Dear Friends,
Finally, we have come out with an Annual Report of activities carried out by NEEV in 2010-11. All of you have been receiving regular updates by NEEV, nonetheless, we think, it is a delightful experience to see the entire mosaic pieced together.
As we affirm in every message to all of you, the journey of NEEV which is going to complete 5 years this 31st October, could never, ever, have been possible without the unstinted support of so many of you. NEEV has almost become a behemoth for us to handle with our seemingly puny wills and efforts. For us it is a divine spectacle unfolding, a quilt of unimaginable complexity being stitched together by aspirations, efforts and goodwill of disparate actors spread across time and space.
Each year, as I contemplate the journey we have undertaken and the journey we are dreaming to undertake, I include dollops of “miracles”, “prayers” and “goodwill” of people in my “strategic planning”; it is only through a measure of faith that we can think of even surviving what we are thinking of doing.
Having said that, I would definitely like to steal credit for our NEEV team that works like ants, day in and day out. Our reports don’t contain the accidents and skids our members have negotiated to reach remote village interiors on rainy days, nor do they contain the sleepless nights I have spent worrying about where our finances will come from, nor do they contain the tears that have flown and the tears that have been wiped........the hurts, the angst and the “jidd”
Yes, humare pass shaayad ek hi hatyaar hai.................woh hai, “ek jabardast jidd”, NEEV ki NEEV mitne nahi denge !!
Our sincere thanks to Mr. Salil Roy (Director, Systems – NEEV) for making an attractive Annual Report.
Dear Friends,
Finally, we have come out with an Annual Report of activities carried out by NEEV in 2010-11. All of you have been receiving regular updates by NEEV, nonetheless, we think, it is a delightful experience to see the entire mosaic pieced together.
As we affirm in every message to all of you, the journey of NEEV which is going to complete 5 years this 31st October, could never, ever, have been possible without the unstinted support of so many of you. NEEV has almost become a behemoth for us to handle with our seemingly puny wills and efforts. For us it is a divine spectacle unfolding, a quilt of unimaginable complexity being stitched together by aspirations, efforts and goodwill of disparate actors spread across time and space.
Each year, as I contemplate the journey we have undertaken and the journey we are dreaming to undertake, I include dollops of “miracles”, “prayers” and “goodwill” of people in my “strategic planning”; it is only through a measure of faith that we can think of even surviving what we are thinking of doing.
Having said that, I would definitely like to steal credit for our NEEV team that works like ants, day in and day out. Our reports don’t contain the accidents and skids our members have negotiated to reach remote village interiors on rainy days, nor do they contain the sleepless nights I have spent worrying about where our finances will come from, nor do they contain the tears that have flown and the tears that have been wiped........the hurts, the angst and the “jidd”
Yes, humare pass shaayad ek hi hatyaar hai.................woh hai, “ek jabardast jidd”, NEEV ki NEEV mitne nahi denge !!
Our sincere thanks to Mr. Salil Roy (Director, Systems – NEEV) for making an attractive Annual Report.
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First State Symposium Maharastra
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SYMPOSIUM AND BRAIN STORMING WORKSHOP ON
SYSTEM OF RICE INTENSIFICATION ON
23 – 24 November 2009
Introduction:
Sir Dorabji Tata Trust (SDTT), SRI NGO Partners and Rural Communes (RC) had planned a
Symposium and Brain Storming Workshop on System of Rice Intensification (SRI) with active
collaboration with the Department of Agriculture, Government of Maharashtra and
Yeshwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration, YASHADA, in order to
promote Rice Cultivation for benefitting small & marginal farmers for food security. Mr. V.
Ramani the Director General YASHADA took personal interest in contacting & convincing Mr.
Prabhakar Deshmukh ‐ Agriculture Commissioner (State Agriculture Department). The active
participation and interaction was planned for the SDTT – SRI NGO Partners – Chaitanya, Amhi
Amchaya Arogyasathi, Shramjivi Janata Sahayyak Mandal, Matrumandir, Parivartan, GYPM,
BAIF‐MITTRA, Centre for Experiential Learning, RC‐Jawhar & Mokhada and District & Taluka
Agricultural & Technical Officers from 11 Districts, Research Officer from Research Centre
were invited for this two days Symposium and Brain Storming Workshop at YASHADA, Pune.
SRI Resource Persons from ICRISAT‐WWF, Hyderabad, SRI‐Secretariat, Bhubaneshwar,
People’s Science Institute, Dehradun, Center for World Solidarity, Civil Society Organisation,
Orissa and Department of Agriculture, Tripura were invited. Senior Officials from Agricultural
Department, NABARD, YASHADA, NGOs, Media and SRI Farmers from Rajgurunagar, Junnar,
Chakan of District Pune and Farmers from District Raigad participated. The main objective
was to share experiences and to promote SRI practices in the Maharashtra State.
Demonstration of SRI techniques & methods was put up by SDTT SRI NGO Partners specially
on Raised Bed Nursery, Mat Nursery, Single Planting, Spacing between plants, Different types
of Weeders & Markers, various traditional & improved varieties of seeds, posters,
photographs and bunch of Rice with Tillers.
Objectives:-
• To create awareness among farmers, Agriculture Department about SRI method
• To encourage farmers to do paddy cultivation by SRI methods
• To linkages & collaboration between NGOs, Agriculture Department., Agriculture
colleges/ universities, farmers
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• Experience Sharing of the SRI experts who implemented the SRI in different Districts,
States of India.
• Promotion & up scaling of SRI at State Level
Actual Program:
The program has initiated with lightening of
lamp by chief guest Mr. V. Ramani IAS, Dr.
Sanjiv Phansalkar, Mr. Biswanath Sinha &
Dr. Sudha Kothari. The first session started
with the addressing speech of Mr. V.
Ramani. In his speech he mentions that
now days India needed the second green
revolution. Without increasing the cultivation
area we need to see that how can we
increase the production/ productivity of
land? This workshop will be helpful/ fruitful
to get more information/ knowledge on it. And at the end of his speech he welcomes all
for the workshop.
The next addressing speech given by Dr.
Sanjiv Phansalkar, in his speech he said
that in India around 125 districts, 150 NGO
partners & 80,000 farmers has covered by
SDTT under SRI program. He says that for
more promotion & up scaling, NGOs &
government should come together & plan
jointly for future intervention.
After that Dr. Sudha Kothari has given her
addressing speech in that she gave thanks
to Rural Communes for facilitating this program. In her speech she ensure that in last
season we reached to limited farmers but in next season definitely will reach to more
farmers. The different techniques used in SRI gives reliefs to women farmers & in less
cost of production get the more profit from the SRI method.
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At the end of the Session Mr. Biswanath Sinha has given presentation on SDTT
Experience of promoting SRI in India. Initially he
gave the brief introduction on activities taken by
SDTT. He has mention that SDTT emphasis on
reaching out to small and marginal farmers
mainly in rain fed and hilly, mountainous,
undulating areas. At present SDTT working with
161 NGO partners in 104 Districts in 10 States.
SDTT has initiated the SRI program in 2003
with the view of food security. Initially they
started the program with 5 NGOs & they got the
good result from it; hence they decided to reach
more farmers in India. He also gave the statistical data of the SRI program implemented
in India. He gave thanks to all NGO partners to successful implementation of program.
He believes that in future this program will be
accepted by farmers in large number.
After completing the presentation all guest
honored by farmers by giving the Rice (Bouquet)
as a symbol of Rice program
At the end of the session Dr. Murlidhar Gode
Chairperson of Rural Communes gave vote of
thanks to all honorable guests.
Second session:
The second session was moderated by Mr.
Biswanath Sinha. The first presentation was
on Experience of the Maharashtra in last
kharip season, which was presented by Ms.
Trupti Kadam (SRI Anchor person, Rural
Communes). In her presentation she gave
the details of the SRI program which was
implemented by 9 NGO partners in 11
districts with 2093 farmers on 424 acres of
land. She also mentions that the farmer is a
great scientist; though he always searches
the different ways to improve his land’s
productivity. In her presentation she also focuses the basic principles of the SRI which
has to be followed for the better results.
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The next presentation was done by Mr. Bijay Senapati (Civil Society Organization,
Orissa). He focuses on the organization’s outreach program for SRI; in which he shows
the statistics of program. 12 Districts, 13 NGO Partners, 22 co-partners, 34 blocks, 131
Grampanchayat, 995 villages & 9562 farmers covered by Civil Society Organization. He
mentioned the strategies, approaches, initiatives taken by CWS, advocacy initiatives,
capacity building & the different IEC material developed by CWS under SRI program.
Now CWS is also experimenting the various other crops following SRI practices; for
example wheat, sugarcane, pulses & millets.
After that Mr. Debashish Sen presented on
the experience of the Deharadun in SRI.
SRI implemented the Deharadun by
People’s Science Institute. His presentation
focus on the different experience they got
from Himachal Pradesh & Uttarakhand.
They did various experiment on Rice as well
as Wheat. For the promotion of the SRI they
used different audio-visual media. He said
that initially it is difficult for the farmers to
accept SRI method as an agriculture
practice but they can slowly accept this method by doing. Now days PSI is
experimenting the SRI method in various other crop i.e. Tomato, French beans, Soya
beans & maize etc… Farmers are also experimenting on low cost organic manure.
The last but not least presentation done by Dr.
Vinod Goud (WWF-ICRISAT, Hydrabad). He
shares the experience in sugarcane cultivation
by using SRI practices which is named as
Sustainable Sugarcane Intensification (SSI).
WWF- ICRISAT initiated the work on SSI from
2004. He also mentioned that the major
problems in sugarcane cultivation & impact of the
sugarcane industries. He has given the stress on
basic six principle of the SSI. i.e. Raising nursery
using single budded chips, Transplanting young
seedlings (25-35 days old), Maintaining wider
spacing (5X2 feet) in the main field, Providing sufficient moisture to plants & avoiding
flooding of water in the field, Encouraging application of organic manures, better cultural
and plant protection measures, Practicing intercropping to utilize land effectively. After
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that he shows that the benefit of the SSI & different initiatives taken by WWF-ICRISAT
for the promotion of SSI. He said that NGO has greater role in promoting SSI.
On these whole session some queries has been raised by participants & those queries
answered by experts.
Session Third:
This session moderate by Dr. Himanshu
Kulkarani (ACWADAM, Pune) and the session
was on experience of Maharashtra in different
climatic zone. All representatives of the NGO
& research center were honored by Rice
(Bouquet).
The first presentation was done by Dr. P.R.
Choudhary on SRI in heavy rainfall area. He
explained the whole SRI method. He also
suggests that don’t use the cono weeder for
the weeding/ tilling but farmer should use the 50 % compost (Cow dung) during tilling.
The next presentation was presented by Dr. Satish Gogulwar one of the NGO Partners
representative. The organization name was Amhi Amchya Arogyasathi, Gadchiroli. This
organization implemented the SRI program in 5 blocks of Gadchiroli District. He
mentioned that the different strategies use for the implementation of the SRI program.
He shared the experience of implementation of SRI in kharip season. In Gadchiroli
district AAA has been collaborated with Agriculture Department & implementing the SRI
activities in field which help to develop plots of the SRI.
After that MITTRA organization presented the experience of the organization in Thane,
Nashik, Chandrapur districts. Mr. Kailas Andhale mentioned in his presentation the
different activities initiated by MITTRA for the implementation of the SRI program.
After that Mr. P.Satish (Chief General Manager, NABARD) given his address speech in
that he mentioned various schemes of NABARD which will help farmers to get financial
technical support from NABARD. He gave brief information on village development
program; farmers club through these farmers can get benefit. He said that NGOs and
NABARD in joint collaboration can implement the activities like SRI effectively.
Comments given by farmers & other Participants:
1. Block level workshops should be organized for awareness among farmers &
promotion of SRI.
2. Advantage & disadvantage of the technology should be mention in workshop.
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3. Dr. Choudhary explain that why farmers were not ready to accept the SRI method
easily; he said that the scarcity of the labor during the actual transplantation & there
is a requirement of the level land for SRI plots which is not easily available in Konkan
region.
Experience of the Farmers from Raigad & Pune districts.
Mr. Ramdas (farmer) from Junner block shared the experience with participants that; he
has in last kharip season taken one small plot of SRI through which he got good result &
in next season he is ready to cultivate his whole land by SRI method.
Mrs. Vimal (Woman Farmer) from Junner
block given the information on how she has
practice the SRI method in her field. She has
explained each stage of SRI in her sharing.
She used the traditional variety of seeds for
the SRI method.
Mr. Dilip (Framer) from Khalapur block said
that many people laughed at him when he
develop the SRI plot in his field, but same
people now come to his field to see the plot
because he got double crop from his field.
He also uses the organic fertilizers in SRI Field.
Mrs. Yashoda Wagh (woman framer) she explained that how she got the double crop
from the SRI plot & now she has prepared her mind to cultivate whole land by SRI
method in next season. Now days she also encourage the other farmers to accept this
method.
Forth Session:
Collaboration between Government, SDTT, Yashada & NGOs.
The collaboration focus on how to upscale the SRI in Maharashtra state, how
government & NGO can work together for the implementation of the SRI. How
Agriculture department, NGO, Agriculture University & YASHADA can contribute to
promotion of SRI.
Panelist: 1. Mr.Tushar Das 2. Dr. Vinod Goud 3. Mr. Ingale 4. Dr. Sudha Kothari 5. Dr.
Satish Gogulwar 6. Mr. S.S. Bagul 7. Dr. Sanjiv Phansalkar
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Dr. Sanjiv Phansalkar was moderator of
the session. He gave the opportunity to
each panelist to share his/her views on
collaboration & how they can contribute in
promotion activity of SRI.
Mr. Ingale:
He gave the information on the different
resources which can be access by farmers
for their benefit. YASHADA can provide
the capacity building training to the master
trainers, farmers, etc. He also told about
the free helpline for the farmers i.e. 1551 on which farmers can get the latest
information about agriculture. These services are provided in 55 places in Maharashtra.
Dr. Sudha Kothari
She said that for the local leadership development at village level the SHGs should form
& from those members we should develop the local resource person.
Require block level workshop to train farmers groups while for this process needed
Government and NGO’s collaboration.
Mr. S.S. Bagul
He focuses on government and agriculture department role for promotion of SRI
practices. He said that Agriculture Department Officers should play the role of mentor
for the farmers so they can guide them time to time.
Dr. Vinod Goud
Needed separate structure for promotion of SRI
Establishing regional recourses to promote SRI he gave example of Agro one news
paper
Support system need to be developed like skilled/ experiential labor.
Government works in scheme mode not in project mode so even SRI can be
implemented in scheme mode. Compare to NGO, government work very less in actual
field.
There should be a need to develop some method which will be the combination of the
Government’s & NGO’s working method.
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For the promotion of the SRI, there is a need to develop Master trainers & these trainers
should be paid for their services.
Government should prepare the small packets of seeds (5-10 kg.) At present in market
we only get around 30 kg. Packet (In SRI method framers require only 2-3 kg. seeds for
per Acer)
To get the information on SRI from resource center government should develop the
resource center at Block level.
Mr. Tushar Das
The goal of the NGO & Government is same but the way of working is different at the
initial stage of collaboration. Hence we need to focus limited area at the initial stage &
should work on holistic development.
Dr. Sanjiv Phansalkar
As moderator Dr. Sanjiv Phansalkar at the end of the session gave his view on whole
session; he said that NGO cannot work in all sectors at a time hence we needed the
government to help so in jointly both can work efficiently.
At a time NGO cannot work every were so NGO should select the 10-12 villages, plan
for them as per need & focus on it, then only the villages/ farmers can get the Benefit of
the program.
The session was ended with vote of thanks given by Mr. Dilip Akhade from the Rural
Communes who given thanks to all participants as well as the YASHADA who
supported for the program on different level.
Conclusion:
The objective of the program was to share the different experience on SRI & learn from
it so in future it will help to prepare plan. The second objective was to get active
participation of the government department (Agriculture) & their acceptance to
collaborate with NGO for the implementation of the SRI program. Expected Senior
Officials of Agriculture Departments were not attended the program due their official
work but still representatives who attended the program given their inputs at their level.
YASHADA also shown interest in SRI promotion still they are not actually working on
SRI component.
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Brain Storming Session - 24th November 2009
Venue:-Lezim hall,YASHADA Raj Bhavan Complex, Baner Road, Pune – 411 007
Resources Persons:-
Mr.Bishwanath Sinha- Sir Dorabaji Tata Trust
Mr. Bijay Senapati –Civil Society Oraganisation
Mr.Tushar Das –SRI Secretariat Bhuvaneshwer
Dr. Vinod Goud – WWF – ICRISAT, Hydrabad
Dr. P.R Chowdhary , Regional Agriculture Research center, Karjat
Objective:-
• Contribution of the Agriculture Department, NGOs & Agriculture Research
Center to improving the quality of SRI extension.
• Experience of the Government department in implementation of the SRI
Actual Program:-
Beginning of First session Mr. Biswanath Sinha said to introduce each other.
After introduction, participants shared their experience about SRI
Firstly Mr. A.D. Barde Taluka Agriculture
Officer, Maval, Pune share his experience - he
said “instead of discussing on SRI achievement
we should discuss about problems raised while
implementing SRI practices”. At present already
farmers spending extra inputs in farming/
cultivation activities, so we need to pay attention
how it can be reduce and increase productivity.
Technology should be low-cost and it should be
very easily accessible to farmers. Technology should reach to farmers without any
additional expenditure.
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Mr. B.M. Musmade T.A.O- Igatpuri
He said we are discussing about benefit of SRI but we have to discuss about
disadvantage of SRI practices too. According to
him, SRI method is not useful in Western Ghat
because this area is comes under heavy rainfall
area (2500-3000mm). We should find out the
alternative where the standing water level is
high. He also tries to grab the attention of the
participant to the problems face by farmers
during transplantation; scarcity of the labour at
the time of transplanting & now days the rate of
labour is also very high. Now days we also facing the problem of climate change on
which Akola Agriculture University & Konkan Agriculture University need to work
together & should do research on it.
On these presentation Mr. B. Sinha has gave his comments as follows;
• In agriculture departments presentation ground level problem has been taken into
consideration.
• The weeders provided to farmers are not enough good quality weeder which may
influence the field.
• SRI is not implemented in some areas. But SRI is shown very good results in
Chattisgarh, Manipur, Orissa, and Maharashtra states.
• All NGO should think together for the implementation of SRI because farmers also
gave good response to SRI.
After this Mr. B. Sinha has given the group task for the participants; for that he made 6
groups of the participants. In each group 7-8 members were there. The task was to
discuss the issues given to them & write down the recommendation, suggestions on it.
The issue was
1. How to provide quality extension support to
farmer for SRI?
2. What should be the strategy for up scaling in
your area in close collaboration with all
players including farmers, government
research institutes & NGO?
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Each group had a discussion on these issue & the time was given to them was one
hour. Before the group presentation Mr. B. Sinha has shown one film on SRI which
filmed in Deharadun (People’s science Institute).
The film contain that women labour’s workload get reduce due to the use of weeder &
the women who are practicing the SRI gets the time for their other activities as well as
for their family. SRI method is the symbol of prosperity in today’s lifestyle.
Session second:
This session moderated by Dr. Murlidhar Gode in
which each group’s representative suppose to present
their discussion points.
Group’s findings/ points are collectively as follows;
For the improvement in quality extension of SRI we
should work on
1. Each farmer should do soil testing of his/her
land
2. Use of the Hybrid & improved seeds
3. Farmers should get Crop insurance
4. Farmers should know different Nursery technology
5. Need for Human resource management
6. We should pay more attention towards Inter cultivation/ tilling
7. Organize Agriculture workshop
8. Awareness on problems
9. Village level protection of farms
10. Collective pest management
11. We should utilize the water resources like farm pond, river and drainage to develop
control farming.
12. To encourage farmers, we should keep some prizes
13. We should form the groups of farmers at
village level & facilitate them the training
14. For very small and marginal farmers or at
the collective approach implementation
should the farmers develop common
collective nurseries?
15. Maximum utilization of the green manure.
16. We should initiate the farmers club in
which they can learn & share new technology of the agriculture.
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17. For the quality improvement, we should implement the SRI activities with Government
schemes.
18. Seed should be provided in small quantity packets to the farmers
19. Weeders should be provided as a quality assurance.
20. Information on seeds should be provided to the farmers & make sure the availability of
the seeds at market.
21. More attention should be given to marginal farmer
22. Time management should be there in SRI planning.
23. For the implementation of the new agriculture technologies in field, we should focus on
youth.
24. Demonstration should be developed in both seasons.
Strategies for the up scaling the SRI in your area:
1. Government department, Agriculture University & NGO should come together
for planning.
2. Should organize the agriculture workshop for farmers
3. Group discussion between farmers & Experts
4. Maximum utilisation of Local Media’s for spreading knowledge
5. Exposure visits to the different field of
farmers
6. Organize exhibition for the farmers &
experts.
7. We should develop the pamphlets/
posters/ leaflets on SRI.
8. On block level there should be resource
committee who will manage the different
resources required for the SRI.
Question & Answer:
The question was asked by some participants that, will collective nursery raising is
useful? The answers were given by other participants is as follow:
- Yes, it is useful because already it has practiced in Chandrapur district area on around
3.5 ha. area of Land which was successful. This method also gets the subsidy from the
government. Through this method we can provide the seedlings to those farmers who
have water facilities in his/her farm.
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- In SRI method it has seen that even in storm situation or heavy rainfall the standing crop
doesn’t get affected where in traditional method the crops suddenly gets affected. One
of the NGO partners from Satara district share his experience with photographs that
how in this season at the time of harvesting sudden rain has came & still the SRI field
was stands well in storm but other farm’s crops fall down. Mr. B.Sinha also share
experience from other state where the same storm situation occurred but SRI field was
stands well & get 90 tillers from same field.
At the end of this session Ms. Trupti Kadam has given vote of thanks to the all
participants & Yashada who provided require facilities to the workshop.
Ms. Trupti Kadam
Ms. Sandhya Sardar
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List of the Participants
Chief Guest
Sr.
No Name of the Guest Designation Organisation name
1 Dr. Sanjive Phansalker Team leader SDTT
2 Dr. Vinod Goud Special Project Scientist WWF‐ICRISAT
3 Mr. V. Ramani IAS, Director General, YASHDA
4 Mr. P.Satish Chief General Manager, NABARD
5 Mr. Bijay Senapati Project Officer NRM Centre for World Solidarity CWS
6 Mr. Debashish Sen Director People's Science Institute, Deharadun
Reginol Agriculture Research Center,
7 Dr. P.R. Chowdary Agronomist Karjat
Senior Program Officer &
8 Mr. Bishwanath Sinha Chief Promotor of SRI Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, Mumbai
9 Mr.Tushar Das Executive Project SRI Secretariat
Agriculture Department
ORGNISATION/
Sr.No NAME DEPARTMENT ADDRESS OF ORGANISATION
1 A.D. BARADE T.A.O.,Agri., Dept. T.A.O, wadgaon, maval
2 A.S. MAGAR T.A.O.,Agri., Dept. Tal.Bhivandi, thane
3 ASHOK. B. CHAVAN T.A.O.,Agri., Dept. T.A.O, Pen, dist‐Raigad
4 B.B. GAJEWAD A.S.
5 B.M. MUSMADE T.A.O, Agri., Dept. Igatpuri, Nashik
6 G.J. GAIKWAD Agri.sup. Dharmabad, dist Nanded
Circle Agricultural
7 H.D. KHADE Officer C.A.O, tal‐chiplun,ratnagiri
8 J.B. FALE T.A.O.,Agri., Dept. T.A.O, Sawantwadi, dist. Sindhudurg,
9 K.P.KHAIRNAR T.A.O, Agri., Dept. T.A.O, Trimbak, Nashik
10 N.P.JAGTAP T.A.O.,Agri., Dept. T.A.O, vaibhavwadi, Sindhudurga
11 N.D. KUTHE T.A.O.,Agri., Dept. T.A.O, Ballarpur,Chandrapur
12 N.D. PATIL T.A.O.,Agri., Dept. T.A.O, Kudal, dist Sindhudurg
13 P.K. WAGHAMODE T.A.O.,Agri., Dept. T.A.O, surgana, nasik
14 P.N.DHARMASHAHARE C.A.O, Agrri., Dept. ganeshnagar, gondia(m.s)
15 P.V. POTDUKHE T.A.O.,Agri., Dept. TAO, salekasa, Gondia.
16 R.B. SHINDE T.A.O.,Agri., Dept. T.A.O, Guhagar, dist.Ratnagiri
17 R.D. GITE T.A.O.,Agri., Dept. T.A.O, bhor, dist pune.
18 R.G. DESHPANDE Agri department T.A.O, tala, raigad
19 R.K. MALBHAGE C.A.O tal agri offficer, deglur,nanded
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20 R.P. DESHMUKH Technical officer S.A.O sindhudurga,Dist Sindhudurga
21 S.B. KHAIRNAR C.A.O A.O. NASIK
22 S.D RAMTEKE T.A.O.,Agri., Dept. taluka agricultural officer,saoli, dist‐chandpur.
23 S.D. KHARADE C.A.O T.A.O, Patan, dist‐ Satara
24 S.M. NETURKAR C.A.O taluka agri officer, deglur, dist‐nanded
25 S.N.WAGHMODE Agri department T.A.O, shahapur, dist‐ thane
26 ANIL GAVIT Agri department T.A.O, surgana, nasik
NABARD
Sr. ORGNISATION/
No. NAME DEPARTMENT ADDRESS
1 Dr. B.R. Premi NABARD NABARD‐Pune
2 Mr. A.Y.Patil NABARD NABARD‐Thane
3 D.T. Dekatey. NABARD NABARD ‐Chandrapur
Forest Department
Sr. ORGNISATION/
No. NAME DEPARTMENT ADDRESS
1 Mr. K.N.Sabale Forest Department
2 Mr. A.B.Bhangre IFS
Media
Sr.No. NAME PRESS NAME ADDRESS
1 Prim Leha India Filmmaker Pune
2 Robina Gupta India Filmmaker Pune
3 Shashwat Gupta Sakal Times Pune
4 Parag Jadhav Sakal Times Pune
5 Aniket B.Kokar Agroone Sakal Pune
6 Nikhil Deshmukh Times of India Pune
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NGO partners
Sr. ORGNISATION/
No. NAME DEPARTMENT ADDRESS
Dr.Satish Gogulwar Amhi Amachya Arogyasathi
1
Mr.Rama Vairkar
2
Mr. Ravindra Manik Afzan
3
Mr. Tanaji Chavan
4 Gadchiroli
Dr. Sudha Kothari Chaitanya Sanstha,
5
Mr. Pradip Mabere
6
Mr. Mangesh Unkule
7 Pune
Mr.Ganesh Khetale Parivartan
8 Ratnagiri
Mr. Yogesh R. Mohire Matrumandir
9 Ratnagiri
Mr. Awil Borkar, Gramin Yuva Pragatic
10 Mandal(GYPM)
Mr. Narendra C. Dahat
11
Mr. Arvind V. Sonwane
12 Bhandara
Mr. Bal Kolekar
13
Mr. S.S.Desai
Shramjivi Janata Sahayyak
14
Mandal
Mr. Manohar Chalke
15
Mr. Altab Mokashi
16 Satara
Mr. Kailas Andhle BAIF-MITTRA (BAIF)
17
Mr. Haridas Meshram
18
Mr. Sachin Dhok
19
Mr. Hajare S. G
20
Mr. Pradip Bhoie
21
Mr. Umesh Balgir Thane, Nashik &
22 Gadchiroli
Mr. Jayant M Hande Gomukh
23
Mr. Navale G. D
24
Mr. Ashok K. Dhodi
25 Thane & Sindhudurga
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Mrs. Aroundekar
26
Mr.Dilip Akhade
Rural Communes-Centre
27
For Experiential Learning
Miss. Trupti Kadam
28 Raigad
Mr. Bhailu S. Bhoya
29
Rural Communes, Tribal
Mr. S. S. Bagul
30 Intervention,
Mr. Bhavesh A. More
31
Mr. Jayram L. Nadge
32 Thane
Medicinal Plant
Dr. Vaishali Gavandi
Conservation Center
33 Pune
Farmers
Sr.no Name of the farmers Address
1 Yamna Ambhire Pune
2 Deuram Mudoge Pune
3 Maruti Mudoge Pune
4 Chandrakant Gavan Pune
5 Shanker Sansade Pune
6 Panduranga Mudoge Pune
7 Govind Ambhire Pune
8 Kalubai Jadhav Pune
9 Taibai Khope Pune
10 Shivaji Ghadge Pune
11 Anil Kadam Pune
12 Kandu Patil Raigad
13 Dilip sabale Raigad
14 Pandurang Yeram Raigad
15 Kisan Bosale Raigad
16 Jana Pangare Raigad
17 Mangal Pangare Raigad
18 Rakesh Jadhav Raigad
19 Mahesh Kadam Raigad
20 Nandkumar Patil Raigad
21 Jayant Narker Raigad
22 Vasanta Jaytuker Raigad
23 Gaudu Angare Raigad
24 Satish Ghude Raigad
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25 Dhaya Bhala Raigad
26 Pramila Chavan Raigad
27 Yashoda Wagh Raigad
28 Shekhar yeram Raigad
29 Narayan patil Raigad
30 Prashant Patil Raigad
31 Waman Wagh Raigad
32 Ram Shid Raigad
33 Anil Badole Raigad
Other NGO
Sr.No. NAME ORGANISATION
1 Dr. Galande S.K. Bhumata Trust
2 Nita Chalke Bhumata Trust
3 Dr. Mukund Ghare AFARM
WOTER ‐
4 Kantilal Gite Sangameshwar
Dr. Himanshu
5 kulkarni ACWADAM ‐ PUNE
6 Kshirsagar G. Pune PMC
Staff Members
Sr.
No. NAME ORGANISATION ADDRESS
1 Dr.Murlidhar Gode Rural Communes Mumbai
2 Dr. Bhanu Pratap Singh Rural Communes Mumbai
1 Muneer Alavi Rural Communes Mumbai
1 Dr. Tushar H. Patil R.C.‐CEL Raigad
2 Ramesh Jadhav R.C.‐CEL Raigad
3 Adhik Shilvant R.C.‐CEL Raigad
4 Rameshkumar Sakhre R.C.‐CEL Raigad
5 Balaram C. patil R.C.‐CEL Raigad
6 Shital Shinde R.C.‐CEL Raigad
7 Pournima Awad R.C.‐CEL Raigad
8 Kavita Gaikwad R.C.‐CEL Raigad
9 Amita Jadhav R.C.‐CEL Raigad
10 Sandhya Sardar R.C.‐CEL Raigad
11 Amol Mane MPCC‐PUNE Pune
12 Sangram Nadge R.C.‐Jawhar Jawhar
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Other Visitors
Sr.No. NAME ORGANISATION
Abasaheb Garware college ,
Karve
road, Pune‐ 04. Biodiversity
1 Chavan Bhanudas Patangroa Department
2 Abhijit Jadhav Satara.
3 Dr. Rahul Sarjf MPCC‐ pune
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