Women on this north Kashmir city develop mushrooms for earnings

By PTI

BARAMULLA: A gaggle of girls residing on this north Kashmir city abutting the India-Pakistan LoC are scripting successful story by rising mushrooms of their houses and utilizing the sale revenue to fund their schooling and different wants.

The agriculture workplace of the district, positioned alongside the banks of the Jhelum river, launched a “vertical farming” programme together with girls self-help teams (SHGs) about two years again and the initiative is now bearing fruit.

“We have 88 mushroom farming clusters in this district as part of which 22 women have been engaged till now. The aim is to financially empower the women within their household, where they spend their maximum time,” Yadvinder Singh, the chief agriculture officer of the district, informed PTI.

The district administration offers an preliminary help fund of Rs 15,000 to every girls entrepreneur together with 100 baggage of mushroom seeds often known as spawn, he stated.

The success story of those clusters are encouraging extra girls to return ahead and officers really feel that is serving to break the proverbial glass ceiling within the rural Kashmiri neighborhood the place girls are usually not a lot seen stepping exterior the family to earn a residing.

Baramulla shares about 105 km of the India-Pakistan Line of Control (LoC) that’s nearly 35-40 km from the primary city.

It is positioned about 54 km north-west from the summer season capital of Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar.

Kulsum Majeed, a category 12 pupil and resident of Fatehpora locality of the city, is among the many girls entrepreneurs who’re engaged on the initiative after her mom Shakeela Begum enrolled with the district administration.

“A lot of money is spent on my education and that of my siblings. After we got to know if this initiative, my mother and I thought of taking up the activity of growing mushrooms at home and selling the produce in the local market,” Majeed stated.

We obtained in contact with the agriculture workplace they usually gave us 100 baggage of seeds to begin the farming, she stated.

The daughter-mother duo ready a small room on the bottom flooring of their two-storey home following which an inspection was carried out by officers and a inexperienced sign was given to them.

The seeds are planted in poly baggage containing compost and are saved on lengthy wood benches contained in the small room inside the home and the common complete produce from such a institution is about two quintals inside a interval of two months, one other officer stated.

A small heater is usually used when the temperature falls beneath zero in order to stabilise the room local weather for mushroom progress.

We harvest the micro-climate of this area, he stated.

Singh knowledgeable that the mushroom produce is offered at a value of round Rs 180-200 per kg within the native market and different elements of the Kashmir valley.

“A single entrepreneur earns about Rs 40,000 from one harvest that takes about two months and after deducting the expenditure incurred, the net profit is about Rs 20,000-25,000,” Singh stated.

Another girls entrepreneur stated she has been endeavor mushroom farming for over a yr and she or he has earned a great revenue that she makes use of to complement her household earnings and for the development of her home.

Baramulla deputy commissioner Syed Sehrish Asgar stated some girls entrepreneurs have reported an incomes of Rs 8,000-Rs 10,000 monthly from mushroom farming.

“We are reaching out to more and more women in Baramulla so that they can be made self-reliant and financially strong. Many have shown interest and this initiative will be widened by helping them to grow exotic fruits and vegetables like mushrooms,” Singh stated.

BARAMULLA: A gaggle of girls residing on this north Kashmir city abutting the India-Pakistan LoC are scripting successful story by rising mushrooms of their houses and utilizing the sale revenue to fund their schooling and different wants.

The agriculture workplace of the district, positioned alongside the banks of the Jhelum river, launched a “vertical farming” programme together with girls self-help teams (SHGs) about two years again and the initiative is now bearing fruit.

“We have 88 mushroom farming clusters in this district as part of which 22 women have been engaged till now. The aim is to financially empower the women within their household, where they spend their maximum time,” Yadvinder Singh, the chief agriculture officer of the district, informed PTI.

The district administration offers an preliminary help fund of Rs 15,000 to every girls entrepreneur together with 100 baggage of mushroom seeds often known as spawn, he stated.

The success story of those clusters are encouraging extra girls to return ahead and officers really feel that is serving to break the proverbial glass ceiling within the rural Kashmiri neighborhood the place girls are usually not a lot seen stepping exterior the family to earn a residing.

Baramulla shares about 105 km of the India-Pakistan Line of Control (LoC) that’s nearly 35-40 km from the primary city.

It is positioned about 54 km north-west from the summer season capital of Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar.

Kulsum Majeed, a category 12 pupil and resident of Fatehpora locality of the city, is among the many girls entrepreneurs who’re engaged on the initiative after her mom Shakeela Begum enrolled with the district administration.

“A lot of money is spent on my education and that of my siblings. After we got to know if this initiative, my mother and I thought of taking up the activity of growing mushrooms at home and selling the produce in the local market,” Majeed stated.

We obtained in contact with the agriculture workplace they usually gave us 100 baggage of seeds to begin the farming, she stated.

The daughter-mother duo ready a small room on the bottom flooring of their two-storey home following which an inspection was carried out by officers and a inexperienced sign was given to them.

The seeds are planted in poly baggage containing compost and are saved on lengthy wood benches contained in the small room inside the home and the common complete produce from such a institution is about two quintals inside a interval of two months, one other officer stated.

A small heater is usually used when the temperature falls beneath zero in order to stabilise the room local weather for mushroom progress.

We harvest the micro-climate of this area, he stated.

Singh knowledgeable that the mushroom produce is offered at a value of round Rs 180-200 per kg within the native market and different elements of the Kashmir valley.

“A single entrepreneur earns about Rs 40,000 from one harvest that takes about two months and after deducting the expenditure incurred, the net profit is about Rs 20,000-25,000,” Singh stated.

Another girls entrepreneur stated she has been endeavor mushroom farming for over a yr and she or he has earned a great revenue that she makes use of to complement her household earnings and for the development of her home.

Baramulla deputy commissioner Syed Sehrish Asgar stated some girls entrepreneurs have reported an incomes of Rs 8,000-Rs 10,000 monthly from mushroom farming.

“We are reaching out to more and more women in Baramulla so that they can be made self-reliant and financially strong. Many have shown interest and this initiative will be widened by helping them to grow exotic fruits and vegetables like mushrooms,” Singh stated.