Project goal:
Promotion of agro-ecological growing of nontraditional plant for ensuring sustainable income generation for rural women in Armenia.
Activities:
- Training of rural women on agro-ecological cultivation of fruits, vegetables and essential oil containing plants
- Development of new income stream for organic smallholder farmers, particularly women
- Training sessions and experiences from a pilot region are used by more small farmers in Armenia to practice agro-ecological cultivation
Main objectives:
- Agroecological growing of nontraditional essential oil containing plants provides new opportunity to secure a valuable new income stream for rural women.
- Secure the livelihoods of low-income farmers
- Promotes safer practices without the use of hazardous pesticides and fertilizers.
Results:
The strategy for project implementation was chosen based on SWAT analysis in order to increase the strengths and to reduce the weakness of villagers.
Below are the photos from the project implementation
