Mushroom Cultivation in the Baksa District of Assam; Promotion of Small Tea Gardens in the Dibrugarh District of Assam; Enhancement of Fishery in North Tripura; Ginger Cultivation in Meghalaya; Promotion of Non Timber Forest Products (NTFP) in Dhamtari, Chhattisgarh and support to Rickshaw Pullers to become self reliant (owner) in Raipur, Durg and Bhillai in Chhattisgarh.
Former tea garden workers are now cultivating tea in their own land whereas earlier they worked in others gardens. Along with empowerment expecting a fair price for their produce because of marketing & other support interventions
Capacity Building (technical and basic accounting) of beneficiaries
Dissemination of information through leaflets
Need based input support
Helping beneficiaries to organize into groups. The ultimate aim is to promote producers groups
Project coverage is 1400 poor households for project period 2011-2013
Project Cost: `179.53 lakhs
Activities undertaken:
S.No. |
Activity Head |
Description |
1 |
Baseline Survey |
Tea:250 Baseline Surveys were done for Tea component covering 10 villages under Lahoal and Panitola Block of the Dibrugarh District.
Ginger: 240 Baseline Surveys for Ginger component covering 7 villages in the Umsning Block of Meghalaya.
Mushroom: 350 Baseline Surveys for Mushroom Component covering 9 villages of Tamulpur and Nagrijuli Block under the Baksa District.
Fishery: 160 Baseline Surveys for Fishery Component covering?
Non Timber Forest Products (NTFP): 264 Baseline Surveys for NTFP component covering?
Rickshaw Puller: 73 Baseline Surveys in Raipur and Bhilai. |
2 |
Workshop & Training |
Tea:
Ginger: 7 intensive on-field training on Ginger cultivation and 1 on collective marketing and 1 on Package Practices on Ginger cultivation to the Master Trainer.
Mushroom: 320 participants were trained on Mushroom cultivation covering 18 Self Help Groups in Kumarikata and Nagrijuli area of the Baksa District. Fishery:
Non Timber Forest Products (NTFP):
Rickshaw Puller: 73 Rickhaw Pullers were trained on Self Help Group Management and Record Keeping in Raipur and Bhilai city. |
3 |
Input Support: |
Tea: One-time Ploughing, Harrowing, Tea Plant Saplings (2000 per beneficiary), Manure and Young Tea Dose, Pesticides, 10 Spray machines in 10 clusters.
Ginger: Ginger seeds to 140 farmers.
Mushroom: 320 beneficiaries who were organized in group houses were supported for Infrastructure Renovation and Development, Equipment and Machinery (Containers, Spray Machine, Weigh Scales), Consumables (Seeds, Bags, Packets and others)
Fishery: 111 individuals for Grow-out practices and another 26 for Nursery Development were supported with seeds, feeds, fertilizer, lime and pond preparation.
Non Timber Forest Products (NTFP): 20 Self Help Groups were provided with `50, 000 each to conduct NTFP business activities.
Rickshaw Puller: 73 beneficiaries were provided Rickshaws and Hand Carts as revolving fund. |