India Country Presentation by Dr. S.A. Patil at the International Conference on Pulses in Marrakesh, Morocco, 18-20 April 2016

1. Dr S A Patil
OCP-Foundation, Morocco
Project Title: India – Morocco food legumes initiative (IMFLI)
Country – India
India Advisor, OCPF-IMFLI Project, and
Former Director IARI, New Delhi &
Former Vice-Chancellor, UAS Dharwad

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Major Focus Areas of Project Activities
Increasing food legumes production by small farmers to strengthen food and
nutrition security through adoption of improved technologies and governance
within south-south cooperation (IMFLI)
The initiative focusses on-
– replacement of low-yielding local cultivar with improved and farmers’ preferred varieties
– establishing Village Seed Hubs;
– capacity development of farmers, and targeting the small and marginal farmers.

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Project Outlay and Target (for the period from 2012-13 to 2016-17
Partner Total no. of farmers to be
covered
MS Swaminathan Research
Foundation (MSSRF)
3,000
ICRISAT 6,000
ICARDA 6,000
INRA 10,000
Grand Total 25,000

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Project Outputs
Output 1: Value chains of targeted food legumes studied and analyzed
Output 2: Improved varieties tested and evaluated through on-farm participatory approach
Output 3: Integrated crop management options refined and tested by farmers
Output 4: Functional village-level based seed delivery systems established
Output 5: Value addition through post-harvest processing, storage and labelling of lentil, grasspea and Kabuli chickpea investigated
Output 6: A pilot knowledge connectivity system using different ICT tools to meet the needs of information and knowledge of
targeted rural communities established
Output 7: Pilot community based organizations (CBO/farmer aggregation) demonstrated
Output 8: Back up research to enhance technology generation, including, IPM/ICM, Crop improvement, adapted mechanization
carried out
Output 9: Capacity building and networking of all stakeholders achieved
Output 10: M&E system for project implementation, management and impact developed and monitored on a regular basis
Output 11: Pro-food legumes enabling policy explored and documented

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Project Outcomes
Number of farmers and area covered during last 4 years (2012-13 to 15-16)
S. No. Organization Crops Total Area
(ha)
Total number
of farmers
1. ICARDA Lentil, Grasspea and
Chickpea
2495 11542
2. ICRISAT Pigeonpea and Chickpea 1190 3510
3. MSSRF Green Gram, Black Gram,
Ground nut and Moth
bean
2368 3864
Total 6053 18916
• One more year (2016-17) of the Initiative is remaining and 5000 farmers and about 2000 ha
are expected to be covered
• These numbers are more than the target as fixed in outlay

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Project Outcomes- MSSRF
Participatory varietal trials conducted over four sites
resulted in numbering 137 resulted in release of new
varieties.
Blackgram: Vamban 4 & Vamban 6
Greengram: TARM
Groundnut: VR 12
Moth bean: Local
ICM technologies adopted resulted in doubling the
yield as compared to farmers practice
Greengram: 300 to 550 Kg/ha
Blackgram: 400 to 750 Kg/ha
Groundnut: 500 to 1250 Kg/ha
Moth bean: 350 to 850 Kg/ha
Champion/successful farmers yield in each crop
ranged up to
Greengram: 700 to 800 Kg/ha
Blackgram: 800 to 1000 Kg/ha
Moth bean : 800 to 1400 Kg/ha
Groundnut: 1000 to 1500 Kg/ha
 Rice rice rice sequence was broken and pulse as second rabi crop
enhanced yield by 50 %.
 Innovative farmers went for third crop (pulse/Onion) gained Rs 100 000
/ annum/ ha (1500 USD).
 ICT services to more than 3000 farmers through Village Knowledge
Centres.
 Innovative seed storage technology was adopted to store 10 tons of
blackgram through FPOS.
 Agriculture service centres and input shop for retail sale established
through FPOS in pudukkotai district.
Uplifting tribal community:
 Tribal farmers did not have any idea of second crop after rice.
 Under residual moisture rice followed by greengram/blackgram
enhanced income by 300 USD and improved fertility.
 Under protective irrigation groundnut crop introduced resulted in
enhanced income by 500 to 600 USD/ha.
 Vikas Maha Sangh (VIMAS) a gross root institution of farmers
cooperative established to meet the input requirements (seed, fertilizer
and pesticide)

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Project Outcomes -ICARDA
Quality seeds of improved varieties with technical guidance
resulted up to
• 100% increase in yield (1546 kg/ha) in comparison to
farmers’ variety and practice (775 kg/ha) in lentil at
West Bengal
• At Tripura yield ranged between 338-1475 kg/ha,
average of which is 20% higher than district average
(623 kg/ha).
• Grasspea coverage at West Bengal resulted in an
increase up to 77% in comparison to farmers practice
and local variety.
• chickpea realized up to 25% higher yield compared
to local practice and variety.
Yield increase due to quality seeds of improved varieties
with technical guidance:
The implementation of this program resulted in
• Imparting technologies to landless/ marginal
farmers of West Bengal and Tripura,
• Resulting in enhanced livelihood with
nutritional security through higher yielding
varieties of lentil and grasspea with low ODAP
content.
• Disease tolerant varieties of kabuli chickpea
with package of practices were provided to
overcome crop failure due to diseases in MP
Lentil
• HUL-57, NDL-1,
Moitree, PL-6, PL-8,
Grasspea
• Nirmal , Ratan ,
Mahateora, Prateek
Chickpea
• Phule G 0517,
PKV 4

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 PRG 176 (ICPL 14003)
 ICPH 2740
 ICPL 332 WR
 GRG 811
 NBEG 47
 BREEDING Materials
 Hands on training
Project Outcomes -ICRISAT
Improved varieties ICM Technologies
 Dibbling
 Transplanting
 IPM
 Nipping
 Drought mitigation
 Herbicides

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Capacity building
S. No. Organization Crops Events Number of
beneficiaries
1. ICARDA Lentil, Grasspea and
Chickpea
501 20868
2. ICRISAT Pigeonpea and Chickpea 375 7697
3. MSSRF Green Gram, Black Gram,
Ground nut and Moth
bean
280 5350
Total 1156 33915
• For capacity development, 1156 events like, Farmer-Scientist interaction, Field Day, Farmer Field
School and formal training of farmers were organized and about 34,000 direct and indirect
beneficiaries including women farmers.

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Outstanding Project Result
• Seed production, scientific storage and seed supply at
right time
• Capacity building through ICT tools and large scale
demonstrations
• Processing, value addition and linking farmers to
market
• With potentiality of wiping of hidden hunger
(malnutrition) pulses can be included in the food
security component and public distribution.

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Project Upscaling and Outscaling
• Seed hubs for seed production, storage and distribution
• Transfer of technology to be institutionalized through ICT
• Area expansion in rabi season and rice fallows requires support for rain
water harvesting, storage and micro irrigation
• The project although has produced useful results, there were two
drought years and few constraints, it may be extended for another one
year or else second phase to build the institutions for continuation of
project activity on a sustainable mode on the model of OCPF-ISAP-AES,
Karnataka project.
• In second phase of the project a revolving fund concept may be inducted
so that partner institution can continue activities on a sustainable mode.

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Lessons Learnt from the Project
• Hybrid technology in pigeonpea had highest potential
• Transplanting, dibbling and wider spacing
• Village based seed production systems are weak
• Training, capacity building and extension systems are
weak
• Soil test results, seed treatment, use of bio-fertilizers
and micronutrients, hydrogel needs emphasis
• Rice fallow coverage with lentil and grasspea with less
investment
• Unsustainable rice-rice-rice sequence of Tamilnadu can
be broken with Rice-pulse based cropping system

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Supportive policy, regulations & market Forces bar constraints which can
support growing of more pulses
• Procurement of pulses like cereal crops including pulses in public
distribution
• Mission mode approach for seed production, capacity building, R&D
and transfer of technology
• Incentivizing pulses production, processing and value addition
• E-platform marketing
• Removing ban on export
• Massive support for water harvesting structures and micro-irrigation in
rabi and rice fallow areas

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Pilot project was initiated in Karnataka in 2010 and now
running in second phase and similarly a project in Rajasthan
has been initiated where sustainability of nutrition, health,
education, women empowerment, linking farmers to market
are being addressed through institution mode approached by
establishing agricultural Village resource centers (AVRCs),
FPOs and converging the government programs to take
towards sustainability are instituted.
OCPF-ISAP-AES Project

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OUTCOMES- Karnataka OUTCOMES- Rajasthan
• 9600 farmers are direct beneficiary. Project
is in implementation stage. Farmers have
benefitted from the training and capacity
building programs and through the direct
support of Integrated Farming System (IFS).
• 6 FPOs have been established
• 50-60% increase in average yield has been
registered in project area for crops like
Soybean, Black Gram, Castor, Paddy (rice),
Maize, Green Gram, Sesame, Turmeric,
Pigeonpea
• 240 Farmers have got benefitted in initial 2
years under IFS, which has added average
USD 1000 to their annual income
• In 2015, 7 Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs)
and Maha Society done cumulative business of USD
0.5 Million. 7000 member farmers benefitted with
this business.
• 210 farmers got assistance under Integrated
Farming System (IFS), which adds to average annual
income of USD 1000 per farmer beneficiary
• More than 3000 farmers got benefitted from
Primary Healthcare Facilities
• More than 200 students learned basic computer
skills
• 1500 women benefitted through Self Help Group
(SHG) model
• 60% increase in average yield of red gram registered
in the project area (Major varieties promoted under
the program include BSMR 736 and TS3R)

16. Agribusiness Village Resource Centre
FPO Office
Input
Store
Warehouse
Mini Dall Mill
FPO - Jai Kissan Souharda MultiPurpose Cooperative ,
Halbarga, Bhalki, Bidar
Plant NurseryFarm Mechanization Centre
AVRC, Baran

17. Agribusiness Village Resource Centre
Computer
education
Centre
Women Skill Development
Centre
PHC
HRD Block
Children Recreation Centre

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Success stories
Our project covered 9 states
implemented through internationally
reputed institutions which has covered
about 34,000 farmers, had wider
impact of area spread almost more
than 1 lakh ha resulting in generation
of additional income of 1000 million
Roupies. This is testimony of strength
of science and technology. Our demos
attracted policy makers namely
Ministers, Ag. Secretaries, Ag.
Commissioners and territory VC and
interstate farmers, and gave lot of
input for policy making at their level.

19. OCP Foundation
carved and funded
this unique project
which can serve as
model to other state
of India as well as
other countries of
the world
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