1. 1 Community Managed Organic Farming System In Rainfed Areas (Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty)

2. 2 Non Pesticidal Management Main Objective To sustain agriculture based livelihoods Special focus on small and marginal farmers, Women, tenants, agriculture workers Technology - Local natural resource based - Knowledge centric than product centric, hence support only in the form of knowledge - Community Resource Persons Management Community managed (SHGs)-financial and personnel Program Strategies Reducing cost of cultivation by adopting practices which involve low or no expenditure Resource persons to provide regular technical support in the village Program anchored and regularly reviewed by the Federation of SHGs at village, mandal and district level

3. 3 Benefits Ecological Economical Social capital 2006-07 17 districts 1050 villages 2.0 lakh acres 80 thousand farmers 2005-06 10 districts 450 villages 25 thousand acres 15 thousand farmers The Reach 2007-08 18 districts 2008 Kharif (Provisional) 252No.of Mandals325 377No.of Clusters628 1897N0.of Villages3251 6.72 Area Lakh acres 12.94

4. 4 SAVINGS 2006-07 S.NOCROPACRES Avg.Savings/acre (in Rupees) Total Savings (In crores) 1Cotton40425500020.2 2Paddy5028010005.02 3Redgram2432912002.91 4Groundnut229988001.83 5Chillies3757150005.63 6Others 26000 10003.00 TOTAL 38.63

5. 5 Impact of Savings on Livelihoods Reclaimed the Land from mortgage SF / MF taken additional lands on lease for NPM cultivation Big farmers are preferring NPM, SF / MF for share - cropping to save their investment on inputs

6. 6 Out Comes Pesticides sale – NPM Vs Non-NPM S.No.Year Sale of Pesticides (In lakhs) Zaffergadh (NPM)Ghanpur (Non-NPM) 12001-0510.00-12.0015.00-18.00 22005-06*8.0016.00 32006-07*6.0015.00 42007-08*4.0014.00 1.* Expenditure on pesticide is only by non NPM farmers. 2.Due to introduction of BT Cotton sale of pesticide has reduced.

7. 7 Phasing of Scaling up - over 5 year period S.NoItemsYear oneYear twoYear threeYear fourYear five Budget 1No.of.villages1500200030005000 2No.of Farmers1,50,000300,0005,00,0008,00,00010,00,000 3Area covered (in ha)1,50,000300,0005,00,0008,00,00010,00,000 4Savings in Rs/haRs.5,400/- 5 Total Savings in Crores Rs. 81.0162.0270432540 Grand Total1485

8. 8 Broad expansion strategy YearStrategy 2007-08Existing 300 clusters with 2 years experiences 2008-09250 clusters with 1-2 years experience will adopt other clusters in the mandal, total 380 clusters 2009-10380 clusters with 1-2 years experience will adopt other clusters- total 600 clusters 2010-11600 clusters with 1-2 years experience will adopt other clusters – total 800 clusters 2011-12800 clusters will expand to 1000 clusters New mandal will be included when reaches morethan 70% villages NPM, Marketing, Dairy over lapping Focus on Tribal Mandals, as pesticide comsumption increasing “Total Districts” approach for Vizianagaram, Anantapur planned.

9. 9 S.NoName of the Scheme Requirement for one year Requirement in five years (Rs. in lakhs) Fin 1Cluster Level Activities957.00122,33.65 2Revolving fund – Seed Bank1050.0035,00.00 3Custom Hiring Centre750.0025,00.00 4District Level Activities93.60515.74 Total2850.6018749.39 Financial System

10. 10 Main IssuesOperational Strategies Adoption rate 07-08 1.Non Pesticidal Management  Integration - all suitable management techniques preventing pests, reaching damaging proportions.  Restoring Natural Ecological balance  Making best use of natural resources, locally available  Farmers training in concepts of ecological systems.  Identifying insect pests/predators – life cycles Through FFS more than 50%  Farmers developing pest calendars  Adopting various NPM methods like –  Agronomic – summer plowing – 80% – Seed treatment – Ash, cow urine, trichoderma viridae - 30% – Traps – Bonfires - 20% – Pheromone traps - 10% – Sticker plates - 50% – Enabling Environment trap crop – 60% – Bird perches – 60% – Green sprays NSKE botanicals Chillies / garlic -- - 90% – Inventory of Resources - 100% villages – Documentation - done at state level Organic Farming Systems – Operational Strategies Entered MOU for Quality Control Target – 2000MT Pesticide Free this year Chillies

11. 11 2. Community Seed Bank Issues Strategies Out comes 07-08  To make available good quality seed, locally, in time, affordable price.  Focus – selection, saving, re- using, maintenance, good quality seed  Matrix of farmers preferences vis a vis yield, price premium, pest and diseases tolerance, Traditional and improved.  Training of farmers – seed saving, production and maintenance  Demonstration of new varieties – for specific pest/disease/soil related problems  Identifying, planning, employment and income generating activities 69 villages – 7 districts (Seed production in quintals)  Paddy – 1024  Pulses – 235  Redgram – not harvested  Chillies – not harvested  Sesaum – 5  Groundnut – 1913.6

12. 12 3. Improving Soil Health and Productivity Strategies Out comes 07-08  Improving Soil Microbial population, Environment Soil organic matter, texture Promoting Best cropping systems Increasing crop and genetic diversity  Popularizing preparation and application of Panchagavya, Jeevamrutham etc.  Inoculation with Azospirellum,. Azotobactor etc  Biomass plantation – bunds, common lands  promoting dry land composting techniques  -tanksilt application, Azolla  ICRISAT Model trial Started in significant way Planned this Rabi, next year

13. 13  Currently – Monoculture of crops & varieties resulting pest & disease build up  Increasing cropping Intensity with rational inter crop & mixed cropping systems.  Situation specific crops based on soil suitability, water budgeting, etc.  Pulses as inter crop component, in crop - cycle -- mandatory.  Integrating with live stock  Promoting tree based farming systems.  Plans are being made, this Rabi and for next Kharif onwards. 4. Cropping Systems

14. 14 Strategy in a typical village each village will have five years cycle (approx area 400 ha) S.N o ItemsYear oneYear twoYear threeYear fourYear five 1Area24 ha60 ha120 ha180 ha240 ha 2Farmers50 farmers100 farmers150 farmers200 farmers250 farmers 3 Pesticide Consumption Reduction 70 - 80% reduction to 50 farmers 80% over 100 farmers 30% over entire village 80% over 150 farmers, 40% over entire village 100% over 200 farmers, 50% over entire village 100% over 250 farmers, 60% over entire village 4YieldSame 5Health Cost Reduced to these participating farmers reduced to these participating farmers 6Beneficial insects insects like spiders, L.B.B,flies, wasps dragon flies will be seen

15. 15 7 Consumption of Fertilizers Same 25% reduction in case of participating farmers 40% reduction in case of participating farmers 50% reduction in case of participating farmers 8 Biomass Plantation-50% villages of NPM 75% villages of NPM 100% villages of NPM 9Dry land compost pits- More than 10% SF/MF/SC/ST. farmers More than 20%More than 30%More than 40% 10 Tank silt application- 50% SF/MF/SC/ST farmers in 50% villages 75% SF/MF/SC/ST farmers in 75% villages 100% villages 11Farm ponds-5% SF/MF10%20%30% 12 Scientific intercrop with Redgram etc in millets/castor/ groundnut/greengram/ bengalgram/chillies/ cotton etc - 10% area under scientific intercropping more than 20% area under scientific intercropping more than 50% area under scientific intercropping

16. 16 S.No ItemsYear oneYear twoYear threeYear fourYear five 13 Strengthening of NPM methods: A. Summer plowing border crop, sticker plates, trapcrop, bird perches, pheramone traps etc., 25%40%60%over 90% 14 Entry level activities of Organic Farming: A. Panchagavya preparation and application ---25%50%100% B. Jeevamrutham C. Amruthapani 15Azolla inoculation25% farmers50% farmers75% farmers100% farmers 16 Bacterial Culture Azotobactor Azosprillum PSB BGA etc --- Need Based inoculation Need Based inoculation Need Based inoculation Need Based inoculation

17. 17 Insitu biomass production, nutrient recycling trials as suggested by scientists from ICRISAT --- Pilot in 4 districts One trial in each district One per NGO More than one per mandal 18Seed Banks 70 villages 30% farmers 50% farmers 70% farmers 90% farmers 19 Enterprises: One / NGO One / NGO One per cluster One per cluster A. Neem unit B. Custom hiring Centre for sprays equipment and sowing and inter cultivation quipment 20 Organic Farming --- More than 20% SC/ST/SF/MF Farmers More than 30% More than 40% More than 50%

18. 18 Evolving Suitable Institutional Systems V.O. (SHG), Federation of SHGs at Mandal / District level.  At village level farmers organised into small (Homogenaus) Organic farmer groups (Sasya Mitra Sanghas) - Operate Organic farmer field school (Sendriya Polam Badi)  Federate at Village Level as collectives Organise production Internal Quality Control (PGS)  Federation of these collectives Take up Marketing Activities with the help of VOs  Village Resource Centre: builds capacities to farmers, agriculture workers, small entrepreneurs - involving pre-production and post production processes.

19. 19 Technology transfer VA – practicing farmer/ per village organise organic farming school every week with the help of Convener, Co-convener for group of 20 – farmers using V.R.C. CA – 5 villages, Technical support and monitoring by farmer CRP Identified NGOs, KVKs, Support Community Mobilization, Capacity Building, Monitoring. MMS enters into agreement with NGOs 90 NGOs 2 KVKs are working, Monitoring the program State level SPMU established in SERP CSA, consortium of NGOs – SANET Technical Support Planning, Monitoring field level activities Piloting appropriate Institution Systems Designing resource material, Capacity Building progress Monitoring and review, process documentation and reporting Discussions with SAU, ICRISAT in progress

20. 20 Human Resources Identification of CA/VA, One season in advance, Training in preceding Rabi Concerned sarpanch, V.O – exposure visit NGOs work in deepening in their villages Resource Organizations: CSA, NGOs part of SANET, KVKs Scientists of ICAR SAU Department of Agriculture experienced in Organic Agriculture

21. 21 Institution Building DLFF MLFF VLFF Farme r SHG FFS VO SHG MMS ZS There will be forward and backward linkages

22. 22 Village Farmer Federation Includes crop farmer, Dairy farmer and Horticultural farmer Basically work on: 1. Production and marketing plans 2.Technical Capacity Building 3.Post-Harvest technologies Indicators at Village level Productivity of the cropping system, than individual crop Increase in net realizable incomes Reduction in pesticide, Fertilizer usage Extent of Internalization of inputs Decrease in Distress and tied up sales Increased nutritional security

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24. 24 NPM Kharif Action plan - 2008-09 Sl.No Name of the District No.of Mandals No. Clusters No.of villages NPM Acres 1 Srikakulam 8142703228845 2 Vizayanagaram 2040200186375 3 Visakapatnam 14199840253 4 Guntur 211910026000 5 Nellore 111415574021 6 Kurnool 794516056 7 Ananthapur 30100500205691 8 Chittoor 884011728 9 Kadapa 122211041100 10 Rangareddy 55257854 11 Nizamabad 55257606 12 Medak 28 14046742 13 Mahabunagar 40 20161394 14 Nalgonda 35 17541265 15 Warangal 1962312150228 16 Khammam 183618090210 17 Karimnagar 21 10524559 Total :325628325112,94,803

25. 25 Progress on Enterprise Building S.No Name of the District Pulverisers Custom hiring centres Vermi compost unit PanchagavyaJeevamrutham 1Srikakulam2 (4)2 10 villaages 2Vijayanagaram1396345 villagesstarted 3Visakhapatam3 11505 4Guntur2 started 5Nellore- 6Kurnool4 36started 7Ananthapur3 (8) (1700) 640 8Chittoor- 9Kadapa11 55 1 10Rangareddy- 3 11Medak- 34 12Nizamabad5 13Mahabubnagar2 14Nalgonda5 5 15Warangal3 16Khammam11 10 17Karimnagar1 18Adilabad10 15

26. 26 Details of Bio-mass Plantation S. No. Name of the District NGOMandalClusterVillage Details of species planted along with number Neem Ponga mia Vavi laku Seetha phalam etc., Pac hhari Ta ma rind Custurd Apple 1 Srikakulam BREEDS Patapatnam 56422738 Kotturu 67282771 ARTS SeetampetaChintala 540425 ARTIC PonduruTandyam 6177 48 LaveruKothakunkam 300250125 MMD EtcherlaDharmavaram 1180759 Ranasthalam 890725 SWEEP Etcherla 67332345 Gara 62263630 2 Kurnool BWRDS Done 5001500 Peapully 300900 NSDS Kalluru 750 Gudur 838545 3 Ananthapur REDS KadiriBurugupalliMutyalacheruvu530 15713 KadiriBatalapalli 271731 1102230 Diguvapalli212352 13723267 Bhramanapalli1015 10150 Nallamada K.K.Tanda1961230 32644240 Kayalavadlapalli287794 87210225 4 Mahabubnagar IRDOThimmajipet 1000 500 Tadoor 500100 500 Bijinipalli 5001000 500 Nagarkurnool 200500 100 Total 6685113283851846685530575

27. 27 Progress on Enterprise Building S.No Name of the District Pulverisers Custom hiring centres Vermi compost unit PanchagavyaJeevamrutham 1Srikakulam2 (4)2 10 villaages 2Vijayanagaram1396345 villagesstarted 3Visakhapatam3 11505 4Guntur2 started 5Nellore- 6Kurnool4 36started 7Ananthapur3 (8) (1700) 640 8Chittoor- 9Kadapa11 55 1 10Rangareddy- 3 11Medak- 34 12Nizamabad5 13Mahabubnagar2 14Nalgonda5 5 15Warangal3 16Khammam11 10 17Karimnagar1 18Adilabad10 15