I M P R O V E D Q U A L I T Y O F L I F E Improved Agriculture Through DBI Harsha Trust
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Improved Agriculture Through DBI Harsha Trust
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ABOUT THE ORGANISATION
• Mission:“To Improve the quality of life of rural poor”.
• Approach: Improved livelihood through– SHGs, Co-operatives
• Interventions:NRM, Improved agriculturePoultry & Goat farming
• Outreach: 5 districts of Odisha 20,000 families.
• Strength: 60 staffs,
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Old Schemes
• Total 14 schemes covering 230 families
• Command area coverage 140 acres
• 11 schemes are operational in Kharif and Rabi season
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Old Schemes
• Crops taken: Vegetable, fruit tree plantation
• Average area under vegetable: 30 decimal/farmer
• Average area under fruit tree plantation: 50 decimal/farmer.
• Average income Rs 5000/farmer
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Current Project 100 schemes in Koraput and Rayagada Districts in
collaboration with two partner NGOs Pragati and OPDSC.
First year 20 schemes- 5 Harsha Trust, 10 Pragati and 5 OPDSC.
Implementation work is in progress in all the sites.
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Components of the Project
• Infrastructure
• Command area development and live hedge
• Promotion of improved agriculture.
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Coverage
• Harsha Trust: 5 schemes covering 106 families irrigating 55 acres
• OPDSC: 5 schemes covering 218 families irrigating 117 acres
• Pragati: 10 schemes covering 251 families irrigating 332 acres
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Plan for Agriculture in DBI Sites(Harsha Trust)
• In two villages, vegetable cultivation with drip irrigation with 45 families
• 70 families in vegetable cultivation and 36 families in paddy cultivation
• Live hedge with Glaricidia
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Improving Agriculture through DBI
• Focus on vegetable cultivation from Kharif itself
• Drip has worked better to reduce the fear of water shortage
• Horticulture plantation with convenience of watering the
plants.
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Progress in Agriculture
• Covering 500 families under Drip irrigation in DBI sites: 400 families in all the DBI’s implemented by Pradan in Balliguda.
• Introduction of vegetable cultivation after fruit tree plantation
• Alternate material for fencing are available and can be mobilised through convergence.
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Learning
• Moving to high value crops motivate farmers- vegetables and fruit tree plantation.
• Drip can enhance water use efficiency to great extend, DBI is feasible in villages earlier identified as not suitable.
• Fencing has been a major road block in progressing first generations farmers to higher level.
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