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Article: In India, a program for rural women emphasizes training as the key to effective use of solar cookers. (Development).(Barli Development Institute for Rural Women)
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- October 1, 2002
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JHABUA DISTRICT, Madhya Pradesh, India--Ask women about the benefits of using solar energy for cooking in the remote districts of this central Indian state, and "saving the environment" is not necessarily the first response that comes to mind.
Rather, the advantages of using solar cooking have more to do with saving time, money, and "personal" energy. Solar cooking, they say, means no longer doing things like scrubbing fire-blackened pots, searching for firewood, or worrying about children getting burned by the traditional cook fire.
"At first I thought it would not be easy to use," said Gokhari Solanki, a young woman in Temla village in Jhabua District, ...