Objective:
?Promotion and Conservation of Agro-Biodiversity for livelihoods generation and sustainable development.
?To bring about awareness among farmers for sustainable agricultural development.
?To build the capacity of farmers for practicing improved agricultural productivity by using biomass and environment friendly techniques.
?To promote the use of biofertilizers- Nadep compost, Vermi-compost, green manure & repellent plants.
?To promote moisture conservation measures.
?To Promote traditional agricultural practices and conserve agro-biodiversity.
?To document indigenous knowledge of the people and use it for improving agricultural practices.
?To preserve seeds of indigenous varieties.
Output:
Established linkage between agrobiodiversty & indigenous agriculture knowledge system for sustainable agriculture development.

Re-established sustainable agro-bio-diversity in deteriorated agricultural situation.
Improved living conditions among rural communities- especially the small landholders and women.


Increased permanent regular income of beneficiaries through ecofriendly agriculture practices.

Low External Input agriculture resulting in decrease in cost inputs per hectare.

Reduced chemical use in agriculture.

Better common understanding between Government, NGOs and CBOs will be established.

During periods of high demand, especially during drought period and summer months water would be available for human beings and livestock.

Activities:
I. Formation of village level institutions/ community based organisations and their
Capacity building:
Village samitis namely ?Krishi Mitra Mandals? will be formed in each selected village and their capacities will be built to practice sustainable agriculture and to manage, maintain, implement and monitor the activities proposed under the programme.
Exposure visits of farmers to agriculture research farms and other place in order to transform knowledge from the laboratory to the field.
Self-help Groups will be formed and be trained on the technological & economical aspects of the project.
II. Training:
Training on different issues related to agricultural practices (Group management crop cycle, green manure & repellent plants and moisture conservation measures, use of biomass, preparation of vermi ?compost, compost, biological control of pests and diseases. etc.) will be imparted to the farmers in order to build their capacities
III. Demonstration:
To provide a demonstration effect for using biomass, green manure, repellent plants and biofertilizer, moisture conservation masers (water harvesting structure Nala bunds, farm bunding etc), mixed and inter cropping, and preparation of biomass, vermi compost and Nadep compost etc.
Optimum use of resources and Improvement of soil fertility:

(Since the primary occupation of the rural community is agriculture and second important occupation is animal husbandry, both these activities generate a lot of bio-mass in the form of agricultural waste products / litter and cattle dung which is not optimally utilized and its most part goes unutilized / waste. Every farmer family in the project area rears 3-5 cattle, mostly buffaloes and cows and 5 ?20 small cattle like goats and sheep. This population of the cattle produces a lot of biomass, which is not properly utilized by using scientific techniques for production of compost manure and energy. It is also true for agricultural wastes. For optimum use of these resources for energy production, some specific activities will be organized)

Soil & Moisture conservation measures;
Gully plugging and Nala bunding.

Field Bunds for reducing surface runoff.
Vegetative barriers
Renovation of existing johads
Construction of new johads
Introduction of water saving irrigation systems:

Demonstrate Dry farming or cropping of low water demanding crops.
Improvement of soil fertility :
Promoting biomass, use of green manure, and biofertilizer. Promotion of traditional agro-practices:
Mixed cropping,
Up-gradation of traditional seeds.
Field demonstration and trials on seed treatment
Biological control of pests and diseases.
Field Demonstrations on different cultivation practices, Crop cycle etc.

(Methodology to identifying the sites for demonstration component:Interested farmers and Sites will be identifying with the consultation of ?krsi mitra mandal? that will be formed in each village and people participation, which will contribute here share by labour or money.)
IV. Identification of community leaders and facilitate them on agrobiodiversity:
Identify some knowledgeable person in the area and to document the traditional knowledge and to facilitate them on agrobiodiversity and established knowledge bank.
V. Preservation of Indigenous varieties of crop seeds (establish seed banks.):
A seed bank would be established by using the traditional knowledge of farmers in order to preserve indigenous varieties of crops.
VI. Workshop:
Two workshops proposed to be organized one at the state and second at district levels to facilitate NGOs replicate the activities and successes of the project.
VII. Documentation & Publication:
The processes and achievement of the project activities will be documented continuously during the project implementation phase and experiences as well as success stories would be shared amongst different partners and different other stake holders.
The relevant information will be disseminated through publishing slides, books and posters etc.