ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes celebrated International Women’s Day on 8th March on theme “Be Bold for Change” to support them for equality and empowerment. The initiative was taken to sensitize the rural women for increasing their access to productive assets and employment opportunities, eliminating gender biases at workplace and supporting technological innovations that may reduce the time burden of agriculture and domestic work. On this occasion, more than 150 women members of milk cooperative societies of village Hindwan and Rawalwas Khurd participated. This event was celebrated on convergence mode.
Representatives of different institutions including LUVAS, CCS HAU, ATMA, state department of animal husbandry, dairy milk cooperative, school teachers and officers from agriculture development were invited who stressed on the importance of empowering rural women farmers as agents of change for transforming food production and consumption. Dr. Inderjeet Singh Director CIRB graced the occasion and highlighted the need of education, nutrition and health for women. The whole event was coordinated by Dr. Hema Tripathi, Dr. V B Dixit and Dr. Sajjan Singh Principal Scientists of CIRB. The day was marked a call to action for accelerating gender parity.
Celebration of International Women’s Day, 2017
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