MilkIT Project Review Meeting Almora 03/12/13

1. MilkITProject Review MeetingAlmora 03/12/13 Activity review India Thanammal Ravichandran, Nils Teufel and team Project review meeting Almora

2. Introduction • Brief review 2012 • Details on 2013 by component • Institutional strengthening • Productivity enhancement • Knowledge sharing Project review meeting Almora

3. Brief recap 2012 • Partner selection • Research or development focus • Government or non-government emphasis • Village & household census • Basis for further data collection • Site selection Project review meeting Almora

4. Village census/Selection of mid-cluster • Village census data used for comparison • Criteria • Road accessibility(distance to road and distance to town) • Dairy animal population • Institutional base(SHG or federation activity; milk marketing) • Feed availability(cultivated land, grassland, cropping pattern) Project review meeting Almora

5. Household census • All selected cluster villages including the settlements • To characterise/classify the cluster • Information • Dairy animals • Production details • Milk selling pattern • Transaction feed and animals Project review meeting Almora

6. Site Selection Districts: 2 (IFAD project areas) Blocks: 1 in each district(based on IFAD, dairy, partners, secondary data) Max clusters: long-list of 40 villages / block based on partner experience and access Mini clusters: 2-4 villages close together Mid clusters : 2-3 mini-clusters, field worker area, IP IPs: 2 mid-clusters -> 2 feed IPs -> 1 DVC IP/ block Project review meeting Almora

7. Considerations-mid clusters-Sult • Select on near-road and one far-away mid-cluster • Barkinda • Better road connectivity (<1km) • Favourable to connect to formal milk marketing,i.e. Aanchal, state dairy co-operative • More dairy animals and more cultivated land • Titoli • Not on road (2 km distance) • More dairy animals, more cultivated land • Farmers selling milk near congregation point Project review meeting Almora

8. Sult mid-clusters Project review meeting Almora

9. Consideration mid-clusters Bageshwar New feed IP • Saing included • Formal milk marketing (Aanchal and federation level) • More dairy animals, more cultivated land • Strong institutional set-up (SHGs) • Chhona included • Good base for marketing platform, near to main road • KVK is in between these two clusters • But limited interest in improving marketing and feeding • limited land availability - less feed • more milk marketing to employees of mine factory - pressure • limited potential for improvement • Extension of activities to Joshiguan cluster • More land, feed availability • More interest for dairy/ crossbred animals • Easy access to market Project review meeting Almora

10. Bageshwar mid-clusters Project review meeting Almora

11. Component 1Institutional strengthening • 2013 • Enhancing innovation capacity • Involving local stakeholders in dairy value chain (DVC) analysis • Emerging basket of innovations Project review meeting Almora

12. 1.1 Enhancing innovation capacity • Assess current innovation strategies • Actor mapping • Development history • Analyse innovation processes • Documentation of innovation platform meetings and follow-up activities:action plans, GoogleDrive, synthesis Project review meeting Almora

13. Actor mapping -Development history • Interviews with different actors involved in development activities • Dairy development board (DDB)-Aanchaland Mahila dairy VikasPrayojna • Block development office (BDO) • Agricultural information centre/VPKAS/KVK(agriculture department/ICAR) • Animal husbandry department (veterinary clinic) • Forestry department • NGOs • BAIF-(active in neighbouring block) Project review meeting Almora

14. Interventions-DDB-since 1996 Formation of milk producing co-operative society Collection of milk and marketing after value addition Subsidy for transportation of milk Incentive for head-load from remote villages Credit and subsidy for crossbred purchase Supply of feed and subsidy First aid medicines and training to secretary Training paravets for insemination Exposure visit for dairy farmers Distribution of fodder seeds Project review meeting Almora

15. Innovation platform-DVC Meeting every 3-4 months Discussion of many issues around dairy value chains - marketing, input support Representation of farmers from each village Participation of various institutions/ stakeholders; difficult to maintain continuity Private sector is missing- see little benefits / no incentive Project review meeting Almora

16. Innovation platform actors state dairy co-operative (Aanchal) national NGO (BAIF, breed improvement) IFAD staff farmers Innovation platform DVC Partner NGOs veterinary officer block & district administration Missing: private sector! Project review meeting Almora

17. Net map example Project review meeting Almora

18. IP meeting documentation Record results Formulate action plans Record follow-up meetings and results Share - GoogleDrive Project review meeting Almora

19. 1.2 Local stakeholders involved in DVC analysis • Rapid Market Assessment • Micro-business training • Co-op development Bageshwar • Replication in Sult? • Strategies for involving local decision makers • Advisory council • Participation in innovation platforms Project review meeting Almora

20. Value chain assessment • Limited value chain- sale of milk is less • Formal • Aanchal • Federation level milk co-operative- IFAD • Informal • Neighbours • Tea shops in village or near market • VCA mapping tool-Derek Baker/Participatory net map • Through PRA • Not many channels in village • Input service is limited to Aanchal • Identification of marketing constraints Project review meeting Almora

21. SWOT-Aanchal linkage Project review meeting Almora

22. 1.3 Emerging basket of innovations • Innovation platforms as initial forum for developing innovative ideas: action plans • Collaborative development of proposed technologies with participants and experts • Discussion and assessment of innovations in innovation platforms: Issues regarding specific interventions discussed in IP meetings (e.g. development of Aanchal activities in Sult and growth of co-op in Bageshwar. But formal assessment still missing. Project review meeting Almora

23. BhupendraRana-INHERE Project review meeting Almora

24. Outcomes-Sult • Producer co-operative society in Barkinda mid-cluster for Aanchal milk collection • Musoli, Sutholi and Baseri villages • 46 members registered since March with Aanchal – state co-op • Price based on fat and lactometer reading • Issues with transparency (secretary of village co-op soc) • Besarbagarh and GehnaTimli (villages outside initial selection!) • Started this month • Collection points cover 2-3 villages • Aanchal support through inputs (feed, animal health, breed), exposure visit to Donogiri dairy • Breed improvement also through - AH department/ BAIF • One paravettraining - Titoli cluster, ULDB • Adoption of 10 SHGs (Barkinda cluster) for new ILSP programme/IFAD - outside current IPs Project review meeting Almora

25. Anecdotal evidence- Bhuwan Pant, CHIRAG Project review meeting Almora

26. Outcomes - Bageshwar Jeganath milk producer co-operative Lack of Anchal support, IFAD response for payment- initiated for own co-operative Since Feb NABARD support for CB loan/subsidy- 12 animals AH department support for health care / CB subsidy (4 animals) KVK/VPKAS support for technical feeding Self purchase of cream separator Project review meeting Almora

27. ifjp; Jeganath Milk producer Co-operative Background • dqyxzke % 11 ¼5 ifj;kstuk {ks= ls ckgj½ • Participating villages : 11 (5-non selected villages) • dqyifjokj, households: 102 • dqynqX/k dh ek=k milk/d % 90&100yh0 ¼izfr fnu½ • dqynqX/k lxzag.kmilk Feb-Oct: 18]409 yh0 ¼Qjojh & vDVwcj½ • rS;kjnqX/k mRikn % ngh]iuhj]dzhe]eBBk • Milk products : Paneer, Curd, Butter milk, cream • dqyykxr, operation cost : 19% (collection, rent, electricity, transport, sales person) • vkSlrvk; farmer income/mo% :0 600&1600 izfrekg@izfrfdlku Project review meeting Almora

28. SWOT 1 Project review meeting Almora

29. SWOT 2 Project review meeting Almora

30. Component 2Productivity 2013 Implementation strategies for feed innovations Diffusion methods for feed innovations Strategic learnings Project review meeting Almora

31. 2.1 Implementation strategies for feed innovations • Establishment of feed innovation platforms • Identify appropriate technology options and initiate respective farmer trials • Economic assessment of interventions still outstanding • Inclusion of various local development organisations in feed IP platforms • Development officers, research (VPKAS, Jhansi), universities (Pantnagar, Palampur), gov development organisations (Aanchal, NABARD) Project review meeting Almora

32. Feed innovation platform Also main meetings every 3 months More individual village level meetings for follow-up Limited to nearby villages Stakeholders of AnimHusbDep/Aanchal/KVK participate; sometime Agriculture Dept. Expert support by VPKAS/ other institutions - outside IP Feed is recognised as important issue – various opportunities identified Main areas: Green fodder, processing/storage Limited seed availability for new fodder species (e.g. grasses and legumes, both temperate and humid)Also, farmers get disturbed if the technology fails(Setaria grass- no germination; monsoon inundation) NABARD support for grass land development Project review meeting Almora

33. Interventions/innovations 1 • Dual-purpose cereals • wheat/ barley /maize /oat /finger millet • From VPKAS technical support • For fodder in winter/ more fodder and grain • Easy acceptance/agreement • Napier grass • Source VPKAS, AH dept for Sult • NABARD support for van panchayat development- Napier plantation (5 tons) - Bageshwar • Setaria grass • Seed source from Palampur university • Not germinated- seed viability? More rain? Project review meeting Almora

34. Interventions/innovations 2 • Feed trough/feed drums • For prevention of fodder wastage- recently started • NABARD support in Bageshwar • Chaff cutter • Failure of typical manual chaff cutter- labour requirement • Small knife developed - acceptance is good • Will try the chaff cutter from Gujarat • Hay stacking/ Silage • Started in Saing and Garikhet village- some early adopters • Treatment with molasses and urea • Will try for 3-4/ farmers for 10-15 vill.- farmer preference • Analysis of grass after treatment Project review meeting Almora

35. Silage Napier Feed trough Demo silage Silage pack

36. 2.2 Diffusion methods for feed innovations • Scaling-out approaches for feed innovations • Little so far • Technologies have not been optimised (annual cycle of feeding; machines just being tested) • Will have to be linked to the scaling-out of the innovation platform approach • Will require institutions with own initiative and interest Project review meeting Almora

37. 2.3 Strategic learnings • FEAST • Results of round 1(72 hh randomly selected from selected settlements) • Nutritional analysis of hay • Base-line results from 2012 • Non-treatment samples 2013,waiting to collect post-treatment samples • Documentation of trial & feed IP results • Use of GoogleDrive system developed for DVC • Synthesis? Limited so far Project review meeting Almora

38. FEAST - constraints • Sult • Shortage of green fodder in summer especially in May/June • Lack of quality veterinary services and breeding services • Lack of accessibility to concentrate feed • Fodder wastage during feeding • Bageshwar • Shortage of green fodder in summer (May/June) and winter(December/January) • Fodder wastage during feeding • Lack of feeding knowledge for dairy animals • Limited AI service especially to buffalo • Less grass land and less quality of grass • High feed cost for purchase of grass from other areas (Chhona) • Limited concentrate feeding Project review meeting Almora

39. FEAST - seasonal feed supply Project review meeting Almora

40. FEAST - feed contributions Project review meeting Almora

41. Hay analysis 480 samples analysed Results show better values than rice straw:Hay: ndm: 1.16, ivomd: 50.1%; compared to Rice straw (Anantapur AP): ndm: 1.15, ivomd: 41.2% (ref-Thanammal-Msc study) Differences between clusters in nutritive values:High in Saing, low in Chhona Results shared in IP feed meeting Urea/molasses treatment of hay suggested for increasing nutritive value hay (currently under trial) Project review meeting Almora

42. Component 3Knowledge sharing Local knowledge sharing Wider knowledge sharing Project review meeting Almora

43. 3.1 Local knowledge sharing Knowledge gaps and pathways Advisory council meeting Links to IFAD/Ajeeveka/ILSP Staff meetings - experience sharing Staff capacity-building Exposure visit farmers Documentation & Communication Project review meeting Almora

44. KuldeepThapiyal, CHIRAG Project review meeting Almora

45. Knowledge sharing – details 1 • Advisory council meeting • 3 conducted, 1 Dehradun, 2 Almora • Participation from different institutions • Update plus planning, ideas for further improvement • Links to IFAD • Periodic sharing with IFAD staffs- Almora and Bageshwar • Adoption of SHGs in Sult area for ILSP • Support to co-operative in Bageshwar • Participation in IP meetings Project review meeting Almora

46. Knowledge sharing • Staff meeting • Every 3 months • To share experiences and learning • To plan next 3 months • Training/capacity building staffs • Training in Pant Nagar veterinary college • Disease, feed and breed management, economic assessment of dairy system, exposure to different cattle troughs, breed etc • Better linkage with technical expert for further communication • Visit to Anand & Mehsana dairy For better management of co-operative • Feeding systems/ tools • Machinery for dairy products Project review meeting Almora

47. Knowledge sharing • Exposure visit to Farmers • Donogiri dairy co-operative (Aanchal) • Pant Nagar kishanmela • Documentation & communication • IP minutes • GoogleDrive • Village activities • Outreach material(newsletter & leaflets with VPKAS/KVK & Pant Nagar) Project review meeting Almora

49. Constraints for expansion (Kuldeep) • Sufficient resources for further expansion of activities required. • Seasonal fluctuations of milk supply: • Lean periods with limited lead to lost customer confidence • Flush periods with excess supply lead to lost producer confidence • Maintenance of acquired equipment necessary; more training required • Ensure that interest of farmers is maintained, especially when some innovations are less successful • Ownership of IPs has to be established with appropriate institutions • How to ensure consistent quality of milk • More support from ILRI for better documentation to reach wider audience and to create more useful outputs • How to reach next level of expansion and ensure sustainability? • How to make engagement in and improvement of crop and livestock production socially desirable and an attractive investment opportunity?(Most active villagers are migrating out of cropping and livestock). Project review meeting Almora

50. 3.2 Wider knowledge sharing • Develop knowledge sharing strategy • Newsletter (with PantnagarUni) • Involve other institutions more actively • Monitor implementation of knowledge sharing strategy at local level (?) • Synthesis of knowledge sharing experiences and formulation of lessons learnt • Case studies • Journal papers Project review meeting Almora