Orientation course for Ethiopian Team on NRM and Rainfed Agriculture

1. Orientation course for Ethiopian Team on NRM and Rainfed Agriculture - Overall structure

2. Participatory Development of Natural Resources (Land, Water and Trees) • Demand-driven approach (net planning, direct funding to the community) • Better fund flow upto the last level (transfer of funds directly into the bank account of labourers and other service providers) • Integration of watershed programme with Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) • Intensive use of Information Technology (IT)

3. Sustainable and Equitable Management of Developed Natural Resource • Pooling of Bore well water for sharing with those who do have wells; and using it for critical irrigation to rainfed crops • Moving from conservation of soil to improvement in health of soil (through addition of biomass based organic manure) • Natural regeneration of tree component in common land through social fencing; before making investment on plantation of new trees (Based upon the experiences in Ananthapur district)

4. New paradigm in Rainfed Farming System • Agriculture • System of Rice Intensification (SRI) • Non-pesticidal methods of pest management (NPM) • Processing of NPM produce (red gram) at village level • NPM shop for production and supply of inputs at local level • Community managed seeds system (CMSS)

5. New paradigm in Rainfed Farming System • Livestock for poor • Fattening of ram lamb and goat kids • Reduction in mortality through community managed preventive vaccination, day-care centre for goat kids, Community managed insurance and night shelters • Backyard poultry (rearing of BYP by individual households and collective marketing of eggs by the CBOs) • Easing Bullock draft constraints

6. New paradigm in Rainfed Farming System • Inland Fisheries (Please refer the publications) • Strengthening of fisheries cooperative societies through organization of producers groups on the pattern of women SHGs • Production of fisheries by the cooperative societies after elimination of external contractors • Local marketing of fish through vendors before taking the produce to distant markets • Local production of fingerlings through cooperative societies

7. List of publications in the Menu Rom CD • Management of developed Natural Resources • 10 ways to make living soils possible • Pooling of bore well water and using it for critical irrigation in rainfed crops B. Sustainable Agriculture • Community managed seed systems • Framework for integration of SRI with MGNREGS • SRI – Growing more rice water with less water • Realise full potential of paddy plant – SRI method of paddy cultivation • SRI – desirable and non desirable practices

8. List of publications in the Menu Rom CD contd…. C. Livestock for poor • Ram lamb rearing – a potential enterprise in promoting local breed • Community managed livestock insurance • Community managed preventive health care services – process steps • Improving goat production systems – APDAI • Strengthening the backyard poultry – Experiences of APDAI • Synthesizing experiences In Backyard poultry

9. List of publications in the Menu Rom CD contd…. D. Inland Fisheries • Revitalising fisheries in rainfed areas • Reviving community managed tank based fisheries E. General • Beyond perfunctory Rhetoric and Helplessness • Proceedings of the National workshop on new paradigm for rainfed farming

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