AIWEFA gained a great deal of insight into the lives and ways of work in the rural areas and was dismayed at the lack of exposure of the farmers and their inadequate awareness of developments in agriculture and the demands of the market leave alone their health and nutrition status and their drudgery. Encouraged by the response to new technologies and diversification of crops introduced under the FAO Project in two villages of Daboda and Tirpari, and the leadership of women farmers, AIWEFA requested the assistance of the Department of Science and Technology to start an Agricultural Resource Centre with a Demonstration unit(s) and drudgery reduction methods in farm work, more particularly for women. In 2008, the DST sanctioned a Project for three years in five villages in this area, with a special study of a hundred women to observe the impact of the changes introduced in the process.