Training Programmes

Realising the fact that the resource poor farming community needs to be provided training on supplementary income generation activities, Kakkengad Farmers' Club took the initiative to provide training to select members of SHGs. NABARD came forward to provide grant assistance for organising a two month training programme for those who were assisted under the debt swapping scheme to insulate them from falling back into debt trap once again. Twenty poor rural women were provided training in the two month long programme on tailoring and garment making during 2007. Satisfied with the successful completion of the training programme, NABARD supported a second programme for the same activity in 2008. Almost all the trained poor women are gainfully employed now.

To provide a helping hand to the Club in the ambitious project embarked upon by it to provide employment opportunities to around 1000 rural poor in the grama panchayat, through formation of Joint Liability Groups (JLGs), RUDSETI and KVK, came forward along with NABARD to provide on location training on different avocation in the farm and non farm sectors like dairy farming, goat rearing, exotic vegetable cultivation, virgin coconut oil extraction, mushroom cultivation, rubber tapping etc.

The hall provided in the "Rural Information and Training Centre" set up by the Club with grant assistance from NABARD came handy for the Club to organise the training programmes. So far nine training programmes of different durations have been organised by the Club with the help of NABARD,RUDSETI and KVK in which 227 rural poor have been trained. The Club is helping the trained poor to set up micro enterprises with credit support from NMGB under the JLG concept. These training programmes provided to the rural poor by the Club is expected make a sea change in the economic status of the people of Muzhakunnu Grama Panchayat.

The details of training programmes organised by the Club are indicated below.

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