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Annual Progress Report-ILSP 2020-2021
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Integrated Livelihood Support Project Loan No - 856-IN
Annual Progress Report
Financial Year 2020-21 (1st April 2020 – 31st March 2021)
Central Project Coordination Unit (CPCU),
Uttarakhand Gramya Vikas Samiti (UGVS),
Project Society Watershed Management Directorate (PSWMD),
Uttarakhand Parvatiya Aaajivika Sanvardhan Company (UPASaC)
Project at a Glance ........................................................................................................................................... 6
Background of the Project ........................................................................................................................... 6
Special Achievement – ............................................................................................................................... 11
Mann Ki Baat .......................................................................................................................................... 11
Land Mark Project .................................................................................................................................. 12
Special Initiatives – ..................................................................................................................................... 12
Common Marketing Strategy ................................................................................................................. 12
M&E and MIS ......................................................................................................................................... 12
Project Area ............................................................................................................................................... 14
Value Chain Approach for Sustainable Livelihoods ................................................................................... 16
Table 10 Details of the demonstration of improved beekeeping practices are as follows: ...................... 31
Table 11 Key output of the project:- .......................................................................................................... 33
Table 12 Overview of trainings, exposure and demonstrations conducted for the honey PGs ................ 33
Access to Market ........................................................................................................................................ 35
Table 13 Financial Year Wise LC Turnover (Amt in INR Lakh) .................................................................... 42
Table 14 Agri Business Growth Centers ..................................................................................................... 46
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Table 15 status of Parsad Distribution ....................................................................................................... 50
Innovative Project from District Administration .................................................................................... 57
Vocational Training .................................................................................................................................... 58
Table 16 Major Sector and Employment Status ....................................................................................... 59
Table 17 Short Duration Courses .............................................................................................................. 60
Table 18 Long Duration Courses ............................................................................................................... 61
Gender and Institutions ............................................................................................................................. 64
PROJECT AREA ............................................................................................................................................. 79
Bank Finance ............................................................................................................................................ 105
Table 34 Key Activities and No of LC avail CCL ......................................................................................... 105
Handicraft, Fodder & Feed Unit, Input-Output Center, Canteen, Restaurants , outlets , Flour mills, oil expeller unit, bakery unit and input dealership etc.
Brand 6. Caleriya, Hyderabad 7. Kinikh, Dehradun and village ways
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Charitable trust, Faridabad. The sub-project has been completed successfully
with significant results.
Up-Scaling of Beekeeping Honey products: The Up-scaling sub-project
has been initiated in the Bhatwari block of Uttarakashi district with the key
objective of “Up-scaling of beekeeping enterprise through development of
Honey value chain”, is benefitting 300 HHs (88% BPL HHs) from 15 villages.
Table 10 Details of the demonstration of improved beekeeping practices are as
follows:
Type of Demo Total Achievement
Improved wall hive technology introduced in villages (No) 15
Bee Hives 16
Mud Hive 63
Bee boxes 512
Swarm catches 84
No. of colonies produced through division 17
Total Bee colonies available in the areas (No.) 664
No. of exposure visit 02
Figure 11 Training session of beekeepers in Bhatwari, Uttarkashi
In 15 project villages, a total of 8,23 kg honey has been produced from 2,56
colonies by 1,45 be keepers in two seasons. The total income earned by
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beekeepers is Rs. 3,29,200. So far 535 kg out of 823 kg honey has been
marketed through forwarded linkages.
S.N. Activities Units
1 Bee Producer (No) 300
2 Producers groups formed (No) 15
3 Trainings conducted (No) 7
4 Improved wall hive technology introduced in
villages (No)
15
5 No of bee boxes provided to the producers 35
6 No of colonies produced through division. 5
7 Total bee hive 191
8 Total colonies available in the areas (No) 65
9 Honey production (Kg) 823
10 Honey Marketing (Kg) 535
The project has successfully facilitated honey based enterprises for over 352 women in the project areas. These women producers are part of the PGs formed in the different project villages and are actively engaged in honey production. The women producers are seemingly have acquired the knowledge about beekeeping/ honey production indicative of their confidence in management of the their honey based enterprises and their ability to negotiate the prices at the most advantages terms. The women are quite adept now in handling the bees, equipment and harvesting honey without the support of male members. These women producers not only handle the swarm but know as to how the bees can be retained and nurtured even in the difficult conditions. The important outcome of this particular endeavour is economic rehabilitation of over 352 producers who had been by the during project pried average annual income was recorded as INR 7,171 per annum in 2019-20 while in 2020-21 the honey production increased by 6,311 KG and subsequently it kept on increasing. The increased production increases the income for the producers correspondingly.
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Table 11 Key output of the project:-
SN Activities Total
Targets
Achievement
(November ‘20 to
March ‘21
1 Development of Para Technician 4 4
2 Training to HH - 8 Trainings -
3 Capacity building of beekeepers / Honey
producer groups (HPGs)
8 12
3 Training on Bee Management 8 36
4 Bee Boxes Demonstration of improved
beekeeping / honey production.
1000 1105
5 Market development-Market campaign and
product promotion
1 1
6 Establishment of Two Bee Breeding Centers 2 4
7 Shed nett house /Bee Shed 1 1
Table 12 Overview of trainings, exposure and demonstrations conducted for the honey
PGs
S.N Key Activities Unit
Status (by end of
the project)
1 Orientation of Honey PGs on beekeeping/
honey production
Nos. 15
2 Technical training-bee management, risk
mitigation, disease preventions, swarm
catching, settlement, prevention form
absconding and honey extractions.
Nos. 36
3 Primary processing of honey and storage Nos. 12
4 Demonstration of different bee hives/ boxes Nos. 38
5 Training on manufacturing bio-agents to
prevent the diseases/ fungus in crops.
Nos. 7
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6 Exposure visits conducted to see the
improved/ commercial level honey practices*
Nos. 2
7 Developed honey village Nos. 1
8 Commercial Bee Keepers Nos. 14
9 Bee nursery Nos. 4
New Initiatives
Footwear Production Unit: Nanda Devi Ajeevika Swayatt Sahkarita is one
of the Livelihood Collective established at Sunla, Tharali in District Chamoli,
which have availed and utilized the CCL benefits for establishing their
Footwear making Unit through which they are growing their business.
Through CCL, Footwear making Unit of Rs. 2, 59,135 has been established by
this SRC. Within one month of established federation sold 1150 set of
Slippers in the local market with a business turnover of Rs 63,250/- and
earned a net profit of Rs 9,487.
Figure 12 Footwear making unit and its products, Tharali, Chamoli
Mushroom Production: Integrated efforts are being made to the doubling
of farmers’ income by the project. Mushroom production is one of the
additional activities for many households in this context. Many producer
groups are growing mushroom and are being sold by the ILSP LC after
grading, packing under the HILANS brand. With the efforts of the ILSP,
where households are getting good prices for their products, consumers are
getting pure and fresh produce. One of the example -
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In Bin (Pithoragarh) block under Gurang Ghati LC, 24 Households (including
8 Youths) from 7 producer groups are growing Mushroom with the technical
support of Horticulture Department and ILSP. In the last 3 months, total
production was around 800 kg. LC has sold 4000 mushroom packets worth
Rs 1,60,000. A 200-gram mushroom packet in poly-bag, the sale price is Rs
40 in which LC’s share is Rs 8 and in box packing, the sale price is Rs 50 in
which LC’s share is Rs 10. The net profit is around Rs 65,000.
COVID 19 and Lockdown: Extensive rural community-based network of the
Livelihood collectives have started providing support to households in far
flung areas of Uttarakhand. LCs helps in maintaining the supply of essential
items including food items, milk, and vegetables. PG members who received
skill training in sewing and tailoring are engaged in the manufacture and
sale of face masks.
Contract Farming: Farmers have been linked directly to the buyers for
contract farming of medicinal crops like Kutaki and Kut. The major
companies that are entering into the contract with the farmers growing
these two crops are M/s Dabur India Ltd. New Delhi with 398 farmers, M/s
Emami India Ltd. New Delhi with 276 farmers; and M/s Organic India Ltd.
Lucknow with 246 farmers; M/s HARC Alaknanda Sawaytt Sahkarita –
Kaleshwer , Chamoli for crop of Tulsi (holy basil) with 200 farmers; M/s
Rahul Prakash & Company, Kichha , U.S. Nagar for European vegetables like
Colored Capsicum, Red Cabbage , Broccoli, Yellow & Green Zucchini , Snow
pea etc with 2496 farmers; M/s Mother Dairy - New Delhi for Mango, Pear ,
Logo and Product Story Line: Project has empanelled a marketing firm
for the redesigning of a logo, standard and quality packaging, develop
product stories, and other promotional activities.
HILANS which is an abbreviation for “Highland Innovative Livelihood
Ascending Nature Sustainability” is being used as a brand and is
registered under class 29, 30, 31, 32, 35 & 43 of Indian Trade Marks Act.
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Brand Promotion - In continuation of the promotion initiatives, a website
(www.hilans.org) has been developed with Trade India and is being
regularly updated. Other mediums i.e. social media (Facebook, Instagram,
Twitter, YouTube), print media (News Paper, magazine, mobile van, workshop,
fairs) are used for brand promotion. Promotional Literature like food habits,
culture of Uttarakhand, recipe book, product catalogue and others are being
developed and published to promote the product range.
A common strategy of marketing for different govt. departments / schemes
under the HILANS brand has developed and now other departments/
schemes i.e. USRLM, ICDS are also promoting their produce under HILANS
umbrella. In addition to this, livelihood collectives are also participating in
the fairs and exhibitions at the state and national levels for product
promotion and fetching orders.
HILANS Outlets - Under the supply chain management(SCM), a chain of
outlets (1 state-level outlet at Dehradun, 11 Kisan outlets at district
headquarter, 134 at cluster level) are operating successfully and all are
managed by livelihood collectives. These outlets are fetching an average sale
of Rs 8000 - 10000/day. It is resulting in :
Better price realization of produce/ value-added products;
Demonstrating rural products and creating awareness in a wider market;
Marketing Tie-ups
Online Marketing - Apart from the traditional marketing system, project
initiated online marketing through AMAZON, Government e Marketplace
(GeM), Trade India and through its e-commerce platform www.hilans.org
to promote rural produce at a global level.
Institutional Marketing - The LCs/federations are linked with ICDS and
other government schemes and are acting as a service provider.
Events – Buyer-Seller events, Buyer visits, fairs, exhibitions and other
promotional activities are being organized on a regular basis and during
crop harvesting.
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Marketing tie-ups– The project facilitated its Livelihood Collectives /
Federations to join hands and have formal or informal tie-ups with
private partners for supplying bulk/ furnished products. Inter-federation
linkages are also strengthened for the consumption and supply of
produce for whole selling and retailing. Some of the examples are listed
below:-
Vinayak Enterprise, Dehradun
M/s Ashok Anil Enterprises, Suvidha Supermarket Dehradun
A.S Associates, Urban Buy Dehradun
Grain Growers pvt ltd Delhi
Himadri outlet at Uttarakhand Sadan, New Delhi
Nature's Hive at Delhi
Just Comfort online portal
EBB and Flow Services Pvt ltd.
Praduman Nagpal and company
Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP):- 17 and 4 batches
consisting around 490 and 120 participants includes Project staff and members of different livelihood collectives participated in 7 days program based on capacity building of BODs and LCs sustainability between Jan to March 2021 in collaboration with IIM Kashipur and Vaikunth Mehta institute of Co-operative Management, Pune respectively. The Program was focusing on : How to establish supply chain management in rural areas of Uttarakhand. Costing & financial management of farmer’s organization. Human resource management & development. Marketing Strategies for rural products of Uttarakhand. Interaction with startups & entrepreneurs of Uttarakhand. Eco-Tourism as a profitable business activity. Industrial visit and personality development activities.
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Figure 19 Participation in “Management Development Programme on Co-operative Business Management of Livelihood Collectives” VAMNICOM Pune
Agri Business Growth Center
Department of Industries has launched a Growth center scheme in the entire
State for identified economic activities at specified rural locations in order to
promote value addition and forward linkages and to ensure due recognition
for local products and services at national and international levels and to
generate employment opportunities locally.
The objectives of growth center is to increase growth of employment and
self-employment opportunities for local youth, checking migration from hilly
areas, to help promote local products which in turn will help traditional
farming and to cultivate lands which were lying barren. Aligning with
objectives of growth centers of State government, ILSP project has also set
up 25 growth centers related to Bakery, Prasad Making, Value addition –
Spices, Value additions fruits, European Vegetables, Bee Keeping, Recycling
of Waste flowers and aroma (Damask rose) based agri-business. These
growth centers are intended to ensure sustainability for Livelihood
Collectives formed under the project.
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Figure 20 Agribusiness Growth Center, Jilasu, Chamoli
Two Management Committee and one Annual General Body meetings were
organized during this financial year. The key agenda was approval of budget,
convergence, and implementation status.
Concurrent Monitoring Mechanism
The component has achieved tremendous performance due to its concurrent
monitoring mechanism. Regular field visits, feedback and sharing process and
regular follow-up of activities are not only improving the project progress but
also improve the staffs’ knowledge.
Review Mechanism of Livelihood Collectives
The project has developed review mechanisms for Livelihood Collectives based
on the TOR signed with activities indicators. Indicators are divided into two
types of institutions – PG/VPG and Livelihood Collectives as under:
PG/VPG Indicators – i.e. Production & Marketing, Saving & inter-loaning,
FSIP, IIP, repayment etc.
LCs Indicators – i.e. Business, Infrastructure, Service to PG/VPG etc.
Score and Rating directly calculate form System based upon data available.
Comment by Chairman of LC, DMU based on Score and Rating
The payment as per norms based upon score and rating.
Review indicators are directly linked with its physical achievement and making
score and rating through ILSP-MIS.
Best practice of Data Management & Monitoring–
Khat Shaily LC, Kalsi, Dehradun introduce data management passbook for their
shareholders especially for Chain Link Fencing and Farm Machinery Bank
activities. LC starts this mechanism from November 2018 under the guidance of
the Technical Agency. Initially, LC provided a passbook to 200 shareholders.
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LC Coordinator facilitates the data entry into the passbook. The data includes
the following fields duration, rent, assets, amount, utilization, benefits etc. After
the consolidation of data, every month it presented to BoD members. On a
random basis, BoD members reviewed the passbook and other records.
Expected Outcome Indicators
Food Security & Scaling Up-:
60% farmers reporting productivity increased
60% federations and livelihood collectives operating successfully
Access to Market-:
100% increase in farm-gate price over baseline
Gender and Institutions
a) Gender mainstreaming at organizational Level
i. Gender Strategy of ILSP: The gender strategy has been developed to
mainstream gender concerns in the project. ILSP is a gender-oriented
project, where project demands more women participation, women
empowerment and women-friendly activities/practices to be promoted to
facilitate the gender gap of the society. The strategy has covered most of the
aspects of the gender gap, how the issue will be addressed at all levels with a
crosscutting approach, in institutional building/staffing pattern, capacity
building & IEC activities, farm & off-farm activities, social and economic
empowerment of village women, women in lead role and active participation
in decision making at both professional (group/federation) and personal
(family) level and so on.
ii. Constitution of committee under the Vishakha Guidelines: Uttarakhand
Gramya Vikas Samiti (UGVS) formed a committee to resolve the issues
related to the exploitation of working women.
b) Women drudgery reduction interventions: Through Integrated
livelihood support projects major work on women drudgery reduction is
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being carried out by the federations. Federations are promoting such
business activities that are related to the reduction of women drudgery and
such federations are gaining profits from these activities. Federations are
involved in the business of agri-implements, lightweight water pitchers,
solar lamps and promotion of fodder nurseries etc.
After gone through the good result of drudgery reduction activities it has
been planned to divert a certain portion of budget towards drudgery
reduction activities and similarly in LCs to replicate these models.
Under the innovation project, the fodder development programme has
already been promoting in the project area. This effort contributes to the
reduction of women drudgery in the project area and it is making fodder
seeds available and also its replication into improved grasses. There are 38
varieties of fodder grasses are being developed in the Bahinswara farm at
Almora.
c) Gender & Social Inclusion: The cumulative data related to Gender & Social
Inclusion is being captured; so far the progress furnished as under :
No of Households (PG/VPG) [supported] 79,292
No of Households {female} (PG/VPG) [supported] 74,070
No of SC Households in Groups [PG/VPG] [supported] 16,094
No of ST Households in Groups [PG/VPG] [supported] 5,330
No of OBC Households in Groups [PG/VPG] [supported] 7,610
No of BPL Households in Groups [PG/VPG] [supported] 34,116
No of Antyodaya Households in Groups [PG/VPG] [supported] 2,697
No of households (female) provide seed capital [supported] 15,125
No of households (PwD) [supported] 44
d) Women Participation in Different programs
More than 75% of women have made their participation in capacity
building program, meeting and workshops
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Women majority in shareholding comprising more than 84.7% of total
shareholders.
No of participants in meetings (BOD, AGM) 1,06,069
No of female participants in meetings (BOD, AGM) 81,867
No of participants in meetings (Village / Block Level) 8,571
No of female participants in meetings (Village / Block Level) 6,843
No of participants in meetings (Convergence) 6,878
No of female participants in meetings (Convergence) 4,056
No of participants in monthly review meetings (Block / Division) 16,399
No of female participants in monthly review meetings (Block / Division) 5,703
No of participants in quarterly learning / sharing workshops (Block /
Division)
8,079
No of female participants in quarterly learning / sharing workshops
(Block / Division)
3,158
No of participants in Buyer-Seller Events 8,065
No of female participants in Buyer-Seller Events 5,472
e) Capacity Building
No of participants (business, governance and Marketing skills) 47,514
No of female participants (business, governance and Marketing skills) 40,818
No of participants (farmer exposure visits) 6,348
No of female participants (farmer exposure visits) 3,748
More than 84% of women have made their participation in capacity
building exercises which enriched their skills towards business,
governance and marketing of rural produce.
Convergence
With the support of district administration under the District Implementation
and Coordination Committee, an effective convergence has been initiated.
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The project has systematically mobilized other resources through convergence
with various government departments such as Agriculture, Horticulture,
Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Rural Development, Food and Civil Supplies. Over
past couple of years the benefits ploughed into communities through
convergence shows strong trends towards sustainability. Convergence efforts
by ILSP and LCs are adding confidence among the community to approach state
Government in the future for various schemes.
The project has strengthened its partnership with local administration which
has not only facilitated greater convergence but also enhanced the visibility of
the project and improved its monitoring through the District Magistrates (DM)
and Chief Development Officers (CDO). Additionally, the project has partnered
with a number of private sector players for better marketing, improved
agronomic practices, obtaining CSR support to fill funding gaps etc.
Federations/ LCs are now entering into a direct partnership with the private
sector. As of now, a convergence of more than INR 308 Cr has been mobilized
benefiting to about 219416 households of 26820 groups in 233 LC/Federations
Key summary of convergences –
A) The district team have linked 1,41,226 households of 11,674 producers
groups by provided them the convergence support of more than 13,293.06
lakhs for carry out different livelihood activities from various government
and private institutions during the reporting period financial year 2018-19
and 2019-20. The area where the convergence support are as under:
Crop Insurance – Crop of more than 1,493 beneficiaries are insured with
total of amount of 94.70 lakhs rupees under Crop insurance and PMFBY
(Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana) for paddy, mandua and wheat crop
through Agriculture department.
68,559 Beneficiaries of 7,140 groups are benefitted from various schemes of
govt. department mainly includes Farm Machinery Bank, Seed distribution,
Poly house, vermin-compost etc. consisting of around Rs. 1,321.554 lakhs,
Mainly from Rural Development, Animal Husbandry, Horticulture and
Agriculture department.
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28 Household of 13 PGs are benefited through Awas yojana consisting of
convergence of Rs. 21.29 lakhs with Rural Development.
40 Households of 15 groups are benefitted through Uttarakhand Pashudhan
Parishad consisting convergence of around 0.23 lakhs for chicks and goat.
2,133 Beneficiaries of 3,52 groups are benefitted through horticulture
department under various schemes include Fencing, Seed distribution,
Polyhouse and Technical inputs having convergence amount of Rs. 45.96
Lakhs.
20,547 Beneficiaries of 2,360 groups are benefitted through Rural
Development under various MNREGA schemes include convergence amount
of Rs. 1,942.73 Lakhs for CC road construction, Goshala construction etc.
1,670 Beneficiaries of 100 Groups are benefitted through UREDA and RD
department under solar scheme for Solar light and solar unit having
convergence amount of Rs. 30.74 Lakhs. .
9,62 Beneficiaries of 2,68 groups are benefitted for soil testing and fisheries
through Horticulture and fishery department having convergence amount of
Rs. 2.38 Lakhs.
1,469 Beneficiaries of 2,94 groups are benefitted for Compost Pit, Seed
distribution etc. under Rashtriya Khad suraksha, Aayushman Bharat scheme
etc. through Horticulture, Agriculture and RD department having
convergence amount of Rs. 16.54 Lakhs.
4,639 Beneficiaries of 9,52 groups are benefitted under Beej Gram Yojana,
NVI and Fodder development scheme etc. through Horticulture, Agriculture
and Animal Husbandry department having convergence amount of Rs. 43.39
Lakhs.
1,825 Beneficiaries of 2,00 groups are benefitted through the District
administration and Social welfare department having a convergence amount
of Rs. 1,02.58 Lakhs
Under the MANREGA Scheme project have made convergence by benefited
beneficiaries i.e. Vermi-compost, Cement Tanks, Cow-shed and construction
of Toilets.
With collaboration with the Agriculture Department; LCs/federation are
benefitting with 57 Farm Machinery Banks (FMB) under the All Mission on
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Agriculture Mechanization Scheme with 80% subsidy. (cumulative 186 FMB
and 12 custom hiring centers)
Animal Husbandry Department has made 3,05 cattle insurance of 2,69
project Households.
Through the CSR Uchadungi livelihood collectives, Rudraprayag, are doing
fund the production of the sanitary napkin.
B) Cumulative Summary of convergence from Agriculture Department is
made more than Rs 9,269 lakh as under :
Convergence for Agricultural Mechanization (SMAM): About 80% of the
land holdings are in the project area operated by small and marginal farmers
owning <1 and 1-2 ha holdings, respectively. These farmers cannot invest in
costly farm machinery and depend on hiring of implements to carryout
agricultural operations in their fields. Under the collaboration with
Agriculture Department; have underway Sub Mission on Agricultural
Mechanization (SMAM) Scheme. Under this scheme, there are 1,86 Farm
SN Department Type of inputs
1 Horticulture Seed, Poly house, Horticulture Mission for North East & Himalayan Status, Nursery Development, NVI Vegetable Production, Gherbaad, District Plan, SC area Development Crop Insurance, Capacity Building, Cement Tank, Plants etc.
2 Agriculture Seed, Compost Pits, Soil Testing, Power Tiller, HDPE Pipe, Thrasher, Spray Machine, Farm Machinery Bank, PMFBY, PM-KISAN, Tools etc.
3 Rural Development Compost Pit, Indra Awash, BakriBada, Toilet, MNREGA Scheme, Cow / Goat shed renovation, ponds, construction of Aganwari centers, Saras centers etc.
5 Organic Spray Machine, Compost Pit, Light Trap, Poly house etc.
6 Other Medicinal Plants, Car Sanitary Napkins Work, Tejpat , Pension, Large Cardamom, Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, Crop insurance, Solar Pressure Cooker, Fisheries, Street Light etc.
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Machinery Bank have been distributed to 1,86 Livelihood Collectives on 80%
subsidy through Agriculture Department upto Rs.10 lakhs. The entire Farm
machinery banks are operationalized and getting benefited in terms of
farming services, drudgery reduction, reduction in the cost of cultivation and
time-saving. Farmers of Livelihood Collectives may elect the Agricultural
Mechanizes as per their field requirement i.e. tractor, rotavator, roto-
puddler, Weed slasher, seed driller, power tillers, power spare, Brush Cutter
power wider, Grass-cutter drum cedar, Multi-Thresher, Multi crop
Threshers, Cultivator, Irrigation Pipe, pump set and net sec spare etc.
3,645 Individual Farmers benefitted from different Agri Tools i.e. Spray
Machine, Power Tiller, Threshers, Seed Drill, Mini Tractor, Water Lifting
Pumps, Irrigation Pipes etc. worth Rs. 3,32 Lakh
Soil testing & Soil Health Card was done for 4,50,00 farmers land
1,467+ Compost pits have been formed through Agriculture Department.
8,89 Qtl Seed has been distributed through Agriculture Department i.e. Kala
Bhatt, Maduwa, Gahat, Soybean, Urd, Wheat, Paddy, Maize, Lentil etc.
1,342+ Farmers have been benefitted by Irrigation tanks, wall protection,
distribution of fruit Plants and other agri-inputs through Agriculture
department.
Under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Beema Yojna, 3,75,22 farmers insured through
crop insurance while Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojna covered 36,000
farmers for seed and commercial production.
Under PM- Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana is being benefitting to the farmers
a list of all beneficiaries has been shared with District administration (more
than 75% project households has been benefitted during the 2018-19 to
200-21).
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Figure 29 Use of FMB, Village Dunger, Chandan Ganga SRC, Augustyamuni,
C) Convergence for poultry initiative: Project has been motivating poultry
farmers to form PG/VPGs of Munakot block of district Pithoragarh in which
more than 35 youths have adopted poultry farming and earning a business
turnover around 1.5 cr. to 2 cr. each year. That was possible because poultry
farming is promoted under convergence by many line departments like
Assisted Natural Regeneration of Oak Areas Advance Soil Work Hac. 379.5 - 379.5
Plantation Hac. 379.5 - 379.5
Maintenance-Ist year Hac. 379.5 - 379.5
Maintenance-IInd year Hac. 379.5 - 379.5
5 Drainage Line Treatment & Soil Conservation
Vegetative Treatment R.mtr 6009 - 6009
Construction of
Vegetative Check dam
Nos 388 148 536
Construction of Dry Stone
Check dam
Cum 100864.38
7755.35 108619.73
Construction of Crate
Wire Check dam
Cum 64034.63 2817.07 66851.7
Construction of Retaining
Wall(Gabion Structure)
Cum 64637.641
8837.457 73475.098
Construction of Diversion
Drain with Safe Disposal
Meter 2434 68 2502
Road side erosion control Cum 64759.1 4888.175 69647.275
River Bank Protection
Cum 26146.06 5680.92 31826.98
Construction of Cross
Barrier/ Spur
Cum 1415 - 1415
6 Water Irrigation channel Km 87.093 17.941 105.034
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Harvesting & Minor Irrigation
Irrigation tank Nos 438 46 484
Roof Water Harvesting
Tank
Nos 6081 335 6416
Village Pond Nos 74 16 90
Polythene Lined tank Nos 174 28 202
Naula/Dhara
Rejuvenation
Nos 187 34 221
Solar Water Pump Nos 13 4 17
7 Catchment area treatment
Digging of Contour
Trenches
Nos 45572 20850 66422
Recharge Pits Nos 6514 3790 10304
Construction of Dugout
Pond /Chalkhal
Nos 172 111 283
Rejuvenation of existing
Chal/Khal/ Naula (set of
activities )
Nos 394 4 398
8 Rural Access Construction of Small Bridges(up to 5 mt. Span)
Nos 338 5 343
9 Energy Conservation
Solar devices Nos 2609 86 2695
ADDITIONAL SAVING FUND-PROGRESS UNDER "WATERSHED AND VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT "-
1 WATER HARVESTING/
HOLDING STRUCTURES
Village Pond Nos - 25 25
2 GeoMembrane Lined Tank Nos 50 512 562
3 Irrigation Channel/ Pipeline
Km. 17.46 132.54 150.00
4 Irrigation Tank Nos 17 36 53
5 Polythene Lined tank Nos 5 38 43
6 Micro/Sprinkler System Nos 1 3 4
7 Solar Water Pump Nos 1 43 44
8 RCC Check Dam Cum. - 1 1
1 SPRINGSHED SOURCE
TREATMENT (SSP)
Assisted Natural Regeneration of Oak Areas
2 Advance Soil Work Hac. 20 - 20
3 Plantation Hac. - 20 20
4 Orchard Development Hac. 4 - 4
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5 Napier Crop Border Plantation
Hac. - 640.14 640.14
6 Drainage Line Treatment & Soil Conservation work
Cum. 860 22322 23182
7 Construction of Dugout
Pond /Chalkhal
Nos 30 680 710
8 Rejuvenation of existing
Chal/Khal/ Naula (set of
activities )
Nos - 83 83
9 Village Pond Nos - 16 16
10 Digging of Contour
Trenches
Nos 18737 212120 230857
11 Recharge Pits Nos 1043 28627 29670
Table 21 PROGRESS UNDER NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES- INTER
GP SPACE (MWS)
S. No.
Activity Unit Achiev. Till Last
31st March 2020
Achiev. (1st April 2020
– 31st March 2021)
Cumulative Achievement
till 31st March 2021
1 Forestry Bamboo
Advance Soil Work Hac. 6.5 - 6.5
Plantation Hac. 6.5 - 6.5
Maintenance-Ist year Hac. 6.5 - 6.5
Afforestation
Advance Soil Work Hac. 172.7 - 172.7
Plantation Hac. 172.7 - 172.7
Maintenance-Ist year Hac. 116.7 56 172.7
Assisted Natural Regeneration of Oak Areas Advance Soil Work Hac. 166.5 - 166.5
Plantation Hac. 166.5 - 166.5
Maintenance-Ist year Hac. 50.5 116 166.5
2 Drainage Line Treatment & Soil Conservation
Vegetative Treatment R.mtr 4304 204 4508
Construction of Dry
Stone Check dam
Cum 45005 13621 58625
Construction of Crate
Wire Check dam
Cum 39029 14864 53893
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Construction of
Retaining Wall(Gabion
Structure)
Cum 16149 9768 25917
River Bank Protection
Cum 1736.3 721.35 2457.65
3 Water Harvesting & Minor Irrigation and Catchment area treatment
Village Pond Nos 26 30 56
Digging of Contour
Trenches
Nos 49119 43849 92968
Recharge Pits Nos 10452 9361 19768
Construction of Dugout
Pond /Chalkhal
Nos 622 210 832
Rejuvenation of
existing Chal/Khal/
Naula (set of activities
)
Nos 136 149 285
2. ENHANCING FOOD SECURITY AND LIVELIHOOD OPPORTUNITIES
In the project document of Integrated Livelihood Support Project (ILSP), it is mentioned
on gender that “the flow of benefits directly to women would be ensured by having at
least 50% of female membership in producer groups". Under the project activities in
PS-WMD, equal and meaningful participation of both men and women is ensured at all
levels as per the guidelines of the project. There is 61% participation of females in
project activities.
S. No. Activity Unit Cumulative
Achievement till 31st March 2021
1 No. of GPs in which Producer Groups has been formed
No. 190
2 No. of Producer Groups has been formed
No. 1681
3 No. of Farmers in Producer Groups No. 15668
A- Male No. 6129
B- Female No. 9539 4 No. of Vulnerable Producer Groups has
been formed No 268
5 No. of Farmers in Vulnerable Producer Groups
No. 1621
A- Male No. 687
B- Female No. 934
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Table 22 PROGRESS UNDER PRODUCER GROUPS/VULNERABLE PRODUCER GROUPS
Activity Unit
Achiev. Till Last 31st
March 2020
Achiev. (1st April
2020– 31st March 2021)
Cumulative Achievement till 31st March 2021
Food Security Enhancement Support
Cereal and pulses-Rabi ( wheat,Lentil, Mustard,Pea,Toria,etc)
Ha. 1081.11 250.72 1331.83
Cereal and pulses-Kharif (Paddy,Soya,been,Arhar,Ragi,Millets,etc)
Ha. 1158.16 305.33 1463.49
Off season Vegetable (Tomato, capsicum, radish,bean, cauliflower, cabbage, onion,pumpkin,etc)
Ha. 1604.23 282.35 1886.58
Spices- Turmeric Ha. 149.41 57.97 207.38
Ginger Ha. 153.49 65.26 218.75
Garlic Ha. 97.15 37.90 135.05 Chilli Ha. 146.64 69.28 215.92
Coriander Ha. 90 30.19 120.19 Others Ha. 58.95 38 96.95
3. ACCESS TO MARKET
a) Establishment of Agribusiness Growth Centre-:
The Government of Uttarakhand has embarked upon a Growth Centre (GC) Scheme in
2018, for establishment of growth centres in specific rural areas to promote identified
economic activities and help specialized/niche local produce and services reach the
national and international market. In this regard ILSP WMD has established 7
Agribusiness Growth Centres in 3 Divisions (3 in Nainital, 2 in Champawat and 2 in
Pauri) to create income-generating opportunities and reduce out-migration of the
youth, which is currently a major challenge for the state.
Table 23 Agribusiness Growth Centre (ILSP) Progress Report March,2021
S.N
Growth Centers
(Approved)
Approved Budget (Rs
in Lakh)
Total Expense (Rs
In Lakh)
Name of LC Year of
operation of LC
PGs Linked to LCs
Members
Linked to
ABGC
Turnover of ABGC (Rs. In Lakh)
Profit of
ABGC (Rs. In
Lakh) 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 11
1 Amel ABGC
50 47.06255
DevbhoomiAjeevikaSwayattSehkarita, Amel
24 Sep 2017
74 655 38.82 1.72
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2 Bohra ABGC
50 44.34855
DevbhoomiAjeevikaSwayattSehkarita, TallaRamgarh
16 Nov 2017
64 439 48.47 1.90
3 Mallakot ABGC
50 48.30758
Jai MaaAmbeAjeevikaSwayattSehkarita, Mallakot
28 Oct 2017
85 737 37.80 3.47
4 Kotli ABGC 50 50.00000
Bharadi Devi AjeevikaSwayattSehkarita, Kotli
11 Jan 2018
85 869 18.39 0.97
5 Pinani ABGC
50 50.00000
PinaniAjeevikaSwayattSehkarita, Pingad
7 Dec 2017
47 471 33.80 0.92
6 Goshani ABGC
50 49.97150
MahaUjjwalaAjeevikaSwayatt
Sehkarita, Goshani
1 Jan 2018 49 454 24.08 0.71
7 KaalchakraDevta ABGC
50 49.99786
KalchakraDevtaAjeevikaSway
attSehkarita, Naumana
26 Oct 2017
47 380 14.40 0.47
TOTAL 350 339.6 451 4005 215.76 10.16
b) Business Details carried out by Livelihood Collectives-:
Project is being promoting their LCs/Federation through collective efforts with a
sustainable business model. Presently around 30 LCs in the 3 Divisions (Nainital,
Champawat and Pauri) During the reporting period (1st April 2020 to 31st March
2021) around 30 livelihood collectives (LCs) of project districts were engaged in
various business activities and earned a turnover of Rs. 5.55 Cr. The business of all
LCs in comparison to last fiscal year has been doubled (LCs turnover for FY 2019-20
was Rs. 3.75 Cr).
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Aggregation of produce is being done in the Collection centres and small collection
centres of LCs. Till March 2021 a total of 90 small Collection centres at village level
and 29 Collection centres at LC level were functional to facilitate the backward and
forward linkages.
LCs are participating in Weekly Haat bazaar are regularly being organized in each
division; wherein all theLCs are participating and selling local vegetables, rural farm
and processed producesdirectly to consumers.
Market linkage creation-: The project team facilitated LCs to enhance the marketing of
the produce by following practices-:
a. Organisation of buyer-seller meets-27 (No.)
b. Organisation and setting up of Haats and Kisaan outlets.-3 in each division.
c. LC linked to supply of agriculture produce for midday meals to primary schools.-
99 schools
Table 24 Value Addition Support (FY 2020-21)
S.N Activities
Turnover FY
2019-20 (In Rs.
Lakhs)
Turnover FY 2020-21
(In Rs. Lakhs)
1 Traditional Crops (Grading, Packaging,
Processing (Flour Mill)
119.01 209.30972
2 Offseason Vegetables (Grading, Sorting,
Packaging)-
177.46 241.28754
1.04
3.74
5.55
0.07
0.20
0.30
2018-19
2019-20
2020-21
Yearly LC Business and Profit Details
Approx. Profit (Rs in Crore) Turn over/ Sale (Rs in Crore)
Comparison of business of LCs in FY 2018-19 (Rs 1.04 crore),and Last FY 2019-20 (Rs 3.74 Crore). FY 2020-21 Till the month of March 2021 (Rs 5.55 Crore).
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3 Dairy (Collection & Marketing)- 8.50 2.64483
4 Fruits (Grading-Sorting, Processing (Juice,
Squash, Pickles), Packaging (Carton
Boxes)-
19.98 29.44691
5 RNFS (Rural Non Farm Sector, Daily use
items)-:
47.70 68.10974
6 MAP (Medicinal and Aromatic Plants)-: 1.36 4.43408
7 Poultry (Eggs) 0.47 0
TOTAL 374.48 555.23
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Table 25 Details of Livelihood Collectives-:
S. N. Activity Unit Achiev. Till Last 31st
March 2020
Achiev. (1st April 2020 – 31st March
2021)
Cumulative Achievement till 31st March 2021
1 No. of LCs has been formed and registered
No. 30 0 30
2 No. of Gram Panchayats (GPs) in LC
No. 190 0 190
3 No. of Members in LC 16752 0 16752
4 No. of members who have deposited their share money
No. 16919 0 16919
5 No. of Agribusiness plan has been prepared
No. 30 0 30
6 No. of Agribusiness plan has been implemented
No. 30 0 30
4. CAPACITY BUILDING PRAGRAMMES( TRAINING/WORKSHOPS/EXPOSURE VISITS)
For smooth implementation of project activities, capacity building of all the stakeholders is
essential, to build their conceptual, managerial, technical and operational capabilities.
capacity building programmes has enhanced skills and competence of project staff to work
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with GPs. Training on different subjects like Procurement Rules, Orientation Workshop on
Agribusiness, Agriculture, Horticulture, Soil & water conservation, Entrepreneurship
development Integrated Pest Management and Post project Management were given to
stakeholder to ensure the smooth and sustainable implementation and management of the
project activities. Exposure visits have created awareness among the males and females and
enabled them to witness improved technology in agriculture, horticulture, livestock,
agribusiness and entrepreneurship development programme.
The trainings, exposure visits, capacity building and skill up gradation activities have led to a
change in the attitude and perceptions of the community.
Table 26 Total No. of Trainings for Community (WWMC/GP/PG/VPGs) upto March
2021
Type of
Participants Training Title
Total Nos. of
training
Total Participants
Male Female Total
PG/VPGs/LCs,
WWMC/RVC
Orientation, Project
Planning
212 4541 6271 10812
PG/VPGs Plant protection, IPM,
Best farm practices
58 1222 1272 2494
TOTAL 270 5763 7543 13306
After MTR, Funding for training component was excluded for PSWMD. Only funding for
workshops at GP/Divisional/Regional/State Level was provided.
Progress post MTR in Workshops
Table 27 Unit Level Workshops
Type of Participants
Workshop Title Total Nos. of training
Total Participants
Male Female Total
PG/VPGs/LCs Plant protection and IPM 631 13464 13997 27461
PG/VPGs/LCs Capacity building workshop for marketing of produce and PG/VPGs savings and inter loaning
386 8017 11552 19569
PG/VPGs/LCs Livestock Development and fodder cultivation
From July 2013 upto 31st March 2017, UPASaC financial progress was INR
31.75 Cr and from 1st April 2017 upto 31st March 2018 financial progress is
INR 36.66 Cr and from 1st April 2018 upto 31st March 2019 financial progress
is INR 54.89 Cr and from 1st April 2020 upto 31st March 2021 financial
progress is INR 59.63 Cr .
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Component 4- Project coordination and management
Project Coordination and Management
Each executing agency including UGVS has its own Project Management Units
headed by a Project Director or Managing Director. Central Project
Coordination Unit (CPCU) headed by Chief Project Director (CPD), has been
set up to provide overall coordination between the executing agencies.
A State level Project Steering Committee (PSC) has been setup under the
chairmanship of Chief Secretary. The PSC has established a Project
Management Committee (PMC) chaired by APC.
District Coordination and Monitoring Committee (DCMC) - Each district
organized DCMC meetings during the reporting period FY 2020-21. The
district level committee in each district covers ILSP activities and monitor and
coordinate project implementation at the district level and ensure linkages
between the project, line agencies/ departments and other government
agencies.
District Implementation and Coordination Committee (DICC) - A District
Implementation and Coordination Committee (DICC) has been constituted
under Chairmanship of District Magistrate and Co-chaired by Chief
Development Officer. Each district organized DICC meetings during the
reporting period FY 2020-21, therefore an effective convergence/dovetailing
benefits the community.
Annual Outcome Survey
Annual Outcome Survey is conducted every year for monitoring the outcome
level result and effectiveness of project implementation. As per MTR
recommendation this time Central Project Coordination Unit (CPCU) has
conducted Annual Outcome Survey 2019 through an external consultant.
The following are the main findings of the Annual Outcome Survey-2018 in
the form of key performance indicators:
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Integrated Livelihood Support Project has proved to be a holistic and
sustainable model for the livelihoods of rural households in Uttarakhand as it
has multiple services available for rural households through one or the other
component.
Results of all the three components of the project reveal the fact that all
the three components are complementary to each other and makes the
project – A holistic project on Livelihood
One of the important fact that has emerged from the AOS 2019 that
project worked like a „single window’ solution for the problems of the
farmers as they were able to get support in getting the appropriate
inputs, technical guidance for cultivation, Chain linked fencing, Farm
Machinery and tools from Farm Machinery Banks, storage facility in
collection centers and finally support in marketing their produce.
The adoption of strategy to register LCs in cooperative Act has proved to
be appropriate because– LCs as Self-reliant Cooperatives are able to
undertake financial as well as Non-Financial business activities. LCs are
proving to be a multipurpose institution for livelihood promotion in
mountain districts of Uttarakhand.
Providing Share capital grant by IFAD has proved to be useful for the
LCs as LCs are able to get Loans from the banks based on some
Collaterals. Fixed deposits of LCs are used as collaterals to get loans
from the banks. UPASaC play facilitating the whole process of providing
loans to LCs through banks.
Project was successful to cover the target Households and also covered
SECC Households desired by the State Government for coverage.
Vulnerable people were covered through Vulnerable Producer Groups.
AOS survey validates this as 86% households interviewed were
belonging to BPL and Antyodaya.
Project has impacted the living conditions of project households in a
positive manner. The benefits availed by the Households were in
different form such as - enhancement of knowledge, time saving,
realization of good prices for products, reduction in costs of inputs and
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more return on produce by applying collective approach in the whole
value chain.
Water conservation activities under component -2 and also in
component -1 has been recognized by the Households very much in
2019 and they are highly benefited from these activities.
Project has fulfilled its objective as around 98% of project households
reported that they have more than one source of income/ Livelihood.
While majority of the households still depend upon Farm sector (62% -
Agriculture and Agri. allied), they have new options in Non-farm sector
including service sector.
The project has shown proven impact on the incomes of the project
households. AOS 2019 reveals that percentage of Households shifted
from less than Rs.10,000 per month income is quite high. It was 84% of
in 2016 and now in 2019 it is reduced to 28%. Similarly, percentage of
HHs earning Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 20,000 per month is 58% in 2019 shows
that a large number of person from lower slot of less than Rs. 10,000
have shifted to this group. This is also confirmed from the fact that 48%
HHs have average monthly expenditure of more than Rs.5000 per
month. Further, 31% households have improved their houses in the last
12 months shows that they were having surplus to do expenditure in
their houses.
The project has almost completed the objective of providing food
security to the project households as 98% of Households faced no food
shortage in last one year. Only 2% households reported minor food
shortage for less than 1 week. Improvement in quality and type of food
by 79% project households also indicates that living conditions of the
households are improving. 94% project households are having their
own livestock. This also validates improvement in income as the
households were able to enhance livestock assets.
Project has successfully supported the households in marketing their
produce. LCs/Federations have established Nano-packaging units for
consistency of packaging and branding. These packed products are
marketed through multiple methods including own outlets of the Project
in different projects districts.
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Collection centers are also proving to be very supportive to the farmers.
Value addition at the village level (i.e. Grading, Sorting, Packaging, and
Processing) is happening – Out of the total households, 69% project
households adopt value addition practices before sale of their produce.
Role of UPASaC has been proactive in the year 2019 as 100% of project
households are having their individual savings bank (SB) accounts in
banks or post offices. 98% of HHs doing mandatory savings in
PGs/VPGs/SHGs. 45% households have taken loans for livelihood or
income generating activities is a good indication.
Project has also initiated well in the area of insurance as 62% of project
households reported to have availed one or the other insurance
services. Households have also done livestock and crop insurance. There
were examples of crop insurance claims provided to the Households.
11% of project households got claims for the failure of crop.
Project has good results in non-farm sector and self-employment as
14% in Component-1 and 15% in Component -2 area households have
established SMEs. Nonfarm enterprises like small shops, floor mill
(chakki), driver, Weaving (Silai-Bunai), Stitching, Tent houses and
others are taken up by the Households. 20% of project households
received vocational training and 11% of project households became
selfemployed.
Project is also working well on the issue of Migration and there have
been examples of reverse migration. In AOS 2019, 5% of project
households informed that their family members especially youth are
leaving private jobs and coming back to villages. They have opted for
self-employment i.e. farming, OSV, Dairy, Poultry etc. There are several
successful cases of poultry in different districts wherein reverse
migration has happened.
One of the good successes of the project has been its efforts for
providing benefits of various government schemes through
convergence. Around 79% got benefit from MGNREGA, 61% from
Agriculture department schemes, 54% from Horticulture department,
50% from Animal Husbandry, 22% from Dairy development, and 30%
from Co-operative department. 63% of project households were
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benefitted from new Aug-20 Page 19 technologies promoted by Govt.
Agencies, various Boards, Line Departments, KVKs, Technical
Institutions and Agriculture Universities due to project facilitation.
One of the activities that household also felt useful was LDPE Tanks as
100% project households reported increase in production due to LDPE
tanks. On an average 5.5 Nali cultivated land area is irrigated through
LDPE tanks.
Drudgery Reduction initiatives were also done successfully in the year
2019 with full utilization of Farm Machinery Bank scheme of Agriculture
department. Through Livelihood Collectives project implemented the
scheme well and provided benefits to the project households. About
81% component-1 and 79% component -2 Project households received
Power Weeder, Power Tiller, and Spray Machine from farm machinery
bank of agriculture department. These tools have reduced the drudgery
of the people to a large extent.
Another successful initiative of the project was Chain linked fencing.
This was provided by LCs to the farmers on rent and farmers could save
their fields from wild animals. As per AOS 2019, 42% project
households have used chain linked fencing. There were good economic
benefits to farmers that varied from field to field. Vegetables, Peas,
potato, wheat and paddy are some of the crops that were protected
through chain linked fencing.
Project has also successfully initiated Fodder Development activity.
Households are able to get fodder in time; they save time in collection of
fodder and some are able to get some income from it. 67% of project
households saved time in fodder collection, 64% of project households
reported better availability of fodder and 10% got additional income
from the sale of fodder. The green fodder is now available for an average
period of 5 months.
Supervision Mission (SM)
An IFAD mission completed annual Support supervision 2020 of the
Integrated Livelihood Support Project (ILSP) from 23rd -03rd April 2021 in
Uttarakhand with the following objective:
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Review project relevance, effectiveness and efficiency. Review Project targeting effectiveness, gender equality, social
inclusion and youth participation. Review project responsiveness to disaster following the
restructuring done in 2013; Review Project exit strategy and sustainability. Make recommendations to implement closure activities. To discuss scope of new Project-REAP Project.
The mission went for field visit after a day-long review meeting in Dehradun
on 23rd and 24th March participated by Chief Project Director (CPD),
Additional Project Director (APD), UGVS, Project Director (PSWMD), former
APD and Rural Development Commissioner, senior officials of CPCU and
senior officials of three Project Implementing Agencies (PIAs). The mission
split into two groups to visit project activities in Garhwal region (Tehri and
Dehradun districts). The mission has reviewed progress status and plans, and
agreed upon strategy to implement project activities during ongoing FY 2020-
21 as well as discuss on closure activities to be implemented in project closure
duration, which ends in September 2021.
The a wrap-up meeting held at the Secretariat, GoUK on 03rd April 2021, chaired by Mr Om Prakash, Additional Chief Secretary to the Chief Minister, GoUK. The mission's main findings and recommendations, and agreements reached, are recorded in this Aide Memoire were discussed. It was also discussed and agreed upon at a pre-wrap meeting chaired by Mr. R Meenakshi Sundram, CPD, ILSP with the participation of all senior officials of PIAs. The mission expresses appreciation for the collaboration and hospitality extended by GoUK.
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Figure 31 IFAD SM team in farmers field, chamba, Tehri
Tripartite Portfolio Review Meeting (TPRM)
The Tripartite Portfolio Review Meeting (TPRM) for IFAD assisted projects in
India was held in New Delhi on 18th November, 2020. The meeting was jointly
chaired by Dr. C S Mohpatra, Additional Secretary, DEA and Ms Rasha Omar,
Country Representative, IFAD, India. The meeting was attended by
representatives of all currently operational and pipeline projects in the
country, as well as representatives from DEA, CAAA, the Ministry of
Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, and Ministry of Animal Husbandry,
Dairying & Fisheries.
The major highlights related to ILSP are followings:
The project remains a high performer in the India country portfolio and is
on track to achieve its physical and financial targets with overall 94%
achievement against target. The project is scheduled to complete in March
2021 and close in Sept 2021.
The project has undertaken many innovative activities, which have been
scaled up during the project life cycle through convergence with
Government schemes.
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ILSP has revitalised the primary sector in the state and undertaken many
innovations on an ongoing basis including chain linked fencing to address
man animal conflict, Prasad making which led to increase in sale price of
Amaranthus for farmers; promotion of Growth Centres in partnership with
MSMEs; etc.
During the current lockdown two of the major innovations by the project
include – (i) addressing problems of floriculture farmers (ii) introduction
of Rural Business Incubator to support enterprises at local level. The
project has successfully created strong community institutions and
marketing outlets.
Covid-19 Recovery response:
The project had a robust and comprehensive response. In addition to the
strategic investments in (i) Growth centres (ii) Rural Business Incubators
and (iii) Crisis resolution of Floriculture farmers, the project undertook
many other initiatives such as: - Supply of Dry Ration and essential items to
13000 HHs ( through 60 LCs) - Manufacture of 201,500 cloth Masks by 300
PGs - Supply of seed and other inputs (fertilizers, pesticides etc) to 14,140
HHs ( through 40 LCs) - Supply of Take home Ration(THR) & Ready to Use
Therapeutic Food to 100 individual /day (by 2 LCs) - Supply of Hot Cooked
meals to 197 HHs ( by 2 LCs) - 415 Awareness and sanitization drives
covering 75000 HHs - Distribution of Hilans Wheat Flour at the door step
to 904 HHs - Procurement and Sale of Fresh Farm Produce from 5125 HHs
- GoUK has registered returnee migrants on HOPE portal of Skill
Development Dept. The data is being used by ILSP to assess the
employment /Self employment needs of the returnee migrants. Efforts are
being made to link them with the MSME, Chief Minister Self employment
Scheme etc.
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Update on implementation of last TPRM recommendations:
The Proposal ‘Rural Enterprise Acceleration Project’ (REAP) has been
sanctioned during the 115th Screening Committee meeting of DEA held on
February, 26, 2021; with the comments as :
“After detailed deliberations, the Committee decided to grant "in-principle"
approval on the request of the State Government subject to PIA submitting
the revised PPR and ensuring that both NITI Aayog and M/o RD
recommends the proposal. The Committee also decided that subject to the
recommendations of NITI Aayog and MoRD, the proposal may be posed to
IFAD”.
In continuation to the same, the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA)
posed the project "Rural Enterprise Acceleration Project (REAP)" to the
IFAD for an assistance of USD 104.85 million and requests IFAD to consider
it favorably by their letter No. 10/12/2020-IFAD dated 7th April 2021.
Innovation as National Interest
Multi-functional LDPE Tanks enhancing productivity and income: The
project has built 3,568 LDPE Tanks with the purpose of providing
protective irrigation. The project organised Mulching Sheet and Poly house
from Horticulture Department and Drip and Sprinkler from PMKSY
through convergence. The impact of these tanks has been very positive.
Irrigation per crop increased almost 3-4 times providing lifesaving
irrigation during water scarcity period; this helped farmers introduce new
crops especially off-season vegetables, spice, fruits, as well as seed
production (158.00 ha under spices; 259 ha under vegetables; 45.24 ha
under seed production; 5.06 Ha under floriculture). Additionally, the
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project has helped farmers start cold water fish farming in the LDPE tanks.
Currently, there is Trout Farming in 150 tanks (Cold water fishery) and
Common Carp, Silver Carp, Grass Carp in 750 tanks. The LDPE Tanks have
contributed to an overall increase in production by 25-50% and increase in
income by 30-40%.
ILSP & Sustainable Development Goal:
Goal
No.
Goals Project Intervention Project Target Project
Achievement
1 End poverty
in all its
forms
everywhere
Food security and scaling
up through community
institutions and promote
farm / non-farm activities.
Improved market access
for rural households
Vocational training for
youths
Watershed Treatment
Improved Access to bank
finance
Households
benefitted 126000
Significant number
of households
assets
Incremental
household’s
incomes from
project
interventions
137109
Households
benefitted
-
Rs. 37790 /-
(Rs/hh)
incremental
household incomes
from project
interventions over
baseline.
2 End hunger,
achieve food
security and
improved
nutrition and
promote
sustainable
agriculture
and decent
work for all
Promote Agriculture
Activities including Micro
irrigation
Awareness through
Knowledge Management
Increase food self-
sufficiency
Increase farm yield
Incomes from sale
of farm and non-
farm produce
-
70% households
reporting increase
farm yield
72 % households
reporting incomes
from sale of farm
and non-farm
produce
3 Ensure
healthy lives
and promote
well-being for
all at all ages
Ensuring Availability of
quality food to all
Prevalence of child
malnutrition
-
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5 Achieve
gender
equality and
empower all
women and
girls
Ensuring women
participants
Gender policy
Knowledge Management
Minimum 50%
women
participation
87 % women
participation
8 Promote
sustained,
inclusive and
sustainable
economic
growth, full
and
productive
employment.
Developing and nurturing
Community institution
(PGs/VPGs
LCs/Federations)
Vocational Training to
rural youth
Over 10000
institutions
10000 youth
trained under
vocational training
with 60% women
80% gain
employment
14228 institutions
have formed
24398 youths
trained under
vocational with 61
% women
78% gain
employment
13 Take urgent
action to
combat
climate
change
and its
impacts
Watershed treatment Increase of 10% in
vegetative
biomass.
Increase of 10% in
water availability.
200 Ha. of Fallow
lands/barren land
to be brought
under cultivation.
Increase 3800 Ha.
area under rainfed
crop and
production.
10% in vegetative
biomass Increased.
-
270.912 Ha. of
Fallow
lands/barren land
to be brought
under cultivation.
5676.14 Ha. Area
covered under
rainfed crop and
production.
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Logical framework: Progress against objectives, outcomes and outputs
Results
Hierarchy
Indicators Baseline MTR Till
March
2021
End target
Goal: Reducing
poverty in hill
districts of
Uttarakhand
-Average number of
assets of 126,000
households
0 -* significant
-Prevalence of child
malnutrition
39% 39% -* 33%
-% of households
reporting food
shortages
13% 5% 2% 2%
Development Objective
Rural
households
enabled to take
up sustainable
livelihood
opportunities
integrated with
the wider
economy
-Households
reporting incomes
from sale of farm and
non-farm produce
(%)
46% 50% 72% 60%
-Incremental
household incomes
from project
interventions (Rs/hh)
over baseline
0% Rs
20,000
Rs
33400
Rs
47,000
COMPONENT OUTCOMES
Food security &
scaling up:
106,000
households
from hill
communities
benefited from
increased crop
-farmers reporting
increased
productivity
0% 20% 70% 60%
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and livestock
production
Sustainability of
community
organizations:
Sustainable
community
institutions
--Federations and LCs
livelihood collectives
operating successfully
30% 35% 98% 60%
Market access:
Improved
market access
for rural
households
-increases in farm-
gate prices over
baseline
0% 50% 70% 100%
Participatory
watershed
development:
20,000
households with
improved access
to water and
become less
vulnerable to
erosion
Fallow lands brought
under cultivation;
Increased area under
rainfed crop and
production
0 ha
0 ha
0 ha
1,520
ha
270.912
5676.14
200 ha
3,800 ha
Livelihoods
Financing:
Improved access
to bankfinance
to 60150
households
Households accessing
loans from financial
institutions
0% 20% 57% 50%
COMPONENT OUTPUTS
Component 1:
Food security &
scaling up
-PG & VPG established
-Federations, LCs
supported
-Federations & LC
0
0
0
4,750
126
126
12144
233
214
8,800
214
150
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undertaking inputs
and output
aggregations
-collection centres
pooling farm produce
-action research
subprojects initiated
-10,000 youth
completed vocational
training
- % women
participation
0
0
0
0
0
15
688
80%
131
15
18619
61%
130
15
9,988
80%
Component-2:
Watershed
management
-22 micro-watershed
planned and
implemented
-19,650 ha treated
0
0
22
8,930
22
27150
22
19,650
Component 3:
Livelihoods
financing
-60,150 households
facilitated for
availing institutional
finance
0 12,000 38067 60,150
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Annual Work Plan & Budget 2020-21
For FY 2020-21 ILSP has provisioned a budget of INR 141.79 Crore. A brief
summary of AWPB is -
SN Sub – Components (major activities)
Annual Targets
(INR Crore)
IFAD Share (INR
Crore)
Observations
1. Food Security & Scaling
Up (sustainability of
Livelihood
Collectives/Federations)
18.97 17.07 For the sake of the sustainability of
Livelihood Collectives/Federations,
43 Capacity building programmes
are proposed and 24 Institutional
development training programmes
are planned for PGs/VPGs
strengthening. For exploring and
up-scaling of activities, 07 up-
scaling projects are introduced and
to be implemented in various
sectors includes 1) Integrated Dairy
Farming Model, 2) Goat Breeding, 3)
Integrated Farming Model, 4) Seed
Production, 5) Nursery raising of
vegetable, fruits, medicinal &
aromatic plant and fodder plants, 6)
Establishment of complete papaya
value chain in cluster approach., 7)
Organic Farming
2. Access to Market
(Market Promotion,
Hilans Barnd
Development, Product
Development)
20.15 18.03 Common facilities at LC level (4
collection centers) and 25
Agribusiness growth centers
(ABGCs) are to be operationalized
under the MSME scheme of the Govt
with the convergence of MSME and
other line dept and IFAD. Promotion
of Rural product under Hilans
Brand- 9 Hilans Fairs, 42 Buyer
Seller Meets, 4 Exposure visits to the
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market, 69 Post-harvest
Management Training, 54 Training
on Aggregation are proposed. Under
Product Development and market
support- 21 Nano Packaging Units
are planned to maintain symmetry
in the packaging of rural produce.
3. Innovation Linkage
(Innovative project
through Line depts.,
NGOs, DM project &
others)
0.71 0.64 Replication of innovative
technologies towards sustainable
livelihoods
4. Vocational Training
(skill enhancement &
employment)
2.00 1.8 Under the bidding contract(s) of 500
youths will be trained on agri/horti
and allied activities, facilitate for
employment/self-employment.
5. Project management
UGVS
12.45 8.37 Salary and operating expenses &
office equipment.
6. Watershed Treatment
(Watershed and village
Development)
38.18 26.51 Major works (Treatment of Arable
Land, agriculture, horticulture,
livestock, forestry, Drainage line
treatment & Soil conservation,
water harvesting & minor irrigation,
rural access & other activities) in
190 GPs under 22 micro watershed,
7 Capacity building programmes
with 10 exposure visit within state,
60 units (11455 rm) are proposed
under additional support to Chain
link fencing activity and 164 units
for additional support for vulnerable
household support. For Promotion
of Rural product under Hilans
Brand- 3 Buyer Seller Meets and 3
Exposure visits to market are
proposed.
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7. Livelihood Finance 43.98 2.87 CCL, TL, KCC and Development
Finance, Insurance, Financial
Literary.
8. Monitoring &
Evaluation, Knowledge
Management, CPCU
5.35 4.31 Block, Division & State level meeting
(i.e. knowledge sharing, periodic
review), AOS, End- Term Survey and
other surveys, Documentary movies
of success cases, Audit and IIIrd
party concurrent monitoring,
Knowledge Sharing workshop, ICT
materials etc.
Planned Budget for
2020-21
141.79 79.59
Component Wise AWPB 2020-21
Code Component
AWPB 2020-2021 Financing Plan (000)
Units Amount
(000) GoUK IFAD Banks
B.
Contrib
ution
G1 Food Security & Livelihood Enhancement
24323 5,42,807 81,712 4,59,094
2,000
G2 Participatory Watershed Management
4263 3,81,818 96,612 2,65,064
20,142
G3 Livelihood Finance – UPASAC
396 4,39,802 11,072 28,730 400,000
G4 Project Management
985 53,501 10,419 43,083
Total 29,967 1,417,928 199,815 7,95,970 400,000 22,142
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Category Wise AWPB 2020-21
Category Wise
AWPB 2020-21- Amount (‘000)
Amount GoUK IFAD Banks
B.
Contributio
n
Inves
tmen
t
Cost
I Civil Works 28,407.50 2,840.75 22,758.75 2,808.00
II Watershed
Treatment
171,700.00 17,170.00 137,360.00 17,170.00
III Vehicle,
Equipment
and Materials
8,850.00 2,212.50 6,637.50
IV Capacity
Building
427,726.61 40,608.66 384,953.95 2,164.00
V Livelihood
Financing
403,750.00 3,750.00 400,000.00
VI Service
Provider
Contracts
198,158.00 19,815.80 178,342.20
Sub Total 1,238,592.11 19,815.8 733,802.4 400,000.00 22,142.00
Recu
rring
Cost
VII
Incremental
Salary and
Operating
Costs
179,335.94 117,167.97 62,167.97
Total 1,417,928.05 199,815.68 795,970.37 400,000.00 22,142.00
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BEST PRACTICE
INDIGENOUS INNOVATION TO SECURE LIVELIHOODS -CHAIN LINK
FENCING INITIATIVE
One of the many chronic challenges faced by the farmers involved with
Integrated Livelihood Support Project (ILSP) of Uttarakhand Gramya Vikas
Samiti (UGVS) was animal conflict in the farm field. International, national and
local expertise failed to address the problem. In the thirteenth year of
operation UGVS took up a pilot and discovered the Chain Linked Fence is an
irrefutable solution to keep the wild animals out of farm. Now the solution is
adapted by many farmers and crop yields are nearly getting doubled. Demand
of the fence has grown manifold and some farmers who have abandoned there
fields are returning.
Villagers in Chamba district said,”we were least interested in farming as wild
animals destroyed our hard work .Whatever little we sow was destroyed by wild
boars, porcupines or monkeys ”.One of the villager said that ‘We had no option
but to leave our village and migrate to cities in search of work so that we can
feed our families .But our situation took a U-turn since we have started
using FENCE provided by ILSP-UGVS to protect our fields from wild
animals” .
Uttarakhand is subject to many harsh realities for its inhabitants who struggle
on a daily basis to meet their ends .Its farmers have always been exposed to
various external risks like weather dependence, market prices, inputs
availability etc .Another potent risk for farming is damage to crops by stray or
wild animals like Wild Boar, Beer, Deer, Porcupine, Saul, Wild Rabbit and
Monkeys etc .These animals cause significant loss either by simply feeding on
crop, running over the field, trampling over the crops or tilling the soil and
thus provoking additional financial problems .
Dealing with the man-animal conflict situation becomes even more difficult as
most of these animals are protected by the law, making it illegal to kill them.
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As a result of crop destruction by wild animals, farmers had gradually lost
interest in farming and are quitting agriculture .
In Uttarakhand most of the farming activities are carried out by women
making it even more difficult to guard the fields .On top of that financial
insecurities makes it even difficult for the farmers to tackle the problem .With
an average household of four to six members surviving on an average monthly
income of a meager Rs 5,000 to 6,000, farmers have no means to fight to these
intruders.
Destruction Statistics A survey conducted by Akhil Bhartiya Kisan
Mahasabha in 2016-17 showed that only 20 %of agricultural land in the hills
is being cultivated while the remaining 80 %is either lying barren or is sold
for commercial purpose to outsiders .
The Census data from 11 hill districts showed the maximum number of 36,401
farmers migrated from Almora, 35,654 from Pauri, 33,689 from Tehri, 22,936
from Pithoragarh, 18,536 from Chamoli, 15,075 from Nainital, 11710 from
Uttarkashi, 11,281 from Champawat, 10970 from Rudraprayag, and 10,073
from Bageshwar. The figures will be more gruesome if collected on a year on
year basis.
According to the 2011 Census data, as many as 2, 26,949 farmers left farming
and migrated from their birth places .Migrated farmers were reduced to
manual labourers in various cities for survival of their families .Women of
these migrated men were left behind in villages to manage household work,
animal husbandry and agriculture needs.
Historical Overview: The farmers since decades have been either manually
guarding the fields or using tricks and methods like use of scare crow,
crackers, fire to keep the wild animals away from their fields .Some also used
dry fallen trees to make boundaries around the farm .These methods resulted
only in restricted protection of crops due to human limitations of functioning
in difficult terrain, inclement weather and night hours.
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Integrated Livelihood Support Project )association with the farmers has been
long, directly working at the village level it has closely seen the situation of the
farmers worsening due to man-animal conflict in the state .The long
partnerships of ILSP with the farmers proved that it was not a touch and go
kind of an organisation .It has stayed for long, has helped, guided farmers in
various activities, over the years it has build reputation and trust amongst its
beneficiaries .
ILSP is implemented by Uttarakhand Gramya Vikas Samiti) in association with
Government of Uttarakhand and International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD) with a goal to enable rural households to take up
sustainable livelihood opportunities integrated with the wider economy. It is
being implemented in 41 Blocks and 11 hill Districts of the state.
To end the menace of wild animals ILSP sought suggestions from various
Universities /Research Institutions in the hills .The advices received were use
of shinning tapes like video tapes or audio tapes, beating of bell, use of animal
excreta, use of forate insecticide granule, electric fencing, keeping Honey Bees
etc .After research and exploring practicable viabilities, these methods
appeared to be either practically in viable, ineffective or too costly.
Indigenous Solution While numbers of alternatives were practiced by farmers
to protect the crops from damage by wild animals; none assured 100 %
success in crop protection .A simple technique of fencing called Chain Link
Fence1 was seen as ultimate solution .ILSP came across a pilot done by its
Watershed Management Development team in a small farm land in
Uttarakhand . Seeing its success in April 2017, UGVS proposed to use this
Fencing technique as a solution to curb man-animal conflict in its projection
areas.
Pilot Chain Link Fencing as a solution to save the crops from wild animals was
discussed with farmers associated with ILSP Livelihood Cooperatives .It was
1The fences used are made of metal wires woven together to form a physical barrier .These
fences are effective, long lasting and require relatively little maintenance( .add specification from
slide.)Specification –3”*3 ”GI Wire, Dia 3.15 mm, Height 1.5 meter, 1170 running meter 3 ha)
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assessed that the average land holding per Livelihood Collectives was 40-45
Ha out of which 30-35 Ha was exploited by wild animals .It was decided to
pilot the project initially in 7.5 Ha which was about one third of the total
affected .
Under the Chain Link Fence Pilot, 85 %cost i.e, the cost of fence was provided
by UGVS .The remaining 15 %i.e, cost of installation was beneficiaries
contribution .The fence would be stored at each Livelihood Collective Center
from where the interest member can rent out the required bundle of fence .
The rent rate was decided by the LC stakeholders unanimously .On an average
the rent is Rs 100 to Rs 1000 per running meter based on area or duration .
LCs also rent out the fences to non-member farmers for 20 %extra rental cost .
UGVS procured 2340.00 running meter with 1.5 meter height of fence per
Livelihood Collective .From April 2017 till March 2020, Chain Link Fence
method has been used by 131 Livelihood Collectives reaching an average of
500 households .A total of 2145.8 ha area has been covered using the fence .
Files to Field stories : Rekha Devi lives with her husband, two children and old
in-laws in Jujrali village, Pithoragarh .She is relieved after having fenced her
farmland .Earlier they had to guard the fields at night, light fire to scare away
the Wild Boar with limited success .They could not afford fencing .Chain link
fence has successfully kept the wild animal at bay .Now she and her family
are able to sleep peacefully at night .This season she harvested twice the
amount of cabbage .
Mazhaarchola is a small village of 6 families surrounded by Pine and Oak
forest in Garud, Bageshwar .The village is 1km away from the road .In the
village New Jyoti Utpadak Samoh has been growing vegetables since year
2015 .Often their crops were destroyed by wild animals .Bhopal Singh,
president of the group reiterates that they used to suffer loss of around Rs
90000 every season because of wild animal invasion .When they heard about
the Chain Link Fence initiative, they contacted ILSP representative and got
their farm fenced .The groups spend Rs 12000 in renting 1170 running meter
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fence and procuring 330 pillar .Earlier they had to be awake at night, at times
shout, beat drums or lit fire using wood to keep the wild animals away .Now
they are relaxed and hopeful .They have gathered courage to start growing
off-season vegetables.
Advantages of Chain Link Fencing:
Crop Safety :The fence provided a physical barrier to control the sabotage of
field from wild animals .It kept wild animals away from entering the fields and
damaging the crops .It also controlled the movement of domestic animals in
and around the fields thus saving crops from grazing.
Human-Animal Safety : The fence does not have electric current it does not
physically harm the humans or animals.
Animal safety :As the fence is like a closely spaced woven wire, it has a lower
risk of animals getting entrapped or injured .
Easy to install :The installation process is simple with use of wooden pillars.
Long Life : The fence can last upto at least 10 years as it is made of good
quality components and materials
Assurance of Protection: It assured 100 %protection from wild animals.
Outcome of the Pilot:
Productivity Enhancement : It was observed by ILSP team that in the crop
production increased in the fields which were protected by fences .An average
income from farm produce rose upto Rs.1.25 to Rs .0.65 Lakh from 10-20
Nalis of farm land, nearly doubling the income.
Re-cultivation of Cash crops :Farmers started cultivating cash crops as they
could believe in the safety provided by using fences.
Time Saver: The farmers were not required to manually guard the fields at
day and during nights, thus resulting in saving their times .
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Reduction in Women Drudgery : Women farmers could utilize their time in
other household activities not worrying about the crop.
Recreating Interest in Farming :Enhanced production and respite from
destruction from wild animals recreated the interest in farming among locals.