Rukhsana Bibi is one of the 50 landless women who have learnt new agricultural techniques through CSC’s ‘Move Forward to Regain Prosperous Lives’ project developed under a private-public partnership with Punjab’s agricultural department in selected Union Councils of two Districts.

Standing proudly over her bumper wheat field in a small village, Basti Sareen Wala, Dera Ghazi Khan, she says,

“Earlier on only the men in my family were called farmers, I am so happy that they have now finally recognized me as a Woman farmer too.”

Her crop looks better than anyone else’s around her and she is expecting to harvest a 1000 more kg of wheat than last year. This drastic change in her status has been made possible by employing new techniques for farming and seed preservation that she learnt from numerous technical support sessions and training programs run by CSC in the Districts of D.G. Khan and Rajanpur.

CSC has been providing technical support to women farmers in Rukhsana Bibi’s village on seasonal crop management for the last three years.