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National Agricultural Innovation Project(Indian Council of Agricultural Research)

“LIVE BETTER WITH THE FLOOD”An Approach for Sustainable livelihood Security

in District Dhemaji, Assam.

FINAL REPORT

“LIVE BETTER WITH THE FLOOD”An Approach for Sustainable Livelihood Security


FINAL REPORT

National Agricultural Innovation Project(Indian Council of Agricultural Research)

“LIVE BETTER WITH THE FLOOD”An Approach for Sustainable Livelihood Security


Printed on : June 2014

Component : 3

Citation : “LIVE BETTER WITH THE FLOOD”: An Approach for Sustainable Livelihood Security


Copyright : Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)

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Published by : Mr. D.K. Manavalan, IAS (Retd.)

Executive Director,

25/1A, Institutional Area, Pankha RoadD Block, Janakpuri, New Delhi – 110058

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Email: [email protected],[email protected]

Website: www.afpro.org

Edited by : Ms. Shatarupa Kashyap, Mr. Pallab Goswami

Compiled by : Ms. Shatarupa Kashyap, Mr. Pankaj Bezbaruah

Hindi translation : UBC Translation

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Foreword 7

Preface 8

Executive Summary/ Key words 9

12

Part-I: General Information sub-project 16

Part-II: Technical Details 18

1. Introduction 18

2. Overall Sub-project Objectives 19

3. Sub-project Technical Profile 20

4. Baseline Analysis 22

5. Research Achievements 25

6. Innovations 48

7. Process/Product/Technology Developed 50

8. Patents (Filed/Granted) 51

9. Linkages and Collaborations 51

10. Status on Environmental and Social Safeguard Aspects 51

11. Constraints, if any and Remedial Measures Taken 52

12. Publications 54

13. Media Products Developed/Disseminated 55

14. Meetings/Seminars/Trainings/Kisan Mela, etc. organized 56

15. Participation in Conference/ Meetings/Trainings/ Radio talks, etc. 58

16. Foreign Trainings/Visits 58

17. Performance Indicators 58

18. Employment Generation 59

19. Assets Generated 60

20. Awards and Recognitions 61

21. Steps Undertaken for Post NAIP Sustainability 62

22. Possible Future Line of Work 62

23. Personnel 63

24. Governance, Management, Implementation and Coordination 64

Part-III: Budget and its Utilization 65

Part-IV: Declaration 66

Contents

“LIVE BETTER WITH THE FLOOD” An Approach for Sustainable Livelihood Security in District Dhemaji, Assam | 7

The National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP) is a World Bank and Government of India funded country-wide initiative led by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). As a part of the initiative, Action For Food Production (AFPRO) has implemented one project entitled ‘Live better with the flood: an approach for sustainable livelihood security in district Dhemaji, Assam’ as lead consortium partner along with the involvement of local NGO as well as Assam Agricultural University as consortium partner.

Dhemaji is one of the districts situated in the remote corner of North East India on the north bank of river Brahmaputra. Though the district is blessed with abundant natural resources, the benefits of development have not accrued to the poor community residing in Dhemji. Failure of developmental efforts in attaining planned objectives caused by recurrent flood given the community a painful past. In view of this distress situation, our project specially focused on the remote villages hidden in the district with an objective to improve the livelihood of the rural poor with efficient management of natural resources by enhancing productivity, profitability and diversity of farming system. Nevertheless the project also focused on developing institutional mechanism among the poor community for adopting the innovative project approaches and establishing market linkages for income generation activities in a sustainable manner.

Under the support of NAIP, AFPRO has been working in the Dhemaji district approximately for the last five years, concentrating on partnering with local communities for their sustainable and patient development. Most importantly the project interventions recognized three phases of flood prone areas - Pre flood situation, During flood and Post flood operation. Adopting the Sustainable Livelihood Approach (SLA) Framework, livelihood interventions have been broadly categorized according to each phase. Integral components of the project i.e., promotion of Integrated Farming Systems (IFS) and Restructured cropping patterns, resulted in increasing adaptation of indigenous communities to water induced vulnerabilities of the region with improved agricultural productivity in a sustainable way.

Bridging between traditional agricultural practices and contemporary agricultural research is very important to achieve economic benefit of agricultural production. Through this project, AFPRO has facilitated the bridging by establishing and strengthening Village Level Institutions and their linkage with the institutional framework of the Department of Agriculture (Krishi Vigyan Kendra), which served as an effective medium for technical support to farmers on technological improvements, dissemination of information and relevant hand holding support.

In conclusion, AFPRO would like to thank NAIP functionaries for its constant and committed support throughout the project period. We would also like to acknowledge the collaborative spirit and partnership shown by our all consortium partners. Most importantly, we acknowledge the communities that we have worked with for inspiring us with their simplicity and courage.

Mr. D.K Manavalan, IAS (Retd)Executive Director and Consortium Leader

NAIP Component-III Dhemaji, AssamAction for Food Production (AFPRO)

Foreword

Date : 31st March,2014Place : New Delhi

8 | “LIVE BETTER WITH THE FLOOD” An Approach for Sustainable Livelihood Security in District Dhemaji, Assam

PrefaceThe Dhemaji district of Assam is one of the backward district identified by Government of India under “Identification of districts for wage and self employment programmes”. The Dhemaji district is characterized by perennial flood, poor communication & infrastructure, low agriculture output and poor socio-economic condition. Year after year farmers are using traditional method of cultivation & technology, lacks scientific agricultural know-how, use of local crop variety and above all annual flood makes agriculture less attractive and financially less productive and incentives.

Under the National Agriculture Innovation Project “Live Better with the Flood- An Approach for Sustainable livelihood Security” in Dhemaji district of Assam is one of the 33 sub projects have been approved for “Research on Sustainable Livelihood and Food Security” across the India. The project covers more than 3400 small and marginal farm families in five year of research on field. Several technological intervention in Integrated Farming System, Restructuring of existing cropping pattern with HYV, Improved vegetable cultivation for additional income generation, Introduction of new crop and HYV of seed suitable for the Agro-Climatic and Soil conditions. Project also developed and strengthened the local community institutions formed during the project implementation period to carry forward the activity in future in a sustainable manner. The research results would be useful for farmers, extension workers and State planning departments to explore possibility of replicating in similar areas of the State.

In the last five years lots of support and guidance have been received from different stake holders associated with the project. Constant encouragement, support and guidance of Dr. A P Srivastava, National Coordinator of NAIP Component-III, Mr. D.K Manavalan, IAS (Retd) Executive Director AFPRO has been helpful in achieving the successful results under the project.

Our acknowledgement and sincere thanks are due to Dr. H.P Barthakur CAC Chairman, Dr. R N Paul CAC member along with other members for their valuable contribution in shaping the project activity.

It is also equally important to mention the effort of Mr.Dhrubajit Sarma, who was the initial CPI of this project for initial establishment of this project along with the support from Mr.Mridul Goswami and Mrs.Ranjita B.Sharma. Furthermore, Senior Agricultural specialist, Ms.Shatarupa Kashyap located at New Delhi, AFPRO head quarter, also provided various input from time to time to make this programme successful.

Last but not the least all CCPIs of the project, Project staffs, Trainers, Resource Persons and most importantly Farmers deserve our thanks and acknowledgement. Without their support and contribution we would not have shown the research achievement(s).

Date: 31st March-2014 Pankaj BezbaruahPlace: Dhemaji, Assam CPI, NAIP Component-III


Under National Agricultural Innovation Project Component –III, a sub project was approved as “Live Better with the Flood- an approach for Sustainable livelihood Security” in Dhemaji district of Assam. The research project’s long term objective was to improve the rural livelihood security in Dhemaji district of Assam through introducing Integrated

Farming System approach and Restructuring of existing cropping pattern based on Agro Climatic and Soil conditions in different flood related situations. The specific project objectives were:

• To improve the livelihood of the rural poor with efficient management of natural resources by enhancing productivity, profitability and diversity of farming system

• To improve the delivery mechanism through skill development of primary stake holders on improved practices of Agriculture, Livestock, Apiculture and Post Harvest Technology.

• To develop institutional mechanism among the primary stake holders for adopting the approaches and establishing market linkages for income generation activity.

The project was implemented in consortium mode comprising Action for Food Production as lead partner, Assam Agriculture University as technical partner, North East Water and Land Management Institute as training partner and Rural Volunteer Centre as extension partner.

The project was implemented in Dhemaji district of Assam covering 4 (four) administrative blocks namely Bordoloni, Machkhowa, Dhemaji and Sissiborgaon, 48 (forty eight) villages and 3400 (three thousand four hundred) small and marginal farm families within the period of 5 (years) spreading from 2009-14.

The entire project area had been divided into three clusters namely sand deposited, lowland and silt deposited. For better understanding of the cropping pattern of the project area, three distinct situations were identified based on occurrence of flood namely Pre Flood, During Flood and Post Flood.

A baseline survey was conducted in the 48 villages (initially 38 and 10 later on) by using pre-stratified random sampling technique. Cluster and village wise lists were prepared classifying marginal farmers, small farmers and agricultural landless labourers. The beneficiaries are selected by random numbers, from these lists, to account for 2500 beneficiaries at the beginning of the project and later on added another 900 for the extension period (2012-14) i.e. 1855 marginal and 658 small farmers and 887 agricultural labourers (landless) and beneficiaries are considered as universe. The Farm families involved in the project were 83% ST, 10% SC and 7% other community. The female were 28% and male were 72%. Participation of marginal farmers, small farmers and other farmers in the project was 36, 42 and 22%; respectively. Out of 3400 beneficiaries the sample size fixed for this baseline survey was 680 (20%).

Executive Summary

The entire project area had been divided into three clusters namely sand deposited, lowland and silt deposited. For better understanding of the cropping pattern of the project area, three distinct situations were identified based on occurrence of flood namely Pre Flood, During Flood and Post Flood.


The occupational distribution showed that selected villages provide employment to around 84.07% of the population of which 69.23% population depend on agriculture and 17.8% were landless labourers. Total geographical areas of the selected clusters were 4349.913 ha of which around 33.05% of the area were brought under the category of net area sown. The socio-economic analysis showed the average family size of the sample was 5 members a family. Nearly 25.7% of the respondents in the selected farms belonged to the age group of 19-30 years and 28% belongs to 31-40 years in all the clusters. The selected area has more farmers of younger generation and this had help farmers to adopt the new technology. The average literacy level was at 44.65%. It had helped the project team to create awareness and impart knowledge on the new farming technology. Consumption expenditure per annum, per household was Rs.35747.87, Rs. 44920.00 and Rs.79028.56 in low land, silt deposited and sand deposited respectively. The average land holding size per household was 0.49 ha.

Flood is the most devastating natural calamities that have been affecting the Dhemaji district of Assam since long. Agriculture of this area is basically Rain-fed. High rainfall (flood) during summer and severe drought during winter is the common natural weather occurrence in this region. This flood damaging the standing crop, specifically rice, in the low lying areas of Dhemaji during the month of June to September was the common phenomenon. Moreover, mono-cropping with traditional method of cultivation was another factor adversely affecting the agricultural productivity.

To overcome the situation, project had adopted Sustainable Livelihood Approach (SLA) employing the framework developed by the United Kingdom Department of International Development (DFID). Under this approach Integrated Farming System (IFS) and restructuring of cropping pattern with improved varieties released by Assam Agriculture University to ensure crop security has been promoted through project interventions. The IFS module has been identified for intervention was Rice-Fish-Horticulture and Livestock-Fish-Horticulture. Under the Livestock-Fish-Horticulture module, two sub modules as Piggery-Fish-Horticulture and Poultry-Fish-Horticulture was introduced.

The project directly covered 3400 farm families. Out of which 479 household had adopted Rice-Fish-Horticulture modules covering an area of 253.87 ha, 448 household had adopted Livestock-Fish-Horticulture modules covering an area of 221.86 ha and 2473 households had adopted restructuring cropping pattern covering an area of 1422.13 ha. The number of additional household that had adopted the technology was 245 for Rice-Fish-Horticulture (Area- 110.25 ha), 290 for Livestock-Fish-Horticulture (Area-125.30 ha) and 1875 for restructured cropping Pattern (Area- 1031.75 ha) respectively.

Introduction of Rice-Fish-Horticulture module has helped farmer to integrate fish cultivation in their existing rice field along with growing of horticultural crop in the dykes. In this module introduction of HYV of rice like Jalshree, Jalkuwari, Ranjit, Bahadur and vegetable crop like Brinjal (PPL), Chili (Mycho Red), Okhra (Swani) and improved variety of fingerling like Rahu, Mrigal, Katla, Bhawon, Silver Carp and Common Carp has enhanced the income of household from Rs. 6111.00 to Rs. 31800.00 per year per household. Similarly from Piggery-Fish-Horticulture and Poultry-Fish-Horticulture the income enhancement was from Rs. 9420.00 to Rs. 30992.00 and Rs.85400.00 to Rs. 28560.00 respectively. In the restructuring of cropping pattern, project has introduced new varieties based on flood situation as follows:

• Pre Flood Situation: Crop: Rice (Boro Paddy):Variety: Kanaklata and Boro-9

• During Flood Situation: Crop:Rice (deep water Paddy): Variety: Panchanan, Basudev and Maguri

• Post Flood Situation: Crop: Rice (short duration Paddy): Variety: Luit, Dishang, Monohar Sali, Gitesh.

Apart from this both summer and winter vegetable, pulses/oil seeds has also introduced to grow crop round the year. This has enhanced income from Rs. 18701.00 to Rs.58717.00. This intervention has increased employment from earlier 220 man days per year to 330 man days with additional 90 days in agricultural field.


The project had also introduced few technologies to increase efficiency, productivity, irrigation facility, reduce women drudgery through farm mechanization, STW and rice mill etc. The technology like System of Rice Intensification (SRI) was also introduced; however it had limited adoption by farmer. The productivity of crop had increased in significant way. The observed increase in productivity was in paddy from 1.5 t/ha to 4.5 t/ha, potato 7 t/ha to 12 t/ha, vegetable 3 t/ha to 4.5 t/ha and mustard 0.3 t/ha to 0.8 t/ha.

A few innovation had been done by the project and farmer. Innovations like “Establishment of one broiler group enterprise using country made improved lamp (kerosene) in flood affected non-electrified Arney village of Sisiborgaon Block. Introduction of free mobile SMS services to provide agro advisory & Weather based information to the farmers on crop production activities, animal care, Leaf pack nursery is an alternative way for seedbed and poly pack nursery which is suitable for farmers during transplantation of seedling from nursery to the main field. It had reduced the mortality of seedling due to “shock” in the plant, Wooden Weedier with Cost of Rs. 400 against normal weedier (Iron): Rs.1200, Matri Amar Bazar Kendriya Saiti– initiative of District level Apex SHG Federation mainly for marketing of local produce.

In the area of training and capacity building project had covered 35 different types of trainings with 141 day of training and 3662 participant. These trainings helped to form 100 Self Help Group (SHGs), 48 Village Development Council (VDC) and 2 nod SHGs federation in the project villages.

The project intervention was also done in the area of non farm sector. It has helped women to earn extra income through group activity. Weaving, tailoring and reeling machine was provided to women group of ten members. The group members were also trained in modern design and technique to improve marketability of produces. The income enhancement by Rs. 7000 for weaving, Rs. 7200 for tailoring and Rs. 27895.00 for rice milling per year per family respectively.

Project has encompassed all the community and also involvement of Man and Women are made equitable. The Farm families involved in the project were 83% from ST, 10% from SC and 7% from other community. The female and male population was 28% and 72% respectively. Categorywise participation of marginal, small and others was 36%, 42% and 22% respectively in the project. The resources used in the project do not have any adverse impact in the environment. In the project uses of chemical fertilizer and pesticide has been done in tapering mode. Every year quantity and area was reduced by 10% and 15% respectively. To fill up the gap organic compost, NADEF, Bio Pest was promoted.

To sell the agriculture produce a market linkage was done with local as well as market outside the Sate especially to Arunachal Pradesh due to its close proximity. The produce sold to Arunachal Pradesh was potato ( 35 t), vegetable (78 t), paddy (265 t), mustard (1.5 t) and piggery (750 t).

The project made the synergy with the institution like Indo Global Social Services (IGSSS), which is a Institutional member of AFPRO Governing Body, for disaster reduction work and also scaling up of IFS modules in their 10 project villages. However SHGs formed under NAIP project were linked with National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) for further financial benefit and also to carry forward the activities in nearby villages.

In the last quarter of project a special emphases was given to strengthen the institutions built during the project period. In that effort 100 SHGs, 48 VDCs and 2 FC were identified and trained vigorously in the area of Governance, Financial Management, Micro credit and Bank Linkages through internal and external resources persons.

Project has done few successful interventions as a part of research objectives. These interventions have been done in the context of flood. The project has recommended three modules for scaling up based on feasibility, replicability and economically viability. The modules were Rice-Fish-Horticulture, Livestock-Fish-Horticulture and Restructured cropping pattern.

In future the research results and modules can be introduced in the similar area of flood based on soil and climatic conditions. It is suggestible to the State Government and others planning body to take further step in this regards.


PART-I

General Information of Sub Project:

1. Title of the Sub-project : Live better with the Flood – An Approach for Sustainable Livelihood Security in District Dhemaji, Assam.

2. Sub-project Code : 5635

3. Component : NAIP Component-3 (SRLS)

4. Date of sanction of sub-project : 13-04-2009

5. Date of completion : 31st March 2014

6. Extension if granted, from : 01-04-2012 to 31-03-2014

7. Total sanctioned amount for the sub-project : Rs. 354.47620

8. Total expenditure of Sub Project : Rs.331.59449Lakhs

9. Consortium Leader :

9.1 Name of CL : Mr. D.K Manavalan

9.2 Organization Action For Food Production

9.3 Address 25/1A, Institutional Area, Pankha Road, D Block, Janakpuri, New Delhi – 110058

9.4 Phone No +91-11-28525412

9.5 Fax No +91-11-28520343

9.6 E-mail [email protected],[email protected]

9.7 Website www.afpro.org


10. List of Consortium Partners:

Name of CPI/ CCPI with designation

Name of organization and Address, Phone & Fax, Email

Duration(From-To)

Budget(Rs. Lakhs)

CPI Mr. Pankaj Bezbaruah, Regional Manager, AFPRO, Guwahati

Action For Food Production 2011-2014

CCPI1 Mr.Horindro Gogoi, SMS

Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Dhemaji Shilapathar- 787059,Dhemaji,District, Mobile:94535387014,E-mail: [email protected]

2012-2014

CCPI2 Mr. Arup Saikia, Coordinator

Rural Volunteers Centre, Akajan, Shilapathar, 787059, Dhemaji Email: [email protected], ruralvolunteers centre @ yahoo.co.in Mobile: 9955340213

2009-2014

CCPI 3 Mr. Bharat Ch. Nath, Associate Professor(Agriculture)

North Eastern Regional Institute of Water and Land Management, Dolabari, Tezpur – 784027,Sonitour District, Assam, Mobile: 9435180551, Ph: 03712–268085,E-mail:[email protected]

2009-2012

CCPI 4 Dr. K. K. Tamuli, Professor

College of Fishery Science, Assam Agricultural University Raha, Pin – 782103,Nagaon,Mobile: 9435068781,Email: [email protected]

2009-2014

CPI/ CCPI Name, designation & address)

Total Budget Sanctioned

Fund Released(up to 31.03.2014)

Fund Utilized(up to 31.03.2014)

CPI Mr. Pankaj Bezbaruah, Regional Manager, AFPRO, Guwahati

286.34420 268.34123 268.61709

CCPI1 Horindro Gogoi, SMS 36.78680 33.30601 32.86925

CCPI2 Mr. Arup Saikia, Coordinator

22.81590 22.81435 22.80115

CCPI 3 Mr. Bharat Ch. Nath, Associate Professor(Agriculture)

8.52930 9.43935 7.30700

Total 354.47620 333.90094 331.59449

Note: CPI-Consortia Principal Investigator; CCPI-Consortia Co-Principal Investigator

11. Statement of budget released and utilization partner-wise (Rs in Lakh):


1. Introduction:

Assam is located in the north-eastern part of India with its capital at Dispur situated at 240-

280 N latitude and 890 50’-9704’ E longitude with an area of 30,285 squaremiles (78,438 km²).

Total population of Assam was 26.66 million with 4.91 million households according to 2001 census. Present population density in the state is

3 8 4 / k m 2 . About 74% of population depends on agriculture and allied activities. Due to its remoteness, physiographic situation and social strife, the state failed to complete with the economic growth of the other states of the country.

Assam is basically an agrarian state with more than 70 percent of its population (2.66 crores as per 2001 census) taking agricultural practices either fully or partially. Out of the total geographical area of 78.43 lakh hectares, almost one-third (30.42 percent) is under net cultivation covering an area of 23.86 lakh hectares (excluding tea area). It is observed that, implications on food security, per capita food grain production has declined in the past five decades. Though Productivity has increased marginally; but still remain lower comparied to other parts of the Country. For instance, yield of rice (staple food of Assam) was just 1531 kg per hectare against India’s 1927 kg per hectare in 2000-01. Despite having strong domestic demand, 1.5 million hectares of inland water bodies, numerous rivers and 165 varieties of fishes, fishing is still in its traditional form and production is not self-sufficient.

The proposed district Dhemaji is one of the most backward districts of Assam. It is one of the remotest district of India, at the eastern-most part of Assam. Numerous drainage systems originating from the hills of Arunachal Pradesh

flow through this narrow valley ending at the mighty river Brahmaputra. After the confluence the

PART-II Technical Details

Map of AssamIt is observed that, implications on food security,

per capita food grain production

has declined in the past five

decades. Though Productivity

has increased marginally; but

still remain lower comparied to

other parts of the Country.


Map of Dhemaji district

three mighty rivers i.e. Dihing, Dibang and Lohit from their hilly course to the valley exert tremendous impact of peak runoff at the eastern most corner of Dhemaji district, making the district vulnerable to annual flood conditions.

The economy of Dhemaji is generally agro-based. Sericulture, fishing and driftwood business are practiced in smaller scale. However, sand deposition and other adverse effects of chronic floods on fertile agricultural land have made even affluent farmers land-less. The local economy is thus characterized by subsistence level of production and consumption. The livelihood of the people is affected at grass root level due to poor l assets creation, poor access to knowledge, technology, credit and inputs; poor saving habit and vulnerability to risks.

The entire Dhemaji district area is inhabitated by various indigenous tribes like Mising, Sonowal Kachari, Bodo Kachari, Deori and Laloong. In addition to this different tribes e.g. Ahom, Rabha, Tai – Khamti, Konch, Keot, Koiborta, Brahman, Kayastha, Kalita etc. also migrated during different moments of time span. In Dhemaji district, about 98% of the total population lives in the rural areas. As per 1991 census, 45% of the population is workers, while 55% of the population is non-workers.

1.1. Dhemaji and Flood: Flood is one of the most devastating natural calamities that has been affecting the plains areas of Assam. The term flood is used sometime rather loosely to indicate two types of situations. Firstly, the water from rains and the runoff from the surrounding areas start entering the low lying areas in May – June and remain accumulated until about October/November. Depending on the situation, such areas may remain sub merged up to 1 to 5 meters under the water. Such shallow or deep water areas are also called flooded areas.

Flood is part and parcel of people living in the Dhemaji district. We cannot prevent occurring of flood. However we can change the cropping pattern, introduce new technology, new variety of seed, diversify income option through agri- allied service like Livestock, Fishery so that people can survive under the worst flood condition.

Considering the devastating effect of flood on livelihood, agriculture and livestock, the project “Live Better with the flood: an approach for sustainable livelihood security in District Dhemaji, Assam was proposed by AFPRO to NAIP to do research and recommended some technology, crop, variety, practices so that it can adopt by the farmer of flood affected region of the Country.

2. Overall Sub-project Objectives:Floods are perennial feature in district of Dhemaji and people have embraced the menace as part of their life. Geographical bottleneck makes the district isolated and backward. Over the years people inhabiting the district mostly the Missing tribes which accounts to 47.29% of the total population have lived and coped with floods caused mainly by river Brahmaputra and its tributaries originating from hills of Arunachal Pradesh. Perennially occurring floods erodes sources of livelihoods and cause damage to properties. The economy of Dhemaji district which is based mostly on agriculture and its allied activities like livestock rearing is affected due to erosion and deposition of coarse sand brought by rivers during floods. Forest resources have become skewed, fish habitats are destroyed and grazing fields for cattle’s also gets washed off. People also get marginalized due to internal displacements.


In the same milieu a project known as “Live Better with the Floods”-An Approach for Sustainable livelihood Security in Dhemaji district was implemented covering four blocks Machkhowa, Sisborgoan, Dhemaji and Bordoloni under funding support from by World Bank through ICAR under National Agriculture Innovation project” Component – III.

The long term objective of the project is to improve the rural livelihood security in Dhemaji district of Assam introducing integrated farming system approach in different flood related situations.

The project objectives were:

1. To improve the livelihood of the rural poor with efficient management of natural resources by enhancing productivity, profitability and diversity of farming system

2. To improve the delivery mechanism through skill development of primary stake holders on improved practices of Agriculture, Livestock, Apiculture and Post Harvest Technology.

3. To develop institutional mechanism among the primary stake holders for adopting the approaches and establishing market linkages for income generation activities.

3. Sub-Project Technical Profile:

S No Objectives Work Plan Activities

Monitoring Indicator

Output Expected Outcome

1 To improve the livelihood of the rural poor with efficient management of natural resources by enhancing productivity, profitability and diversity of farming system

1. Restructuring of current cropping pattern for triple cropping

2. Introduction of Integrated Farming Module (IFS) as per prevailing situation at local level

3. Introduction of high yielding improved seeds withstanding floods

4. Introduction improved breeds of livestock (Pig, poultry, goat & ducks)

5. Introduction of new technology

6. Farm mechanization

7. Reclamation of fish pond

1. No of farmers adoption of technology

2. No of IFS module demonstrated

3. No of crop cultivate during the year by farmer

4. No of technology introduce

5. Participatory monitoring process

1. Farming area coverage, average 0.30 ha per farming system,

2. Production of Rice shall be 6 ton from 3 ton per ha

3. 1.5 ton fish from 0.5 t/ha

4. Vegetables production from 5 t/ha to 2 t/ha per year.

5. Increase area of cultivation and productivity through Farm mechanization

6. Reduction of drudgery of women specially

1. Establishment of 927 IFS module with farmers

2. Increase crop production and nutritional food intake of 2473 farmers

3. Provided 3 no of Power Tiller to community

4. 13 no of STW, 6 no. of drip irrigation for creation of irrigation facility

5. 19 no of Rice Mill to reduce women drudgery for milling of rice

6. 110 no of drip irrigation sets should be mentioned


S No Objectives Work Plan Activities

Monitoring Indicator

Output Expected Outcome

2 To improve the delivery mechanism through skill development of primary stake holders on improved practices of Agriculture, Livestock, Pisiculture and Post Harvest Technology.

1. Farmers training on Improved practices of Agriculture, Livestock, Pisiculture, value addition, marketing and entrepreneurship development

2. Awareness Programme on Disaster preparedness

3. Training on value addition, marketing of produce and entrepreneurship development

4. Disaster Preparedness

1. No of training conducted

2. No of participants

3. Follow up of training and using of skill in practice

1. Trained farmers: about 1000 nos directly and 4000 indirectly

1. Increased knowledge level and skill up gradation of the targeted farming families.

3 To develop institutional mechanism among the primary stake holders for adopting the approaches and establishing market linkages for income generation activity

1. Formation of SHGs, Village Development Council and Farmers club

2. Formation of SHG federation at block level

3. Building capacity and capability of institutions

4. Credit linkage with Bank

5. Market linkage with local and outside market

1. No of SHG formed

2. No of SHG actively participate in the project activities

3. Sustainability of SHG

1. 100 no of SHGs formed in project villages under different activities

2. 48 VDC formed to take care the project activities at village level

3. 2 no of SHGs federation to take up the marketing and extension activity of project after exit.

1. A vibrant and sustainable institutional mechanisms has been established in the project villages


4. Baseline Analysis:The baseline survey was carried out in 38 villages of 10 GP’s. The average family size of the sample was around 5 members a family. Nearly 25.7 percent of the respondents in the selected farms belonged to the age group of 19-30 years and 28 percent belongs to 31-40 years in all the clusters. The sample respondents have very less infrastructural facilities like land and buildings

• Principal cropping patterns observed across the 3 clusters have been summarized

• The project villages hold enormous potential for introduction of both farm level machinery and farm technologies (pest management, nutrient management) etc

• The common livestock types in the villages of the project area are cow, buffalo, goat, pig, poultry, duckery, and horse (particularly in the sand deposited clusters). Among all the 3 clusters, a high predominance of goat, pig and poultry was observed, with large percentage being used for their meat and eggs.

Clusters Principal crops

Lowland flood affected clusters Paddy – Mustard –VegetablePaddy -Paddy – Black gramPaddy –Paddy – Potato

Silt deposited Clusters Paddy –PaddyPaddy-Vegetable (kharif)-Vegetable (rabi) Paddy- Mustard

Sand deposited Clusters Paddy –Paddy – Blackgram Paddy–Vegetable (kharif )- Vegetable (rabi)

The sample respondents

have very less infrastructural

facilities like land and buildings to

rear the livestock and adopt the

new innovative technologies in the

field.

to rear the livestock and adopt the new innovative technologies in the field. The economy of Dhemaji is generally agro-based. Sericulture, fishing and driftwood business are practiced in smaller scale. However, sand deposition and other adverse effects of chronic floods on fertile agricultural land have made even affluent farmers land-less. The selected district is divided into three clusters namely sand deposited, lowland and silt deposited clusters in four blocks of the district. The key finding of the baseline survey has been summarized below:

• In the identified clusters, 44.74% of the total geographical area could be identified as low land flood affected, while 28.94% are sand affected and 26.32% are silt affected. Of the three clusters, the highest net sown area can be observed in the silt grown areas (53.8%); low land areas followed by sand affected areas.

• Agriculture is the predominant economic activity with 74.18% of the employed engaged in agriculture.

• Although irrigated areas are a smaller fraction of the total land, wells and bore wells (41.53%), it can be found to be accounting for the largest share among sources of irrigation.


Key indicators/outcomes have been summarized below:

Particulars Lowland flood affected clusters

Silt deposited clusters

Sand deposited clusters

Population (Nos.) Total 1558 1415 1516

Women 675(43.32%)

644(41.34%)

750(48.14%)

Land holding (ha) Average 0.4 ha 0.46 ha 0.57 ha

House holds income (Rs) from :

Agriculture 19235(34.28%)

25265(76.44%)

11604(31.8%)

Livestock and fisheries 5034(8.97%)

3749(11.34%)

8670(23.76%)

Migratory works 6000(10.69%)

4037(12.21%)

16216(44.44%)

Total 53157.95 (100.00%)

33051(100.00%)

36490(100.00%)

Ratio of agriculture income to non- agriculture income

1:057 1:0.3 1:2.4

Employment (Man days/ year)

On own farm 200 man days 200 man days 200 man days

On others farm- agricultural activity 30 man days 42 man days 10 man days

Labour within the village- non agricultural activity

90 man days 90 man days 90 man days

Labour outside the village 60 man days 60 man days 120 man days

Sources of Irrigation

Canal irrigation (number) 4 2 0

Pump sets (number) 3 6 4

Farm Machines

Tractors (nos.) and use hours 0 0 1

Other Machines (nos.) 1 2 5

Custom hiring (hours) 36 hrs 24 hrs 48 hrs


Availability of micro credit (through SHGs and small enterprises) facility and use

Facility in nos (%) 25 (18.52%) 27 (23.48%) 18 (9%)

Use in nos (%) 46 (34.07%) 40 (34.74%) 61 (53.04%)

Cropping Intensity (%) 132 120 162

Major crops

Total cropped area, ha 40.12 48.4 18.8

Paddy : Area 22.2 37.53 10.6

Yield (q/ha) 35qtl/ha 30qtl/ha 14qtl/ha

Mustard : Area 3.6 ha 12.1 ha 2 ha

Yield (q/ha) 3.73 qtl/ha 2.5 qtl/ha 2.2 qtl/ha

Potato : Area 4 ha 3 ha 4 ha

Yield (q/ha) 22 qtl/ha 20 qtl/ ha 12 qtl/ ha

Livestock

No. of cattle 355 301 1220

Milk yield/day 2 litre/day 2.5 litre/day 1.5 litre/day

No of goat 140 106 159

Weight (for meat purpose) 7 kg 6 kg 7 kg

Fisheries

Area 1 ha 2.1 ha 1.5 ha

Yield (qtl/ha) 3 qtl 4 qtl 2 qtl

Home consumption of Grains

% of Produce 41% 32.5% 50.5%

Sale of produce and market place

To local buyers soon after the harvest 80% 60% 80%

Agro processing 10% 16% 4%

Market places 11% 14% 10%

Market Place for purchase

Distance, km 37 km 24 km 18 km

Agencies providing agriculture and allied services

Govt. Agencies (nos.) 2 2 1

NGOs (Nos.) 2 1 2

Private (Nos.) 2 1 2

No. of processing enterprises in the area

Processing units in nos 3 2 4

No. of farmer groups

SHGs, user groups, common interest groups 28 73 15


5. Research Achievement with summary:The project commenced on 13th of April, 2009 and completed Five years of implementation on 31st March, 2014. The lead partner of the project, Action for Food Production (AFPRO) was responsible for implementation and overall project monitoring. Three consortium partners were chosen for field implementation of various project activities. In this section objective wise project achievements have been elaborated.

Objective 1. To improve the livelihood of the rural poor with efficient management of natural resources by enhancing productivity, profitability and diversity of farming system

5.1.1 Restructuring of Cropping Pattern: Flood is one of the most devastating natural calamities that have been affecting the Dhemaji district of Assam since long. Agriculture of this area is rainfed and source of irrigation is yet to be developed. High rainfall (flood) during summer and severe drought during winter is the common natural weather occurrence in this region. Rice field damage due to the recurring flood during the month of June to September in low lying areas of Dhemaji was the common phenomenon. Moreover, monocroping with traditional method of cultivation was another factor affecting the agricultural productivity. To overcome the situation, restructuring of cropping pattern with improve varieties released by Assam Agricultural University to ensure crop security has been promoted through project interventions. Since introduction of this technology, farmers are getting very good yield from their farm activities. The rainfall generally begins from April & continues till the end of September. First step of this technology is to categorize the land according to the depth of water during flood like 10-50 cm (Shallow area), 50-100 cm in one category (Low lying area) and above 100 cm (Deep area). Accordingly, crop calendar has been prepared to cultivate different varieties of crops suitable for this agro climatic zone. There are around 43 cropping systems that have been adopted with restructured crop plan depending on monsoon behaviour. In this module, planning of crop calendars

has been used as an effective tool to reduce the effect of water induced hazards through restructuring of the cropping pattern. Based on the likely occurrence and withdrawal of floods and withdrawal (flood calendar), the planting dates of locally cultivated crops were adjusted to improve crop security through reduced risk to floods. Crops such as mustard, potato, summer moong, summer rice, vegetable with improved varieties and fodder crops such as oats were grown in the flood free period. Adjustment of planting dates has been done for growing black gram and green gram after floods. Local cultivars of winter, summer, early autumn and deep water paddy have been replaced by improved high yielding varieties.


Tab

le 5

.1.1

(a) C

ropp

ing

patt

ern

befo

re p

roje

ct in

terv

enti

on

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

ilM

ayJu

neJu

lyA

ugSe

ptO

ctN

ovD

ecJa

nFe

bM

arch

Pre

Flo

od S

itua

tion

Nam

e of

the

Seed

Var

iety

use

d by

the

Farm

er

Low

Lan

d

Bor

o R

ice

(175

-180

Day

s)Jo

ymat

i, B

ishn

upra

sad,

Jyo

tipr

asad

, B-9

Ear

ly A

hu (9

5-10

0 da

ys)

Luit

, Kol

ong,

Dis

hang

Dee

p W

ater

Pad

dy (2

40 d

ays)

Pad

man

ath

Dee

p W

ater

Pad

dy (2

45 d

ays)

Pan

indr

a

Med

ium

Lan

d

Ear

ly A

hu (9

5-10

0 da

ys)

Luit

, Kol

ong,

dis

hang

Dee

p W

ater

Pad

dy (2

40 d

ays)

Pad

man

ath

Dee

p W

ater

Pad

dy (2

45 d

ays)

Pan

indr

a

Up

Land

V

eget

able

s

Dur

ing

Floo

d

Low

Lan

d

Floo

d to

lera

nt v

arie

ty (1

50-1

60)

Jals

hree

, Jal

kunw

ari

Med

ium

Lan

d

HY

V o

f Sal

i (15

0-15

5 D

ays)

Ran

jit, B

ahad

ur

Nor

mal

Ahu

(100

-110

)

Floo

d to

lera

nt v

arie

ty (1

50-1

60)

Jals

hree

, Jal

kunw

ari

Loca

l Var

iety

(170

day

s)B

asan

ti, N

ilanj

ana,

Baj

Upl

and

HY

V o

f Sal

i (15

0-15

5 D

ays)

Ran

jit, B

ahad

ur

HY

V, s

hort

dur

atio

n Sa

li (1

30-1

35

Day

s)D

ays)

Saty

aran

jan,

Bas

undh

ara

Loca

l Var

iety

(170

day

s)

Bas

anti

, Nila

njan

a, B

aj

Post

Flo

od

Low

Lan

dSh

ort d

urat

ion

Late

sow

ing

Sali

Padd

y (9

5 da

ys)

Lui

t, D

isha

ng

Med

ium

Lan

dSh

ort d

urat

ion

Late

sow

ing

Sali

Padd

y (9

5 da

ys)

Lui

t, D

isha

ng


Tab

le 5

.1.1

(b) C

ropp

ing

Pat

tern

Int

rodu

ced

afte

r pr

ojec

t int

erve

ntio

n:

CR

OP

PIN

G P

AT

TE

RN

AFT

ER

IN

TE

RV

EN

TIO

N

Land

Sit

uati

onP

re F

lood

Dur

ing

Floo

dPo

st F

lood

Febr

uary

Mar

chA

pril

May

June

July

Aug

ust

Sept

embe

rO

ctob

erN

ovem

ber

Dec

embe

rJa

nuar

y

Nam

e of

the

Seed

Var

iety

intr

oduc

ed in

the

proj

ect v

illag

es

Low

Lan

dSu

mm

er(B

oro)

Pad

dy (1

75-1

80 D

ays)

Joym

ati,

Kan

akla

ta, B

oro-

9 , H

ybri

d Pr

o A

gro6

444

(hyb

rid)

Sum

mer

(Bor

o) P

addy

(175

-180

D

ays)

Joym

ati,

Kan

akla

ta, B

oro-

9

Ear

ly A

utum

n (A

hu) P

addy

(95-

100

days

), Lu

it, K

olon

g, D

isha

ng

Dee

p W

ater

Pad

dy (2

40 d

ays)

Padm

anat

h , P

anch

anan

,Bas

udev

, Mag

uri

Dee

p W

ater

Pad

dy (2

45 d

ays)

Pan

indr

a

Floo

d to

lera

nt v

arie

ty (1

50-1

60) J

alsh

ree,

Jalk

unw

ari

Veg

etab

les

(Sum

mer

) /P

ulse

s/oi

lsee

ds

Veg

etab

les

(win

ter)

/Pu

lses

/Oils

eeds

Med

ium

Lan

dE

arly

Ahu

(95-

100

days

),Lui

t, K

olon

g, d

isha

ng

Dee

p W

ater

Pad

dy (2

40 d

ays)

Padm

anat

h,Pa

ncha

nan,

Bas

udev

,Mag

uri

Dee

p W

ater

Pad

dy (2

45 d

ays)

Pan

indr

a

HY

V o

f Sal

i (15

0-15

5 D

ays)

Ran

jit, B

ahad

ur,S

atya

ranj

an, B

asun

dhar

a

Nor

mal

Ahu

(100

-110

) IR

50,

IR

8

Floo

d to

lera

nt v

arie

ty (1

50-1

60) J

alsh

ree,

Jalk

unw

ari

Loca

l Var

iety

(170

day

s)B

asan

ti,

Nila

njan

a, B

aj

Shor

t dur

atio

n La

te s

owin

g Sa

li Pa

ddy

(95

days

) Lui

t, D

isha

ng, M

onoh

ar S

ali,

Gite

sh

Veg

etab

les

(Sum

mer

) /P

ulse

s/oi

lsee

ds

Veg

etab

le (w

inte

r) /

Puls

es/O

ilsee

ds

Up

Land

Veg

etab

les

(Sum

mer

) /P

ulse

s/oi

lsee

ds

HY

V o

f Sal

i (15

0-15

5 D

ays)

Ran

jita,

Bah

adur

,Sat

yara

njan

, Bas

undh

ara

HY

V o

f sho

rt d

urat

ion

Sali

(130

-135

Day

s) S

atya

ranj

an, B

asun

dhar

a

Loca

l Var

iety

(170

day

s) B

asan

ti, N

ilanj

ana,

Baj Sh

ort d

urat

ion

Late

sow

ing

Sali

Padd

y (9

5 da

ys) L

uit,

Dis

hang

Veg

etab

le (w

inte

r) /

Puls

es/O

ilsee

ds


The locally suited crop plan has addressed crop security due to safe harvest by escape of flood hazard. We planned for summer rice cultivation (November to April/May), Early autumn rice cultivation (February to April/May), Deep water rice cultivation (March/April to Dec/Jan) and Rabi vegetable crops. Around 75 ha of waste land development as well as vegetable and paddy cultivation took place during the period of 2009-14. To improve the productivity, AFPRO introduced new HYV for restructuring cropping pattern. Around 1555 ha of gross cropped area and 1450 ha net cropped area were brought under high yielding varieties of paddy, pulses, oil seed and vegetables during 2009-14.

Following are the major changes we have made under restructuring of cropping pattern:

• Cropping season starts from February instead of November

• Crop diversification from Paddy to Pulses, Vegetable (Summer and Winter)

• Introduction of different variety of Paddy that can be grown all the three flood situations (Pre-Flood, During Flood and Post Flood)

• Crop calendar has been prepared in such a way that minimum of three crops could be grown by farmer in his fields.

Suggested Cropping patterns are as follows:

For Up Land Area: Crop: Vegetable (summer) - Paddy (Short duration 130-135 days) - Sali Paddy (Late Sowing 95 days)/ Vegetable Winter)/Oil seedMonth: Feb to April –--- July to November---- August to October----- October to December

For Medium Land Area:Crop: Early Ahu (95-100days) - Paddy (Deep water 240 days) - Sali Paddy (Late Sowing 95 days) Month: Feb to June –------------ March to November-------------- August to November

For Low land AreaCrop: Boro Paddy (175-180 days) – Flood Tolerant variety (150-160 days) ------ Vegetable Winter)/Oil seedMonth: Feb to June –---------------- June to November--------------------- October to January

Winter paddy : Sali rice

During monsoon

Normal autumn paddy : Normal ahu + bao( Deep water rice) paddy

• Seed & Grain storage at community level• other non farm entrepreneurship activities

Winter Vegetables( Sept/Oct onwards): Cabbage, Cauliflower,

Tomato, Potato, Chilly

Early Autumn paddy : Early Ahu rice (Feb on wards)

Summer Vegetables (Jan/Feb onwards) : Pumpkin, Brinjal, Watermelon, Bhindi, Bottle Gourd.

Pre FloodPost Flood

Summer paddy : Boro rice (January onwards)

Fish : Rohu & BhokuaLivestock

Horticulture


Table 5.1.1(c) New cropping pattern, Variety, Area and Enhanced income:

Crop Variety Area covered (ha) Enhance income(Rs) / ha

Autumn Paddy Luit, Kolong, Dishang (95-100 days)

95 15000.00

Deep Water Paddy Phanindra, Panchanan, Basudev (245 days)

155 10400.00

Winter Paddy HYV of Ranjita, Bahadur, Satyaranjan, Basundhara (150-155 days)

115 11000.00

Flood Tolerant Paddy Jalshree, Jalkunwari (150-160)

226 12500.00

Summer Paddy Joymati, Kanaklata, Boro-9 Pro Agro 6444 (hybrid) (175-180 Days)

171 10700.00

Oil Seed Mustard (M-27, TS-36) 245 8990.00

Pulses Summar Black & Green Gram 25 4000.00

Winter Vegetable Cabbage (Pride of India), Chilli (Tejaswani), Tamato (Punjab Keshri, Rocky),

45 18000.00

Summer Vegetable French Bean (S-9), Brinjal (Supper PPL)

125 15000.00

Potato Kufrijyoti, Pokhraj 220 30000.00

Total 1422

Table 5.1.1(d) Crop Income Comparison:

Before Intervention* After Intervention

HH Area Net Income/ hh/yr HH Area Net Income/hh/yr

No ha Rs No ha Rs

764 366.72 18701 2473 1422.13 58717


5.1.2 Rice-Fish-HorticultureAFPRO as a lead consortium partner of the NAIP project has introduced the Rice – Fish – Horticulture IFS module among the farming community of Dhemaji. This scientific approach of IFS farming has introduced with the existing rice field of low lying area, where water is available throughout the year. In this system, farmers were asked to identify a rice field which can be converted in to module. To prepare the Rice Fish Horticulture modules the surrounding of rice field were raised to a high level of earthen bund. This helps to protect the rice field from the damage of flood as well as the fish from going out of the rice field. Apart from this, a canal was dug within the four side of the field, so that fish can take shelter during the summer period when water is dried up and also feed to the fish can be provided through the channel. Fish variety like Common Carp and Grass carp were found to be more suitable for this module. In this module,utilisation of fish excreta as fertiliser for the paddy helped in reduction of chemical fertiliser use for paddy field. Moreover, horticultural crops like cabbage, cauliflower, knolkhol, banana, okra, potato, french bean were introduced on the dykes of the rice field. This technology was adopted by farmer having existing rice field in the low lying area in project and outside project area also. The unit area of 0.43 ha was found to be suitable for this module, out of which 0.27 ha for paddy, 0.030 hand vegetable 0.13 ha. Rice-Fish-Horticulture module

Table 5.1.1(e) Economics of Restructuring of Cropping pattern

RESTRUCTURING OF CROPPING PATTERN PER YEAR

S No

Traditional Practices IFS with improved Practice

Items Area Unit Prod- uction

Cost Income (Rs)

Items Area Unit Prod-uction

Cost Income (Rs)ha ( Rs) ha ( Rs)

1 Paddy 0.5 tone 0.75 374.00 5,700.00Paddy

(summer)0.5 tone 1.55 496.00 11,780.00

2 Vegetable 0.12 tone 0.36 500.00 4,320.00Paddy

(winter)0.5 tone 1.5 425.00 10,500.00

3 Potato 0.12 tone 0.84 600.00 4,200.00Vegetable (summer)

0.12 tone 0.5 300.00 6,048.00

4 Potato 0.25 tone 3 4,000.00 24,000.00

5 Mustard 0.25 tone 0.2 500.00 5,200.00

5.1 Chemical & Fertilizer 500.00Vegetable (winter)

0.12 tone 0.45 500.00 4,500.00

6 Total 1,974.00 14,220.00 6,221.00 62,028.00

7Labour employed

(man days)15 100

8 Cost benefit Ration 1:7 1:10


Table 5.1.2(a) Comparative analysis before and after project intervention:

Rice-Fish-Horticulture module


HH Area Net Income/hh/yr HH Area Net Income/

hh/yr

No ha Rs No ha Rs

86 10.98 6210 479 253.87 31800.00

Variety

Paddy Joymoti, Bishnupriya & local variety (175-245 days)

Flood tolerant variety Jalshree, Jalkunwari, Ranjit, Bahadur, (150-160 days)

Vegetable - French Bean (S-9), Brinjal (Pusa parpal long), Chili (Myhico Red), Okhra (Swani, Prabhati Kiran)

Fish (Fingerling) Fish entered during flood Rohu, Katla, Mrigal & Silver Carp, Common Carp,

Grass Carp

Table 5.1.2(b) Economics of Rice-Fish-Horticulture module:

ECONOMICES OF RICE-FISH -HORTICULTURE MODULE PER YEAR

S No

Items

Area Traditional Practices IFS with improved Practice

haProdu- ction (qtl)

CostIncome

(Rs)

Produ- ction (qtl)

CostIncome (Rs)

( Rs) ( Rs)

1 Paddy 0.27 7.2 2,660.00 6,210.00 11.5 2,653.00 11,000.00

2Fish (Trench area)

0.026 - - 0.45 2,100.00 5,200.00

3 Horticulture - - -

3.1 French Bean 0.13 6.1 2,105.00 7,500.00

3.2 Knolkhol 0.06 3.2 975.00 4,800.00

3.3 Chilli 0.06 1.6 1,304.00 3,300.00

4 Total 2,660.00 6,210.00 9,137.00 31,800.00

5Labour employed (man days)

15 45

6 Cost benefit Ration 1:2.3 1:3.5


5.1.3.Livestock-Fish-Horticulture:In Dhemaji district Livestock rearing is a part and parcel of livelihood activity of farmer. It is contributing to family income is immense. Dhemaji is predominantly a tribal dominated area and livestock rearing specially piggery and backward poultry are major income generation activities associated with each family. As per the baseline survey income from livestock per year per household was Rs.8540.00 and Rs.9420.00 for poultry and piggery respectively. The breed was also of local variety where production was 4 piglet/sow/furrowing. As a part of NAIP project AFPRO has introduce IFS module with three sub activity based as Poultry-Fish-Horticulture, Pig-Fish-Horticulture and Dairy-Fish-Horticulture. Adoption of any module was based on farmers’ choices and feasibilities. Project has provided 2 female piglets to each household and one male piglet to one in 10 household. Project has provided average 15 birds to each household. This IFS module had introduced with improved variety of Pig variety like Ghongroo, Black Hamsphaire and Kroiler.The pig stay was constructed on top the fish pond and cultivation of vegetable on the surroundings of fish pond. A suitable unit area of IFS module was 0.26 ha pond of 0.045 ha water surface area to be integrated with livestock unit area 0.04 ha to 0.06 ha (Poultry or Piggery respectively) for recycling of animal waste and feeds and fodder was produced to reduce the input cost. Seasonal vegetables like cabbage, bean, gourd etc was cultivated in an area of 0.10 ha. Some parts of animal waste and fertilized pond water was utilized to enrich the soil fertility in the cultivated area. The results of introduction of IFS module is shown below in table:

Poultry-Fish-Horticulture:Table 5.1.3(a) Comparative income analysis before and after project intervention

Livestock-Fish-Horticulture (Krolier)


HH Area Net Income/hh/yr HH Area Net Income /hh/yr

No ha Rs No ha Rs

1318 79.08 8540.00 222 57.72 28560.00

Variety

Poultry Krolier


Fish (Fingerling) Fish entered during flood Rohu, Katla, Mrigal & Silver Carp, Common Carp, Grass Carp

In Dhemaji district Livestock rearing is

a part and parcel of livelihood

activity of farmer. It’s contributing to

family income is immense. Dhemaji is predominantly a

tribal dominated area and livestock rearing specially piggery and

backward poultry are major income

generation activities associated with each

family.


Table 5.1.3(b) Economics of Poultry-Fish-Horticulture module:

ECONOMICE OF POULTRY-FISH-HORTICULTURE PER YEAR

S No

Items Traditional Practice IFS with improved Practice

Unit Produ- ction

Cost Income (Rs)

Items Area Unit Produ_ction

Cost Income (Rs)

( Rs) ha ( Rs)

1 Egg (6 f

birds)

no 240 1,000.00 960.00 Egg (15 birds)

no 1350 7,200.00 5,400.00

2 Birds (2

nos)

kg 3 600.00 500.00 Birds (5 nos)

kg 15 2,000.00 4,200.00

4 Fish qtl 1 600.00 3,000.00 Fish qtl 2.1 2,320.00 14,700.00

5 Horti-culture

5.1 Cabbage 0.1 qtl 3.2 1,950.00 3,200.00

5.2 Potato 0.1 qtl 27 1,870.00 21,600.00

6 Total 2,200.00 4,460.00 15,340.00 49,100.00

7 Labour employed (mandays)

15 85

8 Cost benefit Ration 1:2 1:3.2

Piggery-Fish-Horticulture:Table 5.1.3(c) Comparative income analysis before and after project intervention:

Livestock-Fish-Horticulture (Piggery)

Before Intervention** After Intervention

HH Area Net Income /hh/yr HH Area Net Income /hh/yr

No ha Rs No ha Rs

25 8 9420.00 226 117.52 30992.00

Variety

Piggery Black Hampshire, Ghongroo


Fish (Fingerling) Fish entered during flood

Rohu, Katla, Mrigal & Silver Carp, Common Carp, Grass Carp

*Income Fish and bird (local) traditional method ** Income from Fish & Piggery traditional method


Table 5.1.3(d) Economics of Piggery-Fish-Horticulture module

ECONOMICE OF PIGGERY-FISH-HORTICULTURE PER YEAR

S No Items

Area

Unit

Traditional Practices IFS with improved Practice

ha Produ_ction

CostIncome

(Rs)Produ_

ction

CostIncome

(Rs)( Rs) ( Rs)

1 Piglet (no/2 cycle/2 female pigs) no 6 5,600.00 9,000.00 20 19,200.00 40,000.00

3 Fish qtl 1 500.00 3,000.00 2.1 2,350.00 14,700.00

4 Horticulture

4.1 French bean 0.06 qtl 2.5 1,040.00 3,500.00

4.2 Okhra 0.06 qtl 2 800.00 4,700.00

5 Total 6,100.00 12,000.00 22,590.00 62,900.00

6 Labour employed (mandays) 45 175

7 Cost benefit Ration 1:1.9 1:2.7

Table 5.1.4(a) Achievement in terms of target with household and area:

Intervention HH Area (ha)

Rice-Fish-Horticulture 479 253.87

Livestock-Fish-Horticulture 448 221.86

Restructuring Cropping Pattern 2473 1422.13

Total 3400 1897.86

Graph: Achievement against Target (2009-14)

5.1.4 Achievement in terms of target (For IFS Module)There was 3400 household to be targeted under different modules. There were two types of beneficiary i.e. direct beneficiary and indirect beneficiary. In case of direct beneficiary they are directly involved with the project. On the other hand indirect beneficiary are those they have adopted the technology with their own initiative. The table above shown achievement against target


S No Technology Area (ha) HH covered

1 Polly Tunnel 2.4 220

5.2.2. Poly Tunnel Technology for Summer Paddy:In order to advance the harvesting time of summer paddy, the transplanting has been done in January so that at least by April or May it can be harvested. But due to cold temperature it was difficult to raise seedling in November/December and therefore poly tunnel technology was taken up for growing seedling during November/December. This technology has helped farmer to grow 95 ha of summer paddy in 95 ha area and no of Polly Tunnel unit developed is 43. This has been introduced during the year of 2010-11.

5.2.3 Farm Mechanization:In Dhemaji district Farm mechanization in agriculture is in very poor state. Before our project interventions, the project villages have very less farm equipment and the farmers used only traditionally developed equipment for farming, which effect on crop productivity. Therefore to

Raising of Seeding under Poly tunnel technology

Objective 2.To improve the delivery mechanism through skill development of primary stake holders on improved practices of Agriculture, Livestock, Apiculture and Post Harvest Technology.

5.2.1.System of Rice Intensification: SRI technology has been introduced in the paddy crop in the project villages during the year 2010-11. Initially it has been taken up by farmers. Later on due to labour intensive and lack of assured irrigation facility farmers did not adopt.it.

S No Technology Area (ha) HH covered

1 SRI 12 40


Table 5.2.3(a) Farm Mechanization detail

S No

Name of Equipments

No.of equipment

Before project

intervention

After project intervention Cost Savings/hh/year

In Rs.

Percentage increase in productive

No of equipment

Area covered

(ha)HH

covered

1 Power Tiller 3 3 1500 675 Rs.5000 30%

2 Transplanter 0 1 150 246 Rs. 1000 40%

3 Harvester 0 1 85 120 Rs. 1500 50%

4 STW 0 13 325 130 Rs. 2000 60%

5 Sprayer 26 15 10 150 Rs. 1500 45%

6 Rice Mill 0 19 200 600 Rs.12000 60%

Power Tiller at field

5.2.4. Crop wise achievement during the project

i. Intervention of HYV of Paddy:The district Dhemaji is one of the worst flood affected districts of Assam. Flood has become a part of life for the people living in the area. Paddy is principal staple crop of the area and farmer’s food security is dependent on this crop. Hence to provide food security and grow paddy under flood situation, improved HYV has been introduced in the project village. The results were given below in table HYV Paddy cultivation

Table 5.2.4-i(a) Paddy intervention in Dhemaji district, Assam

Crop Number of HH

Area (ha) Initial yield (t/

ha)

Final yield (t/ha)

Total Production (t)

Enhanced Income (Rs./year)

Paddy 3612 1068 1.5 3.1 3310.8 12,986,880.00

improve the productivity and reduce the time for agricultural activity. Project has provided few equipments to strengthen the farm mechanization in project villages. These equipment are provided to the community, where local institutions are responsible for management and maintenance of equipment. The sample study reveals that our interventions on farm mechanization resulted 20 – 30% increase in efficiency of the farming activities. Given given below the baseline status of farm mechanization and also the equipments distributed from the project side to improve the farm mechanization:


iii. Intervention of HYV potato:The soil condition of Dhemaji is suitable for the Potato crop.The practice of growing local potato was prevailing in Dhemaji prior to our project intervention, which produced only 7 t/ha. Considering the soil condition of the area, AFPRO has introduced new HYV variety of potato like Kufrijyoti and Pokhraj. However result from Kufrijyoti is found to be successful with large scale acceptance by the farmer. The results were shown in table below:

Table 5.2.4-iii(c) Potato cultivation:

Crop Number of HH


ha)

Final yield (t/ha)


Enhanced Income (Rs./

year)

Potato 1575 112.10 2 12.8 1434.92 9,685,695.00

Potato cultivation

ii. Intervention of vegetable crop: Every year flood is affecting the people living in the Dhemaji district. During this period, the district remains cut off from the rest of the country and severly faces shortage of food and essential commodities. Kharif crop is usually affected by floods which affect the income of farmers. To enhance the income of farmers improved vegetable cultivation has been introduced in both Rabi and kharif season with HYV based on soil and climatic condition along with new technique for raising seedling of vegetable crops.

Table 5.2.4-ii(b) Vegetable intervention:

Crop Number of HH


ha)

Final yield (t/ha)



Vegetable 2654 1114.68 3 4.8 5350.464 24,077,088.00

Cabbage cultivationVegetable cultivation

The results were given below in table


iv. Intervention of HYV mustard:The Sandy soil available in the Dhemaji district of Assam is suitable for Mustard crop. Prior our project interventions, only local mustard varieties were grown by the farmers with productivity of 0.3 t/ha only. Keeping the land condition in mind AFPRO has introduced new HYV variety of Mustard like M-27 & TS-36. Now Mustard is growing in both pre and post flood situation in Dhemaji. The results were shown in table below:

HYV Mustard cultivation

Improve Breed of Pig

Table 5.2.4-iv(d) Mustard cultivation:

Crop Number of HH

Area (ha) Initial yield (t/ha)

Final yield (t/ha)



Mustard 850 246.50 0.3 0.8 197.20 3,204,500.00

vii. Livestock Intervention:Livestock specifically Piggery and backward poultry are an integral part of livelihood system in Dhemaji district. In the District population is dominated by Tribal and Pork (Pig meat) is the most preferred meat. Pig rearing is one of the main supplementary income generation activities of allmost 90% of household. However due to lack of availability of quality breed (piglet) the production per sow per furrow is only 4 nos. To increase the productivity AFPRO has introduced two new breed of Piglet, they are Ghongroo and Black Hampshire. Its’ productivity is 6 no/per sow/furrowing in two cycle in a year. It helps to increase income from the current level to next level. The results were given in table below:

v. Intervention with summer ground nut.Ground nut is a new crop introduced to sand and silt deposited areas of Dhemaji through NAIP project intervention.

AFPRO has distributed 700 kg of ground nut seed (variety JL24) which benefited 25 no of farmers.

vi. Intervention with TurmericAFPRO has distributed 7875 kgs of local cultivable variety of Turmeric to 50 nos of farmers as per their land suitability, which resulted a reasonable hike in production. Moreover process adopted for making turmeric powder also provided value addition in marketing of turmeric.


Table 5.2.4-vii(e) Piggery Intervention:

Livestock Number of HH

Piglet (no)

Unit Initial yield (sow/

furrowing)

Final yield (sow/

furrowing)

Total Production

(no)


year)

Piglet 634 801.00 1.26 4 6 3364 2,403,000.00

viii. Intervention in Fishery:There are numbers of water bodies in the Dhemaji district where fish rearing is taking place. Fish is one of the major food items as well as an additional income generation activity for the farming community. AFPRO has made following two interventions in the fishery sector:

1. Reclamation of fish pond2. Introduction of quality fingerling

1. Reclamation of Fish Pond:There are 927 fish ponds which were bought under Integrated Farming System (IFS) module. Out of which 210 fish Pond has been renovated or reclaimed with the help of farmers. The labour component was contributed by owner themselves. The total household and area covered is shown below.

2. Introduction of quality fingerling:To enhance the income from fishery, AFPRO introduced variety of fingerling from the local hatchery. The varieties were Rohu, Common Carp and Mrigal. It has shown income enhancement and food nutrient. The results are shown below:

Table 5.2.4-viii(1) Fish Pond Reclamation

No of HH No of Fish Pond Area (ha) Cost (Rs in lakh)

210 210 27.30 7.5

Table 5.2.4-viii(2) Inputs (Fingerling) intervention:

Items Number of HH

Area (ha)

Initial yield (t/ha)

Final yield (t/ha)

Total Production

(t)

Selling price (Rs/

kg)


year)

Fishery 378* 47.97 1.3 2 95.94 70.00 2,350,530.00

*HH involved apart from IFS activity

ix.Post Harvest Technology: AFPRO has introduced various post harvest technologies to augment the value addition, reduction in women drudgery and safe storage facility in the project area. Promotion of rice mill in the villages at cluster basis particularly has helped the women by saving time and energy, which otherwise make rice by pounding at house or to carry at distance location. This has facilitates to save on an average 25-30 hours per month and this extra time generated has been invested in productive works. This has lead to generation of additional revenue of Rs. 500-600 per women per month. Promotion of metallic seed storage bins (110 nos.) with a capacity of 100 kg each has been done in three worst affected villages by flood. This has saved around 11 ton of their seeds during the worst flood in the year of 2009 and 2012.

x.Alternate Income Generation Activity: To develop alternate income generating avenues specifically among the rural women a total 25 nos of nonfarm enterprises were developed. These are as follows:


Table 5.2.4-x Non farm income generation activity:

Nonfarm Enterprises No of Enterprises No of HH involved Additional Income per year (Rs)

Weaving Center 3 30 216000.00

Tailoring unit 6 10 720000.00

Water Hyacinth unit 1 5 15000.00

Rice Mill 19 190 5300000.00

Reeling Machine 3 30 252000.00

Horizontal spread of the project activity

Intervention

Project Beneficiary Non Project Beneficiary

HH covered Area ( ha)

Adoption, %

HH covered (additional)

Addl Area (ha)

Restructuring of Cropping Pattern 2473 1442.13 75 1875 1031.75

Rich-Fish-Horticulture 479 234.71 60 245 110.25

Livestock-Fish-Horticulture 448 188.16 70 290 125.3

SRI 40 12 20 10 6.4

Poly tunnel 220 30 45 35 6.87

Leaf Pack Nursery 21 0.5 55 50 26

Vermi Compost 75 0.12 35 25 0.07

Low Cost Weedier 50 6.5 60 20 2.5

Horizontal spread of project activities:The research project under NAIP component-3 in Dhemaji district has commenced from the year 2009. Initially the project was for 3 years. Again it was extended up to 31st march 2014. During the last 5 years of implementation the project has covered 48 village directly and 20 village indirectly as a part of horizontal expansion. As a result of this, few technology with best result has been adopted by other fellow farmer in the same village after seeing the benefit. The results of horizontal spread are given below in table:

xi. Intervention in Capacity building and Training:During the last 5 years of implementation, AFPRO health conducted series of capacity building training to the farmer and local institution. Which broadly include the flowing areas:


i. Agriculture practices and Technology adoption

ii. Scientific Livestock rearing and health care

iii. Scientific Fish rearing

iv. Fish pond renovation

v. Nonfarm activity

vi. Institutions building and managing

vii. Enterprises development

viii. Micro Finance

ix. Bank linkages

Objective 3. To develop institutional mechanism among the primary stake holders for adopting the approaches and establishing market linkages for income generation activity.

5.3.1 Marketing of Agriculture Produce: An enhancement in production both in terms of quality and quantity was observed among the farmer participated in the MAIP Programme. Since they have marketable surplus with them, they have started selling their produced in the near by Arunachal Pradesh market for higher price. The details of produce sold in Arunachal Pradesh are given below:

Training on Barefoot Vet & SHG (below)

Table 5.3.1 Marketing of Agriculture produces:

Items (Produce) Volume traded (t/ per year)

Traded Amount (Rs in lakh/ per year)

No of Farmer benefited

Average income per farmer per year

Potato 35 2.97 75 4,000.00

Vegetable 78 9.36 187 5,000.00

Paddy 265 20.14 200 10,000.00

Mustard 1.5 3.9 50 7,500.00

Piggery

Piglet 750 6.75 112 6,000.00

Pig (Meat) 17.5 21.00 210 10,000.00


5.3.2 Synergy developed with the Development Departments/Private Sector AFPRO and other consortium partners have made an conscious effort to make/create synergy with other Institutions working in Dhemaji district. In this effort we are able to make some significant achievements. Following are the synergy develops with organization:

i. Indo Global Social Services Society (IGSSS): AFPRO has tied up with IGSSS to provide disaster related support to farmers of our project villages. In this effort we have jointly identified 42 beneficiaries for providing ‘Low Cost” shelter to protect themself from flood.

ii. Indo Global Social Services Society (IGSSS): AFPRO has tied up with IGSSS to scale up our module and POP in 12 villages in order to create one IFS module in each village. AFPRO has also provided training to 15 lead farmers, which intern will provide training to farmers from another 13 villages where we were not present.

iii. National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM): In this effort NRLM is going to implement our IFS module (Livestock-Rice-Vegetable) in Dhemaji and Sisiborgoan block with their direct intervention.

Table 5.3.2 Synergy with organization:

Organization providing support

Item Financial support (Rs. Lakh)

Other support

IGSSS Low cost House 10.77 Training on DRR

IGSSS Agriculture (Training & Inputs)

1.20 Continuous land holding

NRLM Implementation of IFS module through Women

farmer

160.00 Capacity building, Institution building, Revolving capital

for SHGs.

5.3.3 Institution Building:To strengthen the institution build during the NAIP intervention, AFPRO has conducted Capacity Building program involving SHG, VDC and FC. The capacity building program builds on following pillars. These are:

i. Governance of local Institutions (SHG, VDC & Farmer Club)

ii. Role and responsibility of each institution during and after project

iii. Financial Management including maintenance of Cash Book, Loan Register, Calculation of Loan interest, Deposit and Bank Pass Book

iv. Income generation activity including Pig Rearing, Tailoring, Reeling & Weaving

v. Bank linkage and exposure to other similar line of project under Government.

However during the period of September 2013 to March 2014, a special emphasis was given in terms of ‘Strengthening & Capacity Building’ to the local institutions created during the project period. This has introduced with specific aim to make the project activities sustainable after completion of project from March-2014. In this process AFPRO health conducted a “Training Need Assessment” (TNA) among the institutions.


Based on assessment and observation during the TNA, AFPRO has conducted detail training programes on non-farm sector like preparing Agarbatti, Tailoring, Bee keeping, Pickle making, Woolen cloth reeling and Muga reeling machine. This has helped the institutions to become more capacitated and confident enough to carry forward the project activates in a sustainable way.

5.4 Research Achievements of AAU1. The Integrated Rice fish horticulture, Livestock fish horticulture systems were introduced in the

project area successfully with an outcome on promoting the livelihood of the beneficiaries under the project.

2. The composite fish farming system of six species culture with quality fingerlings was also a success in the project area.

3. Cultivation of Pant U-19 var. of Black gram in summer season among 50 farmers and covering area of 6.7 ha.

4. Cultivation of Pratap var. of Green gram in summer season among 50 farmers and covering area of 6.7 ha.

5. Cultivation of AST-1 var. of Sesamum in summer season among 40 farmers and covering area of 5.3 ha.

6. Varietal replacement of Bao paddy with ufra disease resistant Panindra variety among 38 farmers and area of 6.7 ha area

7. Replacement of long duration low yielding traditional ahu paddy with short duration HYV (IR-36) to escape flood in flood prone areas among 108 farmers and area of 20 ha.

5.6 Recommended Module for scale up:Based on the objective of the project, AFPRO has recommended the following two modules for further scaling up:

i. Restructuring of cropping pattern

ii. Integrated Farming System Module

The project has introduced Integrated Farming Systems modules, wherein components of crop, livestock, and fishery were integrated with resource saving practices to achieve acceptable profits and high and sustained levels of production. The IFS modules are found to be the best solution to ensure food security for the small & marginal holders of the project as because of their replicability, adoptability, profitability and environment friendly in flood prone conditions of Dhemaji.

i. Restructuring of Cropping Modules: Cultivable land, forests, abundant grazing fields and a good stock of livestock represent the traditional livelihood patterns of communities residing in the Dhemaji district of Assam. The occurrence of floods, river-bank erosion, and deposition of large amounts of sand by flood waters are the most frequent water-induced vulnerabilities that characterize the region. The efficacy of traditional coping mechanisms is also increasingly being affected by alterations in the local weather and climate systems, increasing the susceptibility of indigenous communities to water induce vulnerabilities.


AFPRO has implemented the NAIP sub project ‘Live Better with the Flood’ in 48 villages of Dhemaji district, Assam. The entire project interventions recognize three phases of flood prone areas - Pre flood situation, During flood and Post flood operation. Restructuring of cropping pattern is one of the major intervention, which aimed at increasing the adaptive capacity of indigenous communities to water induced vulnerability of the region by changing the crop calendar.

Restructuring of cropping pattern basically aims at increasing the adaptive capacities of communities by reducing economic dependence on mono cropping systems through diversification and intensification of local production systems. Planning of crop calendars has been used as an effective tool to reduce the effect of water induced vulnerability through restructuring of the cropping pattern. Based on the likely occurrence and withdrawal of floods and withdrawal (flood calendar), the planting dates of locally cultivated crops were adjusted to improve crop security through reduced risk to floods. Crops such as mustard, potato, summer moong, summer rice, vegetable and fodder crops such as oats were grown in the flood free period. Adjustment of planting dates has been done for growing black gram and green gram after floods. Local cultivars of winter, summer, early autumn, autumn and deep water paddy have been replaced by improved high yielding variety.

As an impact of this restructuring module, the productivity and profitability has increased considerable in the entire crop plan. While making a comparison with the previous cropping system with that of adopted crop plan for the same group of family, the net enhancement in income has been seen to increase considerably. This enhancement is due to introduction of High Yield Varity (HYV) of crop, adjustment of planting and harvesting time and application of manures and fertilizer along with timely control of pest and diseases.

Based on our experiences particularly in the flood prone villages of Dhemaji district, we would like to strongly recommend this module for scaling up. In spite of enhancing livelihood , such module will also contribute in improving the nutritional intake of the poor community.

ii. Rice-Fish-Horticulture Module: Rice-fish farming is an age old practice for the people of Dhemaji. Rice-fish culture under either capture systems or culture systems is a low-cost sustainable practice to obtain high value protein food and minerals. The rice field is a rich and productive biological system which can produce a crop of aquatic organisms, both plant and animal, for human consumption in addition to the rice.

Moreover, the traditional rice-fish production systems also played an important socioeconomic part in the life of the farmers and fisher in this region. But it was observed that the productivity of fish in most cases was very low (1300 kg/ha) due to non adoption of scientific approach.

AFPRO as a lead consortium partner of the NAIP project has modified this traditional Rice – Fish farming of Dheamji to Rice – Fish – Horticulture farming module with introduction of vegetable farming on the embankment of rice field as well as in the rice field after harvesting of the crops.

In the earlier system the ponds were mostly underutilized and farmers can hardly meet their daily needs. Moreover, the practice of growing vegetables was also rare in the area. Hence, there was ample opportunities for enhancing fish and crop productivity scientifically by integrating them. Keeping this in mind this Rice – Fish – Horticulture module been implemented with a objective to improve the livelihood of the rural poor with efficient management of natural resources by enhancing productivity, profitability and diversity of farming system.

At Present, in our project villages of Dhemaji, total 479 number of families with area of 253 ha are adopting this Rice – Fish – Horticulture Farming module and subsequently their income level also get rise from Rs.6111 to Rs.31800


If we really target to the rural poor of Dhemaji to develop their livelihood through integrated farming with optimum utilisation of natural resources, Rice – Fish- Vegetable farming system is the most appropriate technological intervention in recent times. Such approach may pave the way for enhanced farming system production and aquatic productivity from the natural waters

iii. Livestock-Fish-Horticulture Module: Dhemaji district is recognized as one of the most backward district by the Planning Commission of India. Most of our project villages of Dhemaji are tribal dominated and livelihood of the people associated with Agriculture, livestock rearing and fishing. Considering the utmost importance of livestock as well fisheries for improving the livelihood of people, we have introduced the Livestock – Fish – Horticulture module in Dhemaji. This module consists of three sub module like, viz., poultry- fish – vegetable- , dairy – fish – vegetable, pig – fish – vegetable. In this practice, excreta of animals are either recycled for use by fish or serve as direct food for fish. Hence, the expenditure towards chemical fertilizers and supplementary feeds for fish culture is not only curtailed to the barest minimum but also there is economy of space. Income generated from the integration of fish culture and livestock farming has been found to be more than that of exclusive fish farming in ponds. Out of all the said module, Pig – Fish – Horticulture module is found to be one of the promising module to improve the livelihood of the people.

Pig rearing with traditional system is very common among tribal people and mostly the pig products are consumed by themselves only. However traditional feeding practices, poor diet quality, lack of improve breed, poor management practices are some of the liming factor for low performance of pig rearing in the area. However, fish is another important components of everyday food and one of the largest sources of animal protein to majority of the people. But improved fish rearing was a challenge for the community due to lack of knowledge, unavailibility of fish feed , improve breed etc. Considering the need of the situation, we have initiated the Pig – Fish – Horticulture farming system with 448 number of farmers in 221 ha area.

In general, pigdung contains more than 70 per cent digestible feed for fish. The undigested solids present in the pigdung also serve as direct food source to Tilapia and Common Carp. A density of 60-100 pigs has been found to be enough to fertilise a fish pond of one hectare area. The optimum dose of pig manure per hectare has been estimated as five tonnes for a culture period of one year. Such a quantity may be obtained from 50 well-fed pigs. If the manure is to be applied in a dry form, a dosage of 400 kg/ha/day for 12 times in a year will be required. Fish like Grass Carp, Silver Carp and Common Carp (1:2:1) are suitable for integration with pigs.

The outcome of this trail was found to be very promising and additionally at present 290 numbers of farmers are adopting this farming module in 125 ha area and their income level raised from Rs.9420 to Rs. 30992. and Rs. 8540 to Rs.28560 for Poultry-Fish-Horticulture modules respectively.

Considering the existence of pig and fish among the farming community of Dhemaji, we are recommending Pig-Fish-Horticulture module as the best livelihood module for upscaling in Dhemaji. The district has the vast potentiality for development of integrated Pig - Fish – Horticulture farming to make the community self sufficient on daily food requirement and for additional employment generation.


Sl. No Intervention Proposed Output Outcome

1 Community mobilization and formation of CBOs

Formation of about 100 new SHGs and make the linkage with Regional Rural Banks along with existing 200 old SHGs

1. They are able to strengthen their SHGs governance system.

2. Start income generation activity by them like Tailoring, Cutting and weaving.

3. KCC loan: 220 No4. Total amount: Rs. 220000.00

2 Capacity Building Trained farmers: about 1000 nos directly and 4000 indirectly

48 group consisting of 576 farmers doing various income generation activity as follows:

1. Agriculture (10) 2. Fishery (5)3. Nursery (2)4. Piggery (10), Women Group (3)5. Poultry (9)6. Weaving (3), Women Group 7. Muga Silk (2), Women Group8. SHG Federation (1), Women Group 9. Tailoring (6), Women Group 10. Growing minimum 3 crops in a year

3 Establishment of vegetable nurseries

Each nursery shall produce 12 lakh vegetable saplings per year

1. Increase area of vegetable cultivation by 40% 2. Growing both summer and winter vegetable in

a year

Table 5.7 Overall project achievement against proposed output indicator

Following are the major modules recommended for upscaling the project:

Recommended Model

Units Suitable Target group

Income, Rs/hh/Year

Restructuring cropping pattern

I) Paddy- 0.5 haII) Oil Seeds/Pulses- 0.25 haIII) Summer/Winter Vegetables- 0.12 haIV) Potato- 0.25 ha

Small & marginal farmers

62028.00

Rice-Fish-Vegetable V) Paddy – 0.27 haVI) Fish (Trench Area) – 0.026 haVII) French bean – 0.13 haVIII) Knolkhol – 0.06 haIX) Chili - 0.06 ha

Medium low land situation and small farmers

31800.00

Pig– Fish - Vegetable I) Piglets• Local–2nos• Exotic–2nos/HHII) Pond – 0.15 haIII) Cabbage – 0.06 haIV) Okra – 0.06 ha

Small farmers with homestead pond

62900.00


4 Integrated Rice-fish-vegetable, pig-fish-vegetable, poultry-fish-vegetable, Community fish-vegetable farming, Dairy- fish- vegetable, Sericulture-Pig-Horticulture

Farming area coverage, average 30 ha per farming system, Production shall be 6 ton rice, 1.5 ton fish and 5 ton vegetables per ha per year against the existing of 3 ton /ha of rice, 0.5 t/h of fish and 1.5-2 ton vegetable / ha

1. Increase annual income from Rs. 12334 to Rs.46574

2. Increase agriculture income from Rs.18701 to Rs. 42376

3. 1555 ha of gross cropped area and 1450 net cropped area have brought under high yielding

5 Integrated Farming System

1. Restructuring of Cropping System

1. HH Covered (Nos) 2473 ; Area Covered(Ha) 1422.13; Net Income/hh/yr (Rs) 62028

2. Rice- Fish-Horticulture

2. HH Covered(Nos) 479 ; Area Covered (Ha) 253.87; Net Income/hh/yr (Rs) 31800

3. Livestock-Fish-Horticulture

3.1 Poultry- Fish- Horticulture

3. HH Covered (Nos) 222 ; Area Covered(Ha) 57.72 ; Net Income/hh/yr (Rs) 49100

3.2 Pig- Fish- Horticulture

4. HH Covered (Nos) 226 ; Area Covered (Ha) 117.52 ; Net Income/hh/yr (Rs) 62900

6 3 no of Piglet production centre

Ready supply of improved cross breed stock of pig.

1. 4 pigets/sow/furrowing to 6 piglets/sow/

furrowing2. Income from Rs. 4000 to Rs.7000

7 Establishment of Feed Mill unit as demonstration basis to establish scope of backward and forward linkages. Promotion of 110 nos of storage structure and Marketing of product

Marketing through Amar Bazar, DRDA HAAT, NERAMAC and value addition of products.

1. Marketing of agriculture produces of Rs. 2.5 cr2. 11 ton of seed and agriculture produced has

been saved from flood. 3. Rs. 2.20 lakh of seed saved by farmer

8 Irrigation in rabi Season through shallow tube well.

Increased Cropping Intensity.

1. Increase cropping intensity from 33% to 90% due to irrigation facility.

2. No of crop grown in field from 1 to 3 per year

9 Non-farm activities in handloom, handicraft etc

Increased income avenues from non farm sector like weaving, tailoring, dry flower making, jam-jelly & pickle making etc.

1. Rs. 4.5 lakh income has been generated through local selling of vegetables

2. 11 group in involving in different activities.


Installation of free mobile SMS services to provide Agro advisory & Weather based information to the farmers on crop production activities, animal care etc.

Establishment of one boiler group enterprise using country made improved lamp (Kerosene) in flood affected non-electrified 1. No. Arney village, Sisiborgaon Block.

Matri Amar Bazar Kendriya Saiti – initiative of District level Apex SHG Federation mainly for marketing of local produce.

Improvement of cropping intensity as well as productivity of paddy through mechanized cultivation of Boro rice by conservation and management of surface water.

6. Innovation:


Line sowing wheel is used for making the line for potato cultivation. The wheel can be adjusted according to the spacing requirement of crop.

Low cost Polly tunnel technology is used for developing the seedling during the winter season. Which has helped the growth of seedling for early sowing.

Leaf pack nursery is an alternative way for seedbed and poly pack nursery which is suitable for farmers during transplantation of seedling from nursery to the main field. It reduce the mortality of seedling due to “shock” in the plant

Wooden weedier made by Mr. Pramod Ramchiari of Silliboro village under Sisiborgaon block.


7. Process/ Product/Technology Developed:

S. No (Process/Product/Technology Developed Adoption/ Validation/ Commercialization, etc.

Responsible Consortium

1. Rice-Fish-Horticulture• Household: 479• Area: 253.87 ha

AFPRO

2. Livestock-Fish-Horticulture • Household: 448• Area: 221.86 ha

AFPRO

3. Restructuring Cropping Pattern• Household: 2473• Area: 1422.23 ha

AFPRO

4. System Rice Intensification (SRI)

• Household: 40 • Area: 12 ha• Productivity: From 1.2 t/ha

to 4.8 t/ha• Income raised from Rs. 0.12

lakh to Rs. 0.38 lakh

AFPRO

5. Polly Tunnel• Household: 220 • Area: 2.4 ha

AFPRO

6 Leaf Pack Nursery• Household: 21 hh• Area: 0.5 ha

AFPRO

7 Wooden Weedier• Household: 650• Area: 10.5 ha

AFPRO

8 Nutritional Garden• Household: 785• Area: 58.58 ha

AFPRO

9 Vermicompost• Household: 75• Area: 0.12 ha

AFPRO

Adoption, diffusion of intervened technology

Intervention HH covered

Area( ha)

Adoption( %)

Diffusion (hh)

Diffusion Area(ha)

Restructuring of Cropping Pattern 2473 1442.13 75 1875 1031.75

Rich-Fish-Horticulture 479 234.71 60 245 110.25

Livestock-Fish-Horticulture 448 188.16 70 290 125.30

SRI 40 12 20 10 6.4

Poly tunnel 220 30 45 35 6.87

Leaf Pack Nursery 21 0.5 55 50 26

Vermi Compost 75 0.12 35 25 0.07

Low Cost Weedier 50 6.5 60 20 2.5


8. Patents (Filed/Granted): NIL

Note: No Patents was filed or granted during the project period.

9. Linkages and Collaborations: NILNote: As no patent was filled or granted.

10. Status on Environmental and Social Safeguard Framework: The framework for E & S has developed as under:

Environmental and Social: Social: There is no such threat of environmental and social issues in the project area. Majority of the project villages have been included where there is no issue of social diversion. Create more harmony among multiple social groups we have identified beneficiary form each and every community of the villages. Both Men and Women are part of decision making process. Every community representative is part of VDC formed in each village

Environmental: The resources used in the project do not have any adverse impact on Environment. These resources reassured integration of available resources and utilization of it an environmentally friendly manner. Some of the measurers we have introduced to reduce long term impact on soil & environments are:

i. Gradually reducing uses of Chemical Pesticide and Fertilizer by promoting Compost, Organic Manure, Neem Pest.

ii. Uses of local re - generate Natural Resources like Arecanut and other Agriculture waste.

Beneficiaries Total: 3400 (Male: 2456, Female: 944), ST: 2830, SC: 350 and Others: 220. ST: 83%, SC: 10% & General: 7%

Landless: NA, Small: 1450, Marginal: 1230, Others: 720

Bio fertilizers Quantity produced: 12500 kg, Chemicals replaced: 500 kg

Bio pesticides Quantity produced: 1000 ltr, Chemicals replaced: 300 ltr

Zero tillage Area covered: 50, ha-, savings of diesel: 500 ltr, Pollution reduction: 40%

Bio diversity conservation, if any • Plantation of Arecanut in 5 ha area

Equipment introduced for drudger reduction (name and numbers)

1. Wooden Weedier: 50 No2. Rice Mill: 19 No3. STW: 13 No4. Power Tiller : 3 No5. Tube Well: 25 No

Any other 1. Raised Platform with Drinking Tube well (3 no)


11. Constraints, if any and Remedial Measures Taken:

Livelihood Status

Major Constraints Remedial Measures Taken

Agriculture • Prevalence of single cropping (Paddy) with less diversified agriculture with improper post harvest technology leads to food crisis for the next season.

• Non availability of quality & high Yielding variety of seeds

• Limited availability of technology with lack of knowledge on proper crop planning and management.

• Lack of proper irrigation facilities

• A whole new crop calendar has been introduced in the project area, which has ensured at least two to three crops during the year. In addition of the Integrated Farming Module based on local situation also introduced to increase cropping season and intensity.

• Project has introduced new and high yielding variety based on flood and soil conditions. For example

- For deep water paddy: Jalashree, Jalkuwari, Pabmanath, Panindra,

- For short duration Paddy: Luit, Kacily, Kolong, Disang

- For Mustard: M-27, Ts-36,

- For Maize:Ganga 5

- For Potato: Kufri Jyoti, Pokhraj 37

• Project has introduced various technologies in the project area. These are:

- SRI

- Polly Tunnel

- Raised Bed Nursery

- Drip Irrigation

- Tradel Pump

- Zero Tillage

- Leaf Pack Nursery

• Extensive training on Improved Agriculture practices has been conducted to develop the farming skill of farmers.

• STW has been provided at community level to crate assured irrigation facilities in the project area.


Livestock and Fishery

• Non availability quality breed (piglet)

• Improper management of animal health and nutrient.

• Lack of Knowledge and training facilities.

• Lack of animal health care facilities in the villages.

• Inadequate feeds and fodder availability.

• Introduce high quality breed (piglet) of Ghongroo & Black Hampshire.

• Establish pig breeding unit at village level through SHGs for supply of quality breed

• Conduct training on ‘Scientific Pig Rearing” process and implementation

• Development 40 no of Veterinary volunteer for giving health care services to the animal stocks.

• Created linkages with district Veterinary department and Doctor for animal health check up

• Support of nutrient rich feed and fodder through provision of feed mill and training.

• Unscientific fish cultivation.

• Non availability of hatcheries & ready availability of feed stock in the potential area.

• Demonstration cum training on “Scientific Fish” cultivation

• Linkage with hatchery of local Entrepreneurs for getting input at right time and right quality

Non-Farm Activity

• Low confidence level of people in taking these activities at subsistence level.

• Non availability of training facility

• Lack of marketing linkages.

• Provide improved “Flying Shuttle” loom to increase productivity

• Provide training on new design and improved technique on tailoring and weaving

• Set up SHG based commercial unit for marketing of item produced

• Linkage with SHG federation for market linkage

• Credit linkage through SHG loan

Infrastructures • Non availability of agricultural credit

• Non availability of agricultural insurance services

• Weak extension support

• Lack of market facilities, improper value addition facilities

• Created credit linkages with Bank for “Kisan Credit Card”

• Linkage of crop insurance through “National Insurance Company”

• Create 150 lead farmer in the project villages for further extension support at local level

• Organized local level discussion with Agri Extension officer from Dhemaji.

• Training on ‘Pickle Making” by using local fruits


12. Publications:

A. Research papers in peer reviewed journals

S. No

Authors, Title of the paper, Name of Journal, Year, Vol. & Page No.

NAAS Ratings Responsible Consortium

1. Living with Flood – an experience of Assam – A. M. Baruah and D. Sarma, AFPRO Task Force, Guwahati, Proceedings of International workshop on ‘Protecting and promoting rights in floods; preventions and response’ held at Delhi orgainized by All India Disaster Management Institute (AIDMI) in collaboaration with CORDAID

NA AFPRO

2. Strengthening coping mechanism of community against flood in Assam – an experience – A. M. Baruah, D. Sarma and M. Goswamai, AFPRO Task Force, Guwahati, Proceedings of the National Conference on ‘Community managed Disaster Risk reduction’ organized by Caritus India at Delhi ( in publication)

NA AFPRO

3. Bordoloi, R., Tamuli, K.K., Baishya, S., Hussain, I.A. (2013). Rice Fish Horticulture Module – An Approach to Improve the Livelihood Security in the Flood Affected Areas of Dhemaji District, Assam. Environment and Ecology, 31 (3A): 1429-1432.

4.09 AAU

B. Books/ Book chapters/ Abstracts/ Popular articles, Brochures, etc.

S. No Name of Book Responsible Consortium

1 Ghore Pathar (Published from Assam Agriculture University) 2010. No of Copy: 300

RVC

2 Book: Integrated Pest Management. By Mridul Goswami and Pankaj Bezbaruah. No of Copy: 500

AFPRO

3 Book: Integrated Livestock-Fish-Horticulture Practices. By Dhuraba Sharma Ranjita Bezbaruah. No of Copy: 500

AFPRO

5 Book: Bio- Fertilizer and its Process of Preparation, by Mridul Goswami. No of copy: 300

AFPRO

6 Documentary Film. No of Copy: 1 AFPRO


13. Media Products Developed/Disseminated:

S. No

CD, Bulletins, Brochures, etc. (Year wise) No. of copies

Distribution Responsible Consortium

Year: 2009-2010

Booklet:

1 Samannita Krishi Pam Padhati (Integrated Farming System)

500 450 AFPRO

2 Samannita Gahari-Fish Aru Uddyan Sashyar Kheti (Integrated Pig-Fish_Horticulture Farming)

500 450 AFPRO

Leaflet

1 Unnata Krishi Paddhati of Bilahi, Alu, Jalakia, Jika aru Bhendi (Improved cultivation Practices of Tomato, Potato, Chilli, Ridge Gourd & Lady’s finger)

250 220 AFPRO

2 Dhanar Mat Nursery ( Mat Nursery of Paddy

400 350 AAU

Training Materials

1 Barefoot veterinary technician 30 30 AFPRO

2 Rice-Fish –Horticulture Integrated Farming System 1 and 2

65 65 AFPRO

3 Livestock-Fish –Horticulture Farming System 1 and 2

60 60 AFPRO

Year: 2010 - 2011

Booklet

1 Jaibik Saar (Organic Manure) 250 240 AFPRO

2 Banpirita Anchalar Kheti (Cropping System in Flood affected Area)

200 180 AAU

Leaflet

1 Saghane Mach poha aru mara padhatti (Multi harvest practice of fish)

200 190 RVC

Training Materials

1 Livestock-Fish –Horticulture Farming

System

45 45 AFPRO


14. Meetings/Seminars/Trainings /Kisan Mela, etc. organized:

S. No

Details of Meetings/Seminars/Trainings, etc.

Duration(From-To)

No. of Personnel trained

Budget(Rs.)

Organizer(Name & Address)

1 CAC Meeting 05.07.2010 - - AFPRO

CMU Meeting 05.04.2010,06.02.2011

- - AFPRO

2 CIC 23.06.2010, 29.09.2010, 07.02.2011

- - AFPRO

3 Banker’s Meet 07.02.2011 - - AFPRO

4 Training on procedures of Insurance of Animal

1.4.2010 to 10.4.2010

400 5000/- AFPRO

5 Awareness on Integrated Farming system

15.04.2010 – 25.04.2010

600 3000/- AFPRO

6 Training on Zig-Zag stitching machine

29.08.2010 8 2000/- AFPRO

7 Training on weaving 27.09.2010 5 nil AFPRO

8 Barefoot veterinary volunteer training

07.10.2010 – 12.10.2010 and

19.10.2010- 24.10.2010

16 60000/- AFPRO

9 Training on rice cultivation and livestock care during flood at Bahokotika village

14.11.2010 51 6000/- AFPRO

10 Training on pest management of vegetable, SRI and summer rice cultivation at Kakobari village

15.11.2010 44 6500/- AFPRO

11 Training on pest management of vegetable, SRI and summer rice cultivation at Seujiapathar village

21.11.2010 35 800/- AFPRO

12 Animal care and management of livestock during flood at Changmaibari

31.12.2010 27 1200/- AFPRO

13 Organizational management and Vision Building of VDC

18.01.2010 37 1500/- AFPRO

14 Organizational management of SHG at Bordolopa village

19.01.2011 – 20.01.2011

65 800/- AFPRO

15 Organizational management of SHG at Seujiapathar village

21.01.2011 – 22.01.2011

70 700/- AFPRO


16 Organizational management of SHG at Bordoloni Block

23.01.2011 25 1000/- AFPRO

17 Livestock-Fish-Horti 21.02.2011 – 23.02.2011

35 55000/- NERIWALM

18 Livestock-Fish-Horti 27.12.2011 – 29.12.2011

30 50000/- NERIWALM

19 SRI cultivation 28.02.2011 – 01.03.2011

25 55000/- NERIWALM

20 Water hyacinth by-product 07.02.2011-16.11.2011

18 65000/- NERIWALM

21 Farm Machinery training to youth at Indian Institute of Farm Machinery training, Biswanath Chariali.

31.01.2011 – 11.02.2011

15 55000/- NERIWALM

22 Fish Preservation and Value addition

04.01.2011 – 05.01.2011

30 55000/- NERIWALM

23 Fish Farming technology 20.02.2010-21.02.2010

53 25000 AAU

24 Fish Farming Technology 23.03.2011-24.03.2011

59 25000 AAU

25 Fish Farming Technologies 27.03.2012 – 28.03.2012

72 25000 AAU

26. Meeting on Village Development Committee (VDC)

10/07/2009 48 nos. of VDC formation

- RVC

27. SHG formation meeting 12/09/2009 240 nos. of Group trained

- RVC

28 Farmers Club Meeting Oct.2010 to April 2012

7 nos. of farmers club form

- RVC

29 SRI training 18/06/2010& 15/11/2010

70 nos. from respective NAIP

village.

19600 RVC

30 Training on Vermi composes 15/05/2011& 17/10/2011

60 nos of farmers are trained

10100 RVC

31 Training on leadership development of VDC& farmers club

15/06/2012& 19/10/2012

60 nos of President/

Secretary of VDC & farmers club. 30000

RVC

32 Training on Bokashi method 20/05/2013 50 nos farmers are trained

RVC


15. Participation in Conference/ Meetings/Trainings/ Radio talks:

S. No Details of Meetings/Seminars/Trainings/Radio talk, etc.(Name

&Address)

Duration(From-To)

Budget(Rs.)

Participant(Name & Address)

1. Disasters and Climate Change Implications on Food Security and Non Food Factors orgainized by Sphere India

13.09.2010 – 15.09.2010

Nil Mr. Dhrubajit Sarma, Unit Manager, AFPRO and CPI

2. Protecting and promoting rights in floods; preventions and response held at Delhi orgainized by All India Disaster Management Institute (AIDMI) in collaboration with CORDAID

7.12.2010 – 8.12.2010

Borne by sponsor

Mr. Alakesh Malla Baruah, AFPRO Task Force, Guwahati

3. National Conference on Community managed Disaster Risk reduction organized by Caritus India at Delhi

24.03.2011- 25.03.2011

Borne by sponsor

Mr. Alakesh Malla Baruah, AFPRO Task Force, Guwahati

4. Training on Scientific Project Writing under NAIP at IARI, New Delhi

9th December to 13th December-2013

NAIP Mr. Pankaj Bezbaruah, CPI Component-3Shatarupa Kashyap, AFPRO New Delhi

16. Foreign Trainings/Visits: No Foreign Training was received: NA

17. Performance Indicators:

S. No. Indicator Total Numbers

1. Number of new technologies developed and introduced in the project area

10(Table no.7)

2. Number of improved technologies introduced in project areas

8(Table no.8)

3. Number of improved technologies adopted in these areas 8

4. Number of farmers involved in consortia activities 3400

5. Increase in agriculture services and processing enterprises in project area

Baseline Final

0 5

6. Increase in income of participating household (Rs/Annum) Baseline Final

Rs.18334 Rs. 42376

7. Number of farmer groups involved in consortia activities 2 48


8. Incremental employment generated (person days/year/HH) Baseline Final

220 310

9. Number of farmers/area in addition to project beneficiary farmers adopting introduced technologies

Farmers (No.) Area (ha)

2410 1266.55

10. Number of patent/intellectual property protection applications filed based on NAIP research

0

11. Number of patents/intellectual property protections granted/published based on NAIP research

0

12. Number of scientists trained overseas in the frontier areas of science

0

13. Number of scientists trained overseas in consortium-based subject areas

0

14. Number of scientists participated in conference/seminar etc. abroad

0

15. Success stories 50

16. Amount of sustainability fund corpus created (` Lakh) Rs. 7.2

17. Number of novel tools/protocols/methodologies developed 3

18 Cropping Intensity Baseline Final

33% 90%

19 Paddy 1.5 t/ha 3.1 t/ha

20 Potato 7 t/ha 11.1 t/ha

21 Mustard 0.3 t/ha 0.8 t/ha

22 Vegetable 3 t/ha 4.2 t/ha

18. Employment Generation (man-days/year):

S. No. Type of employment generation

Employment generation up to end of sub-project (Days)

Responsible consortium

1Agriculture Employment

AFPRO/RVC/AAU

1.1 Wage labour (Self) 310

1.2 Wage labour (hired) 90


19. Assets Generated, Equipment:

S. No.

Name of the equipment with manufacturers name, model and Sr. No.

Year of purchase

Quantity (Nos.)

Total cost (Rs.)


1 Desk Top Computer with Peripherals (HP Model: DX 2480)

2009 1 59270.00 AFPRO

2 Digital Camera (Sony Camera Model: DSC T90)

2009 1 20000.00 AFPRO

3 Lap Top (HP Pro-book Business Note Book Model:4410)

2009 1 58905.00 AFPRO

4 White Board and Other Accessories 2009 3 19880.00 AFPRO

5 Power Tiller (VST SHAKTI 130 DI Power Tiller)

2009 3 430701.00 AFPRO

6 Rice Mill (USHA 10 HP Electrified & 5 HP Diesel Engine with Huller No. 4)

2009 19 608000.00 AFPRO

7 Drip Irrigation Set (0.5 Mono block pump set, 1.5 HP Honda Pump Set, Paddle pump with accessories)

2009 6 238543.00 AFPRO

8 Backpack Sprayer (Mushari SHAKTI 16 liter)

2009 15 14250.00 AFPRO

9 Irrigation Pump and Accessories (Kirloskar AVIXL/5HP at 1500 rpm single piston, water cooler, diesel oil engine)

2009 13 370884.00 AFPRO

10 Grain Storage Bin (Metallic Bin Size 18 * 30”/ wt- 10.650 kgs)

2009 110 398896.00 AFPRO

Works:

S. No. Particulars of the work, name and address of agency awarded the work

Year of work done

Quantity (Nos.)

Total cost (Rs.)


1 Renovation of ponds (Mr. Gajanand Kaushik, Kedar Road, Guwahati)

2010 65 398000.00 AFPRO

2 Reclamation of Community Ponds (Mr. Gajanand Kaushik, Kedar Road, Guwahati)

2010 31 149802.00 AFPRO


(i) Revenue Generated(Details may be given on revenue generated in the sub-project viz., sale of seeds, farm produce, products, patents, commercialization, training, etc.)

S. No.

Source of revenue Year Total amount (Rs. In lakh)


1 Marketing of Produce (Paddy, Vegetable, Potato)

2009-10 12.5 AFPRO/AAU


2010-11 30.50 AFPRO/AAU


2011-12 45.75 AFPRO/AAU


2012-13 55.60 AFPRO/AAU


2013-14 75.50 AFPRO/AAU

6 Marketing of Non Farm produce( Weaving, Tailoring & Reeling)

2012-13 3.5 AFPRO

(ii) Livestock

(Details of livestock procured/produced in the sub-project)

S. No.

Details of livestock (Breed, etc.) Year of procurement /production

Nos. Total cost (Rs.)


1 Piglets (Hamshire & Large black,) 2009 to 2012 1185 1,861,740.00 AFPRO

2 Goat (Black Bengle & Beatle) 2009 39 145,900.00 AFPRO

3 Croiler 2009 to 2012 4528 223,576.50 AFPRO

4 Duck (Khaki Campbell) 2009 1125 33,750.00 AFPRO

20. Awards and Recognitions:

S. No.

Name, Designation,Address of the person

Award/ Recognition (with date)

Institution/ Society facilitating (Name & Address)


1. Pankaj Bezbaruah Certificate of Appreciation for excellent work in NAIP Component-3 Project

ICAR, New Delhi AFPRO

2. Horindra Gogoi AAU

3. Arup Saikia RVC


21. Steps Undertaken for Post NAIP Sustainability:AFPRO in partnership with Assam Agriculture University (AAU), RVC, Dhemaji and North Eastern Regional Institute of Water and Land Management, Dolabari, Tezpur has implemented the project “Live Better with the Floods” in Dhemaji district of Assam, under funding support from World Bank through ICAR under National Agriculture Innovation project” Component – III.

AFPRO has taken the following steps to make the project sustainable after completion of project duration:

1. Creation of 100 SHGs in the project villages to continue the project activities after post NAIP

2. Created 48 Village Development Council (VDC) to manage and judicial uses of assets crated under project in a sustainable manner. In this case services have been fixed for hiring the assets for agriculture purposes.

3. Created 10 farmers Club (FC) to carry out agriculture activities in project villages and also expand in other villages.

4. Created 2 SHG federation to help SHG in the area of marketing and purchasing of inputs

5. Conducted 10 numbers of training to strengthen the institutions (SHGs, VDC & FC). These trainings are imparted in the area of Governance, Accounting, Credit Linkage, Market Linkage & Entrepreneurship development.

6. The most important steps was linkages of SHGs with National Rural Livelihood mission (NRLM ) to avail the benefit of the mission.

7. Local KVK will provide extension support to the farmers after completion of the project as they were the consortium partner of the project.

8. Created Rs. 7.2 lakh sustainable fund with SHGs, through which they will support farmer in future

9. A new initiative under MoRD through Assam State Rural Livelihood Mission known as Mahila Krisak Sasaktikaran Projajona (MKSP) has started in Dhemaji district. This will scale up some of our agricultural activities to another 2000 farmers within next 3 years.

22. Possible Future Line of Work: NAIP has provided a wonderful opportunity to AFPRO for implementing an unique pilot project in one of the most remote and flood affected district of Assam.

During the last five years of implementation, commencing from 2009, AFPRO has identified few innovative technologies which are suitable for “Flood Affected” areas of Assam as well as other part of the country. Based on our experience and considering the significance of intervention in improving the livelihood of poor and marginalised community, we are proposing the following future line of work in Assam.

i. Implementation of similar project in other flood affected districts of Assam.

ii. Scaling up of technology, modules in other district as an integrated manner.

iii. Integration of technology and cropping practices with future climate change context in new areas of Assam. This could be adopted as a mitigation measures for climate change.


23. Personnel:

From – To (YY-YY)

Research Management (CL)

1. Mr. S.C Jain 2009-11

2. Mr. Mukul Dixit 2011-12

3. Mr. Pradip Kumar 2012-13

4. Mr. Rajib Roul 2013-2013

5. Mr. D.K Manavalan 2013-2014

Scientific (CPI, CCPI, others)

6. Mr. Dhubrajit Sharma (CPI)-AFPRO 2009-11

7. Mr. Pankaj Bezbaruah (CPI)-AFPRO 2011-14

8. Mr. Bharat Nath (CCPI)-NERIWLAM 2009-12

9. Dr. Tarun Mahanta (CCPI)-AAU-KVK 2009-10

10. Dr.Krishna Kanta Tamuli(CCPI)-AAU-Fishery Collage 2009-14

11. Dr. Horindra Gogoi (CCPI)-AAU 2010-14

12. Dr. Arup Saikia (CCPI)-RVC 2009-14

13. Ms.Ranjita Bezbaruah, Associated Scientist- AFPRO 2009-11

14. Ms.Shatarupa Kashyap, Associated Scientist- AFPRO 2009-14

Contractual

15. Mr. Mousam Hazarika-SRF 2009-2009

16. Mr. Mridul Goswami-RA 2010-2011

17. Dr. Prakash Pran Bora-SRF 2010-2010

18. Dr. Ganakanta Dole-SRF 2010-2012

19. Mr. Nebaran Medok-SRF 2012014

20. Dr. Monuj Dole-SRF 2013-13

21. Mr. Chandan Kalita-SRF 2011-13

22. Mr. Pallab Goswami-Office Asst. 2009-14

23. Mr. Tapan Dutta-SRF 2009-14

24. Mr. Sangipran Deka-SRF 2009-12

25. Mr. Ranjit Bordoloi-SRF 2009-12

26. Mr. Innam Akhatar-SRF 2013-14


24. Governance, Management, Implementation and CoordinationA. Composition of the various committees (CIC, CAC, CMU, etc.)

S. No. Committee Name Chairman(From-To)

Members(From-To)

1. CAC Dr. H.P Borthakur 2009-14

Dr. R N Pal 2009-14

Mr. Sailen Gogoi 2009-14

Ms. Kiran Hazarika 2009-14

Dr. A.P Srivastava 2009-14

Mr. D.K Manavalan 2009-14

Mr. Pankaj Bezbaruah 2011-14

B. List of Meetings organized (CIC, CAC, CMU, etc.)

S. No. Details of the meeting Date Place & Address (Where meeting was organized)

1. Review of progress of work done up to in the year 2009-10

05-07-2010 Regional Agricultural Research Station, Assam Agriculture University , North Lakhimpur

2. Review of progress of work done up to 2010-11

18-05-2011 Social Forum, Kharghuli, Assam Guwahati: 781003


23-11-2012 NIRD Khanapara, Guwahati

4. Assessment of NAIP Project at Dhemaji under Component III by Dr. C Obul Reddy

24.02.2013 AFPRO Regional Office Guwahati- 03


06.08.2013 BOSCO Reach Out, Ulubari Guwahati


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PART-IV Declaration

This is to certify that the final report of the Sub-project has been submitted in full consultation with the consortium partners as per the approved objectives and technical programme and the relevant records, note books; materials are available for the same.

Place: Dhemaji

Date: 31st March 2014

Signature & Date: Mr. Horindra GogoiConsortium Co-Principal Investigator (AAU)

D.K.Manavalan, IAS (Retd)Consortium Leader

Date:31st March2014

Signature & Date: Dr. K K TamuliConsortium Co-Principal Investigator(AAU-Fishery Collage)

Signature & Date : Bharat Nath Consortium Co-Principal Investigator(NERIWLAM)

As head of the organisation i.e., Action For Food Production and as a lead consortium partner, I had an unique opportunity of working together with community who are most marginalised because of the circumstances and the environment they are living. Exclusively through this project, we have provided support system to farmers for improving their livelihood specifically in areas connected with sustainable agriculture. In the context of climate change, learnings from this project give us ideas to serve the community in other parts of the country, who are also facing such type of challenge for sustainable livelihood option.

Pankaj Bezbaruah

Signature of Consortium Principal Investigator

Action For Food Production (AFPRO)25/1A, Institutional Area, Pankha RoadD Block, Janakpuri, New Delhi – 110058 Phone:+91-11-28525412,+91-11-28520343Email: [email protected],[email protected]: www.afpro.org

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