VISION

The adivasi households of Malkangiri and Kandhamal should become food and income secure by pursuing sustainable livelihoods and live in an enabling environment where their basic food needs are met in time and opportunities of dignified human living galore. This means the project aims at creating significant number of skilled, knowledgeable and confident woman farmers in both the district who individually use family level resource sustainably, for food security and stable livelihoods.

GOAL

• Recognition to tribal women as FARMERS
• Adaptation of sustainable agriculture based on the traditional knowledge, seed, and optimization of local resources by these 3000 women farmers
• Enhanced  knowledge of women farmers on IPM & NPM practices
• Access to market
• Increased sustainable crop productivity

OBJECTIVE

The project would intervene with 3000 women farmers of Malkangiri & Kandhamal districts of Odisha to maximize their sustainable food production capabilities as well as increase family income.

PROJECT COVERAGE

PROJECT DURATION

November 2013 to October 2016

PROJECT INVESTMENT

Total Project Cost- Rs 34,300,000.00

Central Share- Rs. 25,725,000.00

State Share- Rs 8,575,000.00

KEY OUTCOMES

• 100% participating farmers using local seeds, farming methods and practicing low input based sustainable agriculture practices
• 70% farmers increased their crop diversity under sustainable agriculture
• Increase of food availability at the household level  
• Increase in the farm land coverage with  millet centered mixed cultivation
• Increased access of women in agriculture to productive land, inputs, credit, appropriate technology and information through their collectives
• Drudgery reduction for women in agriculture through use of gender friendly tools technologies
• Incremental  income of approximately Rs 18,000 to 25,000 for 70 % of participant women farmers by sale of surplus produces in the local market

INTERVENTION STRATEGY

• Form/strengthen 75 producer groups and 8 women cluster level Women Producer Group Coalitions who are part of the Women Farmer’s Producer Company .
• Scale up the best practices of ORRISSA’s earlier agricultural interventions focused on Family Farming approach using the local  traditional seed, crop diversity and local resource based farms.  Viz. village level seed mapping & Crop Planning, line transplantation of paddy and millets, mixed cultivation and backyard garden, compost pit, land development (accessing MNREGA) etc.
• Enhance the capacity of leadership, decision making power and ownership of women farmers over assets (planned in the project) like Local Prackage of Practices, Climate Change Adaptation, Group management of collective’s assets as implements, equipments, savings, etc.
• Enhance the knowledge and management skills of Community Resource Persons and Para Professionals who would support the women farmers in a long run.