Annual Report 2009-2010 - Department of Agriculture & Co-operation

Annual Report 2009-2010
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ongoing programmes of the DAC, and to
make recommendations, if required, on
appropriate improvements in the strategy
and design of the scheme to incorporate
gender perspectives.
Collecting, analyzing, and documenting
success stories of women farmers.
Assessing gender content and
generating gender-disaggregated data in
respect of various schemes and
programmes of the DAC.
Gender Sensitisation Modules (GSM) for
programme implementers at three
different levels, namely, senior, middle
and cutting edge level, developed by the
NGRCA through MANAGE, are being
utilised to sensitise extension
functionaries at various levels.
Revising reporting and monitoring
formats to generate gender-disaggregated
data.
As a part of its networking strategies, the
NGRCA is committed to initiating
appropriate action on the National Plan
of Action on the National Policy for
Empowerment of Women (NPEW),
formulated by the Ministry of Women and
Child Development (MoW&CD).
24.5 The important mainstreaming efforts
within various subject matter divisions are briefly
given below:
I. Under the Technology Mission for
Integrated Development of Horticulture
scheme in the North Eastern States
including Sikkim, assistance provided for
women farmers is enumerated as under:
i) Entrepreneurial Development: The
programme envisages making
women farmers self-reliant by
providing them with equal
opportunities, so that they are able
to avail the benefits and
opportunities of the existing
agricultural systems.
ii) Organisation/identification of
women's groups, which would act
as a network for channelising
horticultural support.
iii) Need assessment of women
farmers in terms of horticulture
support such as input, technological
and extension etc.
iv) Prioritising the activities of individual
women's groups on the basis of
need assessments.
v) Providing adequate organisational
and financial support to women
self-help groups to make them selfreliant,
so that they are able to
orchestrate their own activities and
resources
interaction.
through group
vi) Provide technical training to women
farmers in horticulture and allied
areas.
vii) Provide training in increased
managerial, organisational,
entrepreneurial, and decision
making skills.
viii) Baseline surveys to identify the
amount and type of work being
contributed by women in the field
of horticulture, their role in the
decision making process, and
problems faced by them.
24.6 Under the scheme, assistance is being
provided as under: