A Short Presentation on Landless Gardening Presented by PRASARI

No. of Families to be covered under Landless Garden

The Strategy to Penetrate Landless Garden Grant Demo Out scaling (Leverage) Influencing the DHO Convincing the Didi who will replicates the same Mapping & selection by the SHG clusters

Criteria of a Landless Gardener No agricultural land Half Kotta (360 Sqft) available land adjacent to home Non-migrated women participants aged less than 60 years Main source of family income is Migration Agricultural labour Wage labour Meen collector (collecting prawn seeds from rivers) Worker of closed Tea Gardens

Mapping of HHs and selection of HHs Detailed Strategies 21-24 days Demo & Exposure (on filed training) Mapping of HHs and selection of HHs Concept seeding on landless gardening with the Primary HHs 0-20 days 25-29 days Documentation the production & final economics Initiation of implementation Selection of Demo househlds 41-280 days 30-40 days 280-290 days Building specialised land less gardener for dissemination Result based Poster Campaigning Liasion & Exposure of New Didis to Govt. 260-275 days 270-290 days

1. Strategic Crop Selection Seasonal Crops Must be Non-broadcasting vegetables Cash Crops depending upon Risks and Grains RISK Market trend Crop vulnerability Less environment sensitive GAIN depending upon the 5 years trend of locally available vegetables collected from whole sellers

High Risk & Low Gain High Risk High Risk & High Gain Pointed Gourd, Tomato Cucumber Low Gain High Gain Pumpkin, Bottle Gourd Ginger, Garlic Low Risk Low Risk & Low Gain Low Risk & High Gain

2. Water Economics (Calculations of Water Requirements on 20 plants of Ginger) CASE : A (In Traditional Process on Soil) Line Spacing between seedlings = 2’ X 2’ for 20 seedling = 20 X 4 Sq-ft = 80 Sq-ft Average Water Requirement = 1 ft Hence, Total Water Requirement = 80 C-ft = 80 X (30.48)3 = 2265.34 ltr CASE : B (Sack Cultivation or Landless Garden) Average No. of Family Members = 05 3 times average use of water during hand washing after food consumption @ 1 litre = 5X3 = 15 ltr/day Total water consumption for 8 months 15 X 30 X 8 = 3600 ltr X 2265.34 ltr < 3600 ltr

Return On Investment (ROI) A SMALL CASE STUDY State : West Bengal District : South 24 Parganas Block : Gosaba GP : Bipradaspur SHG : Bharatmata SHG Name of the Didi : Aruna Maiti Home Stead Land Holding : 600 Sq-Ft Plants of Landless Gardens : 22 No.s Ginger 08 No.s Bringle 20 No.s Chilli Total Investment in 2014-15 : Rs. 2004.00 Total Income in 2014-15 : Rs. 10020.00

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