14 technical resource persons are in place at village level. This is one of the most important achievements of the project at local level as there us lack of expertise for promotion of LEISIC activities at local level. People organizations that are partners in the project also empowered with resource material, training and exposure. With this, they are developing their own proposals and programs to sustain the activities. As activities meant to make traditional activities more efficient and economical, communities are feeling capable of taking these activities on their own. Strategic partnerships developed with some educational institutes might develop local specific training centre. These centre then continue extension activities in the area. 7 training workshops of Technical support persons were organized for 4 days. 210 rice cultivation plots prepared. 157 small group hamlet meetings, 7 cluster meetings conducted. 2 Exposure visit organized in which 210 people and 1900 people took part respectively. 1 demo unit of different LEISIC models completed which is in process of developing bio diversity park.

? 14 technical resource persons are in place at village level. This is one of the important achievements at local level as there is lack of expertise for promotion at local level. ? People?s organizations that are partners in the project are also empowered with resource material, training and exposure. The local agricultural officials were also keen to replicate the technologies on a wider scale. Nearly more than 150 visitors/officials visited the NGO for replicating the results and adopting the technologies in their areas. Also more than 340 farmers approached the Grantee to learn and share their results. During the analysis it was learnt from the village communities, that due to continuous capacity building workshops and training by the Grantee, nearly 70% communities were able to access monetary resources, varying from $ 500 to $ 1500 per annum from various Government departments as individuals and also as self-help groups. The training had greatly enhanced their vision, confidence, skills in managing resources, maintaining transparency and sharing experiences, knowledge and ways of doing things. The communities also made both cash and kind contributions in taking and adopting technologies. The project provided sufficient learning in terms of implementation of innovative techniques. It was strongly felt that the experiments should be field based, demand driven, relevant to the ground reality, and that farmers should reliably take care of data collection and documentation of demonstrations. Villagers were also ready to share costs once the technologies were acceptable to them, leading to benefits. With this, they are developing their own proposals and programmes to sustain the activities. ? As activities meant to make traditional more efficient and economical, communities are feeling capable of taking these activities on their own. ? Strategic partnerships developed with some educational institutes might develop locale specific training centre. These centres will then continue extension activities in the area.