How has Tamil Nadu Women in Agriculture (TANWA) encouraged women to participate in raising agricultural productivity?

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Tamil Nadu Women in Agriculture (TANWA) is a project initiated in Tamil Nadu to train women in latest agricultural techniques. Women use the accumulated savings to promote small-scale household activities like mushroom cultivation, soap manufacture etc.

1. The women Self Help Groups (SHGs) have provided marketing facilities for the farmers who produce pulses and maize, with the help of National Agriculture Marketing Federation (NAMF).

2. The procurement has stabilised the price for the products of the farmers. Besides providing an assured marketplace, it has kept the price offered by private parties in the market on the higher side.

3. Farmers have benefited from the marketing facilities provided by the Women Self Help Groups.