United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
Women Farmers
- 1 (in collaboration with BLCC, Lahore)
Proposed Duration: 30th April, 2001 – 30th August,
2001
Objectives:
- To improve the professional productivity of women farmers through exposure
and capacity building;
- To empower women farmers to improve their status in their families and communities;
- To raise awareness amongst the women farmers directly and indirectly so
that healthy implications may be reflected in the families and communities;
Activities:
- Provision of farming tools and equipment to rural women for improvement
in their on-farm productivity;
- Development and distribution of 20 illustrated booklets amongst farmer women
so as to give them exposure to modern technology and means to improve their
work.