National Agricultural Innovation Project  

Part A: Annual Report: Summary

(April 2008 to March, 2009)

1. Title of the project:                             :           Sustainable Rural Livelihood Empowerment           Project for Northern Disadvantaged Districts of West Bengal.
2. Project No.:                                         :           NAIP (SRLS-C) III-36/2006
3. Date of start:                                       :           21.05.2008 (As per Sanction Order)

15.10.2008 (As per Fund Released)

4. Objectives of the Sub-Project:                        :          

1          To identify, validate and assimilate target groups–specific technology options for increased productivity and profitability.

2.         To create a sustainable institutional platform to link stakeholders for effective and efficient service delivery.

3.         To customize systems for effective scaling up of successful learning experiences through institutionalization of appropriate forward linkages.

5. Consortium Leader:                             :           Prof. A.K. Das (Vice Chancellor, UBKV)
6. Consortium PI:                                                :           Dr. Sateyendra Chandra Sarker
7. Consortium Partner Institutions:                  :           Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya

North Bengal Univeristy

Eco-Dev Consultancy Pvt. Ltd.

NIRJAFT

8. Consortium  Co-PIs:                           : Dr. Atanu Sarker

Dr. Subir Sarkar

Mr. Subrata Rana

Dr. Swapan Kumar Bhaduri

9. Technical Progress:

April,2008 to March, 2009 (Annexure I)

Highlights of progress since the inception of the subproject (Not more than five bullet points)

Conduct of orientation meeting with the Stakeholders for action plan development and formation of Community Research Partner Group and other institutional arrangements.

Development of protocol for data collection through house hold survey.

Selection of beneficiaries in four clusters.

Development of software for fine tuning baseline information.

Development of project brochures in vernacular language.

Development of natural resource digital database for preparing topography & Geographical Positioning System mapping.

Capacity development for CRPGs in Zero tillage technology of wheat cultivation, integrated farming backward poultry management, bee keeping, goatery, better space management for horticultural crops, summer vegetable cultivation, improved jute cultivation, bio-fertilizer production techniques of integrated pest management, formation of Self Help Group (SHG).

Conduction of FLDs on resource conservation technology in wheat crop, back-yard poultry and goatery management, improved summer vegetable cultivation, improved jute cultivation and bio-fertilizer production.

Conduction of multiplication trial on bio-fertilizer, demonstration of vermicomposting production technique under bio-production input.

Publication of take home materials in local language.

Collection of soil samples for its analysis to support nutritional status based crop schedule.

10. Physical and Financial Progress:

April, 2008 to March, 2009 (Annexure I)

Highlights of progress since the inception of the subproject (Not more than five bullet points)

Physical Progress :

Four houses have been rented for NAIP camp office at all clusters.

Furniture and books have been purchased.

Experimental livestock have been purchased and also distributed to the selected households at cluster 1, 3 and 4.

Equipment has been purchased at Lead centre excluding Happy Seeder and Matka Spinning Machine.

Work orders for extension of soil testing laboratory, construction of e-kiosk building, bio-production unit and renovation of NAIP unit at Head Quarter level have been placed.

Work orders for construction of eco-hatchery unit at cluster levels have not been placed due to escalation of the cost of the said unit.

Construction of enriched vermicompost unit at village level of all clusters has been completed.

Publications of take-home materials in local language (Bengali) five nos. (each 200 copies)

Azolla multiplication has been conducted in Lead Centre for dual purpose.

Demonstration of vermicomposting technique through portable vermi-bed method has been done at Head Quarter as well as at village level.

Financial Progress :

11.  M&E activities:

Give the dates of CIC, CAC & CMU meetings :

Meetings	Number of meeting	Dates
CAC	1	19.01.2009
CIC	2	15.09.2008 & 18.01.2009
CMU	3	08.09.2008; 14.09.2008 & 03.02.2009

Give in 10 bullet points each of the major recommendations of the CAC which have helped you in improving your sub-project execution :

Data Sanitation & Completion of Technical Survey within end of February, 2009.

Completion of baseline data creation within May, 2009.

CAC suggested to reallocate the infrastructural fund worth Rupees 2.50 lakh already sanctioned for further extension of bio-production units at Malda KVK to look after the work of Suti-I block.

CAC recommended that Rs. 50,000/- will be allotted from miscellaneous expenditure head of the project for launching the independent website of NAIP, Component-3.

Permission of reallocation of fund under the head of equipment at consortium partner (NBU).

Reallocation of the equipment fund under NIRJAFT.

Inclusion of the name of the KVK scientists in the project.

Give 5 major activities  that CMU has undertaken during the period under report :

Core team will be constituted among the Co-PIs of the project. Members of the core team will remain responsible and function for the whole project work.

12. Social & Environmental safeguards adopted wherever necessary as per the E&S framework in the approved proposal.

Social:

In Zero tillage techniques benefit : cost ratio was 1.76 whereas in case of wheat cultivated in traditional system benefit : cost ratio was 1.50. So there is a positive impact regarding cost saving which was mentioned in social safeguard issues under Project Proposal.

CRPGs and other institutional platforms namely viz. Gram Uddog Samity have already been formed at all cluster levels with the objective of fostering the attitude of cooperation among the selected beneficiaries at each cluster level and thereby increasing degree of cohesiveness among the group members.

Environmental :

Conservation of natural resources like soil and water though practice of Zero Tillage.

13. Linkages developed with development department banks, insurance agencies, other Scientific Departments/institution etc.

Linkage with the Directorate of Agriculture, Government of West Bengal and NGO (ASTHA), District Rural Development Cell (DRDC), Panchati Raj Institutions (PRI).

14. Implementation Issues (if any) in bullets and suggested solutions

Technical :

Non-availability of NPK (10:26:26) at the cluster levels during implementation of Zero Tillage on wheat cultivation. Problems may be tackled if fertilizers are being supplied through Samabay Krishi Unnayan Samity Limited.

Movement of Zero Tillage machine due to small size of the holdings. Farmers should be motivated to make consolidation of holdings particularly for Zero Tillage operation.

For backyard system improvement in cluster-I, III & IV, integrated farming has been introduced.For this purpose, chicks,birds, chickens, ducks and fish finger- lings have been procured but yet not distributed to the beneficiaries due to declaration of ensuing Parliamentary Election.

Distance of different clusters from the concerned KVKs is another problem. Provision for more funds.

Financial :

Receiving the fund from ICAR during the financial year 2008-09 is being delayed through internet banking and the hard copy of the said fund was not  supplied in due time.Even the supply of the hard copy of the said fund  was two or three months later than receiving the fund through internet banking.

Hard copy of the released fund of the consortium partners is not being supplied to the CPI in due time.

Bid evaluation committee has been constituted for smooth functioning of procurement and other related matters.

KVK purchase committee has also been used at the cluster level for smooth functioning of the goods, services and manpower.

Finance committee has been formed among the member of the Co-PIs and also members of the monitoring and evaluation committee.

Procurement (Goods, services, manpower) :

Purchase and procurement of the equipment, implements, chemicals and others raw materials is a cumbersome process as UBKV is nearly 750 kms away from Kolkata.

Purchase committee has also been formed with the help of the Co-PIs of the project for expediting the process of the purchase related matters.

Purchasing different items at the cluster level is one of the major problems for smooth functioning of the project as the selected villages under different clusters are far away from the nearest available market.

Process reforms carried out (Innovations tried to simplify, streamline the functions involved)

15. Experiences and Lessons learnt:

For smooth functioning of the project CPI & Co-PI shall have to devote their time to the 100 percent in project work.

It is a cumbersome process for co-relating different consortium partners in relation to technical and financial matters on the part of the CPI.

More manpower is required(Technical and Financial) for successful implementation of the project.

16. Challenges:

Bird flu has been playing havoc with the poultry sector in West Bengal for last two years.

PPR outbreak too has caused  huge losses in goats.

 Implementation of improved technology at the cluster level.

Effecting linkage of the products at the cluster level to the market of choice.

Contingent farming in cluster –III & cluster –IV as these two clusters remain submerged during the rainy season.

17. Replicability (steps taken to see the results of the subprojects are replicable as articulated in the approved project proposal):        Not yet reached up to that level.
18. Sustainability taken to see the results of the subprojects are sustainable as articulated in the  approved project proposal) :       Not yet reached up to that level.

Annexure-I

National Agricultural Innovation Project

Part B: Annual Report: Details

(April 2008 to March, 2009)

Table of content

             Introduction:

             India is a low-income country, with a GDP of $380 per capita in 1996. About 50% of the population live on less than $1 a day. Government surveys indicate that 320 million people(35% of the total population) fall below the Government of India official poverty line which is lower than the $1 a day benchmark. Around 80% of the poor people live in rural areas where the incidence of poverty is slightly higher than in urban areas (37% c.f. 31%). Rates of poverty vary widely between states ranging from 12% below the Indian Government poverty line in Punjab to 55% in Bihar. For most of the states, however, the figure is 25-45%.

Government poverty reduction initiatives include reservation policies for scheduled castes and tribes, legislative measures, and a wide range of employment, safety net and subsidy programmes for the poor (costing over 1% GDP). Rural public works have generally been the most successful, providing out-of-season employment to a large number of poor people, but have not involved any upgrading of skills. Credit schemes have generally benefited both poor and non-poor groups, and have not been linked to training. Subsidized public food distribution systems have been least effective in terms of the share of benefits received by the poor, although they have helped prevent famine and the Government has proposed a more targeted scheme. Further poverty strategies are focused at the state level, such as the Andhra Pradesh (AP) poverty reduction strategy with five priority areas: improved human development outcomes; enhanced livelihood security; governance reforms and fiscal stabilization; greater empowerment of poor women and disadvantaged groups; and impact assessment for decision-making through good quality and timely information.

Sustainable Livelihood approaches have emerged through debate within a wide range of development agencies over the last decade, and have helped development organizations develop partnerships and common agendas. Donor interpretations of an sustainable livelihood approach typically incorporate a set of principles, an analytical framework providing a broad and systematic understanding of the various factors that constrain or enhance livelihood opportunities and how they relate to each other, and a developmental objective i.e. to enhance the overall level and sustainability of livelihoods and reduce poverty. There are variations in emphasis and interpretation of the approach between different agencies but the basic underlying principles are fundamental and common to all agencies. An FAO-sponsored Inter-Agency Forum on operationalizing sustainable livelihood approaches produced strong agreement on the guiding principles that underpin sustainable livelihood approaches. It was also noted that many of the field-level tools and methods, such as participation, are already well established in the work of many agencies. The need to better understand, and allocate resources to facilitate linkages between micro-level livelihood systems and their policy environment was well recognised, but identification of the most effective entry points for sustainable livelihood remains a key issue for further clarification. The Inter-Agency Forum produced a number of key lessons for the application of sustainable livelihood approaches including shifting the focus from resources to people and from livelihood constraints to peoples strengths, stressing outcomes rather than outputs, prioritising diagnosis, demand-driven implementation and the establishment of feedback mechanisms, ensuring economic, institutional, social and environmental sustainability through adoption of exit strategies in the early stages of programme implementation, fostering interdisciplinary teamwork, and encouraging innovative partnerships. Under this circumstances the present project under NAIP focuses upon the following specific objectives:

1.      To identify, validate and assimilate target groups–specific technology options for increased productivity and profitability.

2.         To create a sustainable institutional platform to link stakeholders for effective and efficient service delivery.

3.         To customize systems for effective scaling up of successful learning experiences through institutionalization of appropriate forward linkages.

Executive summary of the work done during the year not more than one page (Times New Roman Font, 1.5 spacing) (Give in a separate sheet. The executive summary is extremely important to show-case all the efforts that have gone into the project. It should include the following).

Results obtained during the period convey report under each objective and the activities) of the sub-project under it (give as bullet points. Please always give the results in quantified terms.

Give, if possible at the present stage of your work, major outcome that the results obtained under the sub-project

Give the number of publications if any, strictly based on the work done in the sub-project 

Any patent or other IPR instruments applied for or obtained based on the work done

Any awards obtained based on the work done

Executive summary:

Conduction of orientation meeting with the Stakeholders

Four extensive orientation meeting has been conducted in four clusters with all relevant stakeholders such as farmers, local panchayats, agricultural department officials, NGOs active in the clusters. The project has been presented and responsibility needs to be shared among the direct and indirect stakeholders involved with the Project. Action plans were developed and immediate activities have been identified for implementation. The initial discussion to form CRPG and other institutional arrangement has been discussed thoroughly. The groups will formed once the baseline database is created. 

The following methodology had been followed to conduct the work:

The districts and blocks were selected purposively on the basis of

Project area specification given by the ICAR regarding the northern disadvantaged districts and blocks (Vulnerability on the basis of Integrated Livelihood Index)

Crop based livelihood

Poor Cropping Intensity and productivity of crops

Absence of system approach

Inefficient service delivery

Lack of institutional linkage

Inadequate knowledge and exposure

Unavailability of choice basket for livelihood options

Drudgery of women

Easy accessibility of the clusters for rapid, sustainable and smooth implementation of the project

Acquaintance with the area, people and local dialect

Ample opportunity for convergence of different developmental activities and for building coordination among the line departments

On the basis of that, four disadvantaged districts were distributed into four clusters due to the heterogeneity of their environmental and social niches.

From the selected blocks, an exhaustive list of the villages was prepared in each block. Among these exhaustive lists, three villages were selected  in cluster 1, three villages in cluster 2, two villages in cluster 3 and two villages in cluster 4.The selection of the villages in each cluster was done purely on the basis of randomization technique. Lastly the cluster based area sampling procedure was followed to specify the actual target people of the whole project in these selected villages.

Protocol for data collection through household surveys had been developed. The protocol had been field-tested and revised protocol after necessary modification had been used for final data collection. The orientation interactions of the data collectors in all clusters had been conducted.

Achievements of the project objective-wise.  Limit to not more than 5 pages (including illustrations/photographs/tables) in 1.5 spacing with Times New Roman Font. Every achievement should be described in quantifiable terms.

Conduction of orientation meeting with the Stakeholders:

Four extensive orientation meeting conducted in four clusters with all relevant stakeholders such as farmers, local panchayets, agricultural department officials, NGOs active in the clusters during the month of December & November. The project has been presented and responsibility needs to be shared among the direct and indirect stakeholders discussed. Action plans were developed and immediate activities have been identified for implementation. The initial discussion to form CRPG and other institutional arrangement has been discussed thoroughly. The groups will formed once the baseline database is created. 

     Orientation meeting with stakeholders at cluster IV (Suti-I,)

   Orientation meeting with stakeholders at cluster II (Manikchak,Malda)

Development of protocol for data collection through house hold survey and selection of beneficiaries in four clusters

            Data has been collected/surveyed through schedule (protocol) at all four clusters by the concerned scientist/RA. The detail data collection has been completed in three cluster viz. cluster-I, cluster-II & cluster-III and 75% data has been collected at cluster-IV. The sum total of selected beneficiary is 1433 with complete enumeration. The designed software/schedule/protocol is being attached: (Attachment 1)

Sl. No.	Cluster	No. of identified beneficiary
1	Cluster 1 – Itahat, Uttar Dinajpur	390
2	Cluster 2 – Tapan, Dakshin Dinajpur	293
3	Cluster 3 – Manikchak, Malda	300
4	Cluster 4 – Suti-I, Murshidabad	450
	TOTAL	1433

Development of Software for fine tuning baseline information:

            The software is being designed specifically for the Baseline and the architecture is complete. The trial run is in process. 90% of the data entry to the software for the 3 clusters has been completed and the report generation format in the software is getting ready. Arrangement on “Training on utilization of Baseline” is going on.

Development of project brochure in vernacular language:

            Project brochure has been published 200 copies in vernacular language (Bengali).

The figures of project brochure are given below:

Brochure Picture

Development of natural resource digital database for preparing topography & GPS mapping:

The progress on development of natural resource and digital database highlights of topography & GPS mapping are given following table:

Objectives	Deliverables		Activities		Outputs		Remarks
	Target	Achievements	Target	Achievements	Target	Achievements
Natural Resource digital database development	Geo-referred platform	Digital geo-referred platform has been achieved base Topographic maps	Accessing topographic maps	Topographic maps from SOI and USGS & satellite imagery from NBU sources accessed.	Converting all maps/images under common and GPS compatible platform	All topo-sheets accessed from different sources/scale have been geo-referred under WGS 84 datum
			Validation and registration	Mosaic file created for NAIP districts under the project		Compatibility with GPS data to be accessed at cluster/plot level.
	Base Map	Base map for NAIP districts in North Bengal	Preparation of Base map	Base map for NAIP districts in North Bengal created.	Base map for NAIP districts in North Bengal	Base map for NAIP districts in North Bengal achieved.
	Natural Resource Map	Under Progress	Administrative layers	Up to district level achieved	Administrative layers	Up to district level achieved
			Topographic & drainage layers	Under Progress	Topographic & drainage layers	Under Progress
			Transport & Communication layers	Under Progress	Transport & Communication layers	Under Progress
			Habitation layers	Under Progress	Habitation layers	Under Progress
Topographic & GPS survey for Cluster level resource mapping	Topographic survey	Under Progress	Topographic survey at village level for each of the 4 Clusters	Topographic survey at village level in Itahar cluster of U. Dinajpur district achieved	Preparation of Contour at 1 meter interval	Contour generation (1 meter) in Itahar cluster achieved.
					DEM Generation	DEM for Itahar Cluster achieved
	GPS Survey	Under Progress	Cluster level resource mapping	Under Progress	Nil	Nil

Capacity development :

Different trainings have been conducted for the purpose of Capacity development to the CRPGs in Zero tillage technology of wheat cultivation, integrated farming backward poultry management, bee keeping, goatery, better space management for horticultural crops, summer vegetable cultivation, improved jute cultivation, bio-fertilizer production techniques of integrated pest management, formation of Self Help Group (SHG).

Cluster Name	Sl. No.	Topic	No. of trainees/course
Itahar (Cluster – I)	1	Zero tillage technology on wheat cultivation	80
	2	Integrated fish-dyke-vegetable cultivation for optimum utilization of available resource	60
	3	Backward poultry management	80
	4	Backward goatery management	80
	5	Better space management for profitability of horticultural crops	80
	6	Planning, establishing and management of backward nutritional garden	50
	7	Formation and management of Self-Help Groups	50

Field day on zero tillage wheat                               Training of farm women on formation and maintenance of SHGs

Cluster Name	Sl. No.	Topic	No. of trainees/course
Tapan (Cluster – II)	1	Zero tillage technology on wheat cultivation	04
	2	Backward goatery management	26
	3	Training on Bee keeping	20

Training of farm women on Bee KEEPING        Training on Zero tillage

Cluster Name	Sl. No.	Topic	No. of trainees/course
Manikchak (Cluster – III)	1	Backward goatery management	25
	2	Backward poultry management	26
	3	Improved method of Summer vegetable cultivation	60
	4	Improved method of jute cultivation	50
	5	Vermicomposting under bio-fertilizer production	20

Training & demonstration of Vermicomposting unit under bio-fertilizer production

Cluster Name	Sl. No.	Topic	No. of trainees/course
Suti-I (Cluster – IV)	1	Backward goatery management	50
	2	Backward poultry management	50
	3	Improved method of jute cultivation	50

Training on poultry management

Conduction of FLDs on resource conservation technology in wheat crop, back-yard poultry and goatery management, improved summer vegetable cultivation, improved jute cultivation and bio-fertilizer production.

Cluster Name	Sl. No.	Topic	Nos. of farmers involved	Area under crop	Benefit cost ratio		Remarks
					Sole wheat	Zero-tillage wheat
Itahar (Cluster – I)	1	Zero tillage technology on wheat cultivation	03	1 ha	1.50	1.76	–
	2	Improvement of backyard poultry production system and cost of maintenance and health coverage	20	–	–	–	Initiated in the month of March, 2009, results awaited.
	3	Improvement of backyard goatery production system and cost of maintenance and health coverage	10	–	–	–
	4	Integrated fish-dyke-vegetable cultivation for optimum utilization of available resource	10	–	–	–

    FLDs on Zero tillage wheat                                      Zero tillage wheat field

                   Fish-livestock-vegetable integrated farming

Cluster Name	Sl. No.	Topic	Nos. of farmers involved	Area under crop	Remarks
Malda (Cluster – III)	1	Improved technology on summer vegetable cultivation	60	0.3 ha	Initiated in the month of March, 2009, results awaited.
	2	Improved technology on jute cultivation	50	10 ha
	3	Improvement of backyard poultry production system and cost of maintenance and health coverage	26	–
	4	Improvement of backyard goatery production system and cost of maintenance and health coverage	25	–

Bottle gourd in field

Cluster Name	Sl. No.	Topic	Nos. of farmers involved	Area under crop	Remarks
Suti-I (Cluster – IV)	1	Improved technology on summer vegetable cultivation	60	0.5 ha	Initiated in the month of March, 2009, results awaited.
	2	Improved technology on jute cultivation	50	10 ha
	3	Improvement of backyard poultry production system and cost of maintenance and health coverage	50	–
	4	Improvement of backyard goatery production system and cost of maintenance and health coverage	50	–

Jute at field level                               Farm family with goats

Conduction of multiplication trial on bio-fertilizer, demonstration of vermicomposting production technique under bio-production input.

Cluster Name	No. of trainee	Beneficiaries covered	Remarks
Itahar (Cluster-I)	30	06	Initiated in the month of March, 2009.
Tapan (Cluster-II)	30	06
Manikchak (Cluster-III)	20	04
Suti-I (Cluster-IV)	20	04

Portable vermicomposting                        Constructed vermicomposting unit at cluster level

   unit at cluster level

Azzola multiplication trial

Publication of take home materials in local language.

Publications of home take materials in local language (Bengali) five nos. (each 200 copies)

Adhunik Padhatite Dhan Abong Gham Chas.

Krishi-te Bhougolic Tathayer Abong Mati Parikshar Guruttya.

Swa-Nirbharata-r Lakshya Maach Chas.

Gramin Unnayane Murgi, Chhagal Abong Hansh Chaser Guruttya.

Baighannik Padhyatite Bibhinna Prakar Jaiba Sar Utpadan.

Collection of soil samples for its analysis to support nutritional status based crop schedule

Several surface (0 – 15 cm depth) soil samples were collected from the villages under study belonging to all four clusters. The soil samples were then brought to the laboratory and prepared for analysis by drying, grinding sieving (2 mm size) in the laboratory. 275 soil samples were collected from a total of 275 farmers from all the villages. The general physico-chemical properties were analyzed in the laboratory by standard analytical methods.

Processing of soil samples                    Analysis of soil Sample

Table : Mean value of important physio-chemical Properties under different clusters.

Cluster	pH	EC	OC (%)	N (Kg/ha)	P2O5 (Kg/ha)	K2O (Kg/ha)
I	5.75	0.36	0.51	125.44	68.12	50.54
II	5.57	0.31	0.68	225.79	54.86	31.62
III	7.31	0.58	0.73	174.94	20.62	104.66
IV	6.01	0.50	0.69	186.27	42.59	81.36

            Table 1 shows the physio-chemical properties, i.e., pH, EC, K₂O, OC, N and P₂O₅ content in the soil samples taken. The mean value of pH analyzed soil samples was slightly acidic to neutral with lowest value 5.33 in the soil samples taken from Kashitara village under Tapan Block and the highest value was 7.38 in Shankartola village under  Manikchak Block. The EC values were low in accordance with the general soil nature of these farmers. The K₂O content were low in all the soil with highest value of 110.06 kg/ha in Shankartola village, Manikchak Block and lowest value was 22.63 kg/ha in Kashitara village, Tapan Block. The range of organic carbon content was low to medium in those soils. The Nitrogen content was also low ranging for 87.81 kg/ha in Dahina, Suti-I Block to 250 kg/ha in a number of villagers. The P₂O₅ content was also low to medium ranging for 16.57 kg/ha in Shankartala, Manikchak Block to 71.81 kg/ha in Kashitara village in Tapan Block.

Participation in National seminars/symposia/ (in a tabular form as given below):

Name of the Scientist &his/her Institute

Name, place and duration of the seminar/symposium/

How is it the relevant to sub-project (not more than 25 words)

Trainings/visits at National & International laboratories/Institutes by the project participants:

Name of the Scientist &his/her Institute

Laboratory visited, its affiliation & documents of visit

Topic of training/ purpose of training

How the visit/training will help the sub-projects

Trainings and workshops organized (in a tabular form as given below):

Name of the training/workshop	No. of and type of participants	How is it the relevant to sub-project?
Launching

Infrastructural (equipments/works)  development: Give  the  total  numbers  and  cost  here  and  list  only equipments and works costing more than Rs. 5 lakh each.

Sl. No.	Name of the Equipment	Description (in Brief)	Total No.	Cost (in Rs.)
1	Pressure Plate Apparatus	5 Bar Pressure Plate; 15 Bar Ceramic Plate Extractor; Soil Sample Retaining Rings, one dozen; PM Hinge, Includes 1081.; Connecting Hose 60^//; 15 Bar Pressure Plate; 5 Bar Pressure Plate; Air Filter; Regulator; Test Gauge; Nullmatic Regulator; All necessary valves and fittings.	1	9,12,000.00
II	Storage Solution	Configured with 12x146GB 15K rpm 4Gbps FC disks. expandable to atleast 100 hard disks in the same storage system and with the same proposed base controller pair. The disk system should be capable of supporting Windows NT/2000/2003, Linux, AIX, HPUX and Solaris operating system	1	9,05,190.00

List  the  papers  published/accepted /communicated  based  on  work  under  the  sub-project in (i) refereed journals (ii) others (Annexure II) :      NIL

Honours & awards received based on the work under the project.:               NIL

Technology/methodological /scientific innovations (if any) give in the following table:

Innovation	Likely Impact	Client
Azzola multiplication (Bio-fertilizer	Bio-fertilizer in kharif rice, poultry feed.	Farmers at the cluster level.

Process innovation attempted (not more than 3):       Not yet started.

Patents applied for/obtained (give some details, about 3 lines each):        Not yet started.

Summary  of Technical Progress: April, 2008 to March, 2009:

(As per the approved M&E framework)

Objectives	Deliverables		Activities		Outputs		Remarks
	Target	Achievements	Target	Achievements	Target	Achievements

Objectives	Activities	Deliverable			Output
		Description	Target	Achievement	Description	Target	Achievement
To identify, validate and assimilate target groups-specific technology options for increased productivity and profitability	Customization of integrated crop-fish-livestock modules	No. of workshops organized  on participatory designing of OFT	2	2	No. of Technologies tested	8	4
		No. of experimental sites selected	2	2
		Conducting OFT (No.)	5	3
		No. farmers involved	70	50
	Assessment & refinement of cropping system technologies as per soil test-based nutrition	No. of workshops organized  on participatory designing of OFT	4	2
		No. of experimental sites selected	4	2
		Conducting OFT (No.)	25	20
		No. trails established	10	5	No. of Technologies identified	19	7
	Assessment and refinement of resource conserving technologies	No. of trials conducted on zero tillage	6	6
		No. of farmers involved	10	10
	OFT on SRI vs. Direct Seeded Rice	No. of workshops organized  on participatory designing of OFT	–	–	No. of farmer groups involved	30	20
		No. of experimental sites selected	–	–
		Conducting OFT (No.)	–	–
		No. farmers involved	–	–
	Contingent farming with short gestation crops	No. of workshops organized  on participatory designing of OFT	10	8	No. of farmers using NAIP technologies	300	226
		No. of experimental sites selected	4	4
		Conducting OFT (No.)	56	56
		No. farmers involved	110	56
	Homestead based production system	No. of bio-input production unit established	20	20	Increase in agri-based entrepreneure	5	2
		No. of farmers involved	110	110
		No. of persons involved in apiary	5	3
	Homestead based multi-tier horti-production system	No. of trial conducted on multi-tier production system	–	–
		No. of farmers involved	–	–
	Improved livestock husbandary	No. nutritional schedules studied	–	–
		No. nutritional schedules standardised	–	–
		No. of rearing management schedules standardised	10	10	Increase in agri-based employment	200	110
		No. of veterinery services identified	157	25
		No. of low cost veterinery services established	15	11
	Establishment of Improved pisciculture	No. of breeds standardised and popularized	–	–	Increase in income and employment	200	25
		No. Nutrition Schedules identified & standardised	–	–
		No. of pond management practices standardised	–	–
	Survey for better market opportunities	No. of market group created	–	–
		No. of Locations of market identified	–	–
	Locally available crop fibre based product development	No. trials for fibre quality assessment & standardization	–	–
		No. of beneficiaries trained for skill upgradation	10	5
		No. entrepreneuships developed	–	–
To create a sustainable institutional platform to link stakeholders for effective and efficient service delivery	Scoping Study on "Designing strategies for effective linking of CRPGs with  market and business support systems "	No. of Institutions Studied	–	–
	Workshops on various issues for stakeholders	No. of workshops conducted	200	182
		No. of Beneficiaries involved	1000	744
To customize systems for effective scaling up of successful learning experiences through institutionalization of appropriate forward linkages	Workshops on various issues for stakeholders	No. of workshops conducted	–	–
	Setting up of e-Kiosks	No. of technical content developed	–	–
		No. of Beneficieries involved	–	–

Physical and Financial Progress: April, 2008 to March, 2009

Physical (procurement of goods, services and works)		Financial (Rs. Lakhs)				Remarks
Target	Achievements	Target		Achievements
		Recurring	Non-Recurring	Recurring	Non-Recurring
UBKV
26 (Equipments) + 6 (Works)* = 32	23 (Equipments) + 1 (Works) = 24	Sanctioned = 46.8195; Released = 24.11247	Sanctioned = 91.895; Released = 91.895	19.13713	56.78419
Eco-Dev Consultancy Pvt. Ltd.
3 nos.	2 nos.	Sanctioned = 8.916; Released = 7.1565	Sanctioned = 1.10; Released = 1.10	5.6287405	0.64688
BCKV
22 nos (Equipment) + 2 (Works)	NIL	Sanctioned = 23.692; Released =	Sanctioned = 28.01; Released =	0.67972	NIL
NBU
8 nos	NIL **	Sanctioned = 5.432; Released = 4.737	Sanctioned = 12.30; Released = 12.30	1.11438	NIL
NIRJAFT
9 nos	NIL	Sanctioned = 4.966; Released = 2.498	Sanctioned = 23.10; Released = 23.10	0.44970	NIL

* Works order have been placed before 31^st March, 2009 for five items and one item viz. construction of Eco-hatchery, process not yet started due to the escalation of the cost of the items for the said work.

** Procurement process has been completed.