How Odisha women solve the nagging water hyacinth problem
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A group of rural women from Odisha has come out with a revenue-generating model as they found a solution to the nagging problem of water hyacinth that water bodies across the country face.
The initiative, backed by the Odisha Livelihood Mission, was taken up in Duggal village in Puri district in October 2021. The women from the village harvested the weed, which grows very fast and covers the surface of water bodies, and the biomass produced was used to make high-quality compost by mixing it with paddy straw and cow dung.
“The combination of known science of composting and cutting-edge AI-based tools aims to turn the challenge into an opportunity,” Sreenath Dixit, Global Research Program Director, Resilient Farm and Food Systems, ICRISAT, said.
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