4. 4 A REA B ACKGROUND …
S
U Gosaba
N
D
Basanti
E
R Two blocks.
V Six Gram Panchayets
≈1900 registered farmers
A
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5. 5 A N I NSIGHT INTO …1/2
Crops under SRI 2010-2011
S
U Mustard
N
D Wheat
E
R Paddy
V
A 0 200 400
Paddy
600 800 1000
Wheat
1200 1400 1600
Mustard
1800 2000
N Area (Acre)
No of farmers
747.9
1833
7
29
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6. 6 A N I NSIGHT INTO …2/2
A detailed insight into Sundervan’s Statistics
S 1200
U 1000
Gosaba and Basanti both blocks
N 800
Gosaba block
D 600
E 400
R 200
V 0
SDTT NABARD NABARD SDTT SDTT SDTT
A
6 1 5 4 1 4 4 4
Kharif 2010 Kharif 2010 Kharif2010 Rabi 2010-11 Rabi 2010-11 Rabi 2010-11 Rabi 2010-11 Rabi 2010-11
Paddy Wheat Mustard
N No of farmers
Area (Acre)
1010
334
98
31
140
158.3
231
107.3
209
69.3
145
48
29
7
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7. 7 A REA B ACKGROUND …
J
A Nagrakatta
L
P
A Mal Bazar
I
G Three blocks.
Maynaguri
U Ten Gram Panchayets
R >1600 registered farmers
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8. 8 P RASARI AND ITS L OCATIONS
PRASARI CDHI
NAGRAKATTA MAL BAZAR MAYNAGURI
9. 9 L OCATIONS AND FARMERS …
J
Maynaguri
A Mal, 1123
, 513
L 26%
P
A 57%
I 17%
G
Nagrakatta
U , 326
R
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10. 10 C ROPS V S . A REA …
J Paddy
Wheat
A Maynaguri
Maynaguri,
160
L , 288 Mal, 315 Mal, 309
P Nagrakatta,
180
A Nagrakatta
,4 Mustard
I Maynaguri,
65
G
U Nagrakatta,
142
Mal, 154
R
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(Areas are in Bigha)
11. 11 P ROCESS F OLLOWED …
Announcements General meeting Technical tranining
Regn
Postering Farmers’ registration Demonstration in groups
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12. 12 PARAMETERS F OLLOWED …
Come along only if you want to learn something
new with us.
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17. 17 P ROBLEMS E NCOUNTERED …
Lack of water for irrigation – no/very less water
after March 1st week. Salinity is also a big issue.
Failure of local seed. Mustard seed failure
Unavailability of properly designed weeder.
Birds picking up the seeds/small plants.
Farmers shifting to other crops due to poor
situation in Mustard.
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18. 22 D ROP -O UT …
2000
J 1800
A 1600
L 1400
Number of farmers
P 1200
A 1000
I 800
G 600
400
U
200
R 0
I Series1
Registration
1636
Transplantation
1497
1st weeding
1214
19. 23 B UT W HAT I S T HE F UTURE ?
No
Local
Shop?
market
Farmer
Sustain- Less
ability price
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20. 24
Will ‘The System’ keep working
this way….?
CAN WE THINK OF A SOLUTION?
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21. 25
We have a very strong and proven model –
VRP (village resource person).
Just think – what if we just reshape the
model.
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22. 26
SRI KENDRA
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23. 27 H OW /W HAT W OULD I T W ORK ?
Technical
Training
Registration
SRI
FARMER
SRI KENDRA Kendra
FUTURE
Services
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24. 29 F UTURE …?
Produce
Village
Produce Produce
Village Village
SRI
Kendra
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25. F UTURE … IS
30
C OMMERCIALIZATION
Platform
• Village • Reliance
• F Club • SRI • Tata
Kendra
Produce Market
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26. 31 C OMMERCIALIZATION …W HY ?
Optimization of production.
Optimization of available resources.
Promotion of organic agriculture – Certification
such as Fair Trade etc.
Fair price for the produce.
Generation of Local Employment – no need to
migrate 2000 km just to earn ` 4000 per month.
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27. 32
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Editor's Notes
You can talk about PRI collaboration here as well. In the picture down most that can be linked as PRI collaboration.
First production in Kharif 2010 happened in both Gosaba and Bansanti block covering all 6 GPs.Gosaba – Bali –I, Shambhunagar, Radhanagar, Pathankhali, and Bipradaspur.Basanti – Kathalberia.
Actually the number of registered farmers are 1123 and 513=1636 in (Mal, Nagrakatta) and Maynaguri block.
Micing -> Postering -> General Meeting with the villagers, local leaders and panchayetmemebers etc ->
Irrigation – if we would want to work on SRI in summers as well then we also need to work on water conservation as well.
Its not that we didn’t have the information about B 9, it’s working quite good in Sundervan area and just working fine in Jalpaiduri as well. This doesn’t mean that we were there to promote B 9 but we were confident that if farmers are using B 9; there should be no harm. Unfortunately it just didn’t work well in many places and showed average results in other places. You can better say that it also resulted in the drop out in certain areas as well. We would see that in next slides.
Agro Industries (A govt agency to supply agriculture tools in Jalpaiguri) – they denied to deliver the weeder stating that they can’t change the design right now and we have to wait for 4 months at least. That time, we had the reference of Mal ADO. Then we talked with the supplier in Alipurduar, he then sent us sample weeder which farmers rejected saying it won’t work in Wheat. We didn’t want to invest double on weeders so we (here we means farmers) then designed weeder that can especially work both in Wheat and Mustard. By that time, we were late by 20 -30 days. Farmers were already troubled with poor situation in mustard and presence of weeds only lowered their patience. So there was a drop out in the crops.
A farmer – what is his future? His source of information is a local shop – you have seen the seed failure and all the disease and pests – what kind of information they get from there? If somehow he gets good rain and therefore a good produce where is the market – if somehow he manages to send it to the market with the help of middlemen then what is the price he gets for the produce???? What is the future..please tell me and forget about all this….where is the sustain – ability -- do you think would they always be interested in agriculture. The area I have been working for the last four months is the place where there is a growing tendency for Tea gardens, migration as a wage earners…..where is the future?????
You keep growing all the vegetables and all the SRI things but it shall sustain …. I do doubt. We need to be a bit innovative. Think of something which help them to reshape. We are here to propose something …. This is an idea… there might be one hundred thousands of loopholes in this explanation but still I am going to talk about an idea. Think about that.
and put it into a proper structure – would save huge amount of money that we are investing on promoting SRI – and moreover it WOULD BE SUSTAINABLE in itself.
Now could you please think of a place where farmer gets all the information which he used to get from the local shop. These shop owners claim to be very informative and possessing relevant certificates but do they really have ‘information’ on various aspects of farming practices???? Well … personally I don’t think so.
FC-> Farmers’ Club
Excess produce would be purchased by the SRI Kendra and would be sent into the market.
