reporter: thanks to her husband's earnings, bimala tolange has some livestock.er house is larger than some of the others here. she used to mainly tend to the household, and work from time to time as a day laborer. but then her life took an unexpected turn. the international climate protection and development organization icimod began providing agricultural training to women in the region, giving priority to those whose husbands have left to find work. a project coordinator from a local ngo pays regular visits. today he's showing the women the correct way to plant tomatoes. roshan: we gather them in an area where we practically teach how to grow the plantsts, or hw they can change the chemical pesticides to the bio pesticides. so it's not about teaching them, it's about organizing demonstration projects, practicacal training, , organig field schools. so this is how we are training these womens. bimala: before, i wasn't all that interested in agriculture. and i only used traditional farming methods, which don't provide much income. after the first people left to f