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Community Managed Organic Farming System In Rainfed Areas

Community Managed Organic Farming System In Rainfed Areas (Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty). Non Pesticidal Management Main Objective To sustain agriculture based livelihoods Special focus on small and marginal farmers, Women, tenants, agriculture workers Technology

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Community Managed Organic Farming System In Rainfed Areas

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  1. Community Managed Organic Farming System In Rainfed Areas (Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty)

  2. Non Pesticidal Management • Main Objective • To sustain agriculture based livelihoods • Special focus on small and marginal farmers, Women, tenants, agriculture workers • Technology - Local natural resource based - Knowledge centric than product centric, hence support only in the form of knowledge - Community Resource Persons • Management • Community managed (SHGs)-financial and personnel • Program Strategies • Reducing cost of cultivation by adopting practices which involve low or no • expenditure • Resource persons to provide regular technical support in the village • Program anchored and regularly reviewed by the Federation of SHGs at village, • mandal and district level

  3. 2005-06 • 10 districts • 450 villages • 25 thousand acres • 15 thousand farmers 2006-07 • 17 districts • 1050 villages • 2.0 lakh acres • 80 thousand farmers 2007-08 18 districts 2008 Kharif (Provisional) • Benefits • Ecological • Economical • Social capital The Reach

  4. SAVINGS 2006-07

  5. Impact of Savings on Livelihoods • Reclaimed the Land from mortgage • SF / MF taken additional lands on lease for NPM cultivation • Big farmers are preferring NPM, SF / MF for share - cropping to save their investment on inputs

  6. Out Comes Pesticides sale – NPM Vs Non-NPM • * Expenditure on pesticide is only by non NPM farmers. • Due to introduction of BT Cotton sale of pesticide has reduced.

  7. Broad expansion strategy • New mandal will be included when reaches morethan 70% villages • NPM, Marketing, Dairy over lapping • Focus on Tribal Mandals, as pesticide comsumption increasing • “Total Districts” approach for Vizianagaram, Anantapur planned.

  8. Financial System

  9. Organic Farming Systems – Operational Strategies Entered MOU for Quality Control Target – 2000MT Pesticide Free this year Chillies

  10. 4. Cropping Systems

  11. Evolving Suitable Institutional Systems • V.O. (SHG), Federation of SHGs at Mandal / District level. • At village level farmers organised into small (Homogenaus) Organic farmer groups (Sasya Mitra Sanghas) - Operate Organic farmer field school (Sendriya Polam Badi) • Federate at Village Level as collectives Organise production Internal Quality Control (PGS) • Federation of these collectives Take up Marketing Activities with the help of VOs • Village Resource Centre: builds capacities to farmers, agriculture workers, small entrepreneurs - involving pre-production and post production processes.

  12. Technology transfer • VA – practicing farmer/ per village organise organic farming school every week with the help of Convener, Co-convener for group of 20 – farmers using V.R.C. • CA – 5 villages, • Technical support and monitoring by farmer CRP • Identified NGOs, KVKs, Support Community Mobilization, Capacity Building, Monitoring. • MMS enters into agreement with NGOs • 90 NGOs • 2 KVKs are working, Monitoring the program • State level SPMU established in SERP • CSA, consortium of NGOs – SANET Technical Support • Planning , Monitoring field level activities • Piloting appropriate Institution Systems • Designing resource material, Capacity Building progress • Monitoring and review, process documentation and reporting • Discussions with SAU, ICRISAT in progress

  13. Human Resources • Identification of CA/VA, One season in advance, • Training in preceding Rabi • Concerned sarpanch, V.O – exposure visit • NGOs work in deepening in their villages • Resource Organizations: • CSA, NGOs part of SANET, • KVKs • Scientists of ICAR • SAU • Department of Agriculture experienced in Organic Agriculture

  14. DLFF ZS MLFF MMS VLFF VO FFS SHG SHG Farmer SHG Institution Building There will be forward and backward linkages

  15. Village Farmer Federation • Includes crop farmer, Dairy farmer and Horticultural farmer • Basically work on: • Production and marketing plans • Technical Capacity Building • Post-Harvest technologies • Indicators at Village level • Productivity of the cropping system, than individual crop • Increase in net realizable incomes • Reduction in pesticide, Fertilizer usage • Extent of Internalization of inputs • Decrease in Distress and tied up sales • Increased nutritional security

  16. Thank You

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