“ Women Farmers in Rural Areas: Practices for proper application procedures and safe handling of pesticides” Faron Sagebiel, MAK16 Green Window NGO
Grant Amount: $ 830.91 Community Contribution: $ 327.00
Communities Impacted: Vasilevo, Bosilovo and Novo Selo. All are small, rural municipalities that border Strumica.
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“ Women Farmers in Rural Areas: Practices for proper application procedures and safe handling of pesticides” Faron Sagebiel, MAK16 Green Window NGO
Grant Amount: $ 830.91 Community Contribution: $ 327.00
Communities Impacted: Vasilevo, Bosilovo and Novo Selo. All are small, rural municipalities that border Strumica.
Recognizing that the Macedonian agricultural community consists largely of undereducated women engaged in traditional family farming practices, the local women’ s agricultural NGO“ Green Window” proposed a series of women’ s education workshops. The current state of agriculural education for women consists mostly of traditional farming practices passed down from gerneration to generation. These practices place an emphasis on the importance of pesticides, but there is an abject lack of training regarding proper pesticide handling, application, and the environmental and personal health implications.
The SPA project conducted three educational workshops held in three rural agricultural villages( Vasilevo, Bosilovo and Novo Selo) over the course of March 14-19, 2013. Follow-up surveys and interviews will be held at the end of May and early June. The workshop’ s goal is to educate women farmers in rural areas in the practice of proper application, procedures and safe handling of pesticides. Local community experts supported and assisted in the education and training of the women. The hope is that proper education, with consistent follow-up, will bring about better harvests, a safer workplace, and a cleaner environment for everyone.
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Photos: Green Window by Faron Sagebiel
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