product at fair prices. As a result of the intervention, Piara has with moderate success adopted a new technology and is still reaping the benefits. She was able to select a business and run it by herself accordingly with the project design. She had difficulty in the first phase in implementing her
The intervention is women focused. It ensures women’s access to, and adoption of low cost, simple technologies for increased agricultural production even on marginal land. These enhance women’s food and nutritional security and hence graduate them out of poverty. Piara was extremely poor women who had a lack of both human capital, in the form of agricultural skill, and working capital for investing in agricultural inputs. This excluded her from the market and she did not have the necessary information on where she could find agricultural inputs such as seed, fertilizers, pesticides etc. This project has addressed these through: Giving CCT for starting business. This has enabled her to have capital for starting a business which was impossible before due to the lack of money or capital. Helping her to develop her own business plan through her own assessment of businesses most effective for her according to the perception and/or ranking of profit and risk. Giving her training or knowledge on agricultural technologies and hence increasing her skill. This has given her opportunity to use her skill for agricultural production even when the project ends. Linking her to both the input and output market. This has resulted into getting better input and marketing her product at fair prices. As a result of the intervention, Piara has with moderate success adopted a new technology and is still reaping the benefits. She was able to select a business and run it by herself accordingly with the project design. She had difficulty in the first phase in implementing her
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