Indian Council of Agricultural Research

Directorate of Research on Women in Agriculture (DRWA), formerly known as National Research Centre for Women in Agriculture, a constituent of ICAR, is a unique institution involved in gender related research in agriculture and allied areas. Conducting action researches on participatory mode to assess implications of technologies in women perspective has been a key activity of the Directorate. One important area that the institution has focused is technological empowerment of women to spearhead aquaculture development in coastal districts of Orissa. One successful case to mention here is technological empowerment of women groups in village Jaypur in Sakhigopal block of Puri district of Orissa that has transformed the lives of women.

Among many others, water bodies are an important resources base available in the village Jaypur. But unfortunately such resources remained unutilized for years. A pond of 1.5 ha area located at the centre of the village was the point of attraction as the pond was surrounded by habitation mostly belonging to scheduled caste families primarily involved wage labour. The poor water condition of the pond favoured growth of water hyacinth and several persons were reportedly suffering from diseases like filaria, skin diseases.

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