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Agro Business and Upgradation Training Program

Our History :

Name of the project       :  Agro Business and Upgradation Training Program

Date                                       : 05.05.2018

Venue                                    :  Sadak Arjuni, Gondia District. Maharashtra State

Participant / trainee       : 1000 Farmers

Preface :

The agrarian progress during the past few years has, however, slackened and serious asymmetries exist in science-led growth of agriculture, farmers’ income and food and nutrition securities. These asymmetries are exacerbated due to the volatilities in climate change and markets, and the declining land, water and biodiversity resources. The not so satisfactory state of India’s food and agriculture system and agrarian economy could partly be attributed to the decline in quality of agricultural Production knowledge, viz erosion of basic sciences from agricultural curricula, extensive inbreeding, serious skill gaps, and poor employability of agriculture graduates. Thus, bridging these gaps in the availability of quality human resources must be a high national priority

Impediments to meeting the industry’s skills shortages include low levels of industry participation in farming and training, low numbers of under-graduates and graduates in tertiary agriculture courses, poor awareness of agricultural career pathways and the limited capacity of the current education and training system to deliver innovative training solutions.

Program goal:

Proposed up-gradation and training program aimed to cover the gap of knowledge and technological backlog which may not to be affect the farming same as agro business need to knowledge of market need and market linkup and good quality of seed and natural pesticides so for this training is to base of eyes breaking session and lead to further project related agribusiness at rural region of vidharbha 

Program objectives:

  • identify key issues and impediments associated with addressing knowledge and skill shortages in agriculture
  • a stock take of government and industry workforce, skills and training activities in each jurisdiction

Identify gaps and potential opportunities for a more coordinated and collaborative approach to addressing agro business and skills shortages in agriculture

Program report:

In May 2018, the working group held a workshop in Gondia to share knowledge and information between farming group members and experts to begin the processing of identifying key Agro business, training and skills issues facing the agriculture industry. The workshop also provided the opportunity for the group to plan its future activities. The workshop program covered issues relating to the availability of labour and skills data, education, vocational education and training and the industry’s perspective on farming and skills issues facing agriculture. Each topic was introduced by a short presentation given by experts in the area followed by an open discussion between the workshop participants.

Evaluation :

As we found the open discussion between the workshop participant  as followed The poor image and promotion of agriculture, Declining rural population, An ageing workforce, Impediments to addressing the skills shortage, A lack of emphasis on education and training in the industry, A failure to attract students to study agriculture, Inflexibility in the delivery of training by government institutions.Business management skills for farmers

Farming has changed and producers now need technical knowledge as well as advanced business management and leadership skills to manage their many challenges, including farming, labour and skills shortages. This includes skills in national to international markets, risk management, strategic thinking, negotiation, decision-making, financial planning, human resource management and environmental management.

Conclusion:

Securing an adequate supply of suitably skilled farmer and labor is important for optimizing India’s agricultural productivity and output. The workforce not only needs to be large enough to enable the industry to remain productive and competitive, it must also have the right skills and training to allow the industry to grow and improve its performance by becoming more innovative and responsive to change. Traditional Farming and skills shortages are being experienced in a wide range of sectors and rural and regional areas more broadly. While the current downturn in the mining sector and seasonal improvements have seen an increase in people taking up jobs in agriculture, these are not expected to cover the short and long term demands within the industry. The issues are complex with various factors contributing to the Farmers skills shortages. The issues go beyond the capacity of any one organization or government portfolio to understand and respond to. As such, it is important to establish better working relationships across government and industry organizations. This will help coordinate and share information on Farming and skills policies and programs. It will also help to develop more strategic and consistent approaches to these issues. These strategies may build on existing activities or may require a new policy approach or a new initiative. Industry plays a crucial role in providing leaderships on agriculture workforce, Farmers skills issues and has a responsibility to promote their business and work together to drive and champion these issues.

Project Home Herbal Medicinal Plantation awareness program at Bhandara District Maharashtra State

Our History :

Name of the project          :  Project Home Herbal Medicinal Plantation awareness program at                                                                    Bhandara District Maharashtra State

Date                                           :    10/02/2019

Venue                                        : Bhandara city, Bhandara District Maharashtra State

Participant / Trainee          : 100 (2 batches of 50 participants)

Preface :

Encouraging herbal medicine plants in the homes is a good way to promote use of medicinal plants for primary health care at the household level.

According to Ayush system of medicines is widely accepted and in practice at large. Beside traditional herbal therapy are also parts of health care medicine and continues to be a valuable source of remedies which have been used by millions of people around the world to secure their health. Subsequently, it is important to make people aware and educate the common man in a scientific user-friendly manner about the fascinating knowledge and tradition associated with the popular herbal resources.

Program goal:

S.N

PARTICULAR

MONTHS FOR TIME DURATION

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

1

Education and Communication activities on home garden awareness program.

      

2

Education and Communication activities on home garden training at a regional level.

      

Program objectives:

  • To encourage local people to introduce medicinal plants in their home garden as a home herbal therapy.
  • To plant twenty selected medicinal plant species in home garden all through mentioned project area of implementation.
  • To create awareness amongst local people about the uses and health benefits of medicinal plants.
  • To provide training to the interested people on cultivation and harvesting techniques of medicinal plants.
  • To disseminate information on the local and global market demand, major producing areas, any and marketing potential of the selected/cultivated medicinal plants through awareness camps.

Program report:

Target population is to concentrate Bhandara Block, farmers, women and students. Bhandara Block is been growing nearest rural part of Nagpur region where VCS cover 100 farmers for the medicinal plants awareness program for wellbeing and prosperity of medicinal plant through its medicinal properties.

Methods -VCS theorize that knowledge on the use of these resources highly depends on farmers’ socio-economic household characteristics. To test this assumption, and conducted base on semi-structured interviews recording socio-economic base data and information on local knowledge of medicinal plants species. This was followed by field inventories compiling plant material for garden identification.

Outcome –Ten to Twenty species of medicinal plants from 100 famers were identified. Constellation and discriminate analysis yielded two groups of households with different wealth status characterized by differences in livestock numbers, off-farm activities, agricultural land and harvests. A generalized linear model highlighted that economic factors significantly affect the collection of medicinal plants, whereas the use of medicinal plants depends to a higher degree on socio-cultural factors.

Evaluation :

As we known the traditional herbal therapy are also parts of health care medicine and continues to be a valuable source of remedies which have been used by millions of people around the world to secure their health. Subsequently, it is important to major people awareness and educates the common man in a scientific user-friendly manner about the fascinating knowledge and tradition associated with the popular herbal resources.

Evaluation of the project which cover the 100 farmers at proposed area of Bhandara block and its evaluated through the achievement and completion of the time line of activities and participation plus agreed to part of workshop and home garden medicinal tree plantation program. Though its necessity and future requirement of self-aware and self-dependent.

Conclusion:

Medicinal plants play an important role in local food and medicinal security in the Bhandara Block, especially for poor farmers, and medicinal plants are a primary source of health care for the majority of local people. Our results indicate the influence of socio-economic household characteristics on the use of medicinal plants products and its intensity, which should be considered in future management plans for local and regional medicinal plants conservation.

Organic Farming Awareness and Training Program

Our History :

Name of the Project          : Organic Farming Awareness and Training Program

Date                                         :  14/05/2018

Venue                                      : Ramtek Block, Nagpur District, Maharashtra State

Participant / trainee         : 1700 Farmers

Preface :

The inability of Indian agriculture to meet the demand for food in the country during the two and half decades immediately after independence had been a matter of concern at those times, The system of our agriculture based on the traditional knowledge and practices handed down from generation to generation could not produce enough to feed the increasing population. The ignominy of our dependence for food on the western developed nations and the politics of food aid practiced by them added to our determination to be self-sufficient in food production by modernizing agriculture. The green revolution fulfilled our aspirations by changing India from a food importing to a food exporting nation.

However, the achievement was at the expense of ecology and environment and to the detriment of the well-being of the people. The agriculture system adopted from the west has started showing increasing unsustainability and once again the need for an appropriate method suitable to our requirements is being felt.

The practice of organic farming, said to the best known alternative to the conventional method, also originated in the west, which suffered from the ill effects of chemical agriculture. However, organic farming is based on the similar principles underlying our traditional agriculture. Organic agriculture aims at the human welfare without any harm to the environment which is the foundation of human life itself.

Program goal:

The main goal of the program was to explain to the participants, about the ill effects of chemicals used on the crops in their fields. As per Mr. Shashikant Raut explained that when chemicals were used in farming they gradually reduced the effective production capacity of the soil and more and more chemicals had to be applied to produce the same output. Whereas Organic methods were ideal to maintain the level of soil capacity in terms of production

Program objectives:

  • Disadvantages of chemical farming, conventional farming and its impact on life.

    2) Information on Sustainable Agriculture, methods of Organic Farming and importance of Organic Fertilizers.

    3) Information on the preparation of bio-pesticides namely Jeevamrutha and Nimboli Ark (liquid manure and pesticides).

    4) Preparation of vermi-culture compost and the importance of water management.

Program report:

As per Mr. Shashikant Raut explained that when chemicals were used in farming they gradually reduced the effective production capacity of the soil and more and more chemicals had to be applied to produce the same output. Whereas Organic methods were ideal to maintain the level of soil capacity in terms of production

Chemical fertilizers and pesticides are expensive to purchase whereas Organic manure and pesticides can be prepared by the farmers at home with ingredients that are around them on their farms. Adoption of Organic Farming techniques reduces the overall costs of farming and can result in more employment in the rural areas.

Crops produced by chemical farming methods are more dangerous to the health of the producer and consumer whereas crops produced by organic farming methods are more nutritious and safer for the farm workers. The use of Jeevamrutha can result in significant savings in total crop production costs and Awadhut strongly recommended that the farmers should all use organic manure and fertilizers and adopt Organic Farming methodology.

The method of preparation of Jeevamrutha manure was demonstrated to the farmers using: –
 1 Kg of Jaggery
1 kg of Besan
Soil taken from below Banyan tree,
200 litres of water

Organic Farming Awareness Program was attended by 1700 local farmers where in awareness program address the detailed explanation about the evils of using the artificial fertilizers. It was also explained about the defects to the soil fertility being caused by the artificial fertilizers. It was described how the macrobiotics is destroyed by the artificial fertilizers and strong insecticides. It was also said in an elaborate manner how the food crops become intoxicated by the usage of artificial fertilizers. The way of underground water becoming as poisonous by the usage of artificial fertilizers and insecticides was explained in a detailed manner. How the surrounding environment is polluted by the usage of artificial fertilizers? – A detailed explanation was given. It was emphasized that the usage of vermicost is the only remedy for all those defects and damages. An elaborate explanation of soil fertility, water fertility, health of the humanity in the program, After program completion we took the farmers finally to the agricultural lands to view those and the crops grown by application of vermicost.

Conclusion:

As we found the open discussion between the Awareness program, participant shared the issues of their farming knowledge and situation that the poor image and promotion of agriculture, an ageing workforce, impediments to addressing the skills shortage, a lack of emphasis on education and training in the Farming industry, a failure to attract students to study agriculture, Inflexibility in the delivery of training by government institutions.

Farming has changed and producers now need technical knowledge as well as advanced business management and leadership skills to manage their many challenges, including farming and skills shortages.

Project Home Herbal Medicinal Plantation at Bhandara District Maharashtra State

Our History :

Name of the project            :  Project Home Herbal Medicinal Plantation at Bhandara District                                                                         Maharashtra State

Date                                            : 20/01/2020

Venue                                         : Bhandara city, Bhandara District Maharashtra State

Participant / Trainee          : 1000 (20 batches of 50 participants)

Preface :

Encouraging herbal medicine plants in the homes is a good way to promote use of medicinal plants for primary health care at the household level.

According to Ayush system of medicines is widely accepted and in practice at large. Beside traditional herbal therapy are also parts of health care medicine and continues to be a valuable source of remedies which have been used by millions of people around the world to secure their health. Subsequently, it is important to make people aware and educate the common man in a scientific user-friendly manner about the fascinating knowledge and tradition associated with the popular herbal resources.

In view of the aforesaid, National Medicinal Plants Board NMPB intends to augment 20 medicinal plants for household uses to promote, cultivate and creating awareness among local people about rich diverse traditional knowledge on medicinal plants and their method of consuming and benefit throughout the country under “20 Medicinal Plants for 2020” campaign for year 2020.

Program goal:

S.N

PARTICULAR

MONTHS FOR TIME DURATION

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

1

Date base listing of House hold and Consent Form Filling 

      

2

Medicine plants purchasing

      

3

Distribution and plantation of selected twenty medicinal plants to the households to grow in home garden.

      

4

Documentation of traditional knowledge associated with the medicinal plants and providing usage and benefit of each species to the beneficiary by the implementing agency.

      

5

In case of dense urban localities potted plants and terrace rearing of medicinal plants should be encouraged.

      

6

Organization of Information, Education and Communication (IEC) activities such as awareness program /workshop / training at a regional level.

      

7

Documentation of the knowledge base in the form of published literature like a booklet, brochures on the home remedies and traditional uses of selected medicinal plants and digitization/web-hosting thereof.

      

8

A Database of all such households, including photographic documentation at various stages of implementation along with a write-up on the process/approach adopted, benefit accrued and the sustainability mechanism.

      

Program objectives:

  • To encourage local people to introduce medicinal plants in their home garden as a home herbal therapy.
  • To plant twenty selected medicinal plant species in home garden all through mentioned project area of implementation.
  • To create awareness amongst local people about the uses and health benefits of medicinal plants.
  • To provide training to the interested people on cultivation and harvesting techniques of medicinal plants.
  • To disseminate information on the local and global market demand, major producing areas, any and marketing potential of the selected/cultivated medicinal plants through awareness camps.

Program report:

Target population is to concentrate Bhandara Block, farmers, women and students. Bhandara Block is been growing nearest rural part of Nagpur region where we proposed to cover 1000 household for the medicinal plants workshop program for wellbeing and prosperity of medicinal plant through the its medicinal properties.

Methods -We theorize that knowledge on the use of these resources highly depends on farmers’ socio-economic household characteristics. To test this assumption, and conducted base on semi-structured interviews recording socio-economic base data and information on local knowledge of medicinal plants species. This was followed by field inventories compiling plant material for garden identification.

Outcome –Ten to Twenty species of medicinal plants from 1000 families were identified. Constellation and discriminate analysis yielded two groups of households with different wealth status characterized by differences in livestock numbers, off-farm activities, agricultural land and harvests. A generalized linear model highlighted that economic factors significantly affect the collection of medicinal plants, whereas the use of medicinal plants depends to a higher degree on socio-cultural factors.

Evaluation :

As we known the traditional herbal therapy are also parts of health care medicine and continues to be a valuable source of remedies which have been used by millions of people around the world to secure their health. Subsequently, it is important to major people awareness and educates the common man in a scientific user-friendly manner about the fascinating knowledge and tradition associated with the popular herbal resources.

Evaluation of the project which cover the 1000 household at proposed area of Bhandara block and its evaluated through the achievement and completion of the time line of activities and participation plus agreed to ready for home garden medicinal tree plantation program. Though its necessity and future requirement of self-aware and self-dependent.

Conclusion:

Medicinal plants play an important role in local food and medicinal security in the Bhandara Block, especially for poor farmers, and medicinal plants are a primary source of health care for the majority of local people. Our results indicate the influence of socio-economic household characteristics on the use of medicinal plants products and its intensity, which should be considered in future management plans for local and regional medicinal plants conservation.

Tree Plantation Project at Gondia

Our History :

Name of Project                                 – Tree Plantation Project at Gondia

Duration of the Project                   –1 year

Timeline to start the project         – July 2017 to June 2018

Participant / trainee                          –1000 Farmers

Preface :

The mainstay of rural economy is agriculture and allied occupations, about 85 % of the rural population are engaged in agriculture and agricultural labor. Traditional agriculture is characterized by low level of inputs and poor management practices. These conditions further deteriorate due to uncertain rains and lack of irrigation facilities. The proposed Tree plantation Project aims at helping the tribal’s establish mix tree plantation to provide long term sustainable income & keeping of environment balance in Khoba village of Gondia District.

Project:-

Socio Economic scenario in tribal areas like Nagpur District is heavily dependent on natural resources and agriculture. While farming is one of the main sources of self-employment, most of the small farmers and landless are also dependent on agriculture labor opportunities, livestock and forest resources for generating employment. There has been indiscriminate felling of trees and denudation of forest resources. This forced most of them to migrate in search of wages. Presently, most of the small farmers, agriculture labors and the tribal’s are victims of poverty, illiteracy and exploitation Therefore the sustainable livelihood program  for rural communities needs to focus on up-gradation of available natural resources, as well as focus on active participation of the rural families particularly women for their own status enhancement.

Geography of the Project :

Village/Villages          :           Khoba Panchayat, Khoba, Village

Block/Tehsil               :           Gadchiroli

District                        :           Gadchiroli

State                            :           Maharashtra

Beneficiaries:

Number of beneficiaries: – 10 Tribal Farmer (owning Waste land) Program participants are selected from among the villages giving priority to the tribal population in the operational area. The selection was based on the minimum qualifying criteria combined with other factors such as identification of the poorest of the poor, their aptitude, their resource base and the scope for opportunities provided by the project. The minimum qualifying criteria used as below:

The participant selected generally from the families having land, less than or equal to 5 acres. Families defined as a unit consisting of husband, wife and dependent children.  However, the families having land above 5 acres are also included in the program on satisfying either of the following two conditions:

  • The land is owned by a joint family and the share of each member of the participating family is less than 5 acres, and the family is below subsistence level or
  • The participation of such a family shall be socially beneficial to the program implementation, provided however, the participant shall be entitled to the program support limited to financing the planting material. The justification of including such families shall be documented and be verifiable. The total number of families being promoted under this provision shall be limited to 1% of the total number of families being promoted

Project Details:

Sr. No.

Activity

Desired

Outcome

Indicators to

measure Outcomes

Assessment Criteria **

Feedbacks/Reports to be shared

1

Raising Nursery of fruit trees

2000 sapling Nursery will be raised

Each Tree sapling will be grew up to 3 to 5 ft

Maintain records of sapling growth chart

Yes

2

Pits digging

2000 pits will dug in farmers own land

Each farmer will dug 2000 pits (size of each pits 1X1 ft.).Each pits will filled up with soil and manure.

List of farmers will be created as per performance

Yes

3

Distribution of Tree Sapling

2000 plant sapling will be distributed among 10 farmers

Each farmer will be planted 2000 mix tree sapling

List of farmers will be created as per performance

Yes

4

After Care of Tree

2000 tree sapling will be fenced and protected from grazing of

Animal. Clean the grass growing around the tree

2000 tree will be grow without any obstacle

Maintain records of Tree growth chart

Yes

Impact on implementation of this project on a longer run :

The Tree plantation program is called the TPP the socio-economic rehabilitation of poor rural families has become possible through development of wastelands into productive assets by plantation of fruit trees.

The TPP program is based on farming – system approach that includes Horticultures & Fruit tree on small plots separately.

The program is planned with the family as a unit. The intensive utilization of land and water resources helps to generate self- employment opportunities throughout the year. The components are need based and tailor made to ensure that the family will be rehabilitated by the end of the gestation period of two year. At the end of this period, the horticulture plantations become productive and the income from these and inclusion of agriculture helps the rural family to rise above the poverty line on a sustainable basis.

After the family joins the program they do not feel the need to migrate to the nearby towns as self employment is available at village level throughout the year. In addition, there are intangible benefits in the form of family welfare, improved nutrition and health.

Each participant family takes up intensive land development and plantation work on one acre (0.4 ha) of wasteland or marginal land, to convert this into a productive (TPP).

The species to be planted are chosen according to their suitability to the project area, their income generation potential and the preferences of the participating family. The saplings are provided critical watering during summer months in the first few years to enable their proper establishment.

Details of Plant Species per farmer

Name of the species with variety

Distance

Total Trees

Acacia

2X 2 Mt

1000

Cashew

3X 3Mt.

500

Jamun

3 X 3Mt

100

Amala

3 X 3Mt.

100

Karanj

3 X 3Mt.

300

Conclusion:

The whole project based on time line as followed the monsoon and plantation activities.  Nursery setup should be start in time otherwise the plant wouldn’t get sufficient length during plantation. Risks in this project, if monsoon will not arrive in time then the plantation activity will be postponed so for we had done all activities by time and the socio-economic rehabilitation of poor rural families has become possible through development of wastelands into productive assets by plantation of fruit trees.

The Tree Plantation Program based on farming – system approach that includes Horticultures & Fruit tree on small plots separately. The program planned with the family as a unit. The intensive utilization of land and water resources helps to generate self- employment opportunities throughout the year. The components are need based and tailor made to ensure that the family will be rehabilitated by the end of the gestation period of two year. At the end of this period, the horticulture plantations become productive and the income from these and inclusion of agriculture helps the rural family to rise above the poverty line on a sustainable basis.