Government of India has established an institute, ICAR-Central Institute for Women in Agriculture, at Bhuvneshwar, Odisha under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi.
- The objective behind this move is to address the problems and issues of the women in agriculture.
- The institute undertakes research on Women in Agriculture and to identify gender issues in agriculture and suggest interventions to address the same.
- A total 704 number of capacity building programmes for farm women were conducted by ICAR-CIWA and All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) on Home Science covering 31,626 farm women during 2015-20.
