The document summarizes activities conducted during visits to Vairowal village as part of the Village Adoption Program (VAP). It describes how various villagers were motivated to start new businesses or expand existing ones, such as a farmer who started a turmeric processing unit, another who began a cattle feed production unit, and a woman who initiated biscuit making. It also outlines seminars conducted on topics like food processing and entrepreneurship, and community activities such as cleaning drives and school programs that were undertaken. Overall, the VAP efforts helped promote rural entrepreneurship, education, and development.

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Villager name:-Pal Singh
 Through our seminars and informative
lectures from vap – 1, he got
motivated and started his
feed making unit.
 He was regularly guided by our
team members
 During our fourth visit of VAP, we found that the
farmer has started his own turmeric processing
unit
 Initially started with only 3 customer is now

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A glimpse of the small cottage industry

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A glimpse of the small cottage industry

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8.  Motivated Jaspal Singh to take initiative like his elder brother
 Suggested him to prepare multigrain flour.
 Suggested him to incorporate palletizing machine in the process of feed
making
 Invited him to attend the seminars.
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Students interacting with the Co-Owner “Jaspal Singh”

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Villager name:- Krishna Kumar
 The most innovative and aspiring
entrepreneur found in the first VAP
 Encouraged him to take initiative
and shared our mission towards entrepreneurship
development
 During our fourth visit of VAP, we found that the
farmer has started his own turmeric processing
unit

10.  Initially he found that the purchase of machines was taking high
cost i.e. around 22 Lakhs
 He visited to different units and collected all information about
construction of machines
 Plant Total Cost (machines, purchase of land, construction of
workplace) = 20Lakhs
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Demonstration of the Turmeric-Processing Unit

11.  Problems: Drying of turmeric (conventional method)
 Wasting High steam generated out of boiler
 Suggestions: Dr. P.K. Nema suggested him to use that steam
to dry the turmeric in batch process by indirect heating
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Shah Dairy (Khadur sahib) :
Owner : Narendra Singh Shah (08909957632)
 Started in 2007 with 30 cows & presently having 200
cows
 Also maintains in house feed production unit
 Feed processing unit (includes grinding,
sieving, mixing, packaging, leveling
and marketing)
 Sells milk to Verka Milk corporation.
 Cultivates mushroom on small scale.
 Presently maintains 3 Bio gas plants
 Became the chairman of Dairy Development Board,

15. • Cost of One EMU EGG is Rs.1500 , and it is used in Medicine and other
pharmaceuticals.
• Meat also cost up to Rs.900/kg

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18.  The farmer named Sarwan Singh initiated the activity of poultry farming
 Business was running in loss due to high cost of feed
 Group suggested to start his own feed making unit
 Took for a visit to CIPHET Ludhiana
 But lack of risk bearing power and a vision has led him to stop his business
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Interaction with the Poultry Owner A Glimpse of his Poultry Farm

19.  Group members regularly visited to the homes of
village ladies in order to encourage them to take
initiative
 Women of the village were not showing their
interest
 After a continuous days of effort some of them
become ready to be the part of training sessions.
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Students inviting villagers for the Women's Training Session

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Villager name:- Jassa Singh (Shepherd)
 Started with 13 sheeps in july 2013 in vap 3
 Sold wool to nearby market which were further
sold for military purpose
 Bought 20 more sheeps by investing and from
profits earned
 Took a shop on rent to start the meat shop

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22.  By continuous motivation, after vap 3
a biogas plant was constructed by Mr
Ravneet Singh in his own house
 Briefed the working process of
biogas plant to new team
members.
 Motivated him to do continuous
feeding.
 Suggested him to sell the manures
to the farmers.
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Biogas
UnitDetails:
Capacity to Serve 10 people
Input 2 Buckets Gobar
/Day
Cost Rs 18000
Subsidy Rs 7500

23. GROUP MEMBERS

24. Visit to Anganwadi
 Entire team visited anganwadi
 35 student were enrolled
 20 present on the day of visit
 3 female Anganwadi workers including 2 nearby villages
 Small interaction was done with the students by teaching a lesson of health and hygiene
 Chocolates and candies were distributed among the children
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SUBSIDARY HEALTH CENTRE
Dr Navdeep Singh (Medical Officer)
It covers 4 nearby villages
Discussed about the prevailing health problem.
Programmes being run:
NRHM(National rural health mission)
EPI- Expanded Programme of Immunisation
Planned for a health camp

26. • Learnt about varieties of Cow (HF,
Sahiwal, Jersey)and
Buffalo(Murrah) in the Village.
• Learnt about animal population in
the village Buffalo-2000 and Cow-
1500.
• Main diseases suffered : Mastitis
and FMD( Foot and Mouth
Disease)
VISIT TO VETERINARY HOSPITAL

27. Ravinder singh (9781542336)
 Village –vairowal
 Land holding-35 acres
 Interested in: soy processing
 Capital investement:10-15 Lakhs
Words of Ravinder Singh
 Since my childhood time I always thought of doing something for myself and also for society on a large
scale. Now I will start my own business. Thank you NIFTEM for considering us.
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28. Gurvak Singh (09855241411)
 Village- Vairowal
 Land holding-10 acers
 Interested in- Soy processing
 Investment capacity-10 Lakhs
Words of Gurvak Singh
 Ready to work in partnership with Raghuvendra singh over the project of soy processing. The training
sessions ignited me enough for me to turn work into a revolution. Thank you NIFTEM
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29. Posters on following topics keeping in mind
the major crops grown in village
 Tomato processing
 Potato processing,
 Turmeric processing,
 E.C room
 Bio gas

30. Introduced NIFTEM SWACHH KHAD
 Considering the small land holdings of villagers,
vermicomposting would be a good use
 The organic fertilizer prepared by NWM was
introduced
 Motivated them to use their household waste to
form their own organic khad.
 Information were given, about the process of
organic vermi composting
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31. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
 Students voluntarily cleaned the garbage prone regions
of village.
 Getting motivated vllagers too joined in.
 Lecture on awareness of villagers for keeping our
environment clean and hygeinic wachh were given by
students

32. Corn & Wheat
Biscuits: Business
Perspective
 To promote processed Corn & wheat products
 Utilize resources available at home to earn more
 Enhance employment
 Women empowerment
 Corn buiscuits as a test
 Motivated women to start up a small scale bakery unit
 Complete information was provided by the group regarding setup
of bakery unit
 Informed about training in NIFTEM International Bakery Centre.

34. Financial Aspect
Ingredient Amount (g/Kg) Cost in Rs.
Hydrogenated
Vegetable oil
320 24.32
Sugar 200 6.00
Wheat Flour 144 5.76
Corn Flour 336 5.04
Skimmed Milk
Powder
40 7.20
Baking Powder 12 1.60
Elaichi/ Vanilla
flour
3 to 4 4.50
Dahi 10 2
Total cost per Kg: Rs. 56.42

35. Financial flow analysis
 Cost incurred (100 packets)
cost for making 1 kg = 105.8 Rs
cost for making per packet(200 g) = 21.17 Rs
for 100 packets =2117 Rs
 Selling cost= 25*100 = 2500
 Profit margin = 2500-2117 =383 Rs (18% margin)
By selling one packet at Rs 25

36. MARKETING OF BISCUITS
The villagers liked the biscuits prepared and good feedback
was given by them
We sold the biscuit packets at Rs 25/pkt.
Marketing of the biscuits was done in local village and khadur Sahib market.

37. Small initiatives big Dreams
• In vap 7, a small burger vendor was
identified in village and he attended
the seminars and lectures arranged by
our group.
Our efforts:
• To add chicken burger as his product
• Provided information about the capital
required for the bun making unit
• Provided the contact for the setup of
unit.

38. Our Impact
 Horizontal Integration –
 Chicken burger, pakoda variety
 Takes orders for occassions in village

39. FACULTY VISIT.
• Dr. Pritam Chandra from NIFTEM
visited our village.
• Interacted with all the VAP
members.
• Discussed about different
activities done earlier in the
village during previous VAPs.

40. FACULTY VISIT CONTD…
Suggested different works:
Collect data of past and present scenario –
 Collect relevant data regarding production and market value of
major crops of vairowal
 Regarding production and market value of major crops of
vairowal
 Schools present in the village like the passing percentage,
gender ratio of the students
 Mills related to process of mustard oil production
 Related to Agri. equipments repairing shops present in the
village

41. PAINTING COMPETITION
 Painting competition was
organised for the students of class
8th to class 10th .
 Topic was ‘SWACCH BHARAT’.
 Using their creative minds,
students made their drawings
depicting different views about
‘swacch bharat’.
 Prizes were distributed to the top
three students.
 Chocolates and candies were also
distributed among the students.
They were also taught to make best out of
waste. A dustbin was prepared from used
chart papers and a cardboard box.

42.  Posters of seminar printed in
Punjabi were sticked and
circulated in the village.
 Speakers were invited from
KVK, Amritsar on food science
and plant physiology
 Regular Announcement about
the seminar was made from the
village Gurudwara.
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Topic:
 Procedure for Jam and jelly making
 Formation of SHG and briefed about its
effective running
 bakery product manufacturing
 Lecture was delivered about different
preservation techniques.
Seminar
Speaker:Dr. Sukhwinder Gill (Home Science), KVK
Around 23 villagers attended the
seminar

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Topic:
 Optimum use of fertilizers
 Briefed about EC room
 High yield variety seeds
 Lecture was delivered about different
preservation techniques
 Training programme organized by KVK
Seminar
Speakers: Dr. Raminder Hundal (Agronomy), KVK

45. Continued……..
Topics :
 Motivated farmers to take risk and start
their own venture
 Enlightened and informed about the
sources of funding for their venture.
 Motivated them to work in groups.
Speaker : Dr. P.K. Nema (NIFTEM)

46. Lectures by students
Students gave lectures to the farmers related to food
processing and on starting a new venture.
The lectures were given on:
 Tomato processing
 Turmeric processing
 EC room
 Cattle feed processing
 Honey bee farming

47. Glimpse of seminar

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49. Group leader: Avtar Singh
Group Members:11
Contact: 9914812671
Activity performer :Small shop, farming ,Saloon
[individually]
Group leader: Pal Singh
Group Members:13
Contact: 9941276271
Activity performer : Feed making unit
[individually]
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50. Group leader: Lakhwindar Singh
Group Members:10
Contact: 9876237712
Activity performer :Repair cycle, kirana store,
[individually]
Group leader: Lakhwindar Singh
Group Members:12
Contact: 9476937722
Activity performer :Kirana store
[individually]
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51. Visit to G D Food pvt. Ltd.
Learned the procurement process
of tomato from farm to industries
and the complete process line of
tomato paste and its packaging.
They build new shed for trucks and
protect raw material from sun
 Plant is paused due to
maintenance and Eid Holiday
Effulent treatment plant has
started working

52. Visit to GD Foods Pvt. Ltd (Tops)
• Major products manufactured are apple, tomato puree
• Apples are purchased from Himachal and Jammu.
• Contract farming is done for tomato in PUNJAB
• Capacity of tomato plant is 2000 ton per month.
• Aseptic packaging done for products.
• Product is sent for further processing to ‘Tops’
plant at Jam,Nimrana (Rajastan).
• From our village procurement is done on basis ofcontract farming
• This time only apple was the main raw material

53. Survey conducted in
the schools

54. Data collected of School survey
Govt. Girls High School Govt. Elementary
School Boys
Govt. Boys High
School
Year 2013-
14
2014-15 2013-14 2014-15 2013-14 2014-15
Total
students
165 169 92 100 200 210
Class passing
percentage
100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%
Yearly drop
out
2% 1% 3% 2% 0% 0%
Number of
teaching
staff
3 4 3 3 4 4
Number of
non-teaching
staff
4 4 2 2 3 3
* Compared of last two years

55. The data was analyzed -
According to the revised pupil-teacher ratio in govt. schools
Source - http://mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/upload_document/EFA-Review-
Report-final.pdf
Govt. Data Survey Data
School Lower
primary
Upper
Primary
Lower
Primary
Upper
Primary
No. of tutors 1 1 3 8
No. of Students 30 35 100 379
Ratio*
(Student: Teacher)
30:1 35:1 33:1 47:1
Comparing with Govt. policy
*approx

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Collected Data Summary
1) Mode of income-
a) Agriculture (74%) b)Non-agriculture (26%)
2) Average land holding
a)< 2ha(30%) b) >2 ha(61%)
3) Storage facility available or not?
a) Yes (39% ) b)No (61%)
4) Use of machine in agro activities or not?
a) Yes (68%) b) No (32%)
5) Use of fertilizers in agriculture?
a ) Yes (89%) b)No ( 11%)
6) Crop rotation is being practiced or not?
a) Yes (23%) b) No (77%)
7) Mode of irrigation used-
a) Tube wells (40%) b) Canal (60%)
8) Interested in setting up their own processing unit Of whatever crop
they produce?
a) Yes (2%) b) NO (87%) C) No reply (11%)

57. Survey of Present market of
Vegetables

58. Milestones
 Turmeric
1.From selling market to entire state
2.Procurrenment in off season too
3.Registered trademark for his brand name and FSSI licence
4.Incresed produced line as suggested by us
 Shah Dairy
Narendra Singh shah Owner of shah dairy has conceptualized to sell
the milk and milk product with his own brand name.
 Biscuit
No interest of ladies to developed trust after demonstration of biscuit
.Many women got motivated to start their bakery unit.

59.  Tomato
Farmers started tomato plantation on contract farming
 New Road construction
 Increased number of students in anganwadi from 10 to 35
 Improves street light from none to few
 Reduction in girl school dropout
 Awareness of villagers towards subsidies rate by government for
incemenisation of cattle
 From 10 sheep to finest meat shop
 Villagers showed interest towards community waste
management
 Many farmers turned up to do something related to food
processing and were having keen interest in EC-Room storage.
Milestones

60.  Small but efficient kitchen garden was there, run by Manjeet kaur.
 Produce mostly vegetables in the lawn.
 Using drip irrigation system
 Following the system of mixed cropping.
 No use of fertilisers
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61. Sharing D.P.R.
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66.  Encouraged the waste
recycler to collect waste
from home directly rather
then rag picking
 Given the detail of vertical
baller machine to reduce the
volume of waste
 Suggested him to go for
complete solid waste
management
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Interaction with the Local Village Recyclers

67.  Villagers were motivated to
install biogas unit and
explained about economies
involved
 Given the proper contact
person for the construction of
biogas unit
 Suggested the benefits of
compost making process and
economical benefit out of it
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68. • Door to door survey was
conducted for the survey and awareness
about the Biogas and Solar Energy.
• Based on the continuous motivation,
7 farmers in the village has installed
new biogas unit along with 1 farmer
having a roof top solar-grid system.
• The interested farmers were
demonstrated and contacted with the
constructors for their respective
requirements.
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70. Problem faced Remedy
Heavy rainfall : On Day 2 and Day 3 of
VAP there was a heavy rainfall due to
which we could not do the work as
planned.
Poster preparation for lectures.
Gathering of farmers: During our VAP
the major problem faced was a Kisan
Dharna that was going on in Vairowal and
near by villages. Due to this, it was a great
problem in gathering the farmers for
lectures and other activities .
It could not be tackled and lectures were
given to very few people.
Biscuit making: There was no bakery in
the village or near by villages which was
major problem faced for biscuit making
We went to a bakery in Tarn-Taran at a
distance of 50 km from the village

71. Future Plans
 Find nutritional value of corn biscuits
 Discover more simpler methods to prepare dough (manually,
to reduce cost)
 Get settled with a more assuring and tempting recipe
 Learn to prepare more corn & wheat products
 Widen marketing network
 Enhance business prospectus for existing entrepreneurs
 Approaching sarpanch for COMMUNITY BIOGAS PLANT for
starting electricity plant at small scaleWiden Marketing network
 Enhance business prospects for existing entrepreneurs

72. Future Plan
 Setting up EC Room in village by an aspiring entreprenuer
 Motivating villagers for more traditional food products and its
business perspective under MAKE IN INDIA campaign
 To increase the market of khoa maker by improved packaging &
attractive brand name.
 Install improved packaging machines as discussed with turmeric
entrepreneur
 Set up vermi compost pit as assured by farmers
 Organize Health camp in the village
 Install pasteurization unit for SHAH DAIRY
 To install pelletizing machine for waste recyclers from CIPHET as
discussed with Dr. Pitam Chandra

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 Work towards setting up more bio gas digestors in village. This
is our proposed sintex biogas digestor
Cost analysis - 25000 after subsidy cost 15000 from Punjab
govt
 Encouraging villagers to practice sustainable agriculture.
 Encourage entrepreneurial
activities about food processing,
agriculture and dairy farming
 Conduct more seminars regarding
food processing, agriculture and
dairy farming
Collaboration with PEDA to promote renewable energy

74. Sr. no Project name Student name
1 Menthol Harloveleen , Gurpreet
2 Amla & Animal feed Nilesh, Upinder
3 Rice Pranav, Kapil
4 Wheat and wheat grass Shashank, Kakumoni
5 Turmeric Saransh, Sunil
6 Potato Nisha, Sneha
7 Ginger Upinder, Nilesh
8 Pea Harvinder,Nisha
9 Sugarcane Pranav, Nath khokale
10 Dairy Gurpreet, Harloveleen

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