Sustainable Agriculture, Livelihoods Development and Watershed Management are our prime program with an objective to increase income of rural marginal families
- By increasing the farm productivity and crop diversification
- By improving physical access to water through In situ soil moisture & water conservation interventions
- By promoting sustainable agriculture and climate resilient practices and diversifying income sources through community involvement.
We work for:
- Participation of community from planning to implementation by organizing village meetings, Orientation, trainings, exposure visits, village camps, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) etc
- Prompting Community based decision making systems through local institutions in the villages.
- Capacity building of the institutions to ensure long term sustainability of the interventions.
- Development of an integrated model of watershed development on cluster basis for maximizing the impact, with multi stakeholder involvement
- In situ soil moisture and water conservation by identifying recharge potential area to ensure physical access to water.
- Formation and strengthening of Water User Groups to ensure long term sustainability.
- Increase farm productivity and crop diversification by promoting Sustainable agriculture practices and climate resilient agriculture through resource material, farmers training, exposure, field day, demonstrations, Farmers Field Schools etc.,
- Diversification of income through promotion of farm, non-farm and livestock base enterprise through skill straining and technical handholding, business planning and credit mobilization, quality enhancement and market linkages etc.
Major Mile stones:
- 14500 Ha land covered under Watershed area development in more than 100 villages
- In situ soil moisture Farm Bunding 7550 ha, stone bunding 3174, CCT 3507 ha ; land leveling 5120 ha ; Plantation 3625 ha
- Water Harvesting through construction of Cement structure (9)/ earthen nala structures (21)/ rejuvenation and repairing of old structures(11)
| # | Type of Soil Conservation Activity | Achievement (Ha) | # | Type of Water Conservation Activity | Achievement (No) |
| 1 | Farm Bunding/ compartment bunding | 7550 | 1 | Desilting of existing structures | 11 |
| 2 | Stone bunding | 3174 | 2 | Construction of Cement Nala bonds | 9 |
| 3 | Tree Plantation | 3625 | 3 | Construction of earthen Nala bund | 21 |
| 4 | Fodder Grass Seeding | 700 | 4 | Farm Ponds | 8 |
| 5 | Continuous Contour Trench | 3560 | 5 | well deepening /recharging | 17 |
| 6 | Land leveling | 5120 | 6 | Percolation Tank | 4 |
| Total | 23729 | Total | 70 |
- Promoted sustainable agriculture by organizing 9653 agriculture technology extension methods and tools under different programs
|
# |
Extension Activity |
No. |
# |
Extension Activity |
No. |
|
1 |
Crop Demo. |
435 |
7 |
Green Manuring |
28 |
|
2 |
Farmers training |
6571 |
8 |
Horticulture Plantation |
70 |
|
3 |
Farmers filed schools |
15 |
9 |
Organic farming |
2479 |
|
4 |
Farmers Exposure Visits |
14 |
10 |
fodder demonstrations |
8 |
|
5 |
Bio-dynamic compost |
3 |
11 |
seed bank |
25 |
|
6 |
Vermi culture promotion unit |
28 |
12 |
Improved Agri. Implement Bank |
7 |
|
Total |
9653 |
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- 7006 Farmers Training and Crop demonstrations
- 15 Farmers field school to disseminate the Sustainable Agriculture technologies
- 56 Vermi composting & Green Manuring
- 70 Horticulture Plot
- Promoted improved animal husbandry dairy management, goatary and poultry practices, by organizing 899 events under different programs
- 15 Animal Health Check-up Camps
- 105 Backyard Poultry Management
- 750 Goat Unit
- 1 Honey Harvesting & Processing Unit
- 6 Dall Mill and leaf plate making unit
- 4 Spice making units
Significant achievements and Impact:
- Substantial increase crop yields and thereby annual income of project households supplemented by diversified income sources.
- Increase in water storage, stored soil moisture helping reduction in crop failures during dry spell.
- Reduction in cost of crop production due to adoption of Sustainable Agriculture
- Improved livestock rearing due to increased skill &knowledge.
- Increased diversified income sources of project households.
- Reduction in distress migration of farming community resulting in absolutely no attempt of suicide in project villages.