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SumArth recently launched a project named “Magical Mushroom” whose main focus was giving a good livelihood, nutrition, and making the women
farmers self-dependent with minimal investment.

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This project ensures daily income to farmers and provides a minimum of
double return within 45 days. Also, Mushroom’s production is devoid of big
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low-cost hut. Even many laborers are not required, a single person can take in India
care of the production process. Ruby Devi, a female farmer said, “I nd it
very easy to produce mushroom at my home after completing all my
household chores and make good money.”
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Mushroom can be grown inside house, therefore it bene ts the women

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betterment of Dalit and marginalized women farmers. This project came up

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even trained and educated more than 500 women farmers for this project lab with Swami Ramdev

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Post production, SumArth even provides the women farmers with local
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markets to sell their products and earn from it. On average a woman farmer
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would bene t the women farmers in three ways- economically by selling of
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ecologically by utilising the spent mushroom substrate as compost.

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as e cient as men and would achieve the same yields. Reducing the
gender gap is very essential in order to accelerate the growth in the
agriculture sector. According to the Food and Agricultural Organisation, if
women had the same access to productive resources the same as men,
they could increase yields on their farms by 20-30%. 
 
To make India a progressive country, it is essential to work on rural India -
where agriculture forms the backbone. We cannot afford to ignore that if
we want the second Green Revolution in India, we need to focus on our
country's women farmers. 

(Surbhi has formerly worked with India TV)

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