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Integrated Development of Farming Communities with Climate Proofing Interventions

Drought is one of the recurring features of Indian agriculture, especially in the rain-fed areas. It affects not only national food security but also causes miseries to human life and livestock. The study area, i.e., Ramanathapuram district of Tamil Nadu, India (Latitude 9°40?and Longitude 78°70?) has been affected consecutively for the last decade by drought due to the failure of rainfall of northeast and southwest monsoons. So, the economic status of the area has declined due to the drought and the people from this district have migrated to other districts to improve their socio-economic status. This district has seven taluks, eleven blocks and four hundred and twelve village panchayats. In order to develop the degraded land and promote the agriculture activities and mitigate drought due to climate change, the following steps are to be undertaken by this project is to
1. Provide the technology to retain the water in the soil for longer period and provide the technology to drain the excess water in to the water-storing structures for future usage
2. Educate the farmers to cultivate cash crops on the basis of soil, water and native environmental situation and climate change situation etc.
3. Adopt the village to the level of sustainable of farmers in the sector of climate change adaptation on Agriculture, Agriculture allied activities, improve the livelihood of village artisans and financial status of individual.
4. Augmentation of engineering structures in the coastal area will prevent sea water intrusion in the shallow aquifer.
5. To improve the socio-economic status, insist the farmer to take the crop insurance scheme.
6. The study area is located nearer to the sea, so the large scale desalination plant system should be implemented by government organisation to get fresh water for improving agriculture practices.

Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Sri Kannapiran Educational & Charitable Trust

Country:

India

Area Of Work:

Land Degradation

Operational Phase:

OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)

Grant Amount:

US$ 46,924.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 48,651.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

Project Number:

IND/SGP/OP7/Y3/CORE/LD/2023/05

Start Date:

7/2023

End Date:

7/2025

Status:

Currently under execution

Project Characteristics and Results

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

Knowledge management is the final mutual benefit to all the stake holder of the project like VDC, PIA and Funding Agency. The SKECH Trust gives most priority to the documentation of each and every activities from the beginning to the end of the project by the implementation of following measures ? Conduct the survey on baseline data in before the implementation of the project ? Conduct the survey on risk of the agriculture activity in before the project ? Conduct the meeting and document the discussion with the signature of stake holders ? Take the Photo?s and Video?s Before starting the works, During the works and on Completion of the works with GBS ? Document the issues during the implementation of the works ? Documents the success and risk of the completed works from each beneficiaries ? Conduct the survey on agricultural production, income of the family, area of cultivable land, variety of commodities cultivated etc. both before the implementation of the project and after completion of the project ? Maintain the bank account in the Nationalised bank to handling project fund separately ? Maintain the Cash book, ledger, Measurement books for the works carried out under the project, Chitta and all other MIS etc.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

The project implementation is done by the SKECH Trust with the participation and involvement local community like VDC, PRI, SHG and village level CBO,s. to prepare this proposal the SKECH Trust conduct the informal meeting in all villages like this after sanctioning and during implementation of project the SKECH Trust conduct the meeting with the local community. For the implementation the project the VDC will be formed with the active participation of existing CBO?s like PRI, SHG and Youth clubs. During this activity most of the people were aware on this project further after sanctioning of the project the SKECH Trust communicate the people by the flash board in the main place of village. In this board announces what schemes to implement, who are the funding agency , implementing agency, village level coordinating agency, members of VDC, amount to be involve, what kind of activity to be carried out with the finance details, project periods, community contribution, co funding agency details and contact details etc. Further we informed to the Government Department through district administration to involve the Department peoplefor converging the activities and provide additional technology to the farming communities.

Notable Community Participation

The selected landscape of Ramanathapuram district is a drought prone area here the people are doing rainfed farming, animal rearing and fishing activity. All these above said activity are the physically difficult to the peoples and gradually the income from these activities are decline. Very recently the youth farmers will come forwarding to do the agriculture activities with the application of latest technology with the usage of indigenous farmers available in the villages. In the project area the farming activities are actively carried out by the village women most of the agriculture activities are done by the women members and the decision making like what crops to be cultivate, how to manage the financial for the cropping, marketing of products etc. In the VDC the SKECH Trust include the women member representation up to 33 percent from the SHG. The farmer members those are not having the land and with minimum land they involve in the animal rearing activity like sheep rearing and Goat rearing. This activity will give additional supplementary income to the farming communities.

Gender Focus

Project Results

The project is implemented for the benefit of the dry land farming communities through this project their socio economic status will be increased, the dry and uncultivable land will be converted in to the cultivable land as well as the land will provide the income to the land holders. The target project village people are getting the technical knowledge on dry land farming activities, climate change impacts and getting the predictable climate advice. In the above said paragraph (b.ii.b) we mentioned the activity to be carried out and the impact of the activity. As per the proposed activity the following table mention the area of hactares, households, women members and the other beneficiary benefitted under this project.

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