1. A Short Presentation on Landless Gardening
Presented by
PRASARI

2. No. of Families to be covered under Landless Garden

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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
days
30-40 days
days
Building specialised land less gardener for dissemination
Result based Poster Campaigning
Liasion & Exposure of New Didis to Govt.
days
days

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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 = 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 1 litre = 5X3 = 15 ltr/day
Total water consumption for 8 months
15 X 30 X 8 = 3600 ltr X
ltr < ltr

9. 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 : Rs
Total Income in : Rs

10. Lets start and experience . .