Presentation on

RRA CP project at BankuraBy

PRADAN

(7-8 May, 2013, New Delhi)

Contents

• Context

• Plan

• Progress so far

The CP BlockBANKURA DISTRICT

HIRBANDH BLOCK

Features of the District• It comes under AEZ-VII

• Blocks: 22

• Total population : 32 Lakhs

• SC, ST population : 41.59%

• Literacy : Male-77%, Female-49%

• HDI -11/17 (Source: Human Development Profiles 2007, West Bengal)

• Around 43% of the families belong to BPL category

About the CP block- Hirbandh

Details of Demographic DataNo of GP 5

Total R. village 121No of Households 13,611

Total Population 72,502

Comparison Hirbandh block with district dataItem Hirbandh Bankura Dist

SC % 25 32ST % 29 11Literacy % 58 74BPL family % 50 43

About the area Contd.• Total area:31,015 Ha

– Forest: 9,708 (31.3%) – Cultivable area:17,678.55 (41.7%)– Fallow land : 1644 (5.3%)– water bodies: 744( 2.4% )– Other use: 1241 (19.3%)

• % of Small farmer : 32• % of Marginal Framer: 65

About the area Contd.

• Block has undulating topography with localized steep slope

• It receives annual rainfall of around 1250 mm, but it is very much uncertain and erratic

• High rainfall, undulated topography, less vegetative cover and inadequate rain water harvesting structures result in huge run off and soil erosion.

• Soil depth and organic matter in the soil is very less and lateritic in upper region and valley region is full of alkaline.

Livelihoods

• The major sources of livelihood are agriculture followed by wage earning/ migration

• Agriculture is mono cropped paddy and production is as low as 1 to 3 MT/Ha depending the type of land

• Lack of assured irrigation, improved agriculture practices, timely availability of quality seeds, draft power, adequate credit supply lead to poor yield and food insecurity

• Livestock selling & migration act as coping mechanism

Context for CP• PRADAN could mobilise around 160 Million INR

under MGNREGS to invest in land & water development in collaboration with local PRIs & Govt

• Livelihood assets created like small water bodies , Agro- horticulture, forestry in the fallow uplands, and Land development etc for 5,100 families

• But this has not been able bring significant change/ impact in the overall agriculture production systems in the area.

• There are still gaps in enhancing the overall productivity of resources in the area

Broad Interventions proposed

• Improving soil health though green manureing & composting

• Crop diversification• Improving productivity of water bodies through fish

rearing & introduction of cash crops• Promotion of CBOs like women SHGs, sub clusters &

producers’ organisations• Linking SHGs/ POs with bank for Credit supply, linkages

with markets, PRIs and Govt departments for services & leveraging fund

• Situational analysis to develop better understanding & designing detailed proposal

Major Deliverables• Finalising the Mouzas / Revenue villages covering

15,000-20,000 ha area for the comprehensive pilots (CP)• Deploying human resources for implementation of the CP.• Documentation to capture the learning drawn from

pilots. • Sharing the findings of situational analysis and learnings

of pilots with block, Govt Dept and Gram Panchayats for larger acceptance and wider replication

• Establishing functional relationship with different thematic nodes of RRA network for cross learning and sharing.

Progress so far

• Promoted 85 women SHGs covering 1,045 families of which 79% ST&SC

• Village level plan for pilots completed & incorporated in Annual Action plan of GP

• Sanction taken for 54 no of WHSs & Work order issued to GP by BDO

• 18 Community Resource Persons trained on basic of crop Production & kharif planning process

• 15 SHG Leaders trained on INRM (Phase-I)

• A meeting on convergence was conducted with govt depts with the help of SDO at sub division level • A meeting on SRI conducted with ADOs at sub division- shared last year experience

Progress so far Contd.

Thanks

Deliverables by end of the first year

• Local PRIs have been influenced for creation of farm Pond ( Hapa) under MGNREGS to provide protective irrigation to 150 families

• Improved way of fish rearing with proper varieties done with 100 families on pilot basis and proper PoP developed for fish rearing in farm ponds in the area.

• The fishery department is influenced for replication of PoP and system

• 500 families have adopted SRI method of paddy , mustard and wheat cultivation and a movement been created in the area for wider replication

Deliverables by end of the first Contd.

• Glaricidia plantation done in 5Ha land covering 150 families on a pilot basis and local Govt & PRIs has accepted this as way to generate Biomass under MGNREGS

• Soil health analysis done to understand the gaps and required interventions decided

• 25 Compost pits created benefiting 25 families on pilot basis and the concept accepted by block and GP for implementation of same under MGNREGS.

• In-situ soil & moisture conservation structures created in 15 Ha - benefiting 50 families. Plantation in 16 ha of fallow upland -benefiting 65 families under MGNREGS. This would lead to greater and wider acceptance by PRIs, Govt and horticulture department.

• A pool of 50 CRPs cum supervisors developed to facilitate SHGs in INRM planning and implementation