Dr. Arvind kumar, Dr. Atul Anand
Women Technology Park is a technology modulation and a training centre to show case livelihood technologies for women. The objective of women technology park is to promote development and adaptation of appropriate technologies, transfer of proven technologies and demonstration of live technology models to benefit women. It recognises the likely benefits of an improved and structured mechanism for delivering technologies to the rural areas. In this direction, a women technology parks was set up in the panchayat ghar of Deoli village of Bishnah block with a target women population of Bishnah and R.S.Pura block.
The women technology park has been established under a scheme of Department of Science & Technology with a view to empowering women through inputs of science and technology. This Women Technology Park is endorsed by Division of Livestock Products Technology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and animal Husbandry, SKUAST-Jammu. The concept of establishment of Women Technology Park is as “linkage” between rural women farmers and the scientist. It is a centre established in the women farmer’s community to create an environment and attitude so that the scientist cum technologist can extend the recent developed methodology that can be adopted and practiced by rural women at their own work farm/place to establish their own micro-enterprise to become entrepreneur and self reliant. The Women Technology Park show case the proven technology on profitable dairy farming, profitable poultry farming, profitable sheep and goat farming, profitable fish farming, vermi-composting, Clean milk, meat, egg and fish production. It improvise rural women farmers on processing of milk products, meat products, egg products and fish products. Processing of raw material (milk, meat, egg, fish) into products (dairy products, meat products, egg products and fish products) can not only increases the cost multiple times but also enhances the shelf-life and functionality of the products.
The aim of Women Technology Park is to create awareness among rural farming community and give trainings of proven technology to reap maximum benefits from their existing resources. Its objective is to make them aware about “processing” that can enhance their income multiple times. It will also facilitate rural women in providing backward as well as forward linkages that ensure the marketability of their produces. The modus operandi of the Women Technology Park is that the scientist cum veterinary doctors associated with the project move door to door having farms of dairy, poultry, hatcheries, goatry and fisheries and thoroughly understand their knowledge, behaviour, practice and problems. They scientifically intervene in their farming system in order to enhance their existing knowledge, make them aware about latest scientific procedure on farm management to reap maximum profit from existing resources. They also give treatments to their ailing animals at farm free of cost. The rural women farmers are then identified based on these farm visits and invited to visit WTP. They are then extended with the latest and proven technologies on profitable dairy, fishery, poultry, hatcheries farming system and convincing them on processing of their raw resources viz. milk, meat, fish and egg. We make them understand the obvious fact that converting their raw resources into products can easily enhance their income multifold.The motivated and interested women are then and there selected for hands on training in the Division of Livestock Products Technology to learn the proven and latest technology on processing of milk products (Mozzarrela cheese, Functional Kalari, Whey beverages, sweets made from khoya and chhana etc.), processing of meat products (Various types of meat pickle, barbecues, tawa and kadai meat products, Wazwaan etc.), processing of fish products (fish pickle, fish snacks, fish fries, tandoori fish etc.). Based on the keen interest and farming background of women farmers are selected for hands on “training on processing of livestock products”. These trainees are also getting start-up grant in forms goods required in processing of livestock products absolutely free of cost to set up their own micro-enterprises to become entrepreneur and be self-reliant.
Women empowerment is the necessity of the hour as no community will be developed if both genders of the population is not moving with equal pace.
The Government of India, SEED Division of Department of Science and Technology scheme of WTP establishment is successful foot forward towards women empowerment. So far, more than 600 farms (poultry farm, dairy farms, fishery farm) have been visited under the project and has been scientifically intervened for enhanced profitability. More than 75 training cum awareness programme has been organised with more than 1500 beneficiaries. There are more than 50 beneficiaries who received start up grant in the form of goods essential for preparing livestock products and started up their own micro-enterprises and became self-reliant and set an example for other women to come up and take up processing of livestock product as profession to earn their livelihood.
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