MilkIT Project Progress Meeting Almora 27-28/11/12

1. MilkITProject Progress MeetingAlmora 27-28/11/12 Activity review India Thanammal Ravichandran, Nils Teufel

2. Comp1: Institutional strengthening ·         Site selection ·         Village census ·         Actor mapping/development history ·         Value chain assessment ·         Partner involvement

3. Component 1Institutional strengthening Site selection Village census Actor mapping/development history Innovation platform meetings Value chain assessment Partner involvement

4. Site Selection Districts – 2 (IFAD) Blocks – 1 in each block (IFAD, dairy, partners) Max clusters – partner long-list (40 vill / block) Mini clusters – 2-4 villages close together Mid clusters – 2-3 mini-clusters, field worker, IP IPs: 2 mid-clusters -> 2 feed IPs -> 1 DVC IP

5. Site selection-max clusters • 2 blocks selected - Sult (Almora) and Bageshwar (Bageshwar) (Bhikyasain, Almora as control) • Selection of Max clusters (village domains) • Difficult to select villages from list of villages from block • Partners proposed long list from their village domains • This will help partners to work efficiently • Sult- 30 villages (Kuneel, Kunidhar max clusters) • (Bikyasain-12 villages (Naula max cluster)) • Bageshwar- 39 villages (Kathpuriachina and Devaldar max clusters)

6. Mini clusters, Mid-clusters 2-4 villages/settlements grouped into mini clusters 2-4 mini clusters into mid-clusters- this will help for the interventions by field facilitators Sult- 5 mid-clusters identified (Bikyasain-2 mid clusters (control)) Bageshwar-7 mid-clusters identified Comparison of mid-clusters for selection of 2 in each block

7. Selection of mid-cluster • Village census data used for comparison • Criteria • Road accessibility (dist_road and town dist) • Dairy animal population • Institutional base (SHG or Federation activity-milk marketing) • Feed availability (cultivated land, grassland, cropping pattern) • One feed innovation platform for each selected mid-cluster • One marketing innovation platform in each block for 2 mid-clusters (feed innovation platforms)

8. Sult mid cluster

9. Comparison of mid-clusters-Sult

10. Table: Road accessibility and institutions- Sult mid-clusters

11. Considerations • Select on near-road and one far-away mid-cluster • Barkinda • Better road connectivity (<1km) • Favourable to connect formal milk marketing ie Anchal • More dairy animals and more cultivated land • Titoli • Far-away road (2 km) • More dairy animals, more cultivated land • Farmers selling milk near congregation point

12. Bageshwar mid-cluster

13. Table 28: Road accessibility and Institutions - Bageshwar mid-clusters

14. Table 27: Households sell milk by type of buyer - Bageshwar mid-clusters

15. Consideration-Bageshwar • Pagna excluded (>3.5km distance to road) • Saing included • Formal milk marketing (Anchal and federation level) • More dairy animals, more cultivated land • Strong institutional set-up (SHG) • Chhona included • Good base for marketing platform • KVK is in between this two clusters

16. Village census • For characterisation of villages for selection • 30 villages in Sult and 12 villages in Bikyasain • 39 villages in Bageshwar • Information on • Dairy animals • Land details/feed sources • Accessibility to market • Marketing channels • Institutional base • Limitations • Asking to one or two key person • Use of existing data by partners

17. Actor mapping -Development history Interviews with different actors for the development activities Change of officials over years so they are not aware of previous activities Have to ask other actors for history of other activities

18. Actors-Sult Dairy development board (DDB)-Anchal and Mahila dairy VikasPrayojna Block development office (BDO) Agricultural information centre(agriculture department Animal husbandry department (veterinary clinic) Forestry department BAIF-(active in neighbouring block) INHERE

19. Actors-Bageshwar DDB – ULDB? IFAD - Ajeeveeka Animal husbandry department BAIF KrishiVikas Kendra (KVK) - VPKAS BDO

20. Interventions-INHERE

21. Interventions-Chirag

22. Interventions-Chirag

23. 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 animal 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

24. Value chain assessment • Formal • Anchal • Federation level milk co-operative • Informal • Neighbours • Tea shops in village or near market

25. VCA Tools • VCA mapping tool-Derek Baker • Through PRA-Musoli, Sekhuda (sult) and Matela village • good tool • Not many channels in village • Input service is limited to Anchal • Farmers not aware of c-operative approach in Sult area but farmers aware in Bageshwar block • Identification of marketing constraints

26. Tool sent by Alan • Too long, didn’t shorten • Farmers not interesting, and left after half session Conclusions • Have to develop tool mixing all

27. Participatory VCA-NetMap - Regina Birner Visualisation of links/relationships Entry point for VCA Third dimension: importance of actors and their influencing factors Easy to visualize the power factors Tried in Gahnaheetvillage – participants enjoyed the exercise Lots of farmer participation

28. Net map example