Self help group turns barren land into fertile land

Women working in Ganga Self Help Group in Junhata village in Madhya Pradesh has turned barren land into fertile land. They have also set up a nursery which is soon likely to reap huge profit.

Hoshangabad: The hard work and traditional livelihood work of women have made Junhata village an ideal village. They have turned the barren land fertile and have reaped profit from the land.

Junhata village of Bankheri block, about 100 km from Hoshangabad headquarters, has a population of about a thousand people. Ten women started a nursery of plants under the government’s project after converting barren land into a fertile one.

Under this project, these women have worked together in an institutional manner. They prepared a project to set up a nursery as a self-help group with the help of panchayat. The Ganga Self Help Group which works to safeguard the environment have got two acres of barren land which was facilitated by the state government, on which they have set up a nursery.

They have planted about 50 thousand saplings in this nursery which are now being tended. After harvesting, the produce would be sold and a decent earning shall be made in the near future by these hardworking committed women.

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Barren land was transformed into a fertile one in three months of hard work

10 women of the group have cleared the land and toiled for about three months and turned it cultivable. When this land was given to them by the government, there was a forest here and the land was not cultivable.

These women have laboured day and night to make this land worthy of starting a nursery.The women of the group said that they used organic manure to make the barren land fertile. They used organic means and applied traditional knowledge here.

Approximately 50 thousand saplings have been prepared

The nursery is developed now that it is getting orders for government projects as well as Green India’s government schemes. They have received an order to plant two lakh saplings, for which preparations are being made.

Mango, guava, lemon and other fruit-bearing plants are being prepared in the nursery. At the same time, these women are being given daily wages under MGNREGA by the government, with which they are running the expenses of their homes, along with this, about 10 lakh rupees will be earned on the sale of these saplings that are planted in large numbers. Zila Panchayat CEO Manoj Sareyam praised these women for their work.