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CRIDA-SRLS News A Quarterly Newsletter
January-March 2009; No.3, Vol.1
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From Lead Centre:………
• Sixth CIC (Consortium ImplementationCommittee) meeting
• Fourth CAC (Consortium Advisory Committee)Meeting and ICT Kiosk Inauguration at CRIDA onMarch 21, 2009
Dr.A.P.Srivastava trying his hand on the touch screen
Padmasree Dr. I. V. Subba Rao inaugurating ICT kiosk at CRIDA
Innovations:
• Natural Colors for Holi
• Teleconferencing
• Yield in Rainfed Cotton
National Agricultural Innovation Project Comp.3 stainable Rural Livelihoods Through Enhanced Farming Systems Productivity and Efficient Support Systems in Rainfed Areas
tral Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad-500059
News from clusters: Training on value addition to Ground nut Training on Zero Tillage Training on Soft skills
Related News & Events • National Workshop-cum-Brainstorming on Rainwater
Harvesting and Reuse through Farm Ponds-Experiences,Issues and Strategies from April 21-22, 2009 at CRIDA.
• Skill training to ICT kiosk operators of all clusters ofNAIP planned during first week of May 2009.
• Experience Sharing and Planning Workshop of NAIPcomponent-3 Projects on May 15-16, 2009 at CRIDA.
Complied and Edited by K. Ravi Shankar & K. Kareemulla, CMU, NAIP-SRLS Technical Support by S. Raghava Sarma
Sixth CIC (Consortium Implementation Committee)
meeting at CRIDA on February 11, 2009
The Sixth Consortium Implementation Committee (CIC) meeting was
held at 10.00 hrs. in the Conference Hall I at CRIDA on February 11, 2009
under the Chairmanship of Dr.B.Venkateswarlu, Director, CRIDA and
Consortium Leader. All the partners and CCMT members attended the
meeting. The meeting was held with the following agenda:
1. To discuss the process of data collection, collation and interpretation.
2. Status of expenditure.
3. Plan of work for summer 2009 with special focus on NRM works.
4. Possibility of convergence with NREGS.
5. Over view for kharif planning.
Fourth CAC (Consortium Advisory Committee) Meeting and ICT Kiosk Inauguration at CRIDA on
March 21, 2009
The Fourth CAC meeting was held at 2:00 PM in the conference hall-III
at CRIDA under the chairmanship of Padmasree Dr. I. V. Subba Rao. The
main agenda of the meeting was presentation of annual report of NAIP for
2008. Later, after the meeting, Padmasree Dr. I. V. Subba Rao inaugurated
the ICT kiosk installed at CRIDA.
Promoting Natural Colors on the Eve of Holi
Holi, a festival of colors is celebrated to mark the onset of spring by
sprinkling a hue of colors on neighbors, friends and relatives. Traditionally,
colors derived from natural sources were used in this festival. However, of
late synthetic colors are being used resulting in the damage to skin and eyes.
In order to prevent this and to promote use of natural colors that creates
income and employment opportunity to tribal rural women the NAIP cluster
anchor KVK, Adilabad has come out with an innovative approach. Butea
monosperma popularly known as the ‘flame of the forest’ found abundantly in
the scrub forests around Seethagondhi cluster in Adilabad. The flowers of
B.monosperma are an excellent source of natural yellow. Tribal women were
organized to collect the flowers of this plant and extract color from the
flowers.
Ms.Roja Rani, Home science expert working with KVK, Adilabad
trained the tribal women in the process of extracting the color. Dr. G. Samuel
and his colleagues worked out a plan to organize an awareness campaign for
promoting natural colors besides setting up a sale cum exhibition of the
product in the heart of Hyderabad city on the eve of the festival (9th March,
2009). Necessary permissions and approvals were obtained from the
authorities of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and an
exhibition stall was put up at the Andhra Bank circle in Koti, the busiest
market place in the city. The event was scheduled at 9.00 am sharp to catch
the attention of early birds. Media and press were present to cover the event,
which was jointly inaugurated by Dr.B.Venkateswarlu, Director and CRIDA
and Dr.L.G.Giri Rao, Director of Extension, Acharya N.G.Ranga Agricultural
University. Both the dignitaries called for using natural colors for the festival
and wished everyone a safe and colorful holi. A representative of the women’s
Self Help Group that was instrumental in processing and producing colors
spoke about her experiences.
Soon after the sale was inaugurated there was a bee line of buyers for
the new product. The color is sold in two forms; a ready-to-use liquid and a
powder concentrate, which needs to be boiled in water to extract the color.
Teleconferencing: Interface Innovation between Partners
Regular monitoring is the key to achieving desired outcome from the project
intervention. This is an important learning the Lead Center has gained during
the initial phase of project implementation. The target districts addressed by
the consortium are spread over a distance of over 750 km across the length of
the state. As a result, interaction between the Lead Center and its partner
institutions located in different districts becomes difficult to physically
monitor all of these within a short time period because of the physical
distance separating them. To address this, the project is using
teleconferencing method to its full advantage. I-Kisan, the ICT and market
linkage partner has installed bipartite teleconferencing equipments at the
VRC building in all the eight clusters while tripartite conferencing device is
installed at the Project Secretariat, CRIDA and I-Kisan. This enables both
CRIDA and I-Kisan to initiate a conference call with any two partners at a
time. The device also allows the use of mobile sim card to connect as most
clusters receive fairly strong signals of at least one mobile service provider.
This will enable the Lead Centre to have a chat with a group of farmers from
any of the clusters.
The first tripartite test teleconference was successfully held on
February 27, 2008 between CRIDA, IKISAN the project staff of BIRD located
at Mahbubnagar. To review and monitor the progress of activities at different
clusters, it was decided that similar teleconferencing would be held every
Friday at 2:30 PM.
Training on “Post Harvest Value Addition to Groundnut”
NAIP, CRIDA organized two training programs on “post harvest value
addition to groundnut” in collaboration with Krishi Vignana Kendra, CRIDA,
Hyderabad, during 6th Feb to 12th Feb 2009. The training was conducted in
two locations, KVK of CRIDA (6th to 7th Feb 09) for Mahahbubnagar,
Warangal, Rangareddy clusters and Bananganapalli (10th to 12th Feb 09) for
Ananthapur, Kadapa. These five clusters are predominantly growing
groundnut crop. The women and children in these clusters are not only
suffering from malnutrition and anemia, but also lack viable cottage
employment opportunities. Hence, the focus of this training program was to
address these issues and develop skills of micro entrepreneurship among the
SHG members.
Getting experience with value addition Unemployed women enabling skills from The experts
The training program was planned in such a way that, skills are
developed in preparation of groundnut value addition products with locally
available infrastructure. The training focused on imparting skills in
preparation of groundnut sweets, snacks items and nutritious food like
groundnut milk etc. As part of training, Chikki moulds and reading material
were distributed under NAIP and also supported them to begin a micro-scale
industry on it. A total of 40 farmwomen participated in this training actively
and learned the skills in preparing the value added products for both
household consumption and local market.
List of products Prepared through value addition:
Groundnut Chikki
Groundnut Curry leaf powder
Groundnut Halwa
Groundnut Pakodi
Groundnut Muruku
Groundnut Chekka
Groundnut Burfi
Groundnut Baksha
Groundnut Biscuit
Groundnut Milk
Groundnut Powder
Stepping towards self employment and Display of valuation of Groundnut nutrient food Products
Dr. Sreenath Dixit, CPI, NAIP with trainees and products
Feed back on Training of Groundnut Value Addition:
I am Nagendra, studied upto 10thclass and belong to Jamistapur,
Mahabubnagar (dist). Due to some family problems I discontinued my studies. My
father is a groundnut farmer and we used to sell the whole produce in the market
rotating 3-4 kg for family consumption. Prior to this training I was not aware of all
these value additions. This training has helped me to learn about the different
products. Now I am confident that I can build a small scale industry at the village
level by gathering all farm women in my village.
Kumari. Nagendra, Jamistapur
My name is Smt.Ganga Devi and belong to konampet, Kadapa district. I know
some basic concepts in the preparation of some value added products and now because
of this training, I came to know the small tips, techniques and skills etc. I can make
the products based on the local demand and order from the market.
Smt. Ganga Devi, B.Yerragudi
Prepared by K. Gayatri, RA, NAIP
Innovative Approaches for up scaling zero tillage maize, a resource conservation technology
Paddy is cultivated extensively during rabi in Jaffergudem cluster of
Warangal district by exploiting the scarce groundwater source. In order to
discourage this practice and provide an appropriate alternative, maize was
introduced in paddy fields by encouraging zero tillage in one acre plot during
rabi 2007. This intervention resulted in a significant outcome in terms of
higher production and income. A group of farmers who practiced paddy –
paddy sequence cropping were invited to the field day conducted in early
2008. Later in rabi 2008, these farmers (about 15 no.s), were motivated to take
up zero tillage maize (ZTM). Seven of them came forward.
Jamistapur (Mahaboobnagar) and Ibrahimpur (Rangareddy) clusters
also have significant area under rabi paddy cultivated with tube well
irrigation. In order to upscale ZTM in these clusters, farmers practicing paddy
– paddy sequence were short-listed and twenty of them (10 each from
Jamistapur and Ibrahimpur) were bought to Jaffergudem for exposure visit to
ZTM fields on 27th Feb 2009.
The exposure visit was designed in such a way that farmers of
Jaffergudem who cultivated ZTM acted as resource persons and shared their
experiences with the visiting farmers. In addition to farmers, Shri.
Vishwanath Raju from MARI and Bhaskara Rao and Gayatri from CRIDA fed
technical inputs to farmers. Farmers visited ZTM fields and summer
vegetable fields (Brinjal, Okra and Tomato). Visitors interacted with ZTM
farmers and got clarifications for their doubts and ambiguities on the new
intervention. This exposure visit has generated a lot of interest in Jamistapur
and Ibrahimpur farmers and they need to be meticulously followed up for
taking up ZTM during rabi 2009.
“Earlier, I used to cultivate paddy in rabi using precious water from the bore
well. Last year, I visited Puligilla Aanjaiah’s field where he had adopted ZTM in place
of paddy and got significant income. In spite of having field exposure on ZTM,
initially I did not believe in the new technique. After my several interaction with
NAIP, I decided to adopt the technique in this season. The crop as you have seen is
very good and I am expecting bumper harvest”.
---Bheema, Jaffergudem cluster
“I used to cultivate half an acre of paddy in rabi season with available bore
well water earlier. I was educated on the importance of water and its efficient usage by
NAIP staff of CRIDA, Hyderabad and MARI, Warangal. I decided to change to a
crop that requires less water in summer during rabi summer. Now I am able to
cultivate one and half acre of vegetable crops against half acre of paddy. I’m very
happy with this change. It has also given more returns”.
---Varala Aagaiah, Jaffergudem cluster
Some of the typical questions from the visiting farmers and the answers
provided by expert farmers are summarized below.
Questions asked by the visitors
Answer Answered by
In ZTM intervention:
When the sowing needs
to be done and what is
the method of sowing?
Immediately after harvesting of paddy, ZTM
sowing operation has to be taken up. If there is
enough moisture in field after harvesting of
paddy, irrigation is not required at the time of
sowing. Otherwise, irrigate the field first. Field
has to be marked as grids lines with help of
threads and seeds should be dibbled at each grid
point.
Is there any pest attack
in maize
At initial stage of crop, it was infested with stem
borer. I applied Carbofuran granules as advised
by the project staff.
Jalander,
ZTM farmer,
Jaffergudem
Irrigation water saving In ZTM fields, number of irrigations can be cut
down as the soil is not disturbed and irrigation
frequency is less. Earlier I used to irrigate paddy
fields on every alternate day. Now I am giving
irrigation to ZTM in the interval of 15 to 20 days
so, the number of irrigations in ZTM may be 5 to 6
How you controlled
weeds in ZTM in paddy
fields.
Glyphosate and Atrazine were applied within one
or two days after dibbling of maize seeds. Make
sure that spray covers the field without gaps.
Bheema,
ZTM farmer,
Jaffergudem
In summer vegetable intervention:
How much irrigation water was
saved?
Earlier I used to cultivate 0.5 ac
of paddy. Now I am able to
irrigate 1.5 ac of vegetables.
What about the expected profits?
Where do you get more money? By
cultivating vegetables or paddy?
In absolute terms, 1.5 ac under
vegetable is more profitable
than 0.5 ac paddy. Besides there
is continues money flow
through frequent pickings of
vegetables. Paddy cultivation in
rabi season is somewhat risky,
as we can not rely on already
depleting groundwater
Varala
Aagaiah,
Vegetable
farmer,
Jaffergudem
Organized & prepared by K. Vishwanatha Raju, RA
I .Bhaskara Rao, RA (SWCE) and K Gayatri, RA (Agronomy)
Shri. Bheemji is explaining about his experiences to other farmers; Visitors at field exposure;
Banothu Mallu, farmer is sharing his approach in ZTM; Trainees in discussion with NAIP Staff at Jaffergudem cluster (clockwise)
Training Programme on Soft Skills
Under the capacity building and knowledge empowerment initiatives,
ICT Kiosks have been established at each cluster. As the next step Internet
connectivity is being provided through wireless data cards. In order to use these
facilities effectively, the capacity of the committees needs to be build. As the first
step towards building such capacity, a one-day training course was organized for
educated youth at Dupahad cluster, Nalgonda on 20th Feb. 2009. Twenty-five
rural youth were selected from across the 9 villages of the cluster for the training
course. The training module consisted of the following:
1. Soft skills and importance in developing career.
2. Creation of email id.
3. Composing and sending emails.
4. Searching on the Internet.
Mr.Gopal Naik, an educated rural youth coordinated the selection of the
youth for the training course and conducted a general knowledge quiz for the
youth. Cash prizes sponsored by SAIRD were given away by Dr.N.Venkata
Reddy, Director, SAIRD. Books useful for developing soft skills were also
distributed to the trainees. It is now planned to upscale this activity in all the
clusters. Mr.Dastagiri and Mr.Suresh of IKisan coordinated ICT related
arrangements and facilitated the training course. Dr.M.N.Reddy, Principal
Scientist, NAARM who represented the Co-PI of the NAIP project on “Rural GIS”
also participated and expressed strong desire to converge with NAIP led by
CRIDA.
Prepared by K Gayatri, RA (Agronomy)
A Case Study
Increasing the Plant Density will increase the Yield in Rainfed Cotton
Experience by Kavati Komuraiah
My name is Kavati Komuraiah. I belong to village Jaffergudem,
Warangal district. For the last 8-10 years, I have been growing Rainfed Cotton
in kharif season. I was habituated to sow the seeds with the spacing of
90x90cm, which is more suitable to plough with indigenous blade harrow.
The average yield was 4-6 quintals/acre. I would get another 6 quintals more
when rainfall is good. Under National Agricultural Innovation Project
(NAIP) scientists from CRIDA, Hyderabad, MARI, Warangal and ARS,
Warangal conducted a meeting on kharif action plan and they suggested that
increasing the plant density through 90 x 60 cm instead of 90 x 90 cm will
increase the yields. Sowings between row-to-row spacing is 90 cm and the
plant-to-plant spacing is 60 cm. They also suggested inter cultivation with
the help of chilli blade harrow. As per scientist’s suggestions, I adopted 90 x
60 cm in the area of 1 acre and 90 x 90 cm in the area of 1.5 acre. The rainfall
was very low during the season and its distribution was also erratic. We did
not get any rain after September. I got 7.5 quintals/acre with 90 x 60 cm
spacing and in case of 90 x 90 cm I got only 7.75 quintals/1.5 acre.
Name Yield under 90x60 cm Yield under 90x90 cm Kavati Komuraiah 7.5 quintal/acre 5.5 quintal/acre 18.50 quintal/ha 13.75 quintal/ha
I am very happy with the new practice and I am now convinced that
modified spacing will give higher yield in cotton due to higher plant density.
Closure spacing (90 x 60cm) in Rainfed cotton
Conducted & organized by K. Vishwanatha Raju, RAand K Gayatri, RA (Agronomy)
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