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1. PRESENTED BY:
RASHMI DAVE
CAPACITY BUILDING OF RURAL YOUTH OF BANSWARA
DISTRICT THROUGH AGRO PROCESSING
CONCEPT NOTE

2. • National Development goal :
Entrepreneurship development for youth
• Duration : Six months
• Proposed budget- 23.0 lac
FUNDING AGENCY: NABARD

3. OBJECTIVES
• To promote and retain rural youth in agriculture through agri-based
enterprises.
• To strengthen rural youth in agriculture and allied vocations for self-
employment and enterprise establishment.

4. INPUTS
Designation Number Duration
Project Investigator (PI) One 2 years
Co-PI Two 2 years
Technical staff (Contractual) Two 2 years
Senior research fellow Two 2 years
Typist One 2 years
LDC One 2 years
HUMAN RESOURCES

5. • Infrastructure
• Renovation of One training hall
• Repairing of 3 demonstration units
• Travel
• TA and DA to PI, Co-PIs and SRF for awareness camps and trainings
• Training
• Training to staff before project implementation
• Consultancy
• The areas in which consultancy required includes repair and maintenance
of farm implements and equipment, processing of fruits and vegetables,
protected horticulture, linking market etc.
INPUTS
NON HUMAN RESOURCES

6. ACTIVITIES AND DURATION
S. N Activity Duration
1 Recruitment of project team members 15 days
2 Selection of project area 15 days
3 Renovation of Demonstration units 15 days
4 Awareness camps 15 days
5 Bench mark survey of selected youth 15 days
6 Trainings (6 trainings of 15 days each) Three months
7 Monitoring and evaluation 15 days
8 Submission of project report 15 days

7. ACTIVITIES AND DURATION
s. n Items of work Month 1 Month 2 Month 3 Month 4 Month 5 Month 6
1 Recruitment of project staff  Yes
2 Selection of project area  Yes
3 Renovation of demo units  Yes  Yes
4 Awareness camps  Yes  Yes
5 Bench mark survey  Yes  Yes
6 Trainings  Yes  Yes  Yes
7 Monitoring and evaluation  Yes
8 Submission of project report  Yes

8. OUTPUTS/ IMPACTS
• Establishment of 160 agri-based enterprises
• Reduction in migration of all trained youth
• Additional employment generation for 400 youth
• Round the year on farm and off farm employment
• Significant increase in income
• Formation of 8 youth groups
• Significant improvement in social status

9. BENEFICIARIES
• The total population of the district is 17.98 lac. Out of this more than 75 per
cent population belongs to scheduled tribe category.
• Out of total population, 92.88 per cent are living in villages and mainly
depend on the agriculture for their livelihood.
• In first year of project 5 villages of Talwara and in second year of project
another 5 villages of Garhi PS will be selected and from each village 40 rural
youth of age between 18-35 years will be selected .
• Thus 400 rural youth will identified for whole project period.

10. Designation Responsibilities
PROJECT
MANAGER
Planning, controlling, execution, monitoring and reporting /
overall responsibilities of project
Co-PI Site selection, selection of youth , Organization of project
activities, procurement of machines and equipments, reporting
TA Assistance in awareness camps, Training programms ,
arrangements for training material, assistance in preparation of
reports
SRF Bench mark survey, awareness camps, data collection, training
programme assistance
Typist Typing of all types of corresponding letters, reports, power point
presentations
LDC Handling of project accounts , financial matters
PROJECT MANAGEMENT

11. S.no Particulars Month
1
Month
2
Month
3
Month
4
Month
5
Month
6
1 Salaries 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0
2 Travel 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.30
3 Stationary, typing,
printing 0.40 0.40 0.40 0.40 0.40 0.40
4 Training material 0.20 0.20 0.20 0.20 0.20 0.20
5 Contingencies
0.10 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.10
Total 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0
)
ESTIMATED BUDGET
Recurring expenditure (in lacs)

12. ESTIMATED BUDGET
S.no Particular Amount
1. Furniture and furnishing 1.0
2. Equipment and Implements 2.0
3. Expansion and strengthening
of existing units
2.0
Total 5.0
Non recurring expenditure (in lacs)

13. • It is a common notion that agriculture is no longer a profitable business which also
supported by the data given National Sample Survey Organization. The rapid growth and
diversification of developmental activities has resulted in much needed expansion of
employment opportunities, but at the same time have triggered rural to urban migration.
This trend has inadvertently resulted in shift of farm labour to non-farm sectors .
• To sustain food security ,it is imperative to encourage youth to continue with agriculture.
This can be done by channelizing the creative energies of the youth through development of
skills, knowledge and attitudes .
• Banswara district of Rajasthan represents disadvantage and backward district and came
under priority district for technology intervention for ensuring livelihood. Despite sustained
governmental efforts and initiatives in agriculture, major economic gains have not accrued to
tribal and small and marginal farmers because of lack of access to knowledge , technology
and poor resource base and limited capacity to take risk.
BACKGROUND

14. • Agriculture, therefore, in the region characterized by low returns. Due to low
returns from agriculture business literate and illiterate rural youth are migrating
from villages to urban areas for labour and other enterprises. In order to ensure
more income ,agriculture and allied occupations need to be made intellectually and
economically attractive for the younger generation to take it up in the Banswara
district .
• With this in mind ,to attract and retain youth , in the present project proposal 400
rural youth from 10 villages will be selected. The selected youth will be trained in 4
selected farming and allied professions. After training as per interest of the youth,
the agri-enterprises will be established individually based on self help principle. The
farmer business groups of youth will be formed to develop confidence, core
competency and risk bearing capacity for smooth running of the enterprises
BACKGROUND