StoriesLivelihoodsGuwani, Chamba
Pooja Devi grows the income that keeps three daughters in school.
In Guwani, a hamlet in the Chamba hills, Pooja Devi farms vegetables and sells them collectively. The income — ₹60,000 to ₹70,000 a year — keeps three daughters in school.
- Programme
- Enable · farmer institutions
- Place
- Guwani, Chamba
- Source
- Himachal Programme Annual Report 2025-26
- Reading time
- 2 minutes
Radishes, cucumbers and other vegetables from her own fields are sold through the farmer producer organisation, which aggregates what the hamlet grows and carries it to market.
This year 218 women sold ₹64.1 lakh of vegetables the same way. Pooja Devi's three daughters are all in school.
- ₹60–70k
- earned a year from her fields
- ₹64.1 lakh
- vegetables sold by 218 women
- 724
- farmers own the two FPOs
