Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals (ISAP) is a Not-for-Profit Organization working since 2001 and is registered under Section 25 of the Indian Companies Act. ISAP was set up by a group of Agriculture and Management Professionals with the aim to enhance livelihood opportunities for rural communities. ISAP has more than 300 dedicated full-time associates spread across 25 field offices in 18 states of India. Having worked for more than a decade in agriculture extension, ISAP has expanded its domain strengths and partnerships to contribute towards holistic rural development.
During its journey of more than a decade, ISAP has been able to make considerable impact on the lives of rural communities in general and among these BPL families and small farmers in particular. The outreach of ISAP's interventions covers more than one million rural families, 5,000 villages, 100 districts in 18 states of India. ISAP has more than 250,000 members on its facebook page and uses the strength of social media to reach out to the communities on important rural and agrarian issues. While agriculture and agri-entrepreneurship remains at the core of ISAP's program and work, it uses a partner driven approach to implement programs in other sectors viz. Rural Development, Water & Sanitation, Renewable Energy, Health, Low cost Housing through various partners.
Women comprise a major workforce in Indian agriculture. They play a multi-dimensional role in agriculture and allied sectors. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), women participate in 48% of agriculture-related employment in India and around 7.5 crore women are actively involved in livestock management.
With this back drop, the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare decided to observe October 15th of every year as “Rashtriya Mahila Kisan Diwas”.
The MAHILA KISAN DIWAS celebration was held in NASC complex, PUSA, New Delhi on 14.10.2018and 15.10.2018, organised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Government of India. The major highlights of the event were:
Ms. Deepti Mahajan and Ms. Parul Upreti from ISAP, New Delhi participated in this two-day event in NASC complex, PUSA. Both of them, participated in the robust discussions with the groups of around 100 women across the country. They presented their concrete recommendations in the group discussions. These recommendations may serve as a way forward to overcoming the identified issues and constraints.
WOMEN FARMERS DAY EVENT ORGANISED BY KISAN SINGLE WINDOW CENTRE RUN BY INDIAN SOCIETY OF AGRIBUSINESS PROFESSIONALS, NEW DELHI
PRADHAN MANTRI UJJWALA YOJANA
SWARN JAYANTI UNNAT KRISHI MELA
FARM GROCER STORE ESTABLISHED AT DHILWAN
MAIZE CROP DEMONSTRATION EVENT BY MAHINDRA & MAHINDRA LIMITED
INAUGURATION OF POND RESTORATION WORK
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