Bihar moves fast in India’s growth states. In this changing Bihar, a major income source in rural areas is becoming a beekeeping. Many women have achieved such success in the field and they have become a national and international level. The inspirational stories of these farmers are also told to school students. One of these names is also in Anita Khushwaha, she is not only strong, but also makes the people around her aware and self -esteem.
Anita Khushwaha, who lives in the village of Bocha Black Bacha Jalal from Muzaffarpur district, has been involved in beekeeping for the past 25 years. He does not strengthen his financial position in this field with his hard work and dedication, but trains others in beekeeping and honey marketing. This business earns more than Rs 14 lakh annually. At the same time, his success story is included in the Fourth Class textbook of the National Education Research and Training Council (NCERT).
Beekeeper started with money saved from education
Anita Khushwaha says that in 2002 she started bee farming with two boxes. But he had to work hard to buy these two boxes. He says he wants so much since childhood, but because of not well, the financial status of the house is unable to go to the regular school. His connection with the books prompted him to go to school without telling him to the family. Free education was provided by the school until the fifth grade. However, more classes had an economic issue. For this reason, he began to educate young children from sixth grade.
Anita added that those who came from her village came to the Lichie Gardens beekeeper and advised them to do this business. He then bought two boxes for a total of five thousand rupees, of which two thousand rupees were recovered from education and started bee farming, including three thousand rupees from the family. Today he has 450 boxes, producing about 15,000 kg of honey annually. Currently he is collecting honey with mustard, lichie, berries and basil flowers.
The processing unit started when honey is not available
Anita Khushwaha says that 80 percent of her village are associated with beekeeping. However, farmers do not get a fair price for honey according to their hard work. The main reason for this is that the rural people do not know the right way to sell honey in the market. In the absence of this information, farmers are forced to sell honey to companies at a rate of Rs 80 per kg. Considering these problems, Anita founded her own honey processing unit.
For the past two years, she has been selling honey in the name of ‘Anita’s honey’. Earlier she used to sell 80 per kg, and now she sells 300 to 400 rupees per kg. Anita is not only processing her honey, but also implements the honey of other farmers, and encourages them to sell honey itself. He sells in his honey exhibitions and at various shops organized by the government.
Mother is educated, now students read the success story
Anita Khushwaha has made a postgraduate graduate. It suggests that women or girls have no right to study in her home. Her mother, aunt, grandmother and other sisters did not go to school at that time. But with his reading, his mother has also read today. The mother had to resort to another to withdraw money from the bank. At the same time, he taught his mother to write, read and read. Today, she goes to the bank and returns her money and deposit.
Anita has reached social status today due to education and her hard work that people want to know her success. At the same time, students are now reading their success story in the National Education Research and Training Council (NCERT) text book of the Fourth Class. Followed him in his life.
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Anita Khushwaha says that women or women did not go to school in her home. Her mother, aunt, grandmother and other sisters never attended school. But Anita educated her mother with her studies. Previously, he says that his mother had to resort to others to withdraw money from the bank. But Anita learned to read and write with her mother, after which her mother goes to the bank and returns her money.
