To ensure that fresh vegetables are available in every household, various self-help groups (SHGs) were given training at village Kandra under Baloda block headquarters. This initiation is expected to turnaround the usefulness of kitchen gardens in villages.
Training in livelihood activities was imparted to various SHGs Bartori village Development Education Committee in collaboration with National Agriculture and Rural Development Bank (NABARD). Experts are training the members of SHGs on how to develop kitchen garden, cultivate mushroom and operate dairy business. This will help them discover new means of livelihood and the measure may change the face of SHGs, stressed the trainers.
NABARD aims to provide opportunities to the self-help groups at villages to help them earn more by imparting them training pertaining to the jobs, said chief guest of the training programme District Development Manager Anurag Rai on Thursday.Banks would extend help to get loan to the groups post training, said Rai. Members of SHGs were also inspired to take advantage of various schemes run by district administration.
Head of the Education Committee Suryakant Sawlkhe shared various measures with SHGs to augment income through businesses related to kitchen garden. He said businesses could be started with small amount ‘seed money’. Kitchen garden developed through organic farming could fetch handsome income to households. Organic farming may help to keep the plants healthy, besides Bartoli Develo-pment education committee may also be extending help to get healthy seeds for organic farming with demonstration and training, says Sawlkhe.