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Making information technology work for rural india
The document discusses efforts to improve rural development in India through information technology. It focuses on areas like organic farming, climate change adaptation, livelihood diversification, and building producer organizations. Key activities include farmer field schools, developing "bio villages", creating alternative livelihoods, and incubating farmers' cooperatives and companies. A helpline called KisanMitra aims to improve access to services, credit, and resolve farmers' issues. The organization works in 6 states and focuses on making public support services more accessible to farmers through various initiatives.
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- 1. Making information Technology workfor Rural India Ramanjaneyulu
- 2. Centre for SustainableAgriculture 50,000 farmers directly and 200,000 farmers indirectly Agroecological Approaches • Organic/Natural Farming • Adapting to Climate Change • PGS Regional Council • Open Source Seed Initiative Diversifying Livelihoods • Supplementary/ complementary livelihoods • Building knowledge, skills and attitude • Individual/group enterprises • Handholding support Building Producer Organizations • Supporting FPOs, CBOs, SHGs • Food hubs • Sahaja Aharam Retail Improving Governance • Research and Analysis of policy support and regulatory systems • Monitoring performance of public support systems • Kisan Mitra Helpline Caring for those who feed the nation
- 3. Focus of work 2019 Sikkim Tripura Punjab Maharashtra Telangana AndhraPradesh CSA offices and Project sites (6 states)
- 4. Context • India livesin villages • 60% of population • Low income-low literacy-low skills • Technology access-internet, mobile phones accessible • Content: mostly to access rural markets and clients
- 5. Key areas towork on To build Infrastructure Public Services Communication To improve Health Education Livelihoods To generate Resilience Employment Economic activity
- 6. Problems • People related •Agricultural related problems • Infrastructure related problems • Economic problems • Social and Cultural problems • Leadership related problems • Administrative problems
- 7. People related • Traditionalway of thinking. • Poor understanding. • Low level of education to understand • Developmental efforts and new technology. • Deprived psychology and scientific orientation. • Lack of confidence. • Poor awareness. • Low level of education. • Existence of unfelt needs. • Personal ego.
- 8. Agriculture related • Lackof expected awareness, knowledge, skill and attitude. • Unavailability of inputs. • Poor marketing facility. • Insufficient extension staff and services. • Multidimensional tasks to extension personnel. • Small size of land holding. • Division of land. • Unwillingness to work and stay in rural areas.
- 9. The current crisisin rural India Land Labor Inputs Subsidies Capital Yield Prices Income Production resources Risks •Pests and Diseases •Droughts •Floods Moving away from the hands of Cultivators Yields are stagnated Prices not being remunerative Ecological risks •Groundwater depletion •Pesticide poisoning •Soil salinity etc Living costs Livelihood/Income sources Social security
- 10. Poor infrastructure facilities •Water • Electricity • Transport • Educational institutions • Communication • Health • Employment • Storage facility etc
- 11. Economic problems • Unfavorableeconomic condition to adopt high cost technology. • High cost of inputs/services • Under privileged rural industries
- 12. Leadership • Leadership amongthe hands of inactive and incompetent people. • Self interest of leaders. • Biased political will
- 13. Administrative problems • Politicalinterference. • Lack of motivation and interest. • Unwillingness to work in villages. • Improper utilization of budget. • No proper monitoring of programs and lack in their implementation
- 14. 1800 120 3244;08500 98 3300 • Cluster level • Making public support services accessible for farmers • FPOs, Farmer Service Centres, Volunteers, Department • District Level • Coordinating with various line departments • Distress Helpline to resolve grievances and rapid response in case of extremities • State and National Level • Monitoring public support services for farmers • Policy Research and advocacy KisanMitra Improving governance of agriculture support systems
- 15. Central Team District Level Coordination Farmers directcalls Field coordinators Farmer Service Centres Farmer Producer Organisations District Level Coordination Field coordination Kisan Mitra Model http://kisanmitra.ekrishi.net
- 16. KisanMitra Farmer Service Centres •FPOs and Women SHGs • Departments/offices • 100 centres in AP and telangana • Provide all services to farmers – Extension support – Inputs – Custom hiring centre – Financial linkages – Procurement for market
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- 18. KISAN MITRA -IMPACT AREAS ● Distress/Suicide Farmer Families ○ Pesticide Poisoning ○ Distress Case Counselling & Relief ○ Education for children & Livelihood support ○ Ex-Gratia & other beneficiary schemes ○ Welfare schemes being targeted to Distressed & Needy ● Improving Access to Credit ● Resolving land title related issues ● Feed back to the district and state level bankers committees ● Facilitating ~5000 LEC cards & JLG Group Loans for Tenant Farmers (All Districts) ● Crop Loss & Compensation ● Improving Policies like PMFBY(Crop Insurance) by feedback ● Analysis and presentations on natural disasters like drought, floods, Hailstorms etc ● Improving access to markets ● Open procurement centres ● Timely payments ● Other support systems ● Electricity issues like Transformer Issues, Loose Wires, New connections to villages etc., ● Water supply and Irrigation/Canal related issues proactively resolved ● Grouping of Issues of FPOs, SHGs and collectively representing & Solving ● Revenue & Rythu Bandhu Issues followed up & communicated ● Improving Regulations: Seeds, Pesticides etc
- 19. Farmer Field Schools •Training every farmer • Practitioners as trainers • Knowledge based extension
- 20. Bio villages • Natural/organicfarming • Adapting to climate change • Alternate livelihoods • Water Positive farming • Carbon neutral villages
- 21. Creating Livelihoods Sericulture Backyard Poultry HoneyProduction • Developing Livelihoods Plan • Building the capacities • Green Enterprises for Bioinputs • Providing linkages For diversifying incomes and assets Composting Azolla Sheep and Goat
- 22. Incubating community institutionsand enterprises • Organising Federations of farmers groups • Farmer Producer Organisations • Farmer Cooperatives-16 in Andhra Pradesh, 4 in Telangana, 2 in Sikkim • Farmer Producer Companies: 7 in Telangana, 1 in Maharashtra, 2 in Tripura • Handholding Supporting 225 in Telangana • Hand holding support to 78 FPOs in Andhra Pradesh • Organic Retail Marketing through Consumer Cooperative, Hyderabad
- 23. Support Services FPOs Extension Services BusinessPlanning Financial Mobilisation Management and Governance Quality Management Convergence with ongoing programs and schemes Market linkages Value addition
- 24. • Natural/Organic Fooddirectly from farmers • Food/Nutritional Counselling for consumers • Better price to farmers • FPOhub to incubate farmer producer organisations
- 25. farm support services http://www.ekrishi.net •Pestoscope • FARMetrix • FPOhub • Traceability • MARKET • HIRE • FINANCE • KisanMitra
- 27. Areas for cooperation •Building open source tools and knowledge systems • Standardisation and Integration protocols • Access to data and analytics-financial, weather, market etc • Crowd sourced information for social audit • Building knowledge and skills for people • Volunteering • Partnerships • Innovative business models
- 28. Centre for sustainableagriculture http://www.csa-india.org http://www.krishi.tv http://www.ekrishi.net http://www.sahajaaharam.com eKrishi : 08500 68 3300 Sahaja Aharam : 08500 78 33 00 Rytu Swarajya Vedhika: 08500 98 33 00 mobile : 090 0069 9702 csa@csa-india.org, Facebook: ramoo.agripage
Editor's Notes
- #18 Kisanmitra helpline to improve the governance and make public support services work for farmers. Three districts, partnership with district administration, women self groups, FPOs and CII
- #21 Now working with several state governments in taking forward natural/organic farming. More farmers shifting and now is becoming a mainstream policy. Making farming sustainable, farmers livelihoods viable and villages becoming carbon neutral and water self sufficient