Project management
10 no of staffs have been deployed in the programme. They have been supplied materials like leaflet, booklet, and posters to promote organic farming as well as SRI method of cultivation. The project coordinator of the nodal organization is responsible for coordinating all the activities at programmatic level and also responsible for reporting and documentation with assistance from chief functionary and field motivators. Field motivators are solely responsible for mobilizing the farmers at field level, convening village meetings and providing technical supports to the farmers. Interaction with co-partners is held once in a month and also maintained records properly both at lead organization and co organization level. Joint verification is made time to time with coordination form all chief functionaries of co-partners.
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Activities |
Sub-activities |
Outputs(executed) |
Outcomes |
Remarks |
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Quantitative |
Qualitative |
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Capacity building initiative for staff and farmers |
Staff orientation |
16 staffs (m-14,f-2) |
Increased efficiency of staffs through theoretical and practical work |
18 staffs including other project staff of the organization are capable to face the issues related to field |
Some new faces have seen in the programme |
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Training on SRI and SA |
230 farmers(m-195, f-35) |
230 farmers including PRI and SHG members have been trained on SRI
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Participants understood about SRI and also had idea regarding organic farming
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In some places women are not interested to attend the training with male farmers |
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raining on vermicompost |
85 farmers(M-72,F-13) |
85 farmers have been trained on vermicompost preparation and how to use it in the fields |
Out of 85 farmers 49 farmers have been started preparing vermicompost and using it in their kitchen garden
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Vermicompost units have been provided and linkage build with govt. department for vermicompost units |
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Training to farmers on bio-pesticides |
72(M-57, F-15) |
72 farmers have been trained on it |
Many of them are using pesticides using the available resources
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Training on SRI techniques |
144(M-63, F-81)
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144 farm labors have been taught on SRI technique
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More than 70 farmers are acting as labors in fields
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The farm labors are demanding more money for transplantation in SRI method |
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Training to women farmers on SA
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58 no women
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58 no of women have been imparted training on sustainable agriculture |
75% women are practicing organic farming in their home and also help their husbands
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Farmers appreciated the method of SRI and organic process farming |
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Training to trainers |
M-60,F-4
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210 key farmers have been trained |
The farmers are acting as trainers
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3 training programmes have been held till date and rest programmes will organized in between 21 January 10 |
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Soil test
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Soil samples have been examined
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138 samples of 133 farmers |
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Soil health card issued to each farmers as per the test |
Many farmers are not interested to give soil samples for test |
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Input support to farmers |
Dhanichha distribution and plantation |
3kgs of seed per acre and 2.5kgs of Dhanichha for each farmer
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Dhanichha and 15 type of seeds have been distributed among the farmers |
726 farmers has been sowed Dhanichha in their fields and incorporated the same in their fields |
Farmers demand more and more Dhanichha |
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Weeders Markers |
Cono-125 Mandva-15 Bida-20 Markers-22 |
Weeders have been supplied to farmers in each village in proportion of 10:2 |
Farmers facilitated
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Instead of mechanical weeding farmers are keeping interest in manual weeding
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Vermicompost
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776 farmers
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40 kg/acre vermicompost have been supplied to farmers
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Vermicompost found effective for marginal farmers
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Vermicompost is not sufficient for all the farmers |
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Vermicompost unit |
21 unit 21 farmers |
21 farmers have been received vermicompost units in different villages
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Farmers realize to prepare vermicompost for their own sake for that we have planned to establish more units in our operational area |
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Institutional arrangement |
Sub-circle meeting |
200 sub-circle meeting and 335 farmers
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Including the farmers of last year 50 sub-circles have been formed |
More farmers interested to include in sub-circles |
Farmers are interested to form a federation |
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Circle meeting |
7 circle meetings
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Circle meetings have been conducted half yearly at gram Panchayat level |
Farmers federation at GP level |
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Block level farmers meet |
4 no
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Meet including govt. officials, farmers, PRI members |
Block level farmers federation of farmers |
Line departments cooperate with us and also consented to provide support through NGOs
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District level |
1 no of programme at nodal agency level |
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SRI field demonstration |
Selection of demonstration fields |
50 (26 at Partner level, 24 at co-partner level) |
50 plots has been selected for demonstration in 41 villages for wider dissemination of information |
2 villages including around 85 acres of land have been selected for SRI village with moral support from our organization and other demo plots are excluded from this 2 villages |
54 acres of 53 farmers at Badhiasahi and 31 acres of 35 farmers |
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Documentation |
Profile of farmers completed |
776 farmers 50 villages |
Profile of 776 farmers have been completed |
Formats developed by SRI secretariat and CWS Bhubaneswar |
Formats in Odia and English |