Coverage in the Print Media

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 The Kakkengad Farmers Club has triggered many social interventions in Muzhakunnu Grama Panchayat which attracted the attention of print and visual media. Malayala Manoram carried an exclusive full page feature on the activities of the Club titled "Krishi Thanne Jeevitham" in its Metro Manorama edition dated 06 April 2011. The silent fight against "Blade Mafia" through the Debt Swapping Scheme introduced by NMGB in Muzhakunnu Grama Panchayat anchored by the Club prompted Mathrubhoomi daily to publish a serial feature titled "Mochanam Mani Muzhakunnu" in its Kannur edition dated 23, 24 and 25 December 2008.

           The concerted efforts taken by the Club to free the grama panchayat from indiscriminate use of plastics triggered Malayala Manorama to publish through its Sukrutha Keralam colums a feature titled 'Arogya Meghalayil Ammamarude Panghu"  in its Kannur edition on 09 Oct 2006. The Club's resolve to provide employment opportunities to the job less villagers through training and credit assistance by formation of Joint Liability Groups also caught the attention of the print media. All India Radio, Kannur station produced special fetures on the debt swapping scheme anchored by the Club. See some of the paper clippings

(Issue of Manorama Metro)



(Article about Freeing the poor from the clutches of usurious money lenders)



(Article about indiscriminate use of plastics)

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The seed of Kakkengad Farmers Club was sown on 19 March 1996. It sprouted and has now grown into a big tree spreading its roots across the length and breadth of Muzhakunnu Grama Panchayat. The long journey of almost a decade and half was not all that rosy. The people of Muzhakunnu Grama Panchayat watered this tree and institutions like NABARD, NMGB, RUDSETI, KVK etc provided the requisite nutrients and helped it to bloom spreading fragrance of economic and social empowerment amongst the resource poor people of the Muzhakunnu Grama Panchayat. The members of Kakkengad Farmers Club owe their sincere gratitude to NABARD for providing this wonderful platform of Farmers Club and to NMGB for nurturing us. We are indebted to all who have extended a helping hand to us in our long and difficult journey towards self sustenance which, above all, includes Shri K.C,Shashidhar, Chief General Manager, NABARD & senior officers of NABARD, Kerala RO, Shri V.K.Saigal, Chairman NMGB & SMs of NMGB, HO and Branch Manager & staff of NMGB, Kakkengad branch. The Club also would like to place on record the support extended by Director & faculty of RUDSETI, Kannur, Professor & Associate Professors of KVK, Kannur, Officials of Agriculture Department, Health Department, elected representatives and staff of Muzhakunnu Grama Panchayat etc in our journey. The people of Muzhakunnu Grama Panchayat owe a lot to one unassuming personality, Shri P.A.Premakumar, DDM, NABARD who all along his tenure as DDM, Kannur, has been nurturing, hand holding and guiding the Club in all its endevours. We are what we are today mainly because of his sincere, caring and mentoring efforts.

The people who made it happen..

The people who made it happen..

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