The campaign of Laxminarayan women agricultural cooperative organization: 'women empowerment'

Anish Sharma Gaire, Wami Gulmi.

18 June 2016

Laxmi Narayan women agricultural cooperative organization is doing different agricultural activities in Wami for the sake of women members. Its main campaign is to take women out from being limited in daily chores, and other household activities. Their main work for women is to make them self depended and empowered. It has started various agricultural activities like potato farming, bee keeping, cardamom farming, and orange farming and so on.

Recently it has completed the potato farming and harvested more than eighty five quintal. While cooperative had done this farming with 20 women residents of Wami.

But while transporting the harvest, the cooperative got many difficulties, due to the problem of motorable road. The secretary of cooperative Yamuna Ghimire said, 'the negligence of contractor disrupted the transportation of potato that we have harvested'. She added, 'the trend of doing developmental works only in the last of fiscal is negligence of contractor, it is repeating every year'. According to her, they had got problems last year also.

But after many weeks of harvest, they transported nearly eight quintal today to the market.

The organization had got Rs one lakh 50 thousand from ministry of women, children and social welfare Gulmi for potato farming and they had provided one week training about it.

Cooperative has been doing many admirable and altruistic works for women empowerment. It has been doing bee keeping in Wami 8 Malarani And Puranagaun. Similarly they have been doing paddy seed production programme in Wami 9 Shera, and started Haat Bazzar in Wami 1 Paltar and they have managed spice factory in Wami. According to the chairman of cooperative, Dil Kumari Malla, they are going to start cardamom and orange farming in Wami, for this they are managing seeds by providing subsidise to women members.

It has got fame in the short time of establishment. And people are praising it and it has become the centre for women empowerment. It was registered as cooperative in 2070 legally.  And it has made 512 women members.