• Earmarking at least 30% of the budget allocation for women beneficiaries in all ongoing schemes/programmes and development activities.
• Initiating women centric activities to ensure benefits of various beneficiary-oriented programs/schemes reach them.
• Focusing on women self-help group (SHG) to connect them to micro-credit through capacity building activities and to provide information and ensuring their representation in different decision-making bodies.
• Recognizing the critical role of women in agriculture, the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has declared 15th October of every year as Women Farmer's Day.
With women predominant at all levels-production, pre-harvest, post-harvest processing, packaging, marketing - of the agricultural value chain, to increase productivity in agriculture, it is imperative to adopt gender specific interventions. An 'inclusive transformative agricultural policy' should aim at gender-specific intervention to raise productivity of small farm holdings, integrate women as active agents in rural transformation, and engage men and women in extension services with gender expertise.
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