Project Title : To enhance the income and agriculture productivity of women farmer through comprehensive agriculture intervention

Proposed Area of Action : Khagaria, Purnea, Madhubani, Muzaffarpur, Gaya, Nalanda, Madhepura, Saharsa & Supaul of Bihar

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Government of Bihar is implementing a rural livelihoods project titled “Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project” otherwise called as “JEEViKA” through the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society (BRLPS), with financial support from the World Bank. BRLPS, an independent society under the Department of Finance, Govt. of Bihar; is implementing the five years’ project in 55 blocks of nine selected districts namely Gaya, Nalanda, Muzaffarpur, Madhubani, Purnea, Khagaria, Madhepura, Supaul & Saharsa. The aim of the project is to improve the rural livelihoods by enhancing social and economic empowerment of the rural poor. This would be done by developing organizations of rural poor and producers to enable them to access and negotiates better services, credit and assets from public and private sector agencies and financial organizations. The project is also investing in capacity building of public and private service providers. The main objective of the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project is to improve the rural livelihoods through formation, strengthening and development of community institutions. The project forms SHGs in villages, which federated as Village Organization/s and subsequently as Cluster Level Federation/s. The project works with ‘saturation approach’ i.e., leaving no poor household from the loop of SHG. The project aims at intervening in the selected sectors / sub sectors / commodities in the project districts for the income enhancement of the rural poor, who are or can be engaged in any critical point of the value chain deriving maximum income for their livelihood improvement.

A large proportion (around 70%) of poor families in Bihar is small and marginal farmers. For these families; with average landholding of less than 50 decimals - usually with no irrigation; the options in agriculture are limited to production of cereals and pulses for subsistence; and in some cases taking a small second crop. Productivity is low with an average return of Rs 4500 per hectare in rainfed conditions; with food security of 3 to 5 months from own lands. The average productivity of paddy & wheat for the small holder in the project districts are 0.89-1.65 tons per hectare and 1.76-2.3 tones per hectare respectively. The average paddy & wheat productivity is

& 2.4 tons per hectare respectively. In Bihar, around 82.9% of the total number of land holding belonging to the small and marginal farmers is having land ranging from 1/16th to 1/5th of a hectare.

Basing on the grass-root realities, the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project has piloted PVSP, SRI, SWI, System of Root Intensification in Rapeseed, Green Gram and the women farmers got encouraging results. In SRI, SWI & System of Root Intensification in Rapeseed, Green Gram has increased the productivity by two times and ensured food security for the poor households. Hence, looking at the availability of small landholding in the form of own land / leasing land / share-cropping land / izara land and yielding less production leading to inadequate food security, the project has strong belief to pilot and scale up System of Root Intensification in pulses, oilseed, vegetable to increase the productivity of all the crops by two times and ensure food and nutrition security along with creation of additional income at the level of poor households. Under this proposed project; SRI and SWI will be undertaken in the new villages and pilot and scale up of System of Root Intensification in pulses, oilseed, vegetable, etc. NPM based natural farming, vermi-compost pit making and apiculture will also be added in the basket of poor for

reduction of input cost in agriculture and additional income through sale of vermi-compost and honey in the

market. Quality seed production, processing, certification and selling will be undertaken to provide quality certified seeds to the poor women farmers through Participatory Varietal Selection& Promotion (PVSP) programme.

The estimated budget is around Rs. 97.61 Crore (68.88% is programme cost, 26.35% is capacity building cost and 4.76% is administration cost).

The proposed project will create an incremental income of Rs. 36492/- per annum and net incremental income will be Rs. 27816/- per annum. Around 1400 Village Resource Persons, 140 Skilled Extension Workers and 7000 best practicing farmers will be developed for mobilizing the new women farmers for scaling up under National Rural Livelihoods Mission. NPM based Natural Farming and enhance use of Vermi-compost will improve the soil health, increase the water retention capacity and increased deposition of nutrients in the soil due to year around crop cover on the land. This will lead to less use of external input by reducing the input cost in agriculture.

SECTION A : Basic PIA Information

1 Name of PIA Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society (BRLPS)2 Legal Status Independent Society under Department of Finance,

Govt. of Bihar3 If Network NGO, number

of partners being supported ?4 Registration No. & Date of Registration

Sankhya 76/2005-06, 19/12/2005

5 Name of Donors in the past 3 years, if any (give max 3)

1. Government of Bihar2. World Bank3. National Food Security Mission

6 Name with Size (Budget in INR) of relevant projects handled in the past 3 years (give max 3)

1. Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project2. Scaling up of SRI3. Scaling up of SWI

7 Annual Revenue of PIA for the most recent audited financial year

2007-08 : INR 36062168.802008-09 : INR 90413641.172009-10 : INR 833691208

8 List of ongoing projects (max3) and their size (INR)

Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project and INR 504 crore Scaling up of SRI and INR 2.37 crore

9 Completion of lastproject

(MM/YY)

Scaling up of SRI (12/2010)

10 Total value of assets available with the PIA ?

11 Experience of working with(i) Women SHGs / Groups(ii) Agriculture

based livelihoods with existing women groups

(i) YES(ii) YES

12 In the proposed project, what% of the implementation will be undertaken by existing capacities and what % will be leveraged from external community

The project has formed & nurtured 29545 SHGs and in the proposed project 100% of the implementation will be undertaken by existing 29545 SHGs.

area ?

13. Human Resource (Give details of staff relevant experience proposed for deployment towards the proposed project. Details should also include availability of Community Resource Persons with relevant knowledge deployed under the project. Answer to this question may be put as Annexure.)

Name Sex (M/F)

Position Educational Qualificati

Relevant Experience

Debaraj Behera M State

Project Manager-

B Sc(Ag),

PGDRM-IRMA

11 Years

The BRLPS has six District Project Managers, six Manager-Livelihoods at district level and 44 Block Project Managers and around 1000 field staffs (Area Coordinators and Community Coordinators) who are implementing the agriculture & allied interventions.

14.Please attach following as Annexure –(i) Last three years audited financial statements(ii) Description of training resources and infrastructure available with the organization which is proposed to be deployed for the MKSP project e.g., brochure, training material, training hall, trainers etc.)

Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project (BRLP) has a training cell in each District Project Coordination Unit (DPCU). The training cell is a 4 member team, which includes a Training Manager and 3 Training Officers; who are organizing training of staffs, community cadres, CBO leaders on a regular basis. The project has developed training modules, training manuals of different themes and hires spaces in state, district and block levels to organize the training programmes. The training programmes include formation & strengthening of Community Institutions of women, Micro- planning, formation and strengthening of higher level federations, farm, off-farm and non-farm based livelihoods, social development interventions, etc. The project has specialized trainers in all the levels such as state, district, block and village levels. The project generally develops intervention based guidelines, converting the guidelines to training modules and imparting training to all the stakeholders.

SECTION B : Community Institution Architecture

1. Community Institution Architecture

(a) Past Experience of PIA1. The project mobilizes the poor household women to forms Self Help

Groups (SHGs) with the help of transect walk and social mapping. Each Self Help Groups comprises around 10- 15 members belonging to poor households. The project follows the saturation approach and in every village, efforts are made to mobilize all the poor households into the fold of SHGs. There are around 7-15 nos. of SHGs are existing depending on the population & poor households in the villages. The SHGs are federated into the Village Organizations at the Village level, which undertake the larger level interventions for the benefit of the SHG members. Till December 2010, the project has mobilized around 354540 poor households to form 29545 SHGs and 1452 VOs have been formed in the project.

The project has undertaken System of Rice Intensification (SRI), System of Wheat Intensification (SWI), Participatory Varietal Selection & Promotion (PVSP) programme, Vermi-compost pit and

Green Manuring promotion under the agriculture based livelihoods with existing SHGs. The year wise achievement in SRI, SWI, PVSP & Vermicomposti-Green Manuring promotion is as follows;

Interventions Nos. of SHG Nos. of System of Rice Intensification 33552 2772System of Wheat Intensification 74171 3752Participatory Varietal Selection & Promotion (PVSP) programme

5200 330

Vermi-compost & Green 2100 2100 (nos.)

In the project, the SHG members have selected seed by adopting Participatory Varietal Selection& Promotion (PVSP) programme and followed the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) and System of Wheat Intensification (SWI) and the yield have been more than two times in both paddy and wheat. Basing on the success of the SRI and SWI; System of Root Intensification (SRI) have been piloted in Rapeseed & Green Gram and the yield have been more than 2 times. Promotion of vermi-compost pit making and its use has improved the soil health by enhancing the water retention capacity of the soil. The use of green manure is also found to be beneficial in improving the soil health.

The low cost community based extension1 & monitoring mechanism has been inbuilt within the community institution. Each village organization has a Village Resource Person, who has been trained to handhold the SHG members and manage the Management Information System (MIS) of the Agriculture Intervention. The village organization has a 3 member livelihoods committee, which monitor the agriculture programme and verifies the work of the VRP. Weekly VRP meeting is organized to update the progress and support the VRP for better performance in the agriculture plot of the SHG members.

2. The panchsutra i.e., regular meeting, regular saving, regular inter-loaning, on time repayment and regular book keeping have been followed rigorously in all the SHGs and the VOs. One community mobilizer has been identified from the same village and trained by the project for supporting in facilitating and maintaining the book keeping of the SHGs and a book keeper is identified and trained by the project to support in maintaining the book keeping of the VOs. The triggers have been fixed for all the community institutions to reach the next level interventions such as following of panchsutra lead to bank account opening, micro-planning, disbursement of ICF (Initial Capitalization Fund), on time repayment, Bank Linkage etc. Till December 2010; 15614 SHGs have received Initial Capitalization Fund and till January 2011, 10300 SHGs have received the bank loans.

3. Project provides Initial Capitalization Fund to SHG members, after the micro-planning done in the potential and quality SHGs and after the compliance of on-time repayment by the SHG members in the SHGs, access to credit from the commercial banks have been initiated. The project has adopted the concept of Bank Mitra, who is supporting the SHG members in the bank and the SHGs in the village for reducing the transaction lag in the banks and also improve the quality of the SHGs.

The project has formed Women Farmers Producers Companies (WFPCs), which sales the produce of the SHG members i.e., grains, seeds and vermi-compost by procuring from its shareholders (the shareholders are the SHG members). The village organizations undertake the collective procurement of quality inputs for the SHG members and sale their produce to the SHG members or other community members in the village or nearby villages

1 Low cost community based extension mechanism given in Annexure-II

(b)Proposed Plans / Strategies as part of the project1. The Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project will follow the similar community based

extension and monitoring mechanism i.e., VRPs and one of the potential VRPs among 10 villages will be identified and trained as Skilled Extension Worker (SEW) and manage 10 VRPs. The SEW will be initially paid through one of the VO among the 10 VOs and later part of the Cluster Level Federation. This next level career growth of VRP as SEW will bring a healthy competition among the VRPs for better crop performance in the agriculture field of the SHG members.

2. The Livelihoods Committee of the Village Organization will review the programme at the VO level. The VRP has a register, which covers the required details of all the SHG members and its timely up-dation will be reviewed by the Livelihoods Committee and the payment of the service charge to the VRP will be done by the VO after the recommendation of the Livelihoods Committee. The service charge of the VRP is as follows;

Farmer Category Land Category Service SC/ST Households Lease / Sharecropping Land Rs. 35/-SC/ST Households Own Land Rs. 30/-BC/EBC Households Own/Lease/Sharecropping Land Rs. 25/-General Caste Own/Lease/Sharecropping Land Rs. 20/-During the yield assessment; cross verification mechanism will be taken up for proper validation of the yield data. One VRP will go to another VRP area for yield assessment.

3. The VRP will visit all the plots from Monday to Saturday and after everyday’s plot visit, the VRP will attend the SHG meetings of those SHG members and brief the crop progress and suggest the improvement required in the weaker plots. The VRP will attend the weekly VRP meeting organized at the cluster level and express their constraints / problems to sort out and also suggest the support required for programme improvement. The VRP will also attend the fortnightly VO meeting to brief the programme progress and also express / suggest the requirement of VO support for programme improvement. The livelihoods committee of the VO verifies the VRP work and plots of the SHG members on a regular basis and will ensure the support reached the crop field and the VRP for programme improvement.

4. Kisan days and Cluster Adhibesan will be organized in village and cluster level for adoption of best practices in the crop field of the SHG members and also in the village organization respectively.

SECTION C : Operational Details

C.1 Description of Context

a. Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society (BRLPS) is implementing the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project in 55 blocks of 9 districts in Bihar. The names of the district are Gaya, Nalanda, Muzaffarpur, Madhubani, Khagaria, Purnea, Saharsa, Supaul and Madhepura. A large proportion (around 70%) of poor families in Bihar is small and marginal farmers. For these families; with average landholding ranging from 1/16th of a hectare to 1/5th of a hectare - usually with no irrigation, inaccessibility to quality seed; the options in agriculture are limited to production of cereals and pulses for subsistence; and in some cases taking a small second crop. Productivity is low with an average return of Rs 4500 per hectare in rain-fed conditions; with food security of 3 to 5 months from own lands.

The average yield of major crops given in tons / hectare is given below;

Paddy Wheat Maize Pulses OilseedBihar 2.3 2.4 2.7 0.8 1India 3.3 2.7 2.4 0.62 1.1

The average yield of paddy & wheat in 9 project operational districts given below (in tons / ha);

Gaya Nalanda Khagaria Purnea Madhuban Muzaffarpu Madhepur Supaul SaharsaPaddy 1.65 0.89 1.04 1.31 1.2 1.06 1.27 0.95 1.41Wheat 2.33 2 2 1.8 2.1 2.3 1.76 1.87 1.79

(Source : Department of Agriculture, Govt. of Bihar, 2003)

The productivity of the landless, marginal and small farmers are even lesser than the state average productivity.

b. Gaya and Nalanda is drought prone areas where are Madhubani, parts of Muzaffarpur, Saharsa, Supaul and Madhepura are drought prone districts. For last 2 years Bihar has suffered from drought and the land of Madhepura, Saharsa and Supaul are filled with silt from the 2008 Koshi flood. In every year, Bihar is suffering from drought and flood simultaneously i.e., southern part of Bihar is suffered from either dry spell or drought or northern part of Bihar is suffered from flood or water stagnation caused due to flood.

c. In all the districts, the project has formed and nurtured quality SHGs and VOs for the implementation of the proposed project. The Society will also bring in experts / expert agencies to carryout the proposed agriculture intervention in the new villages and implement directly in the older villages.

C 2 Project Description

a. Vision of Success : To enhance the income & skills of the women farmers from improved agriculture practices and allied activities through institutions of women belonging to poor households

b. Goals : To empower the women farmers through production & income enhancement by taking up System of Rice Intensification, System of Wheat Intensification, System of Root Intensification (SRI) in pulses, oilseeds, vegetable, etc. and apiculture, vermi- compost promotion, NPM based natural farming through the community institutions of poor. The specific objectives of the proposed project are as follows;

To promote agriculture productivity enhancement programme through System of Root Intensification (SRI) in 10 crops such as cereals, pulses & vegetables to achieve food and nutrition securityTo promote the maximum use of land by covering the agriculture land with crops through out the year for retaining essential nutrient in the soilTo promote non-pesticide based natural farming in the agriculture landTo promote vermi-compost for improving soil health & increased water

retention capacity of the soilTo promote apiculture as a secondary source of livelihoods for bringing

additional income and nutritionTo create a pool of local resources for the management and expansion of the agriculture based livelihoods programmes

To strengthen the women SHGs and their federation for management of the agriculture based livelihoods programmesc. Key Outputs :

Objectives Description of objectives Key Outputs /Verification Indicators1. Mobilize the poor women

farmers among the SHGs & enhance their skills, knowledge to facilitate plan and implement agriculture & allied activities

1. Orientation, training & exposure of women SHG members on agriculture & allied activities2. Train the SHGs and their higher level federations on micro-planning, community led extension mechanism & management through community institution architecture

1.1.a. 112500 poor women farmers will be mobilized for agriculture & allied activities

1.1.b The SHGs and their higher level federations such as VOs and WFPCs will plan & implement agriculture and allied activities in around 1400 2. Village Resource

Persons (VRPs) developed for providing handholding support to women farmers in agriculture & allied activities

2.1 VRPs will be trained on various agriculture practices, technologies and group management aspects

2.1.a. Approximately 1400 VRPs will be identified & trained to provide handholding support to around 112500 women farmers belonging to SHGs through VOs & WFPCs in a period of three years3. Increased crop

productivity of Women Farmers through improved agriculture practices, techniques through demonstration and adoption.

Improved agriculture practices such as PVSP, SRI, SWI, System of Root Intensification in pulses, oilseeds, vegetable, community based irrigation management, etc will be demonstrated and scaled up

NPM based natural farming, promotion of vermi-compost pits and use of vermi-compost in the improved agriculture practices

Apiculture will be taken up for additional income enhancement

3.1.a Around 80% of the women farmers belonging to SHGs will take up 3 agriculture and allied interventions in a year.

3.1.b. Around 80% of the 112500 women farmers will increase their yield by two times in the newly introduced crop practices & 60% will have 2 times enhanced income

3.2.a. Around 30% of the women farmers will have improved Soil health & water retention capacity of soil at the end of three years

3.3.a. Around 80% of the 2500 women farmers will have additional income

4. Best practicing women farmers and community resource persons will be developed

4.1. Best practicing women farmers will be identified through organized Kisan days & developed for mobilization of women SHG members to scale up agriculture & allied activities as part of NRLM

4.1.a Around 7000 best practicing farmers will be identified through Kisan Days and further trained for mobilizing women SHG members for scaling up in NRLM

Objectives Description of objectives Key Outputs /Verification Indicators4.2 Best VRPs will be

developed as Skilled Extension Workers (who will manage 10 VRPs in 10 Villages), will be used for scaling up and integration into

4.2.a. Around 140 Skilled Extension Workers will be developed for scaling up into NRLM

Detail of Proposed Action

1. Plans for promoting and enhancing food and nutritional security for women farmers

The food and nutrition security will be promoted by enhancing the yield of main staple food crops i.e., paddy and wheat. The nutritional security will be achieved by yield enhancement of pulses and vegetable crops. The following interventions will be taken up through System of Root Intensification methodologies, honey production in a period of three years are as follows;a) System of Rice Intensification (SRI) with 25000 SHG householdsb) System of Wheat Intensification (SWI) with 50000 SHG householdsc) System of Root Intensification (SRI) in Rape seed with 10000 SHG householdsd) System of Root Intensification (SRI) in Green Gram with 25000 SHG householdse) System of Root Intensification (SRI) in Tomato with 25000 SHG householdsf) System of Root Intensification (SRI) in Brinjal with 25000 SHG householdsg) System of Root Intensification (SRI) in Chilli with 25000 SHG householdsh) System of Root Intensification (SRI) in Ladies Finger with 50000 SHG householdsi) System of Root Intensification (SRI) in Ridge Gourd with 10000 SHG householdsj) System of Root Intensification (SRI) in Cauliflower with 10000 SHG householdsk) Arhar in Bunds will be promoted in bunds with 25000 SHG householdsl) Machan Bidhi in System of Root Intensification (SRI) Bottle Gourd with

10000 SHG householdsm) Machan Bidhi in System of Root Intensification (SRI) Bitter Gourd with

10000 SHG householdsn) Vermi-compost will be promoted with 10000 SHG householdso) Beekeeping will be promoted with 2500 SHG householdsp) Non pesticides based natural farming will be promoted with 25000 SHG householdsq) Equipment management such as Cono-Weeder, Seed Dibbler & Irrigation

System will be managed through higher level federation of the community institution such as Village Organizations

* SRI, SWI & System of Root Intensification in pulses, oilseed and vegetable is in Annexure-I

2. Strategies addressing sustainable/evergreen/regenerative agriculture

Soil Health Improvement through NPM based natural farming / community managed sustainable agriculture & vermin-compost pit promotion :

Promotion NPM based natural farming which is otherwise called as community managed sustainable agriculture will be demonstrated and scaled up to 25000 women farmer households. Community Managed Sustainable Agriculture is an understanding of the soil, soil fertility, ploughing back crop residues, dung and the role of earthworms. It includes focusing on the role of local earthworm & its reactivation in the soil, which is critical for the tropical countries. CMSA does not mean stopping of fertilizer suddenly, the use of fertilizer is gradual reduction and it is coupled with application of tank silt, ploughing back crop residues, mulching, dung based inoculants and the application of azolla in paddy fields, etc. The azolla use will reduce the urea use to 50% in one go. Azolla can totally meet the requirements of nitrogen without any need for

external urea application. CMSA considers soil as a living organism and a bank for crop nutrients. The focus is on building soil microbial activity. Every crop removes substantial amount of nutrients, but the formation of the grain only takes 15 percent of those nutrients. The remaining 85 of nutrients are used to growth the entire plant. The consumer uses the grain as main product and straw as a bi-product from the paddy or other crop plants. This is recommended that crop residues should be returned to the soil either directly or through the animal route during the crop period. Promotion of Vermi-compost pit making and its use will also be enhanced to create an organic environment for the plant and it will loosen the soil for better aeration and improved water retention capacity of the soil. The vermi-compost pit will be promoted with around 10000 women farmers on an economic basis and the marketable surplus will cater to at least 75000 women farmers belonging to SHG households. Around 3 crops per year will be taken up with around 112500 women farmers leading to continuous crop cover in the agriculture land will have better water retention capacity. The pulses cultivation through System of Root Intensification methodology will add continuous nitrogen in the soil through root nodules.

Management and control of seeds (identification & adoption of suitable farmer preferred varieties from a basket of choice)

Participatory varietal selection and promotion (PVSP) programme will be carried out for the selection of seed by the women farmers in all the crops. PVSP is - a method intended to understand the felt and perceived needs of the farmers for suitable crop varieties and allow them to test, identify, and adopt/spread the suitable “farmer preferred” varieties from a “basket of choices” provided to them. Steps followed in PVSP are:

(a) Identification of farmers’ preference: in PVSP an understanding is developed about the qualities or attributes on which farmers prefer a particular variety which is under cultivation in the area for a long time and popular. This variety or varieties are called the local check. There must be some preferred traits (viz. high yield, better taste, short maturity, drought resistance, etc.) because of which the variety is preferred over others. Participatory methodologies are applied to get this information from the farmers/villagers.

(b) Search process for varieties: based on this understanding a search process is carried out to identify varieties within the released and pre-released varieties of the Research institutions all over the country, which have attributes matching or closely matching with the farmers’ preferred traits that were identified at the first stage. This process ends with the procurement of seeds in smaller quantities of those varieties which have attributes closer to what farmers are looking for. These varieties are called the introductory varieties.

(c) Trial in farmers’ field: the seeds of these varieties are then tested in the farmers’ field in a very small quantity alongside their local check in the same field and under same management practices. No additional inputs are recommended for the introductory varieties. Typically in a village 3-4 variety of a crop is tested with at least 4-6 replications for each variety. Simultaneously with one farmer per village all introductory varieties are tested in one field to compare the relative performance of each variety under same inputs and management practices.

(d) Evaluation by farmers: during the cropping season and post harvest the focused group discussions are conducted with the participating and observant farmers to evaluate the performance of the introductory varieties vis-à-vis the popular local check. Through this process the preferred varieties are screened by the farmers themselves. A scientific data

base is also developed about the performance of the varieties on parameters commonly used for the varietal performance assessment.

(e) Dissemination of preferred varieties: The varieties are identified as preferred through this process, the seeds of which are multiplied locally through proper seed production process and disseminated within the area.

The benefits of involving farmers in identifying appropriate varieties are significant in terms of :(i) yield increment up to 30-40% by adopting new varieties against local variety, (ii) reduction in cost of components like fertilizer, irrigation, pesticides, (iii) increasing varietal diversity in the area, and finally (iv) the increased awareness among the farmers, about the newly found varieties empowering them to demand for more such technologies.

Bio-diversity enhancement – poly cropping, multi-layer farming etc.

Three crops per women farmers will be undertaken, cereals-pulses, pulses-vegetables will be taken as mixed farming and agriculture-apiculture will be taken as integrated farming.

Resilient to climate change

In case of water stagnation caused due to flood, shorter duration seed varieties will be taken up for adoption of System of Rice Intensification and other related crops. In case of drought, alternative cropping pattern will also be promoted such as in case of drought, pulses will be taken up to reduce losses to the women farmers

3. Targeting : Approach and Details on landless, small and marginal farmers as project participants

The Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project is mobilizing the poor households into the fold of SHGs and around 40% of the SHG households have agriculture land ranging from 1/16th to 1/5th of a hectare of land. Around 10% of the SHG members take 1/5th of a hectare of land on lease or share cropping basis to undertake agriculture activities. Around 40%-50% of the SHG households out of 354540 SHG households will be the project participants under MKSP and their average land holding is ranging from 1/16th to 1/5th of a hectare of land.

4. Plans for Post-project Sustainability and Scaling up strategies

In the first year 62500 interventions will be taken up as demonstration, where all the required inputs will be provided and in the subsequent years the women farmers will be take up by themselves by the support of VRPs only. In the second year 218500 interventions will be taken up as demonstration, where all the required inputs will be provided and in the subsequent years the women farmers will be take up by themselves by the support of VRPs only. In the third year, 56500 interventions will be taken up as demonstrations, where all the required inputs will be provided and in the subsequent years the women farmers will be take up by themselves by the support of VRPs only. The VRP service charge is a tool to assess the adoption rate and sustainability of the programme. The irrigation support system and the equipments will be provided to the Village Organizations and the VO will manage the assets on a service charge basis for its sustainability. Exposure during the critical stages of the intervention, campaigning through digital green mechanism and new women farmer mobilization through 7000 best practicing women farmers & 140 Skilled Extension Workers will pooled together for expansion in the old villages in existing area and new villages under National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM).

5. Plans aiming at drudgery reduction for women farmers

Mahila weeder in SRI & SWI, Mahila Seed Drill / Dibbler will be developed and promoted for reducing drudgery of the women farmers.

6. Plans for awareness generation with regard to “women farmers” rights entitlements under different schemes related to her identity as “women farmer”. Any plans towards enhancing accessibility of land to women farmers.

The outcome of the proposed programme will have at least 10% women farmers have access to land through land leasing because of at least 2 times production enhancement through SRI methodology in different crops.

7. Any plans to intervene in value chain development (end-to-end solution) e.g., intervention in production / processing / marketing ? Plans for increase market accessibility of women farmers

The Women Farmers Producers Companies will undertake the seed production, processing and marketing and the Village Organizations will also undertake the vermi-compost preparation and its marketing. In the proposed project, it is envisaged that around 100000 women farmers will access to quality seeds and vermi-compost for 3 crops per annum in a patch of 1/5th to 1/16th of a hectare of land from marketing / collective procurement by Women Farmers Producers Companies and the Village Organizations.

8. Strategies for disseminating knowledge. Including plans for skill up-gradation among women

The VRP will impart training to the SHG members (women farmers) in the SHG meeting and VO meeting. The livelihoods committee members & the office bearers of the VO will be trained from the team members of the Block Project Implementation Unit. Best Practicing Farmers will be identified and trained from the Kisan days organized in the Villages. Best Livelihoods Committee members will be identified and trained to further refining their skills through cluster adhibesan organized in the cluster. The VRPs will be trained by agriculture experts at the BPIU level. The potential VRPs will be identified and trained as Skilled Extension Workers and will be made part of the cluster level federation. The best practicing women farmers further engaged in mobilizing new women farmers for the improved agriculture interventions in the new villages.

9. Plans for increasing access of credit to women farmers and women groups.

The Initial Capitalization Fund of the project followed by the credit linkage from the commercial banks to the women farmers through SHGs is the process of credit access under the proposed project.

10.Direct Incremental income returns to the women farmers

The gross incremental income per woman farmer per annum is Rs. 36492/- and the net incremental income per woman farmer per annum is Rs. 27816/-.

The total investment for the proposed project is Rs. 97,60,38,240/- and the income to women farmers from the proposed project is Rs. 410,53,00,000/- (Details attached in Annexure-III)

11. Plans for community contribution of any kind, be it in-kind or monetary or regular thrift

The SHGs have their own savings is around Rs. 19.67 crore, inter-loaning is Rs. 54 crore, credit received through SHGs as Initial Capitalization Fund is Rs. 69 crore and from commercial banks is approximately Rs. 40 crore. The women farmers contribute in the service charge of the Village Resource Persons i.e., Rs. 10/- per women farmers per month and from the second year onwards and use her own resources for the interventions in the subsequent years. For vermi-compost pit making and the beekeeping, the women farmer will contribute 250/- per pit and 4000/- per four beehives for undertaking the interventions.

Project Implementation Strategy

1. SECTION D : Budget Implementation Designa. Elements of Implementation Process

i. Identification of women farmers through SHG micro planningii. Identification of VRPs through VOsiii. Identification of SEWs through BPIUs / CLFsiv. Training of staffs through Agriculture Experts / Agriculture Experts of the Expert

Agenciesv. Training of VRPs through Agriculture Experts / Agriculture Experts of the Expert

Agenciesvi. Orientation, training and exposure through demonstration of enrolled women farmersvii. Handholding support to the SHG members during the intercultural operations by the

VRPsviii. Crop monitoring by the VRPs & recommendation to women on a weekly basisix. VRPs imparting training to women farmers in the SHG meetingsx. Weekly VRP meeting for the review of the VRP and programme performancexi. Organizing monthly Kisan Days during the crop in the agriculture fieldxii. Organizing monthly cluster adhibesan during the crop in the agriculture fieldxiii. Fortnightly Block Project Implementation Unit (BPIU) meetingxiv. Monthly District Project Coordination Unit (DPCU) meetingxv. Exposure of new women farmers to the existing demonstration sites during the critical

stagesxvi. Cross verification mechanism will be adopted during yield assessmentxvii. VRP register will be maintained for all the agriculture and allied activities

b. Project Implementation Plan & Flow

i. Internal structure for implementation : The Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project will engage its existing staff through the field team members of BRLPS and one agriculture experts will be hired in every 20 villages or expert agency will be hired to place one agriculture expert in every 20 villages.

ii. Geography and Yearly DistributionThe MKSP will be implemented in 55 blocks of 9 districts namely Gaya, Nalanda, Muzaffarpur, Madhubani, Khagaria, Purnea, Saharsa, Supaul and Madhepura of Bihar. The yearly distribution of nos. of women farmers is distributed in 3 years across 9 districts is indicated under the column of Year 1, Year 2, Year 3 & total will be as follows;

Sl.No. Proposed Activities Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Total1 System of Rice Intensification 5000 15000 5000 250002 System of Wheat Intensification 10000 35000 5000 500003 System of Root Intensification in Rapeseed 1000 7000 2000 100004 System of Root Intensification in Green 5000 15000 5000 250005 System of Root Intensification in Tomato 5000 15000 5000 25000

6 System of Root Intensification in Brinjal 5000 15000 5000 250007 System of Root Intensification in Chilli 5000 15000 5000 250008 System of Root Intensification in Ladies

Finger10000 35000 5000 50000

9 System of Root Intensification in Ridge Gourd

1000 7000 2000 1000010 System of Root Intensification in

Cauliflower1000 7000 2000 10000

11 Arhar in Bunds 5000 15000 5000 2500012 Machan Bidhi Bottle Gourd 1000 7000 2000 1000013 Machan Bidhi Bitter Gourd 1000 7000 2000 1000014 Vermi Compost Pit making 2000 7000 1000 1000015 Beekeeping with 4 hives 500 1500 500 250016 Natural Farming / NPM promotion 5000 15000 5000 2500017 SRI - Cono Weeder (CW) 500 1500 500 250018 SWI - Cono Weeder (CW) 1000 3500 500 500019 Irrigation Support (IS) 500 500 0 100020 SWI - Seed Dibbler / Seed Drill 500 1500 500 2500

The comprehensive budget of the proposed project is Rs. 97,60,38,240/-. There are 3 budget heads namely Agriculture Input Support cost, Capacity Building cost and Development Support cost. The budget break-up and percentage of the budget head is mentioned below;

1. Agriculture & allied activities Input Support Cost (68.88%) : Rs. 67,23,05,000/- 2. Capacity Building Cost (26.35%) : Rs. 25,72,33,240/-3. Development Support Cost (4.76%) : Rs. 4,65,00,000/-

The budget details is presented below;

Sl.No. Activity Details Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Total TotalA AGRICULTURE INPUT SUPPORT COST

(68.88%)Physical Financial Physical Financial Physical Financial Physical Financial

1 System of Rice Intensification 5000 560500 15000 1681500 5000 560500 25000 28025002 System of Wheat Intensification 10000 900000

035000 3150000

05000 450000

050000 4500000

03 System of Root Intensification in Rapeseed 1000 1252000

7000 8764000

2000 2504000

10000 125200004 System of Root Intensification in Green Gram 5000 500000 15000 1500000 5000 500000 25000 2500000

5 System of Root Intensification in Tomato 5000 5770000

15000 17310000

5000 5770000

25000 288500006 System of Root Intensification in Brinjal 5000 802000 15000 2406000 5000 802000 25000 4010000

7 System of Root Intensification in Chilli 5000 10290000

15000 30870000

5000 10290000

25000 514500008 System of Root Intensification in Ladies Finger 10000 1200000 35000 4200000 5000 600000 50000 6000000

9 System of Root Intensification in Ridge Gourd 1000 999000

7000 6993000

2000 1998000

10000 999000010 System of Root Intensification in Cauliflower 1000 175400

07000 1227800

02000 350800

010000 1754000

011 Arhar in Bunds 5000 465000 15000 1395000 5000 465000 25000 232500012 Machan Bidhi Bottle Gourd 1000 189900

07000 1329300

02000 379800

010000 1899000

013 Machan Bidhi Bitter Gourd 1000 174900 7000 1224300 2000 349800 10000 174900014 Vermi Compost Pit making 2000 1750000

07000 6125000

01000 875000

010000 8750000

015 Beekeeping with 4 hives 500 5000000

1500 15000000

500 5000000

2500 2500000016 Natural Farming / NPM promotion 5000 1000000 15000 3000000 5000 1000000 25000 5000000

17 SRI - Cono Weeder (CW) 500 600000

1500 1800000

500 600000 2500 300000018 SWI - Cono Weeder (CW) 1000 140000 3500 490000 500 700000 5000 700000

19 Irrigation Support (IS) 500 55800000

500 55800000

0 0 1000 11160000020 SWI - Seed Dibbler / Seed Drill 500 200000 1500 600000 500 200000 2500 1000000

TOTAL-A 62500 160288000 218500 419826000 56500 92191000 337500 672305000B CAPACITY BUILDING COST (26.35%)21 Service Charge of Village Resource Person 500 5400000 700 6300000 200 1080000 1400 1278000022 Weekly Village Resource Person Meeting Cost 144 360000

096 403200

048 786240 288 841824

023 Kisan Days in Villages 12 1200000 8 1120000 4 160000 24 248000024 Cluster Adhibesan in clusters 12 300000

08 280000

04 400000 24 620000

025 Training of Village Resource Persons 500 3000000

700 4200000

200 400000 1400 760000026 Training of SHG Members 10000 1800000 40000 4800000 10000 600000 60000 7200000

27 Training Material Development – Lumpsum 2500000

2500000

0 0 5000000

28 Community Monitoring Mechanism 125 1406250

175 656250 50 562500 350 262500029 Training of Field Staffs 50 135000

070 126000

020 180000 140 279000

0TOTAL-B 98856250 137648250 20728740 257233240C DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT COST (4.76%)

30Hiring of Short term Consultants / Agency (different levels) 25 2250000

035 2100000

010 300000

070 4650000

0TOTAL-C 22500000 21000000 3000000 0 46500000TOTAL COST 281644250 578474250 115919740 976038240

Total Intervention 337500Total SHG Member 112500Total Investment 97603824Investment per SHG Member / Woman Farmer 8676Return on Investment 410530000Benefit Vs Cost Analysis 3.21Gross Incremental Annual Income/Woman Farmer/year

36492Net Incremental Annual Income/Woman Farmer/year

27816

Budget Narrative :

a. Project Investments : Rs. 97,60,38,240/- and Support Requested under MKSP isRs. 73,20,28,680/-

b. Rationale for the various line items related to Proposed Action

C 3 & C 4 Rationale of C 3 is mentioned below;

Rationale of C 4 is mentioned below;Sl.No.

CAPACITY BUILDING COST (26.35%) Unit Calculation

1 Service Charge of Village Resource Person 1400

127800000

1400 VRPs*36 months*3000/-per VRP/1002 Weekly Village Resource Person Meeting 28 841824 1400 VRPs*36 months*50/- per VRP3 Kisan Days in Villages 2

424800000

1400 VRPs*4 weeks*3 months*2000/-/Kisan Days4 Cluster Adhibesan (CA) in clusters 2 620000 50 Villages*12 Cluster Adhibesan*5000/-/CA

5 Training of Village Resource Persons 1400

7600000

1400 VRPs*4 modules*3 seasons*3 days*500/- per participants

6 Training of SHG Members 60000

72000000

60000 Women farmers*4 modules*3 seasons*150/- per participants

7 Training Material Development - Lumpsum 0 5000000

Lumpsum

8 Community Monitoring Mechanism 350

2625000

350 best practicing women farmers / VRPs* 5 days*5 members*3 seasons*150/- per participants

9 Training of Field Staffs 140

2790000

149 Staffs*3 Seasons*3 Crops*4 Modules*750/- per participants

Sl.No.

AGRICULTURE INPUT SUPPORT COST (68.88%) Unit Description

Unit Cos

Unit Amount1 System of Rice Intensification 0.25 acre per

farmer1121 25000 2802500

02 System of Wheat Intensification 0.25 acre per farmer

900 50000 450000003 System of Root Intensification in Rapeseed 0.1 acre per farmer 1252 10000 1252000

4 System of Root Intensification in Green Gram 0.25 acre per farmer

1000 25000 250000005 System of Root Intensification in Tomato 0.05 acre per 1154 25000 2885000

6 System of Root Intensification in Brinjal 0.05 acre per farmer

1604 25000 401000007 System of Root Intensification in Chilli 0.05 acre per

farmer2058 25000 5145000

08 System of Root Intensification in Ladies Finger 0.05 acre per 1200 50000 60000009 System of Root Intensification in Ridge Gourd 0.05 acre per

farmer999 10000 999000

010 System of Root Intensification in Cauliflower 0.05 acre per 1754 10000 175400011 Arhar in Bunds 0.5 acre per farmer 930 25000 2325000

012 Machan Bidhi Bottle Gourd 0.05 acre per farmer

1899 10000 1899000013 Machan Bidhi Bitter Gourd 0.05 acre per

farmer1749 10000 1749000

014 Vermi Compost Pit making 7 pits per farmer 8750 10000 8750000015 Beekeeping 4 beehives per 10000 2500 2500000

16 Natural Farming / NPM promotion 0.25 acre per farmer

2000 25000 5000000017 SRI - Cono Weeder (CW) 1 CW for 10 farmers 1200 2500 300000

18 SWI - Cono Weeder (CW) 1 CW for 10 farmers 1400 5000 700000019 Irrigation Support (IS) 1 IS for 10 farmers 11160

01000 11160000

020 SWI - Seed Dibbler / Seed Drill (SD) 1 SD for 20 farmers 4000 2500 1000000TOTAL-A Around 112500 337500 67230500

The multiplication may not match with the total amount, as the activities / trainings will be undertaken in the phase wise manner, which has been indicated in the year wise budget presented in the page no. 14 & 15 (detailed budget)

Rationale of C 4 is mentioned below;Sl.No.

DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT COST (4.76%)

Unit Amount Calculation

1 Hiring of Short term Consultants / Agency (different levels)

70 46500000

1 Agriculture Expert per 20 villages * 25000/- per month

c. Cost elements (natural heads of accounts) under each budget line item.

The description of the line item has been indicated clearly in the detailed budget, page no. 14 & 15

d. Plan for leverage other sources of fund in the proposed project e.g., NRLM / NREGS / SGSY / RKVY / NFSM / NABARD / NHM / Donors

The 25% of the Govt. contribution will be leveraged through various schemes such as NRLM / NREGS / SGSY / RKVY / NFSM / NABARD / NHM / etc.

e. Explanation of Cost Elements including description of capital expenditure items / with break-up and unit cost for all items / components. Please also clearly indicate what % of budget goes in capacity building of the women farmers

Sl. Capital Expenditure Unit Unit Units1 SRI - Cono Weeder (CW) 1 CW for 10

farmers1200

25002 SWI - Cono Weeder (CW) 1 CW for 10 140 500

3 Irrigation Support (IS) 1 IS for 10 farmers 111600

10004 SWI - Seed Dibbler / Seed

Drill1 SD for 20 farmers

4000

2500

The Irrigation Support System comprising 120 feet boring with submersible and a generator set as electricity is inadequate or unavailable in most of the villages. One Irrigation Support System will be created for 10 farmers, i.e., estimated to be Rs. 1,11,600/-. The Cono Weeder for SRI, Cono-Weeder for SWI, SWI Seed Dibbler / Seed Drill and Irrigation Support System will be the assets of the Village Organization and the women farmers will be charged nominal service charges for using the assets of the VO. The service charge deposited in the VO will be used for the repair & maintenance of the assets and service charge will be paid to the community service providers, who will transfer the assets for usage in agriculture crop field of the women farmers and also for the repair and maintenance.

The capacity building component is around 26.35% of the entire investment and 26% of the total investment / budget goes for capacity building of women farmers.

f. Analysis and Benchmark of proposed costs

Not Applicable

Annexure-I

1. What is System of Rice Intensification (SRI) : Fr. Henri de Laulanie, S.J, first developed SRI methodology in Madagascar in the 1980s. Systems for rice intensification or SRI is a methodology rather than a technology, in which the management of soil, water, plant and nutrients is altered for greater root growth and nurturing microbial diversity resulting in healthier soil and plant conditions.

In SRI, practices like seed rate, method of raising of seedlings in nursery, transplantation, control of water in the main field, weeding/hoeing are modified to ensure higher ratios of tillers to mother seedling, increased number of effective tillers / hill, enhanced panicle length and bolder grains, or in short enhanced yield of paddy.

The Methodology of SRI:

Seed Selection and treatment: Farmers need to start with a fresh stock. The seeds are dipped in brine water in order to sort out the bold grains that settled down. Seed treatment with fungicide is mandatory.

Wet Bed Nursery: For SRI wet bed nursery in lowland is recommended.

Transplantation: During transplantation, uprooting of tender (8-14 days old) seedlings is to be done without disturbing the roots. The earth, immediately surrounding the root region, is scooped from the nursery bed along with the roots to prevent any damage at the root region. The seedlings with the earth ball are then transplanted in the main fields. Only one seedling is used per hill.

Spacing: Wider spacing of 10 inch Row-to-Row and 10 inch Plant-to-plant are given to allow profuse tillering in latter stages.

Regulating water depth as much as possible: Alternate drying and wetting gives best results in SRI. However, in cases where water regulation is not possible, there it is important to retain thin film of water in the field during the growth stages of SRI paddy.

Weeding and hoeing: Hoeing and weeding is recommended for 2- 3 times during the growth phases of paddy.

In short, the practice of SRI in comparison with the traditional practice may be depicted as below:

SRI Particulars Traditional5 Kg/ha Seed rate 50- 60 Kg /ha

8-14 days Age of seedling 21-35 days800 sq ft / Ha. Nursery area 10750 sq ft / Ha.

6 MT / ha. Yield 2 MT / ha.

2. What is System of Wheat Intensification (SWI) : SWI is not SRI in Wheat. SWI is a different set of agronomic practices in Wheat. In SWI, practices like seed rate, sowing of seeds at proper spacing, control of water in the main field, weeding / hoeing are modified to ensure higher ratios of tillers to mother seedling, increased number of effective tillers / hill, enhanced panicle length and bolder grains, or in short enhanced yield of wheat.

The Methodology of SWI:

Seed Selection and treatment: Farmers need to start with a fresh stock. The seeds are dipped in hot water at 60 degree Celsius in order to sort out the bold grains that settle down. Seed treatment with cow urine and fungicide is mandatory.

Seed Sowing & Depth of seed sowing: Seed sowing in time (15th November to 15th December) and the depth of seed sowing should be 1-1.5 inch.

Direct sowing of treated seeds in main field: For SWI direct seeding of wheat is recommended at 1 to 1.5 inches depth in a tilled land. Two seeds are dibbed at one place so that birds and other predators not cause losses. At least one seed germinate properly.

Spacing: Wider spacing of 20 cm Row-to-Row and also 20 cm seed to seed are given to allow profuse tillering in latter stages.

Weeding and hoeing: Hoeing and weeding is recommended for 3 times during the growth phases of wheat at 20, 30 and 40 Days after sowing.

In short, the practice of SRI in comparison with the traditional practice may be depicted as below:

PARTICULARS TRADITIONAL SWISeed Treatment Not Done Done with Cow Urine & Seed Rate 100-125 Kg / Ha 20-30 Kg / HaSowing Broadcasting Line SowingSpacing No Spacing 20 cm * 20 cm (8’ * 8’)Weeding / Hoeing No Weeding 3 timesYield 1-2 Ton / Ha 3-4 Ton / Ha

3. System of Root Intensification in Rapeseed : The lower seed rate, seed grading & treatment, young age seedlings, wider spacing, single seedling transplantation, organic manuring and inter-cultivation cum weeding will lead to 50-90% yield enhancement.

4. System of Root Intensification in Moong (Green Gram) : The lower seed rate, seed grading & treatment, sowing with wider spacing & weeding will lead to 50-90% yield enhancement.

5. System of Root Intensification in Tomato, Brinjal & Chilli : The seeds are treated with cow urine, warm water, vermi-compost, jaggery, trichoderma and the germinated or wet seeds are sown in in nursery at 2 inches at either side of spacing. Organic environment is made in nurseries and seeds are sown at proper spacing. Compost and soils are treated with trichoderma. Every care is taken to minimize the shock by taking seedlings attached with soils. Then 8-12 days old young seedlings are uprooted carefully and transplanted in main field. Shallow transplanting is done. One feet deep and 0.5 feet diameter pit is made to provide conducive environment for intensification of roots. The farmers should provide favorable environment for the profuse root growth and shoot growth is outcome of attention on roots. Proper irrigation channels are made to facilitate aeration in roots and 2-3 inter

cultural operation is done by using SRI-Rabi weeder. The productivity enhancement is around 40-85%.

6. System of Root Intensification in Ladies Finger : The Lower seed rate, seed grading & treatment, young age seedling transplantation, wider spacing & weeding, better environment for root zone enhances 45-90% of yield increase.

7. System of Root Intensification in Ridge Gourd : The Lower seed rate, seed grading & treatment, young age seedling transplantation, wider spacing & weeding, better environment for root zone enhances 45-90% of yield increase.

8. System of Root Intensification in Cauliflower : The Lower seed rate, seed grading & treatment, young age seedling transplantation, wider spacing & weeding, better environment for root zone enhances 45-90% of yield increase.

9. Arhar in Bunds : The arhar crops will be grown in the bunds of the plots and the yield will be around 1 quintal in 0.5 acres of bund.

10.Machan Bidhi Bottle Gourd & Bitter Gourd through System of Root Intensification (SRI) : Machan is made particularly in Kharif. It prevents rotting of fruits. It also facilitates fruiting in plants. The Seeds are treated with cow urine, warm water, vermi-compost, jaggery and trichoderma. Germinated and wet seeds are sown in field and shallow sowing of germinated seeds is ensured. Organic environment is made in nurseries and seeds are sown at proper spacing. Compost and soils are treated with trichoderma and sunlight, air, moisture are facilitated due to wider spacing. Then 8-12 days old young seedlings are uprooted carefully and transplanted in main field. Shallow transplanting is done. Two feet deep and 1.5 feet diameter pit is made to provide conducive environment for intensification of roots. The farmers should provide favorable environment for the profuse root growth and shoot growth is outcome of attention on roots. Proper irrigation channels are made to facilitate aeration in roots and 2-3 inter cultural operation is done by using SRI-Rabi weeder. The productivity enhancement is around 40-85%.

11.Vermi- compost Pit promotion : Vermi-compost use in agriculture to support in loosening of soil, improves aeration, improve the physical structure of soil, improve water holding capacity of soil and provide readymade nutrient to plant. Around 7 units of vermi-compost pits will be promoted with around 10000 SHG households

Annexure-II

Low Cost Extension Services for the Community : Extension services are critical for introduction, expansion & sustenance of new methodologies, technologies, practices in agriculture based livelihoods. Identification, building capacities and functioning of the low cost extension service providers at the village level to provide agriculture based extension services to the small and marginal farming households through the higher level women federation at the village and cluster level for the sustainable growth of the agriculture programmes. This low cost extension services can be affordable to the farmers as well as commensurate to the extension services provided by the extension service providers in a sustainable manner. The extension service provider can also increase the nos. of households for these interventions in a village subsequently by providing services to the small and marginal farmers in several other interventions for the productivity and income enhancement.

The Village Resource Persons (VRPs) were identified by the Village Organizations and build their capacities through different orientation, training & exposure programmes. After the orientation programme, the Village Resource Persons will attend the SHG meetings and develop micro plans to identify, who are the SHG members to identify in how much land for a particular intervention and compile the information at the level of Village Organizations. The Village Organizations provide a standardized VRP-Register to the Village Resource Persons, so that they can record the minute details of all the farmers as per the inter-cultural sequence required for the intervention. The livelihoods committee of the Village Organizations scrutinizes the compiled report and the Office Bearers of the Village Organization certify the interventions.

The Village Resource Persons again trained by the modular trainings organized and go to all the SHG meetings to train all the SHG members. Then the Village Resource Persons demonstrate the field level activities in the plots of the participating SHG members, where the participating and non-participating SHG members can observe the processes to learn. Later the participating SHG members undertake the similar processes in their own field in presence of the Village Resource Person. During the process, the Village Resource Person rectifies the process, if the participating SHG members commit any mistakes during the processes. In a week, the Village Resource Persons visit all the plots to see the progress made in their respective plots by the participating SHG members. After each day’s plot observation, the Village Resource Person visits the SHG meetings (of the same day’s plot observed participating SHG members’ SHG meetings) and brief the SHG regarding the progress made as per requirement and also suggest the participating SHG members in case of delay or not up to mark practices in certain practices such as land not properly leveled / gap filling is required / irrigation not done / vermi-compost not applied / etc. In a week, the Village Resource Person has to visit all the plots in the assigned village/s at least once in a week. The Livelihoods Committee of the Village Organizations verifies the plot visit details of the Village Resource Persons on a random basis by visiting to the plots or checks the VRP-Register. Every week, there is a VRP meeting organized at the cluster level (cluster comprises 30-35 villages), where the VRP has to update the progress and issues are sorted out or higher level interventions are needed, if any such issue is observed. In every fortnight, the Village Resource Persons will report to the Village Organization in the fortnightly VO meeting.

Annexure-III

Sl.No.

Activity Details

Unit Description

Unit Cost

Unit Amount Production in

Quintal/ Acre

Actual Productio

n in Quintal

Price Total Income

1System of Rice Intensificatio

0.25 acre per farmer 1121 25000 2802500

02 0.5 1250 3125000

02

System of Wheat Intensification

0.25 acre per farmer 900 50000 4500000

01.8 0.45 450 2250000

0

3System of Root Intensification in Rapeseed

0.1 acre per farmer

1252 10000 12520000

5.6 0.56 1680 16800000

4System of Root Intensification in Green

0.25 acre per farmer 1000 25000 2500000

05.6 1.4 8400 21000000

0

5

System of Root Intensification in Tomato

0.05 acre per farmer 1154 25000 2885000

0180 9 45000 112500000

0

6

System of Root Intensification in Brinjal

0.05 acre per farmer 1604 25000 4010000

0180 9 45000 112500000

0

7System of Root Intensification in Chilli

0.05 acre per farmer 2058 25000 5145000

050 2.5 37500 93750000

0

8System of Root Intensification in Ladies

0.05 acre per farmer 1200 50000 6000000

050 2.5 2125 10625000

0

9

System of Root Intensification in Ridge

0.05 acre per farmer 999 10000 999000

060 3 1500 1500000

0

10

System of Root Intensification in Cauliflower

0.05 acre per farmer 1754 10000 1754000

060 3 2400 2400000

011 Arhar in Bunds

0.5 acre per farmer

930 25000 23250000

2 1 3000 75000000

12Machan Bidhi Bottle

0.05 acre per farmer 1899 10000 1899000

060 3 2400 2400000

013

Machan Bidhi Bitter Gourd

0.05 acre per farmer 1749 10000 1749000

060 3 2700 2700000

014

Vermi Compost Pit making

7 pits per farmer

8750 10000 87500000

78 78 31200 312000000

15 Beekeeping4 beehives per farmer 10000 2500 2500000

02.16 2.16 21600 5400000

0TOTAL

Around 112500

337500 4105300000