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Role of CSOs In developing climate smart farmers

J S Gosalia Shroff Voluntary Organizations Consortium (SVOC) India

SVOC - Sustainable Development Approach

SVOC Integrated Development

Natural Resource Management Rain Water Harvesting & Management Enhancing Agriculture Productivity Soil Health Management Rural Livelihood Enhancement Women Empowerment Waste Management Training & Capacity Building

SVOC - A group of NGOs supported by Shroff family Empowering development of 1000 villages in Gujarat and Maharashtra

FPOs – for farmers, by farmers

• FPO – Farmer Producer Organization
• A model improving income of farmers by leveraging

economy of scale

• Will help in developing market linkages
• Exposing farmers to new market, technology
• Improved income – more financial power will help

farmers to invest in climate smart solutions

FPOs – for farmers, by farmers

• SVOC – formation of 4 FPOs, 2000 farmers
• For 2 FPOs, sources “Producers Organization

Development and Upliftment Corpus (PRODUCE) Fund from NABARD

• Dhatarvadi Farmer Agro Producer Company Ltd.
• Gauraj Rural Agro Producer Company Ltd.
• Under FPO models, different ‘Climate Smart

Solutions’ have good potential to achieve ‘Economy of Scale’

FPOs – for farmers, by farmers

• Dhatarvadi Farmer Agro Producer Company Ltd.
• Working in Rajula block, Amareli district, Gujarat
• Registered on November 30, 2016
• No. of farmers holding share: 770
• Paid up share capital: INR 423,000
• Business turn over till date: INR 4.2 million

FPOs – for farmers, by farmers

• Gauraj Rural Agro Producer Company Ltd.
• Working in Bhavnagar block & district, Gujarat
• Registered on January 20, 2017
• No. of farmers holding share: 146
• Paid up share capital: INR 39,900
• Business turn over till date: INR 14,000

Zero Till Cultivation for Rice crop

• 183 farmers adopted this technology in Roha block,

Maharashtra

• SVOC served as advisor, guide and facilitator
• Rice – major source of Methane generation under

traditional cropping system

• Zero till cultivation:
• Preserve soil biota & ecosystem
• No flooding - maintain aerobic Condition-no Methane

generation

• Water saving, improving residual soil moisture leads to

higher productivity for next crop

Zero Till Cultivation for Rice crop

• Total area covered under

this system – 74 Hectors

• Economic benefit of this

system – INR 17,450/ Hectors

• Overall economic benefits –

INR 1.3 millions

Value Addition to Farm Produce

• Ambaye village in Lote block, Maharashtra
• Project developed for women farmers with objectives
• f:
• Encouraging to work in cooperative environment
• Inducing Business Approach to cultivation of Finger millet
• Capacity building by way of imparting appropriate

knowledge and making marketable value added products

• f Finger millet
• Project developed with support from MAVIM (State

Women Economic Development Corporation) and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Value Addition to Farm Produce

• 360 women are involved in

project, 143 acres area under the crop

• Prepared value added

produce from crop produce

• Total value of value added

farm produce - INR 0.6 million

• Total cost for work - INR 0.33

million

• Total benefit to women - INR

0.27 million

Khanderaopura -Zero Waste Village

• Khanderaopura, Vadodra District, Gujarat State, 185

families, 1500 persons

• Became ‘Zero Waste Village’ under guidance of SVOC
• as a catalyst and an enabler
• ZWV goal: not a one-time event but a context-specific

process

• Funding includes:
• CSR funds (70%)
• Panchayat Institutions (23%)
• Community cost recovery charges (5%)
• Voluntary donations (1%)

Khanderaopura -Zero Waste Village

• Meeting with PRIs

and Village Leaders

• Village Mapping
• Transact Walk
• Technical Feasibility

Assessment

Nee eed Asse ssessment

• Sensitization
• Construction of Household

Sanitary Latrine & Household Bathrooms and all are under use

• Separate Dustbins for dry

and wet waste collection & garbage separation

• Door-to-Door Garbage

Collection system by PRI

Managin ing Ho Household Was aste

• Repairing of Drainage

systems

• Grey Water recycling –

established Bio-Filter

• Safe Drinking Facilities to all

Households

• Complete facilities in School

and Aanganwadi

• FYM and Vermi Compost

Units for Farm Waste Management

Com Communit ity Le Level l Waste Management

Khanderaopura -Zero Waste Village

• Achieving zero waste village
• Social benefits in terms of health and wellness status
• Reduced expenditure on health care improves

discretionary income of the households

• Much-improved quality and

sustainability of land, water and other natural resources

• Several implications for

sustainable development, improving incomes of agriculture households, improving quality of life.

Khanderaopura -Zero Waste Village

• Intangible benefits
• Renewed confidence among the

Village community that they can collectively, with appropriate partnerships, attain difficult targets to improve quality of life

• Establishment of resilient

communities which could provide decentralized context-specific broad-based development

Block development approach

• Sustainable development model – Rajula block,

Amareli district, Gujarat

• Covering 72 villages, human population – 1,50,000
• Major objectives of project:
• Developing rain water harvesting structures
• Adoption of improved farming practices and efficient use of

water

• Development of sustainable institutional mechanism
• Supplement farm income for reducing vulnerability due to

climate uncertainties, by Animal Husbandry

• Improving forward & backward market

Block development approach

• Total convergence – Rs.204 million in 11 years span
• Water Resource Management (Hydrology):
• 16 new rain water harvesting structures - 1120 ha land got

irrigation security, improvement in ground water quality

• 9 renovation (desilting) of existing structures: 1728 ha area

received fertile silt which resulted in reduced requirement

• f chemical fertilizer
• 441 units of Roof rain water harvesting structures at

household

• Efficient use of water through promotion of drip irrigation –

648 ha land, 50% saving in irrigation water

• Integrated approach on 206 ha land in Kotadi Lift Irrigation

Project which resulted in an average water saving by 30%

Block development approach

• Natural Resource Management (Soil, Agriculture)
• Promotion of composting – 416 farmers, instead of burning

farm waste, farmers converted into compost, thereby, improvement in soil fertility (1248 MT waste converted to compost from 624 ha area)

• Promoting legumes as inter crop – Nitrogen fixation in soil

and also providing food security (Nitrogen fixation - 35 MT in 593 ha (75 MT urea saving)

• Reduction in input cost by 20% in Cotton and Groundnut

crops; (fertilizers, chemicals, labor and other inputs)

• Improved Productivity in Groundnut by 15 %, in Cotton by

16 % and in Wheat by 14 %

For further information, please contact J S Gosalia gosalia.jayprakash@excelind.com

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