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Commercial Livestock Farming Improves Women's Status
By KTM Metro Reporter
December 27, 2013: As many as 24 women of Pragatinagar-4 in Kawaswoti of the Nawalparasi district have improved the financial status through the commercial goat raising, according to the news on ‘gorkhapatraonline.com’.
Heifer International and Himbanti Nepal Divyapuri Community Forestry Development Project provided the poor women with a goat to each woman gratis for raising it in 2008. The women could make money raising the goats received gratis, and then they came out of the kitchen chores and engaged in social activities after being financially sound, said Rupa Neupane secretary to the women group. The women gradually started raising cows in a commercial scale and earning a good amount of money selling dairy products.
We have got cooperation from other members of our family in the commercial activities. With the income level going up, family dispute between husband and wife in the communities has reduced these days, Neupane said. Each woman earns Rs 10,000 to Rs 25, 5000 a month selling dairy products that has helped to maintain living standard of the family, said Sushma Poudel, a local woman.
The women have set up a savings fund of Rs. 600,000 to provide women with soft loans to run business. Moreover, the initiative has helped lessen violence against women these days, said Parbati Tiwari chairperson of Himbanti Nepal.
