Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals

Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals

A Social Enterprise committed to Rural Prosperity

23, Community Center , Zamroodpur , Kailash Colony Extension , New Delhi -110048

About Us…

ISAP is a Non-Governmental Not for Profit Organization incorporated in 2001 under Section -25 of the Indian Companies Act .

One of the largest networks of agriculture and Allied professionals in the world with a network of :

15000 members

10000 experts ,

200 chapters and

475 NGO’s.

STATES:

Maharashtra Punjab Assam

Orissa Haryana Nagaland

Bihar Himachal Pradesh

Mizoram

Madhya Pradesh

Jammu & Kashmir

Karnataka

Andhra Pradesh

Rajasthan Gujarat


National Award on E-governance 2007-08 by Government Of India for ICT Intervention

Most Promising Social Enterprise Award 2002 – Indo -US Knowledge Trade Initiative

Award winner of the Manthan Award South Asia 2009 for delivery of knowledge based services in “e- Enterprise and Livelihood” for the Kisan Call Center.

Awards:

Accreditations:

Recognized “Chamber of Commerce” by Ministry of Commerce, GoI

Recognized Nodal Training Agency of “MANAGE”, Ministry of Agriculture, GoI

Special Consultants’ status with United Nations-Economic & Social council (ECOSOC).6


ISAP Domain of Work

Trainings and Certification:Training of Trainers; Agri-Entrepreneur Development (EDP); Vocational Skills Training Training and Certification of Extension Workers – India CCA Program

ICT Based interventions :Query Redress Service; CISCO/OWSAKisan Call Centre-Bhopal-Govt. Of Madhya PradeshCommunity Radio Station- Vidisha- Govt. Of M.P.Qualcomm- Wireless Reach

Market Linkages: Buyer Seller meet for Fruits and Aromatic & Medicinal Plants

Agriculture Extension Services :ATMA under PPP mode- 6 Districts in MP , 35000 Farmers, 174 Farm Schools Kisan Didi and KisanMitra -Two Farmers trained from every village in MP (78280 Farmers)Sustainable Yield Initiative –Corn and Cotton Soil Health Improvement Programs – Soil Health CardsPulses Intensification Program – Arhar, Moong , Urad & Chana Frontline Demonstrations - Dte of Cotton Development , Dte of Maize Res.


Agriculture Extension Services …

Farmer Training Programs: Farm Field SchoolsField DemonstrationExposure visitsGood Agricultural PracticesTechnical trainings including:

Soil Health Input

Management Balance Fertilizer

Use Seed Drip-Irrigation Water

Conservation Intercropping

Farmer Awareness Programs:

IECFarmer Awareness Camps Street corner BaithaksKisan Goshtis Exposure Visits

Other Farmer Trainings:

Bee keeping Para VetHorticulture BiosafetyMaster trainingNGO/SHG capacity building



Farmer Awareness Camp in Adilabad

Beekeeping Training in Nagaland

Exposure Visit –Drip Irrigation , KVK Bundi

Field Demonstrations- Maize , Hindoli


3000 Farmers in

Pulse Growing hub (100 groups of 30 farmers each)

INPUT

•Targeted Nutrient management •Field Demonstration •Farmers Trainings•Exposure Visits•ICT Based farm advisory, Farmers Help Line

3 Districts - Gulbarga , Bidar, Raichur 6 Blocks - Bhalki, Basva Kalyan, Aland Afzalpur, Cheetopur,

Raichur.

OCP – AES PROJECT OUTLINE

THROUGH PUT OUT PUT

• Soil Testing• Soil Health Cards with Advisory•Quality Seeds, planting material•Balanced Fertilizers

•Backward and Forward Market Linkages•Capacity Building on value addition at Farm Gate


Pigeon Pea Pods

Pigeon pea Crop –”Transplanting “

Harvested Pigeon Pea

Pigeon Pea at Flowering

stage

Project Interventions

Banner

P.K.Basu ,Secy , GOI and Addl. Secy Mukesh Khullar visiting Project Geography

Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals Agriculture Extension Services …

Project Share* - A Sustainable Yield Initiative

Direct Intervention-10,000 Farmers

* in groups of 25 each *400 groups

Expected Ripple Impact on 100,000 Farmers

Target Group

Project Duration:4 Years – 2009 to 2012

Blocks covered over 4 years

Amravati – 6 Adilabad – 8Bhilwara – 6

Bundi – 3

Across 1050 villages

* An initiative in collaboration with Monsanto


Vermi-Compost

Drip Irrigation

Farmers Irrigation with a rain gun

Watershed Construction at Amravati

Organic Inputs- MATKA KHAD

Seed cum Fertilizer drill in operation in Bundi

SARE Designed Seed cum Fertilizer drill designed at ISAP

SHG Meeting at Indervelly, Adilabad

Women SHG- Sewing Center

Pre-sowing trainings are a class room affair with the help of practicals and Teaching aids.

Practical demonstrations for Tribal people

Amravati, Maharashtra


Golden Rays - Project Baran

Project Duration : May - Nov 2010

Project Geography: 100 villages in Shahabad & Kishanganj, Baran, Raj.

Interventions : Seed & Extension Support for Corn Cultivation to 2000 Sahariya Tribals


Desi Vs Dekalb Prabal (Hybrid)

Dekalb Prabal

Dekalb Prabal

Harvested Maize

Success of the Initiative


MANAGE - ACABC SCHEME

Established Agri/Allied Ventures

CentersTill Date Current

Year

Assam 124 20

Haryana 88 23

HP 88 24

Jammu 56 18

Jharkhand 69 10

Kashmir 43 14

MP 23 6

Nagaland 10 0

Punjab 88 14

TOTAL 589 129

1980 unemployed Agri / allied graduates trained

589 Agri – ventures established

1162 bankable DPRs prepared and submitted

Breeder Seed Certificate obtained by one of ISAP Trained Agripreneurs

Additional Achievement

Trainings & Certifications - EDP…

Woman Agripreneur

Agripreneur with his

Organic Farming

Promotion Van

Breeder Seeds of Paddy

Giving Extension services to

women farmers

Seed Brand of Agripreneur

Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals Trainings & Certifications - EDP…

India Certified Crop Advisor Program American Society of Agronomy (ASA) partnered with CSISA to implement the CCA

Program in India CCA Program launched in India in 2009 with collaborative approach of ISAP, IRRI

and ASA First Open Exam successfully held on 12th December 2010. No. of candidates for December Exam - 85 Luther Smith – Director-Certification & Licensing, visited India during FAI Annual

Seminar

SINGLE MOST EFFECTIVE INTERVENTION IN

IMPROVING QUALITY OF FARM ADVISORY

Pilot Exam in August 22 Registrations – 19 Certified Crop

Advisers First Open Exam in December

85 Registrations – 59 candidates passed Second open exam in June 2011 – 105

registrations

PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS – E-MAILER, BROCHURES,

POSTERS DEVELOPED

Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals Trainings & Certifications …

India CCA Board Board Of Directors

India CCA Exam held on 12th December 2010

Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals Trainings & Certification s…

SGSY Skill Development Program For MORDIndian Society of Agribusiness Professionals Trainings & Certifications –Vocational…

Registration-MP

Certificate Distribution-Sehore

On- site Training-Vidisha

On- site training

Classroom Training -Akola

On- site training

Children’s Day Rally

Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals Trainings & Certifications–Vocational…

Query Redressal Services (QRS)

IVRS based Crop Advisory funded by CISCO/ OWSA for over three years

Kisan Call Centre, Bhopal

Answering Live calls from farmers from all the 50 districts of MP

Community Radio Station –Sironje

First ever Farm Centric Community Radio Station

Wireless Reach- Qualcomm

Improving Livelihoods through ICT using Brew Platform

ISAP Interventions using ICT…

Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals ICT …

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IVRS based Crop Advisory funded by CISCO/ OWSA for over three years

Addressed more than 2.7 Lakh farmer queries from Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

Received sector specific ‘e-governance’ award for ICT in Agriculture 2007-08 from Govt. Of India

ISAP received nearly 300 - 350 queries per day from farmers of HP, MP, Haryana and UP, where the outreach teams were located .

“Soochna Se

Samadhan”

Query Redress Service…

Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals ICT…

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Farmers Welfare and Agriculture Development Minister, Dr Ramkrishan Kusmariya responding calls of the farmers at

ISAP Kisan Call Centre, Bhopal

Kisan Call Center…

The Domain Experts answer calls related to

HorticultureAgronomy

EntomologyPlant Pathology

Plant Breeding & Genetics

Agriculture EngineeringVeterinary and Dairy

Mandi PricesWeather Forecasts

Details of govt. schemes

KCC has already resolved 4,25,000 queries in the last 18 months


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Source of Unlimited & Useful Information for the Farmers

Community Radio Station- Kisan Vani 90.4 Mhz

50 watt transmitter

First ever Community Radio Station exclusively for farmers

Broadcasting to farmers within range of 25 kms

‘Self Sustainable’Provides an active forum for

local community to raise / discuss their social issues and concerns.Dissemination of useful and scientific information by Scientists and Agricultural experts

Phone In Programmes with experts. Impacting more than 50,000 rural folk.

ICT…

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With Qualcomm…

240 Rural Retail entrepreneurs in Rajasthan exploring new aspects of business using ICT on Brew Platform.

Increasing possibilities of business and introducing domains of commerce in rural hinterland .

Utilizing the untapped potential by opening up the market for idle machines in rural India.Empowering the youth by providing information of the opportunities available.

Empowering rural customer such that s/he can utilize products as per their needs and not as per the market availability.

Using Brew

Application

Best Practices

in Managing Cash FlowInventory

Mgmt

Providing Commodit

y PricesImproving ROI of the rural Entrepreneur by improved Working Capital Management.

Classified for Rural Services


Market Linkages…

S.No

Event Venue Year

1 Seminar and exhibition on Cultivation , Processing techniques and marketing of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants

Bihar December 2004

2 Banana Festival And Conference New Delhi August 2005

3 Dairy Value Chain workshop Chennai January 2006

4 Honey Buyer –Seller Meet New Delhi June 2006

5 Conference on Fruit Industry of Himachal Pradesh and Buyer seller meet

Shimla, Himachal Pradesh

November 2006

6 Indo-Canadian Agril.Business Partner meet

New Delhi February 2007

7 National Buyer -Seller Meet on Apple and Temperate fruits and nuts .

IMPA, Srinagar, J&K June 2007

8 International Meet on Herbal and Medicinal Plants

Pragati Maidan, New Delhi

October 2007

9 Horti-Expo 2008 coinciding with 3rd Indian Horticultural Congress

OUAT Bhubaneshwar ,Orissa

November 2008


Eight Medical camps

Over 25,000 Patients

• 26 Arsenic Water Treatment Plants set up in West Bengal for the farming community .

• 10,000 People have been provided medicines from 8 medical camps .

• 25 bed hospital -2 No.


ISAP Health Care Initiatives…ISAP Health Care Initiatives…

ISAP Healthcare Initiatives…

Arsenic Water Treatment Plant

26 Arsenic Removal Plants have been set up so far in 3 phases

Each plant has 2000 liters capacity storage tanks to serve 250-300 families every day.

User Committees, each comprising of 8-15 local people as members at each of the locations ensures the effective usage and maintenance of the Plant.


ISAP Drinking Water Initiatives…

Construction of 2 Modern Hospitals under PPP mode in West Bengal

30 bedded facility with separate male and female wards, Operation Theatre,

X- Ray Unit, Doctors’ Chambers, USG unit, Pre and Post Operative Units, other supportive facilities like washrooms, nursing station, conference room

and a medical shop.Model Of the Hospital

Sh. Rajeev Dar, Chairman ISAP, with Sh. Pranab Mukherjee Honourable Union Minister Of Finance during launch of ISAP’s rural Health Initiative


ISAP Medicare Initiatives…

ISAP Leadership Team … Sunil Khairnar ( Founder and Vice Chairman ) B.Tech Agriculture , PGDM

(IIM Ahmadabad) , 18 Years of Work Experience in Agri Commodities trading , Animal Feed husbandry , Input sourcing and Consulting Services .

Rajeev Dar ( Chairman ) , Diary Technologist , PGDM(IIM Ahmadabad ), 30 years of experience in Dairy and Food Processing , FMCG , Pharmaceutical and International Trading .

Dr.S.Chandra (Director Agricultural Extension ) Former ADG (ICAR), Ex – Director (IIPR, Kanpur ) Rockefeller Fellow , Post Doctorate Fellow at University of Illinois .

K.Karthikeyen ( Head Operations ) Masters in Intl. Business & Mktng More than 15 years of experience in industry relations and trade promotion, specializing in market and investment promotion, and working at the grass root levels with NGOs. Has worked on several projects in CSR from programme conceptualization, implementation and monitoring & evaluation.

Ved Prakash Sharma , PGDBM IMT , 17 Years of experience in Media , Agri Business Consultancy , Event Management & Planning and Implementation.

Shaibal Chatterjee –PGDBM (IIRM Jaipur ) , 11 years of experience in Micro finance / Rural Banking , Entrepreneur Development and Rural Sales and Channel Management .

Gaurav Vats , M.Sc Ari Extension , 11 Years of experience in commodities Trade research , Event Management , ICT Interventions in Agriculture and Web Based Content Development.

THANK YOUTHANK YOU


Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals

Documents

allied professionals

social enterprise award

adilabad beekeeping

nodal training agency

indian companies act

e enterprise

ministry of agriculture

kailash colony extension