Project Detail

Non chemical Pesticide Management with small and marginal women farmers in tribal rain-fed clusters in Kannod block of Dewas, Madhya Pradesh.

The project aim towards reducing the chemical stress specifically on soils and agricultural ecosystem by community adoption of Non-chemical Pesticide Management (NPM) practices thereby causing a positive effect on the cost of cultivation reducing it to sustainable levels. The program will develop a model of end to end solutions to small and marginal farmers willing to shift to Non- chemical farming thus affecting agricultural biodiversity.
- Enable women farmers to shift from chemical intensive methods of crop nutrition and pest management towards practicing Non-chemical Pesticide Management Methods.
- Develop support system in terms of knowledge products, custom made credit options and linkage to niche markets to make this shift sustainable and remunerative.

Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Kantaphod Pragati Sameeti

Country:

India

Area Of Work:

Land Degradation
Land Degradation

Operational Phase:

OP5 (Extended Period)

Grant Amount:

US$ 43,341.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 27,572.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 105,715.00

Project Number:

IND/SGP/OP5/Y5/FSP/STAR/CC/2016/94/MP14

Start Date:

12/2016

End Date:

12/2017

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Project sustainability

- The CBO is completely owned by SHGs made up of local women and all the decision making is done by these SHGs through SHG collectives and through Pragati sameetis. - Technical support is being provided by SPS but all the decisions of implementation are taken by these women belonging local communities. - Some portion of support staff?s salary is borne by this SHG collective and they are the ones who take final decisions on suggestions made by this staff. - The selection of beneficiaries of different activities is done by the collective on criterion set by them for such selection.

Gender Focus

1000(500 males, 500 females) community members will be involved in the project activities and will be directly supported. Women will be involved in decision making related to agriculture. Communication and decision making will be done through democratic group meetings- women self help groups and women farmers' group. Self Help Groups promoted by the NGO are affiliated to Department of Women and Child Welfare for providing meals to Schools and Anganwadis in the location. The NGO have good linkages with banks as more than 3,000 members will have their accounts in the bank and they can also access loan facility of about Rs. 1,50,00,000/- This will enable women farmers make a shift from chemical intensive methods of crop nutrition and pest management towards practicing Non chemical pesticide management methods.

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

300 indigenous people will be directly supported.

Capacity - Building Component

Field trainings on NPM Agriculture Practices, Cropping Systems and Biomass Conservation will be done for 50 farmers. Special on field capacity building sessions will be conducted.

Notable Community Participation

N.A.

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Policy Influence

Replication of project activities

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

Printing and dissemination of small booklets and pamphlets for farmers. Wall writings will be made. Annual report will be published with the project experiences. Knowledge dissemination will be done through community media (movie screenings at SHG level, Village level using low cost pico projectors.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

Project launch meeting will be organized with all the stakeholders. Monthly planning and review meeting will be conducted for the Programme Management Team comprising of all Programme Officers. Exposure visits will be organized for 2 farmers and 1 staff for each year to the areas where NPM farming is being practiced. Kisan Mela will be organized. Demonstration of the best practices will be done at the village level. Farmers Field School will be started in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture. Women Farmer Group meetings will be conducted at crucial stages of cropping cycle for crop selection, seed selection and land preparation before sowing, removal of off types, pest and disease control, harvest and packaging.

Policy Impact

The NGO has linkages with research institutes like Directorate of Sorghum Research (DSR) Hyderabad, International Crop Research Institute for Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Hyderabad, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwavidhyalay (JNKVV), CICR, Nagpur, IARI Wheat Research Station Indore, Krishi Vigyan Kendra Dewas, Timbuktu Collective Andhra Pradesh, Plant Nursery, Chandkeshar, Kantaphod and many local seed producers. The project will be replicable elsewhere as a large part of Central India is facing unpredictable weather and the extra expenditure on pesticides cannot be afforded by most of the marginal land holding farmers.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

The project aims to develop a model providing end to end solution to small and marginal farmers willing to shift to Non-chemical farming with the help of agricultural biodiversity. The project will work towards reducing the chemical stress specifically on soils and agricultural ecosystem by community adoption of Non- chemical Pesticide Management (NPM) practices, thereby causing a positive effect on the cost cultivated reducing in to sustainable levels. Activities like Biomass composting(300), Vermi composting(150), Liquid manure(300), Silt application(150), Biomass plantation(300), Soil testing and soil health cards(300), Construction of 10 Biogas plants as demonstration units, demonstration of 10 cattle shades with urine collection facility will be done for improving the quality of soil. It will reduce more than 11,400 MT of CO2 emissions over the duration of 3 years by promoting energy efficient equipment and alternate energy sources.

Project Results

* 73 Kaccha nadep composting units constructed. Considering that on average 5 composting cycles of 40 days each are run with 1 Mt capacity farmers have reduced the residue burning of crop by 365 Mt /year and reduced the emission by 730 mt of CO2 equivalents/year, at the same time availing the natural fertilizer for farms.
* 26 Pacca Nadep composting units constructed. Considering that on average 6 composting cycles of 40 days each are run with 1 Mt capacity farmers would have reduced the residue burning of crop by 6 x 26= 156Mt/year and reduced emissions by ~312 Mt of CO2 equivallents /year, at the same time availing the natural fertilizer for farms.
* 4 vermicompost unit constructed in order to promote the microenterprise model, a local SHG has undertaken the task of manufacturing vermicompost and selling it to other farmers. 33% of the expenses have been borne by the SHG. 2 micro enterprises for bio-pesticide preparation and for vermi-compost preparation started.
* 4 Cattle sheds constructed with the objective of collection of urine, which is required for preparation of organic manure and pesticides.
* Silt Application done i.e. The farms of the 280 families will get better productivity at the same time improving the water resource capacity in the villages.
* 116 gas connections provided to the stakeholders. Each gas connection will reduce the consumption of wood by ~15 Kg per household per day saving around 626 Mt of wood from burning which is an indirect benefit for the forests in the area.
* NPM is being practiced in 16 villages by 896 farmers through KPS support and the production of the organic fertilizers/pesticides is being done by SHG members. A total of 1106 Ha of land is now under the NPM practices.

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Indicators

Biophysical

Tonnes of CO2 decreased or avoided by energy efficient and renewable energy technologies or applying environmentally sustainable transport practices introduced by SGP Project 1000

Biophysical

Hectares of degraded land rest 1000

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