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PARC
Implement Training Courses on how to Manage the Home Garden.
Date: 06/02/2011
PARC implemented two training courses the
management of home garden and how to care
for hens in collaboration with the
Association of Rural Women's Development,
and the cooperative society for savings
and credit as part of the project to
establish home gardens, which is
implemented by the agricultural relief in
Beit Lahiya, funded by the Grass Roots
association.
The agriculture relief pointed that the
course contained a special agricultural
subjects about the management of home
garden, and caring for trees, and urban
agriculture, in order to raise awareness
of the beneficiaries about the importance
of home garden and how to manage and
maintain it to work to encourage and
promote agriculture and its economical
importance as a small income-generating
project. The second course focused on how
to raise , care and feed eggs hens, in
addition to the specifications,
characteristics and ways of caring it, and
how to screen Vaccinate and dealing with
veterinary medicines by using practical
exercises and observations and provide an
indicative images.
agricultural relief explained that it will
create (18) garden home in the area of
Beit Lahiya, that will benefit women who
were selected based on criteria of the
project and who received training ,they
will be provided with all the special
needs of home gardening, such as
irrigation systems and water tanks, pumps,
agricultural tools as well as agricultural
seeds and seedlings Vegetables and trees,
and organic fertilizers gardens also will
be provided with hens units and feed, and
provide medical care for the chicken
through the veterinary extension
agricultural relief added that the project
is to support and help poor families in
achieving self-sufficiency and provide
food through their own home gardens, and
the promotion and dissemination of urban
agriculture and environmental and
empowerment of women economically,
socially and improve their standard of
living by investing in garden products,
and the distribution of the surplus which
is not needed by the family.
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