Workshop on Micro Plannin for Organic Farming

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Workshop on Micro-planning for Organic farmingJointly organized by National Council of Rural Institutes (NCRI) & Gayathri Rural

Educational Society (GRES) India, Srikakulam dist, A.P.

Date of Convention: 30-12-2009

Venue: Technology Training Development Centre (TTDC) NPM Pranganam,

Echerla, Srikakulam DT. A.P.


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Report on the one day workshop on Micro-planning

for Organic farming

Date 30-12-2009

Venue: Technology Training Development Centre (TTDC) DRDA NPM

Pranganam, Echerla, Srikakulam Dist, A.P.

Jointly organized by

National Council of Rural Institutes, Hyderabad, A.P.

&

Gayathri Rural Educational Society (GRES-INDIA) , Srikakulam

Participants:

1) Sri R.S. Ramarao, Project officer, Micro-planning unit, NCRI, Hyderabad2) Smt.S.Krishna Kumari Director, GRES-INDIA, Srikakulam.3) Dr. Ramesh Babu, Director GRES-INDIA, Srikakulam4) Sri T. BabuRao Naidu, Project Director, DRDA, Srikakulam( Chief Guest )5) Sri Subrahmaniam, AGM, NABARD, Srikakulam6)

Dr.P.Jamuna, Scientist, Krishi Vigyana Kendra(KVK), Amudalavalasa

7) Dr. Anil Kumar, Scientist,(KVK) Amudalavalasa8) Sri K. Venugopal, President Press club of Srikakulam

Honouarary guests

9) Justice M.R. Seshagiri Rao, Senior civil judge & Secretary, Legal services cell,Srikakulam

10) Smt. Sudharani, Advocate, Srikakulam11) Sri Manmadha Rao, Advocate, Srikakulam

NGO Members;

SL.NO Name of the participant Name of NGO Organisation

1. Mrs. Savitri President Pragathi Mahila Mandali2. Mr.Raja Rao Secretary Sai Rural Development Society(Srds)


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3. Mr.Shankar President Navayuga Rural Development Society4. Mr.Prabhakar President Yuvajana Sevasangham5. Mr.Raju President ) Social Economical Ecological Service

Society(Sees)

6. Mr.Jagan President) Voluntary Action For RuralDevelopment(Vard

7. Mr.Seshibhushan President Jana Chaithanya Organisation8. Mrs.Krishna Kumari Director Gayatri Rural Educational Society(Gres)9. Mr.Shankar Rao President Gunn Udatayya Etarnal Service

Team(Guest)

10. Mrs.Laitha President Poor People's Service Society11. Mr.Venkata Swamy President Prerana Voluntary Organisation12. Mr.Phalguna Rao President Grameen Prajala Punarnirmana Seva

Samtha (Gppss)

13. Mr.BalaRam Naidu President Kanthi Social Service Society (KSSS)14. Mr,Ramana Murthy President Health Education And Legal Protection

(Help)

15. Mr.Narsimha Murthy President Helping Hands Association (Hha)16. Mrs.Indira President ) Priyadarshini Rural And Integrated

Association (Pria

17. Mr.Hari Babu President Pragathi Seva Society18. Mr.Venkateswar Rao President Peoples Organisation For Welfare

Education And Rehabilitation (Power)

19. Mrs. Satyavathi President Ramabhai Mahila Mandali20. Mr.Nagabhusan Rao President Reliable Organisation For Socio And

Education Service (ROSES)

21. Mr.Krishna President Spandana22. Mr.Varaprasad President Samaikya23. Mrs.Vara Laxmi President Sri Laxmi Mahila Mandali24. Mr.Raghu Rama Raju President Faith In Action Services And Truth

(Fast)

25.

Mr. Rama RaoPresident Bund Rural Orphan Tribal HandicappedEducation Relief Society (Brothers)

26. Mr.Rajagopal Rao President Sri Sadguru Simhadralm VerakmammaSankshama Aroghya Sangham (Ssswh

Society)

27. Mr. Arun Kumar President Arunodaya Rural Development28. Mrs. Savithri President Rakshita Society


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7. To create awareness in the targeted group through the PRIs, NGOs and SHGgroups, the procedural steps in organic farming through resource persons.

8. To share findings of organic farming already being practiced in some holdings inthe district.

9. To demand governmental support for the development of the villages on the basisof Micro Planning.

10.To spread the message of Micro Planning and its relevance in rural development.

Methodology:

1. Presentation2. Experts participation3. Sharing of experience4. Group discussions5. Field visit

First Session: 10.30am to 1.30pm

Proceedings of the work shop: The workshop has been inaugurated by Sri R.S.

Ramarao, Project Officer, Micro Planning, NCRI, Hyderabad. Dr. Ramesh Babu, Project

Director Director, GRES-INDIA has invited Sri T. Babu Rao Naidu, Project Director,

DRDA, Srikakulam to preside the workshop as Chief Guest. Sri Ramesh Babu Project

Director, GRES-INDIA introduced the Chief Guest and other district officials and

participants, NGO groups, SHG group members to Sri R.S. Ramarao, NCRI, Hyderabad.

He gave an introduction about his organization, its theme, operational area and the

schemes involved therein actively and his future commitments to work with NCRI jointly

in Micro Planning and also in other units for the development of the down trodden rural

population in Srikakulam, Visakhapatanam and Vizianagaram districts.


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Madam Krishna Kumari, Secretary, GRES-INDIA has explained the activities of their

organization on the women empowerment front

being taken up in the district and expressed her

readiness to interact with major governmental

bodies like NCRI for the promotion of the living

status of women in the above three districts through

SHG groups for Micro Planning.

In his inaugural address Sri R.S. Ramarao, NCRI, Hyderabad explained about the

inception of NCRI, its head quarters, ministry, mission, goal and its various other units of

operation.

He revealed that the concept of Micro Planning is the need of hour in these days when

routine planning of schemes for the benefit of

down trodden in the villages lacked the

participation of the later and thus could not reach

its proper destination in practice, resulting in its

on the way pilferages and finally an achievement

too far from its target. Micro Planning is a tool to

involve the rural population at base level in

identifying the problem and their resources

specifically before formulating a plan. Mr. Rao

said that NCRI owing to its limited manpower is

planning to empower the rural institutes to bridge

this gap and educate the rural youth and

participant individuals and groups for preparing a

viable Micro Planning Scheme at grass root level,

to be implemented with active involve ment of various govt. and non govt. functionaries.

Coming to the topic of organic farming Sri R.S Ramarao has made a recollection of its

operation by the earlier generations successfully and informally and has distinguished


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organic farming from Green Revolution. He made a note on the abundant availability of

several inputs at village itself in organic farming. By virtue of including it in Micro

Planning Scheme, the need of the hour will be practically met, and he further revealed

that as such there is no dearth for marketing facilities of organic food products and more

so it is also a measure of social health which is a concern of the masses nowadays.. He

has explained the role of various functionaries both government and non-government

especially NGOs and SHG groups in preparing a viable Micro Planning Scheme in

organic farming. He has requested the Project Direct, DRDA who has attended the

workshop on behalf of the District Collector Srikakulam to involve all the government

functionaries concerned and active NGO groups for allocation of funds by referring in

DPC meetings and bankers meetings in the district for inclusion of Micro Planning

Schemes , after their preparation at grass root level.

Sri K. Baburao Naidu, Project Director, DRDA, Srikakulam as the Chief Guest of the

workshop during his address welcomed the concept and revealed that the NPM

Pranganam of Echerla of Srikakulam district is the seat of several novel agro training

programmes. He stressed the need of propagating

the message of Micro Planning with organic farming

in the present scenario where the productivity of

the mother soil is deteriorating at a fast pace, year

to year due to indiscriminate use of chemical

fertilizers, inorganic pesticides by the over

enthusiastic farming community and also causing

an environmental pollution threat to the mankind. He cited an example of growth of

forest trees purely on organic base without the intervention of any inorganic inputs. He

revealed that 5 NGO organizations in the district are already in action and are adopting

organic farming under IKP. He revealed that the NPA programme which works on the

principles of organic farming is being implemented in 192 villages in the district. He has

also arranged a power point presentation on the programmes being implemented in 16

mandals with NPM. Brochures of POLAM, a monthly government publication on

agriculture in Srikakulam explaining the progress of NPM have been distributed to the

participants in the workshop.


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Sri N. Subrahmaniam, Asst. General Manager, NABARD has stressed the need of

learning the techniques in organic farming by

the farmers community as per the guidelines of

the scientists and progressive farmers in the

field to be included in Micro Planning at base

level. He made a profound explanation on the

factor and product markets and certification

facilities in organic farming and also subsidy

patterns on various agro schemes through NABARD for organic fertilizer units of various

types.

Dr. Jamuna and Dr. Anil Kumar, Scientists of Krishi Vigyana Kendra (KVK),

Amudalavalasa have participated as resource

persons in this workshop. Dr. Jamuna has

categorically explained the destruction pattern

of soil structure and texture with the

indiscriminate use of inorganic inputs by the

present farming community and also she has

suggested the remedy only by replacing the

inorganic fertilizers with organic compost,

farmyard manure, vermiculture and so many organic supplementary inputs

availablelocally in order to get a good soil texture, structure and humus and requested the

farming community through the NGO & SHG organizations present to assimilate this fact

and adopt to organic farming through the schemes like Micro Planning for a sustainable

soil and environmental health. She gave a PowerPoint presentation on the above topic

explaining about the factors.


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Dr. Anil Kumar, Scientist (KVK) Amudalavalasa has explained the damage of

environment due to indiscriminate use of

chlorinated hydrocarbons and organophospherous,

pesticides and requested the farming community

though a PowerPoint presentation as to how such

menace can be gradually avoided by adopting the

usage of organic fertilizers and also pesticides

gradually and especially on the vegetable

cultivation.

Field Visit: The Project Director DRDA, has arranged a field visit to all the participants

in the workshop with in NPM Pranganam in which Palekar Multi tier organic farming,

poor mans cold storage for vegetables and Azolana bacterial field culture have all been

demonstrated with explanation by the field In charge. The above practical programmes

are well received by the audience owing to their attractive and successful status in the

field.

Lunch Break 1.30pm to 2.15pm

Second Session 2.15pm to 5.00pm:

Sri K. Venugopal Rao, Deputy Director of agriculture has appreciated the importance of

Micro Planning for organic farming as a

measure of sustainable organic agriculture. He

has compared the damages and benefits of

organic and inorganic cultivation. He has also

expressed his readiness to arrange for

certification of organic food products (farm

products) through the department in the event of

its inclusion in micro level planning.


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Sri M.R. Seshagiri Rao, honble Senior Civil Judge and Secretary district legal services

cell have spoken on the rich marketable

potentiality for the organic farm food products

and he was concerned about the eradication of

brokerage in marketing the organic farm food

products to enhance the profit levels of the

farmers involved in Micro Planning Mr. Justice

was interested to know whether such a joint

workshop could be organized in remote villages

in the district on the topic of planning for a

dispute resolution & youth sensitization for not being attracted towards extremism

inwhich case he has expressed his readiness to participate actively in such workshops.

Madam Sudha Rani, Advocate of Srikakulam has welcomed the concept of Micro

Planning with organic farming in the district and expressed her part of readiness for

propagating the marketing of organic farm food products in the district. She has also

made an appeal to the women audience of SHG groups for not hesitating to bring the

cases of women victims to her notice for redressal within the family court. She stressed

the need for empowerment of women to know about their legitimate rights.

Sri Manmadha Rao, Advocate of Srikakulam has made an appeal to the audience for

redressal of their grievances in the district consumers forum in the relevant cases for

which he expressed his readiness to represent on their behalf.

They have distributed brochures on consumer awareness and dispute resolution as apart

of their social/legal service activities.


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Sri K. Venugopal, State Secretary, A.P working journalists federation and President,

District press club of Srikakulam, felt that the

NPM projects be included in Micro Planning

and are to be executed by committed NGO

organizations like GRES, India. He has

promised vide coverage at every level of the

progress of Micro Planning Schemes in

Srikakulam and surrounding districts for a

viable propagation with in and out of the state

also.

Group discussions & clarifications:

The participant NGO, SHG, NPM and other farmer groups have split into six groups and

participated in group discussions among them on the topic of Micro Planning for organic

farming its modalities and probable villages in their respective areas to take up the

scheme. They could tentatively list out ten cluster villages in Srikakulam district for this

purpose for a viable organization of the scheme with various functionaries.

Their queries on technical side on organic farming have all been well clarified by Dr.

Jamuna and Dr. Anil Kumar and its implementation side by the Project Officer, Micro

Planning, NCRI, Sri R.S. Ramarao. At the end of the clarifications they have composed a

folk song on the subject and sung during the workshop by all the participant ladies and

gents for 5 minutes bringing out therein the bad effects of inorganic farming and its

remedy with organic farming.

Sri R.S. Ramarao, Project Officer, Micro Planning

Unit, NCRI released a brochure on Easy systems

in preparation of composts, published by the

Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University,

conveyed through Dr. Jamuna Rani, Scientist

KVK, Amudalavalasa.


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Dr. Ramesh Babu, Director, GRES, India thanked all the participants by proposing the

vote of thanks concluding the one day workshop on the topic.

Broad outcome of the workshop:

1. The importance of Micro Planning in rural areas has been well understood by the

target groups.

2. The NGO, SHG and NPM group participant members have been well convinced on

the concept, and could in fact tentatively suggest the group of villages for this project

from their respective areas.

3.The government functionaries also have expressed their readiness to participate in

their respective roles at the time of formulation of the plan at its threshold. The need

for further conduction of such joint workshops on other subjects like youth

sensitization and dispute resolution by NCRI and NGO organizations along with

government functionaries in remote villages in Srikakulam, Vizianagaram and Vizag

districts has been suggested by the honble judicial authorities to keep the youth away

from extremism and family disputes especially in agency areas.

*Thanks*

GRES-INDIA, Srikakulam .

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