Under an ambitious program of the Uttar Pradesh sugarcane administration launched three months ago to make village women self-reliant by growing sugarcane seedling nurseries. As many as 6,682 women entrepreneurs in 36 cane producing districts have earned government sponsored subsidy worth INR 46.95lac so far. Also they will get an equal amount on selling the seedlings.

Principal Secretary of sugarcane and sugar industry, Sanjay R Bhoosreddy stated that the government had subsumed a provision of awarding subsidy to women entrepreneurs at a rate of INR 1.5 per seedling under the National Food Security Mission (NFSM).

He further added that the subsidy was primarily aimed at meeting the basic cost of the seedling production and making a majority of village women self-reliant while the sale amount of INR 1.5 fixed for each seedling was meant for raising their net profits.  

Bhoosreddy also stated that ‘’as on date as many as 714 self-help groups (SHGs) of village women have been successfully producing cane seedlings under the supervision of the departmental officials and expert trainers. These groups have so far produced more than 31lac seedlings of which over 1lac seedlings have been sold’’.

Till October 3 the sugarcane administration had successfully organized as many as 681 training sessions in the state to impart expert training to women entrepreneurs on the scientific method of the seedling production. The process would continue to maximize the framework of the scheme to the best possible extent.   

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