Lucknow, March 30 -- The UP government has launched a fresh initiative to boost women's participation in agriculture and enhance their economic empowerment by integrating them into sugarcane-based activities. Acting on the CM's directives, the cane department has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the UP State Rural Livelihood Mission to involve women self-help groups more actively in the sector. "Under the pact, women will participate in sugarcane cultivation, nursery development and value addition activities," officials said, adding the initiative aimed to link self-help groups with sugarcane-based livelihoods thereby increasing rural incomes. htc...