IFPRI- CSISA organized a one day high level policy roundtable on Sustainable Intensification in India’s Risk-Prone Ecologies: Investment strategies for productivity growth, resource conservation, and climate risk management” on May 19, 2014 in New Delhi. This roundtable, brings together a high-level small group of individuals from the corporate, government, and research sectors to address one of India’s most urgent challenges to food security and economic growth—how to encourage private sector investment in accelerating productivity growth in India’s risk-prone ecologies while simultaneously conserving the environment. There are solutions already in farmers’ fields and rural markets that respond to these challenges, and this Roundtable will highlight recent advances, for example: innovative financial products and information services for small-scale farmers; diagnostic tools for managing water and soil nutrient scarcity; custom-hired resource-conserving machinery for small farms; crop diversification and high-value marketing strategies; and stress-resistant wheat and rice varieties. But the search for solutions is far from complete. This Roundtable is meant to engage participants in a rapid-fire discussion of recent technical solutions in Indian agriculture, the prospects for policy change, and corporate outlooks for the next five years. The purpose is to help public and private sector players to identify common investment strategies, forge partnerships, and chalk out collaborative efforts to effect technological, market, and policy improvements in India’s risk prone ecologies.

1. Dr. RAVI GUTTAL
Innovation for small farmers

2. LOW YIELDS
EDUCATION
MONEY
DISTANCE
TIME CONSTRAINTS
WATER SCARCITY
LABOR SHORTAGE
ISSUES
RAGHU, A small farmer in South India

3. THE BIG PICTURE
1960 1980 2000 2020 2040
1.4 Billion
people
India’s Population
Agricultural land
(% of land area)
35.7 %
Increasing
population
Limited
arable land

4. 233 million underfed people in India
THE BIG PICTURE

5. THE BIG PICTURE
INDIA 2,471
CHINA 5,460
US 7,238
Cereal yield (kg/ha)
INDIA 150
CHINA 277
US 258
Tractors per 100 km2
Low yields in
India
Low Tractor
penetration

6. INDIAN AG VALUE CHAIN
Information
Asymmetry
Inaccessible
Value Chain
Low
Mechanization
INEFFICIENCY

7. OPPORTUNITY
Low
Mechanization
Inaccessible
Value chain
Information
Asymmetry
Solution to one problem
automatically addresses the
other problems as they drive
each other

8. FOCUSED PROBLEMS
No proper training facilities to operate farm machinery
Lack of education about better agricultural best management practices
Low numbers of readily available labor due to urban migration
Non-localized and inaccurate weather updates
Limited accessibility to the agricultural value chain
Inconsistent water supply
Limited options for financing farm equipment
Training | Education | Labor | Weather | Distance |
Accessibility | Water | Finance

9. SOLUTION
INNOVATION

10. “I define creativity as producing novel,
workable ideas and solutions to problems;
innovation is implementing those ideas
within an organizational context.”
– Teresa Amabile
Michael Roberts, “The Power of Ordinary Practices”, (Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, September 20,
2006), retrieved from http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5492.html on January 19, 2010
Creativity vs. Innovation

11. Farmer
Seeds, Fertilizers,
Pesticides, Irrigation
solutions
Any output
procuring company
and
Future Market
John Deere Tractors
Implements, Agri
Services
Agri Business
Centers
Ag Universities
Local NGOs and
National NGOs
Local leaders
Crop loan, Weather
Insurance, farm
mechanization loan
INPUT SUPPLIERS MARKET LINKAGES
FINANCIAL
INSTITUTIONS
Products Solutions
Progressive
thinkers
Building JD Agri - Ecosystem
JOHN DEERE

12. FUNCTIONALITY
SCHEDULING FINANCING IMPLEMENTS RATINGS
SALES TRAINING INFORMATION BROCHURES REPAIRS
LASER LEVELLINGSOIL TESTINGTILLAGEAG ADVISORY

13. INTERFACE

14. Gujarat Project

15. | Gujarat Project Update| July 200915
Self Help Group - Concept
Small Farmers form a group facing Common Situation
Pool Resource Gather Information Mutual Support
Non Governmental Organization

16. | Gujarat Project Update| July 200916
Public Private Partnership Initiative
Public Private
Farm
Mechanization
Project
TRIBAL DEV DEPT
Funds
Partnership

17. | Gujarat Project Update| July 200917
Stakeholders Roles and Responsibilities
JD Govt
NGOsMonitoring & Supervision
Hiring Tribal Youths
Usage of Tractors
Training Tribal Youths
Maintenance for 5 years
Supply Farm Machinery
Funding
JDDealers,ImpleMfgs
SHGs
Facilitator
John Deere Drives the Project

18. | Gujarat Project Update| July 200918
Resource
Centre
One Resource Centre caters 600 acre of farmland
Assets
6 Tractors
Implements
6 Operators
Manpower
1 Mechanic
Implementation Model

19. |
Machinery & Technology Division
Name of component
Pattern of
Assistance Central
/State/ Farmer
12th 5 Year
plan out lay
Rs. Cr
1
Promotion & strengthening of Agricultural Mechanization
through Training & Testing
100% Central 237
2 Post harvest technology & Management 100% Central 125
3
Financial assistance for procurement subsidy for selected
agricultural machinery & equipment
90% Central
10% State
900
4
Establishment of farm machinery banks for
custom hiring
90% Central
10% State
624
5
Establishment of high tech. productive equipment centers to
target low productive agricultural regions
90% Central
10% State
50
6
Enhancing farm productivity of villages level by introducing
appropriate farm mechanization
80% Central
10% State
10% Farmer
70
7
Input subsidy to small & marginal farmers through co-
operative in North Eastern region for adopting suitable farm
mechanization
80% Central
10% State
10% Farmer
75
8 Assistance for mechanized farming
90% Central
10% State
215
Total outlay - 2296
Machinery & Technology Division (M&T), Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry
of Agriculture, Govt. of India is launching a National Mission on Agricultural Mechanization
(NMAM) during 12th Plan.
Submission on Machinery & Technology has 8 components as under:

20. |
Government’s initiative on CHC

21. THANK YOU