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== Success of Vanu Begum in integrated Farming System ==

Vanu Begum was a housewife like other housewives; her only goal was to do kitchen work and busy herself with various types of activities in housekeeping. Her husband Amanullah had a tea stall besides their house from which he could earn only Tk50-60 per day, insufficient for the daily consumption needs of their 9 members family. Thus, often they could manage only one meal a day instead of three times.

Beginning in 2008 Vanu Begum got scope to involve in the Akota Krisani Field School implemented by Madhya Dhalia Samaj Kallyan Sangstha and supported by RFLDC-DANIDA. By involving and learning from the school she started to rear local poultry, ducks, goats and to start vegetable cultivation in homestead area and fish culture to help increase the family income. In this way she started to improve the solvency of the family and increase its income by investing in other enterprises such as rearing a milk cow and pigeon raising. Last year she earned about Tk46,850 (selling vegetables - Tk10,800, Duck and Poultry rearing - Tk13,200, Goat kid selling-Tk5,600, sale of Pigeons - Tk1,850, Fish culture - Tk5,400, Milk selling - Tk10,000) by which she increased her family livelihood status. Today she is leading her family smoothly, has organized the marriage of her daughter and son, has created employment for them and has shown her as a successful housewife.