The Masoraha village of Bihar where 20 women have taken up farming as a full-time profession after their men of the village reportedly abandoned their farms.
Officials in the Agriculture Department said it was one Shanti Devi who first began the revolution. From sowing seeds, ploughing fields to driving tractors, these women do everything. Men, who did not wish to work, remained at home. All they did was to eat, drink and sleep.
The change reportedly began eight years ago when these women were forced to take up agriculture as a to bring up their children due to laziness of their husbands.
They sold their jewellery to borrow land. And after eight years of struggle, today they have 35 acres of land and are employing latest methods and tools for farming.
Bihar is the first state in the country to have over 1 lakh elected women representatives in three-tier panchayat system.
From: Tribune News Service, NOV-27,06
