Agriculture Minister stresses on role of cooperatives to make women self-reliant

Kirtipur (Kathmandu): Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development Ramnath Adhikari has said that cooperatives have an important role in making women self-reliant.

Inaugurating the ‘Digital Himalayan Sweets and Treats’, a fruit processing industry established by Digital Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited here today, he said the role of cooperatives was important to alleviate poverty and make women self-reliant.

Minister Adhikari opined that there were relatively few problems in women-led cooperatives.

He said that he has found the cooperatives operating at the local level have made women self-reliant and they had to depend less on their husbands for money.

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