Women Self Help Groups To Step Towards Entrepreneurship

SSM has called for a gathering  of all the Self Help Groups (SHGs) operating under the guidance of women Empowerment Cell of the organization, on 12 May 2016 at the KVK premises.

        The Guest of Honor, Shri. Sudeep Nair, KKID, Coimbatore had initiated a discussion cum guidance session among the 100+ participants from various groups.  The group has discussed various issues related to the resources for livelihood in the vicinity, prevailing socio-economic status of the women around the operational area, problems and solutions to overcome etc.

        The participants  have joined the discussion enthusiastically and had their say.  The minutes registered to explore the possibility for the SHGs to step in to community farming, Dairy, Goat farming / Poultry,  flour mills, catering services, tailoring etc.  Mr. Nair enlightened the gathering with amazing anecdotes  of successful entrepreneurship and cottage industries run by SHGS at different places in India.

        Mr. Abhishek Deshmukh, Mr. Datta Mehtre, Mrs. Rewanwar represented SSM and KVK in materializing the objectives of the convention.

Sandalwood Plantation Yields High Benefits – Suggests Mahendra Ghagare

The founder of Harit Parivar (Pune) Shri Mahendra Ghagare, who was invited to share his experiences with the farmers, had spent hours together discussing various issues related to the modern/beneficial farming trends, particularly while facing continuous shortfall of rain.  The KVK-sagroli has arranged the event at Manik Prabhu Math (Sagroli) on 23^rd of May.

        Shri. Ghagare, strongly advocated the practices of alternate commercial crops along with the conventional crops.  He said, plantation of sandalwood is so beneficial especially when the  farmers had to pass through unpredictable and drought condition of weather for years together.

        Going by the statistics, at the end of  16-18 years, one acre of sandal wood plantation yields approximately 2 crore rupees of absolute  profit.  Moreover, after the 4^th year of plantation, the farmer can continuously practices intercrops to meet the expenditure on the maintenance of the plantation and keep the agricultural land engaged.

        The other benefits include, as the chairman, SSM, Shri Pramod Deshmukh quoted, the saplings will be provided free of cost by the KVK Sagroli.  Further, It was also suggested to take up this task as group farming so as to share responsibilities of maintenance, in turns.

Training In Operating Bullock-Driven Agricultural Implements

KVK-Sagroli, in association with the Vasantrao Naik Marathawada Agricultural University is likely to impart training in operating various agricultural tools driven by bullocks.

        In the recent times due to growing tendency of the people to divide into nuclear families, the number of farmers with smaller pieces of agricultural land increased.  Their economic constraints do not allow them use tractors and other machines for farm practices.  In this light, the agricultural Universities have developed many types of bullock-driven implements for various kinds of farm practices, that are affordable by the marginal farmers.

        Lately, during their visit to Sagroli, a delegation from the Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Agri University has chosen KVK, Sagroli as a centre for the demonstration and training the farmers.

        The Director, KVK, Sagroli is likely to announce the schedule for the demo-cum-training within a few days.

Adampur Irrigation Canal To Regain Life

On its tireless purist to rejuvenate the defunct natural resources, the SSM has crossed yet another mile stone, on 11of May 2016.  A 7 km canal which passes by the villages Kerur, Adampur and Thadi Savli had lost its identity owing to decades of negligence and irresponsible attitude of the irrigation department.  Soil, silt and weeds filled all through the flow way and when it rained, the water would spread across the fields on its either sides, drowning the crops at their peak stage.  Several representations of the suffering farmers  proved futile as the concerned department officials had thrown a deaf ear.

SSM took initiative and mobilized all the concerned public representatives of the constituency, officials and even the state level authorities to respond for the cause. On being convinced with the facts, the Dist collector responded in favor.  As a result, the work commenced on 11^th May 2016 in the auspices of Hon’ble MLA, Subhash Sabane, the District Collector, Suresh Kakani and many other public representatives.  The rejuvenation  work includes widening and deepening of the canal  all through the 7 KMs of length and is expected to house about 32 crore litres of water during this monsoon.

Training In Skating And Pole-Gymnastics At The Summer Camp Concluded

A two months training imparted in Skating and Pole-Gymnastics was concluded on 23^rd May.  There was an overwhelming response noted for both the sports.  Around 50 participants in each sport rigorously practiced the training under the guidance of the National Level Sports men Prasad Pawar, Shantanu Renapurkar (skating) and Kapil Gaikwad (Pole Gymnastics).  The District Sport Officer, Nanded had been kind enough to arrange the coaches.

        The outcome of the training will facilitate SSM's children participate the district level competitions and further, in future.  Apart from this, as many participants enthusiastically expressed their wish to choose these two sports as their career.  The concluding session was marked with demonstrations in Skating and Pole Gymnastics.