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Implementing Agency :
Aga khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP)
JFPR Component :
D – Modernizing Poor’s Technology
JFPR Subcomponent :
Others
Project Title
:
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Increasing income of the Drought
Prone farmers of Surendranagar
District through a drip based
integrated organic horticulture
development programme.
Project Objective
:
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The objective of the project is to
follow an integrated approach
towards enhancing incomes from both
farm and allied activities by using
the available resources to the most
optimum level of Surendranagar
District.
Project Area :
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Sayla & Chotila taluka of
Surendranagar District
Total Project Cost
:
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Rs. 71,66,300, JFPR Grant Rs.
39,44,200
Project Duration
:
Targeted Beneficiaries
(No of BPL families, other households, tribals
etc)
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400 BPL families in 40 Villages.
Project Outputs And
Monitorable Indicators :
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By
this
intervention the difference in net
income of the households will be to
the tune of Rs. 13000 to 14000.
Assuming a repayment of Rs 3000 to
4000 towards the loan for 3 to 4
years. The farmers would have Rs
10000 as surplus cash per year. The
income gain from horticulture has
not been captured in the above
figures since all the gains would be
from the 5th year onwards. The
monitoring indicators would be
increase in annual income of the
selected households & reduction in
migration.
Key Implementation Activities
:
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Promotion of a drip based integrated
organic horticulture.
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Diversifying the risk by promoting
more than 2 appropriate tree crops.
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Training and Capacity Building of
the farmers.
Implementation Arrangements
And Partnerships
:
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All the above activities would be
carried out by AKRSP in tandem with
village institutions. In almost
every village under AKRSP program,
there is a village institution
consisting of the farmers of that
village. The extension and loan
recovery activity would be carried
out through an extension volunteer.
The extension volunteer is usually a
farmer of that village itself who
shoulders the activity wise
responsibility of diffusion of
information after they are exposed
to and trained in it. It is planned
that there would one such extension
volunteer for every 25 to 30
households.
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