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Land to Lab approach for promoting farmer’s innovation

T.J James, Hubby Mathew ,Pramod Chacko Peermade Development Society (PDS) Peermade PO ,Idukki ,Kerala, India www.pdslandtolab.org . www.pdspeermade.com

Peermade Development Society

Natural resource management Rural technology promotion Rural health promotion

Idukki : Profile

• Hilly district of Kerala
• Most economically and industrially

backward

• Tribal communities, Marginal farmers &

plantation workers

• Agriculture is main source of livelihood
• Cash crops – Cardamom , Pepper,

Coffee, Tea and other cash crops

Lab to Land 2 Land to lab

Our experiences Lab to land model - neglected the feasibility at field level. Farmers innovation and creativity Underestimated ,Underutilized, Unrecognized

Land to Lab

• Documentation
• Development
• Dissemination

Documentation

Methodologies

• Women groups &

farmer’s clubs

• Competitions & Media
• Field offices
• Scanning of literature
• Process
• Detailed Documentation
• Field visits by experts
• Experts comments
• Prior Art Search
• Test and field Trial

Achievements

• National Award for scouting innovations
• Identified more than ten thousand practices
• Methodology for scouting women knowledge practices

Vide range of Innovations

• Plant Varieties
• Plant protection practices
• Farm implements
• Cultivation practices

Analysis

• Location Specific

Problems Handpump.mpg

• Innovations more in high

risk areas

• R&D Institutes

Ignored

• Private Sector not

interested

Methodology for identifying the location specific problems

• Arrowroot grinding machine; manual

processing is a tedious and time consuming

• Cardamom drier : firewood shortage, high

rent for curing and theft of good quality cardamom

• Thinking out of box-

Shoot Borer in Cardamom

• Prompt reaction of

farmers

Constraints

• Community / Individual
• Competition model

Innovation Development

Methodologies

• Technical & financial

support to innovator

• Linking with R&D

institutes

• Arrange mentors

Process

• Help innovator to develop

proposals

• Mobilize support from

various sources

• Achievements

Mobilized support for developing arrow root grinder , cardamom drier ,pepper thresher, banana slicing machines , low cost pumps pepper &cardamom varieties,

Innovation development : Lessons Learnt

• Mechanical innovations- financial

involvements & time consuming

• Issues of IPR

Cardamom polishing machine

Dissemination

Methodologies Recognition at National level Innovation – service based enterprises

• Process
• Active involvement of

media

• Support to innovators for

starting enterprises

• Entrepreneurship training

programme

Achievements

• Service based enterprises established in

cardamom polishing machine, pepper thresher and cardamom drier

Cardamom drier

• Drying cost is minimum
• Drying Time
• Quality of drying ( farmers are getting 20%

more price)

7 9 7 Cost / Kg ( Rs) Low Medium High Risk Easy Easy Difficult Handling More More Less Uniformity Possible Possible Difficult Humidity Maintenance (40%-50%) Possible Possible Difficult Temperature Maintenance (constant ) 24-28 12-15 30- 40 Time required for drying (hrs) 70 75-100 400-450 Wet Capacity (Kg) Innovated Low cost drier Electrical Traditional Parameters

Cost Benefit Analysis

• Curing cost for one month
• LPG 10 cylinders @ Rs.950 = 9500.00
• Manpower: = 2000.00

Total 11500.00

• Sales Turnover in a month
• 200 Kg/ cylinder x 10 cylinder x Rs. 7.00/kg

14000.00

• Profit: Rs. 2500.00

Pepper Thresher

• Capital/ Cost of thresher : 18,500.00
• Capacity of Machine : 600kg/ hour x 3hrs/day

=1800 Kg/day

• Electricity Consumption : 6 units /hour ie 18 units

x 5 Rs/unit = 90 Rs. x 15 days = 1350.00 Rs.

• Season : 4 months
• Labor charge : 3000.00 Rs (200.00 Rs.x 15

days) (video of thresher )

• Service charge : 720 Rs.(40ps.x1800 kgs.) x 15

days = 10, 800 Rs.

• Profit : Rs.7450.00

Cardamom polishing machine

• Capital/ Cost of Polishing Machine : 13,500.00Rs.
• Capacity of Machine : 100kg/hr x 3 hrs/day = 300

kgs./day

• Electricity Consumption : 1unit/hr ie 3 units x 15days =

45 units x 5 Rs.= 225 Rs.

• Season : 4 months
• Labour charge : 3000.00 Rs.(200.00 Rs.x 15 days)
• Service charge : 600.00 Rs.(2.00 Rs.x 300.00 kgs.) x 15

days = 9000.00 Rs.

• Profit:Rs.5775.00

Lessons Learnt

• Large scale diffusion/

commercialization has limitations

• Formal recognition;

facilitates diffusion

• Innovative

technologies some time need innovative methods for diffusion

Capacity Building & Empowerment: Users group

• Included in the training programme
• Development Task force
• Innovators Technology Development

Center

• Newsletter

Land to Lab

• Supplementing formal

research works of R&D institutes

• Promoting diversity at local

level

• Methodology for identifying

location specific technologies

• Tool for promoting farmers

innovation

• Ensuring participation of all

stakeholders-

• Involving creative communities

and people

Financial Policy Makers Farmers Women groups NGO Mentors Entrepreneur R&D IPR farmer Innovation

Quotable quotes

• ‘There will be several hardships and unless you have

determination to achieve, your attempt will be a failure; your journey for a successful innovator may ruin your family relations and personnel relations. You should realize that before stepping into this field’

• ‘success of research tempted me to continue the works.

If the results were negative at the first time, I will not continue the experiments. The positive results forced me to travel the ways which I did not intend

• ‘Though my variety doesn’t fetch any income to me, I am
• happy. I used to walk in the field during evening time.

The growth of the wines of ash gourd is in the evening times and we can actually see this. This fills my heart’