Chittoor Collector Calls for Rural Women’s Empowerment via Skill Training

Quick Summary

• District Collector Sumit Kumar emphasized strengthening rural women’s livelihoods in Chittoor through agriculture, horticulture, allied sectors, and self-help group (SHG) activities.
• Officials were directed to implement targeted action plans under the annual credit program for SHGs.
• Focus areas include training in kitchen gardening, poultry farming, dairy farming, and awareness campaigns at the grassroots level.
• Anganwadi staff are to conduct nutrition awareness camps for pregnant women and malnourished children. Regular inspections of Anganwadi centres have been mandated.
• training initiatives will include drone-based farming techniques and natural cultivation methods covering millet promotion and tissue culture of crops like bananas and papayas in eastern mandals such as Nagari, Vijayapuram, Karvetinagaram, and SR Puram.
• Women dairy farmers are identified as a key group for fodder advancement support with instructions to ensure genuine beneficiaries gain access to government schemes.

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