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MKSP Detailed Project Report-Bihar

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Project Title: To enhance the income and agriculture productivity of women farmer through

comprehensive agriculture intervention in Khagaria, Purnea, Madhubani, Muzaffarpur, Gaya,

Nalanda, Madhepura, Saharsa & Supaul of Bihar

E-mail id: [email protected]

Website: www.brlp.in

Submitted to:

The NRLM (MKSP Division)

Government of India

Submitted by :

Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society (BRLPS)

1st Floor, Vidyut Bhawan, Annexe-II, Bailey Road

Patna, Bihar

http://www.brlp.in/


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Table of Contents

Abbreviations ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 4

Chapter 1 Project Background, Context & Rationale ............................................................................................................. 5

1.1 Demographic Profile of the area ........................................................................................................................................ 5

1.2 Rural Poverty Context in this area .................................................................................................................................... 7

a. Poverty & Human Development ............................................................................................................... 7

1.3 Livelihood Context ......................................................................................................................................................... 7

A. Agriculture & Allied Activities ............................................................................................................ 7

B. Irrigation ................................................................................................................................................... 8

C. Livestock .................................................................................................................................................. 8

Chapter 2 Detailed intervention strategy and phasing ............................................................................................................ 9

2.1 Objectives of the project....................................................................................................................................................... 9

2.2 Project Strategy ..................................................................................................................................................................... 11

2.3 Community Institutions Architecture ............................................................................................................................. 12

Livelihood initiatives: .................................................................................................................................. 12

Chapter 3 Detailed Program Component .................................................................................................................................. 15

3.1 Detail of Proposed Action ...................................................................................................................................................... 15

Strategies addressing sustainable/evergreen/regenerative agriculturE ......................................................................... 15

Management and control of seeds (identification & adoption of suitable farmer preferred varieties from a

basket of choice) ........................................................................................................................................................................... 16

(I) yield increment: .............................................................................................................................. 17

(II) Bio-diversity enhancement – poly cropping, multi-layer farming etc. ............................................ 17

(III) Resilient to climate change.............................................................................................................. 17

3.2 Training and Capacity building of communities ........................................................................................................ 19

3.3 Training and Capacity building of Community Professionals ............................................................................... 19

Chapter 4 Implementation Arrangements ................................................................................................................................. 20

4.1 Implementation Design ....................................................................................................................................................... 20

Project Implementation Plan & Flow .......................................................................................................... 21

Chapter 5 Implementation schedule ........................................................................................................................................... 22

Chapter 6 Results framework- impact, outcomes and outputs ........................................................................................... 24

Chapter 7: Monitoring and Evaluation ...................................................................................................................................... 25

7.1 Web-Based MIS .................................................................................................................................................................... 25

7.2 Review Mechanism .............................................................................................................................................................. 25

7.2.1 Cross Verification Mechanism .......................................................................................................... 25


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Chapter 8: Budget Narrative ......................................................................................................................................................... 27

Rationale of C 4 is mentioned below; .................................................................................................................................... 30

Chapter9: Basic PIA Information ................................................................................................................................................ 32


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Abbreviations

MKSP Mahila Kisan Shashaktikaran Pariyojana

PVSP Participatory Varietal Selection Program

SRI System of Rice Intensification

SWI System of Wheat Intensification

VO Village Organization

CLF Cluster Level Federation

SHG Shelf Help Group

VRP Village Resource Person

CBO Community Based Organization

CC Community Co-ordinator

BPIU Block Project Implementation Unit

DPCU District Project Co-ordination Unit

SPMU State Project Management Unit


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Chapter 1 Project Background, Context & Rationale

In order to improve the present status of women in agriculture and to enable the opportunities for her

empowerment, Government of India has announced “Mahila Kisan Shashaktikaran Pariyojana (MKSP), as a

sub-component of the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM). MKSP recognizes the centrality of women

in agriculture and therefore aims to provide direct and indirect support to enable them to achieve sustainable

agriculture production. It will initiate a learning cycle by which women are enabled to learn and adopt

appropriate technologies and farming systems. MKSP will be implemented as a sub-component through

specially formulated projects.

a) The primary objective of MKSP is to empower women in agriculture by making systematic

investments to enhance their participation and productivity in agriculture based livelihood.

b) Through this scheme, it is proposed to create sustainable agricultural livelihood opportunities for

women in agriculture and in the process ensure food and nutrition security at the household and the

community level.

c) Under MKSP community based women institutions in the rural area will be strengthened in order to

enable them to manage their agriculture based livelihood activities.

d) Under MKSP, use of locally adopted resource conserving, farmer-led and environmentally-friendly

technologies has been emphasized upon.

e) The major components of the project thus would include- (i) Building & nurturing women farmers

groups at the primary and the apex level, (ii) Planning & implementation of agriculture based

livelihoods initiatives (iii) Formation and development of Mahila Kisan Producer Company for market

linkage and obtaining extension and knowledge services.

f) The project shall be implemented with 112500 small & marginal women farmers in 1400 villages of

the 9 Districts.

g) Agriculture based technology introduction, validation and adoption will be the key to bring in positive

change in the livelihood status of women and change in asset base.

h) The proposed project addresses the issues of- (i) unorganized and poorly recognized status of women

farmers despite their significant contribution in agriculture, (ii) low productivity in agriculture due to

significant contribution in agriculture (iii) poor market linkages for backward and forward linkages

(iv) poor extension system and (v) disadvantaged areas in terms of incidence of poverty and

backwardness.

i) The proposed project addresses the above issues by- (i) organizing women famers at primary level and

subsequently at the apex level to ensure sustenance (ii) invest heavily on the capacity building of the

Women Farmer’s to put them in leadership role and building social capital in villages (iii) introducing,

validating and disseminating various agriculture based livelihoods initiatives to create asset base at the

family level to enhance their income and food security (iv) WFPC to integrate small holders with the

market and knowledge resources to obtain farm inputs and services of high quality and fair price for

their produce. The WFPC would be an effective platform to carry out an alternative system of

extension mechanism and (v) the fleet who would be developed will continue to provide services on

revenue generation basis. All of these together would address most of the MKSP project objectives.

1.1 DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF THE AREA

The districts chosen for the project are the poorest in India and have higher percentage of marginalized

community. In the following table some key data of the districts are given.


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1. Gaya: It has an area of 4976 sq km. It is situated on the banks of Phalgu river and surrounded by small

rocky hills in three sides.

The total population of Gaya is 5330606 of which 23,08,908 are rural & 3,55,895 are urban. The

literacy percentage for male & female are 63.82 & 37.4 % respectively. Gaya has 5 sub-division as

Gaya Sadar, Neemchak, Bathani, Sherghati & Tekari. It has 25 blocks namely Atri, Belaganj,

Mohanpur, Konch, Barachatti, Manpur, Gurua, Tekari, Imamganj, Gaya, Sadar, Wazirganj, Fatehpur,

Paraiya, Sherghati, Bodh Gaya, Khizarsarai, Amas, Dumaria, Bankey Bazar, Dobhi, Tankuppa,

Nimchakbathani, Guraru and Muhra.

2. Nalanda: Also known as Biharsharif, has an area of 2367 sq. km. The rivers that flows through it are

Phalgu, Mohane, Jirayan & Kumbhari.

The total population of nalanda is 1997995. It is divided into 3 sub-divisions as Biharsharif, Rajgir &

Hilsa. It has 21 Blocks namely Giriyak, Rahui, Nursarai, Harnaut, Chandi, Islampur, Rajgir,

Asthawan, Sarmera, Hilsa, Biharsharif, Ekangarsarai, Ben, Nagarnausa, Karaiparsurai, Silao,

Parwalpur, Katrisarai, Bind, Tharthari.

3. Muzaffarpur: It has an area of 3172 sq. km. The major rivers that flow through this district are

Baghmati & Budhi Gandak.

The total population of Muzaffarpur is 29,53,903 and is divided into 2 sub-division as East

Muzaffarpur & West Muzaffarpur. There are 16 Blocks as Sakra, Muraul, Musahari, Gayghat,

Sahebganj, Kurahni, Saraiya, Minapur, Bochaha, Aurai, Katra, Kanti, Motipur, Paru, Bandra,

Marawan.

4. Khagaria: With an area of 1486 sq km, Khagaria is a mojar producer of Maize and Mentha in Bihar.

The rivers that flows through this district are Ganga & Kosi. The total population of Khagaria is

9,97,227 with 2 sub-divisions as Khagaria & Gogri. There are 7 blocks as Gogari, Parbatta, Khagaria,

Alauli, Chautham, Beldaur, Mansi.

5. Purnea: It has an area of 3229 sq. km. the major agri product here are Jute and maize. The rivers that

flow through this are Kosi, Mahananda, Suwara Kali & Koli. It has 4 sub-divisions as Banmankhi,

Dhamdaha, Purnea & Vaishi.

The total population of the district is 1878885. There are 14 Blocks namely Purnia, Amaur,

Bhawanipur, Banmankhi, Dhamdaha, Baisa, Vaisi, Barharakothi, Kasba, Rupauli, Krityanandnagar,

Dagarua, Srinagar & Jalalgarh.

6. Madhubani: This district has an area of 2501 sq. km. The rivers that flow through the Kamala, Koshi,

Jeevacha, Tirsulli, Dhous and Ghagar Sugarb Nadi. It has 5 sub-divisions as Madhubani, Jaynagar,

Benipatti, Jhanjharpur and Phulparas.

The total population of the district is 28322024 with 21 blocks namely Jaynagar, Khajauli, Pandaul,

Benipatti, Babubarhi, Rajnagar, Jhanjharpur, Ladaura, Madhwapur, Harlakhi, Lakhnaur, Phulparas,

Kaluahi, Ladania, Khutauna, Ghoghardiha, Bisfi, Basopatti, Madhepur, Andhratharhi & Lakhnaur.

Parameters Gaya Nalanda Muzaffarpur Khagaria Purnea Madhubani Saharsa Supaul Madhepura

Male 63.81 66.94 6019 52.02 46.16 57.26 52.04 53.23 48.67

Female 37.4 39.03 35.2 29.62 23.72 26.56 25.31 21.02 22.31

Total Population 2664803 1997995 2953903 987227 2541409 2832024 1132413 1342841 1177706

Total Area (Sq. Km) 4976 2367 3172 1486 3202.31 2501 1696 2420 1788

SC (%) 29.58 19.40 15.72 14.49 12.5 12.77 15.49 15.47 16.34

ST (%) 0.055 0.017 0.039 0.0035 4.4 0.0211 0.300 0.30 0.71

Gender Ratio 937 922 900 886 916 926 906 929 911

Net Sown Area (Ha) 235800 191000 219000 68300 210187 232700 107143 146600 127100

Literacy (%)


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7. Saharsa: With an area of 1696 sq Km, this district is one of Kosi flood affected area. The river that

flows through it is Kosi.

It has a population of 1132413 with 2 Sub-division as Saharsa Sadar & Simri Bakhtiyarpur. There are

12 blocks namely Nauhatta, SImari, Bakhtiyarpur, Salkhua, Kahra, Mahishi, Sonbarsa, Saurbazar,

Patarghat, Sattar, Kateya, Banma Itahari.

8. Supaul: With an area of 2420 sq km, Supaul is again flood affected area. The river that flows through

this district is Kosi. Paddy is widely grown in this area.

It has a population of 1342841 with 4 Sub-divisions as Supaul, Birpur, Nirmali and Tribeniganj. There

are 12 Blocks as Supaul, Triveniganj, Pipara, Marauna, Kishunpur, Raghopur, Nirmali, Basantpur,

Chhatapur, Saraigarh, Bhaptiyahi and Pratapganj.

9. Madhepura: It has an area of 1788 sq. km with 2 Sub-division as Madhepura & Uda Kishanganj.

Paddy & Jute are the main crops grown here. Kosi river flows through it making it again a highly

flood proned.

The total population of the district is 1177706. It has 13 Blocks as Madhepura, Singheshwarsthan,

Murligaj, CHausa, Kumarkhand, Alamnagar, Udakishanganj, Shankarpur, Gwalpara, Biharganj,

Puraini, Dhelarh and Gamharia.

1.2 RURAL POVERTY CONTEXT IN THIS AREA

A. POVERTY & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: In the specific context to poverty ratios in Bihar, the latest

estimate, relating to the year 1999-2000 shows it to be 44.3% compared to 27.1% for India as a whole. This

level of poverty is only 2nd

highest in the country. But still Bihar has a much fertile soil and water resources.

Farming is the primary occupation in all the 9 districts. Over 80% of the population is depended on

agriculture. The average land holding size is low as 0.01 Ha. Since, irrigation facility is rare the agriculture is

mainly dependent on rain. Incidence of failure of monsoon is quite high leading to crop failure. Such

uncertainties in agriculture result in (i) poor agriculture productivity and food security. Coupled with this fact

is poor investment on land and agriculture technologies by the farmers; (ii) high level of borrowings from

moneylenders to supplement livelihood deficits and consequently high levels of debt (iii) high level of

seasonal distress migration, particularly for debt service and due to deficit in employment opportunities.

Hence, it can be said that there is a cycle of absolute poverty with uncertainty in livelihood with majority of

the people living in this area. The problem is further aggravated by low literacy level, lack of awareness on

various issues including good agricultural practices, poor infrastructural facility and unorganized status of

small farmers, particularly women farmers.

Fortunately, women’s participation in small groups for social and economic activities are increasingly getting

social acceptance in selected area. Food security is still a big issue in the most of the remote villages of the

district. Food is generally available maximum up to ten months in a year with majority of the rural people that

forced them for huge distress migration.

1.3 LIVELIHOOD CONTEXT

A. AGRICULTURE & ALLIED ACTIVITIES

The principal base for earning livelihood in rural Bihar is land. However, the utilization of this critical

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which allow for higher cropping intensity, and also wider use of modern 12 agricultural inputs leading to

higher land productivity. As regards land related potential, it is interesting to note that the per household

availability of cultivable land varies widely in Bihar. These varying land endowments are, however, partially

offset by relatively higher cropping intensities in many of the land-poor districts.

Agriculture in the districts are lag behind in all aspects as compared to the state and national agriculture status.

Whereas plain land, normal topography, fertile black and loamy soil, suitable weather, good rainfall and

improved transport connectivity of the villages, makes these districts very conducive for better crop

production and suitable for agribusiness activities.. Hence, all the districts except the Kosi flood affected area

have tremendous potential agricultural development. The net sown area of these 9 districts is 1562165

hectares.

B. IRRIGATION

To be free agriculture from the uncertainties of monsoon, it is extremely important to provide assured

irrigation facilities to the sector. Not only does it provide stability of agricultural production, assured irrigation

is also necessary pre-requisite for adoption of high yielding variety (HYV) seeds. In view of the abundant

water resources in the state, the provision of adequate irrigation facilities should not be a major challenge in

Bihar, but unfortunately, only 60% of the cultivated area is endowed with some irrigation facility in the state.

During the period of (2000-01) to (2007-08), the total irrigation area in Bihar has increased from 28.20 lakh

hectares. This implies a growth of 14.3%, over a period of 7 years. One of the major constraints in the spread

of irrigation is that tube wells & borings are now the major source of irrigation, in the absence of adequate

supply of electricity.

C. LIVESTOCK

Livestock are those domestic animals which are reared to make use of them for some food, fibre or some kind

of work. Today livestock is an important part of agriculture and Bihar being an agricultural state, livestock is

slowly and steadily grabbing its share in Bihar’s economy. Total livestock population in the state, according to

Census 2003 is 207.83 lakhs. Of this 39.8% are milch animals with population of cow being 104.7 lakhs and

that of buffalo being 57.66 lakhs. The state also has substantive number of goats and poultry is also growing as

profitable business.

The major feed for the cattle rearing is coming from crop residues of wheat, rice, maize and legume straw. The

white bhusa and oil cakes are given only to cows and buffaloes which are milk producing animals. So if we

can have an integrated approach then it would beneficial to farmers in both ends for agricuiture and livestock

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Chapter 2 Detailed intervention strategy and phasing

2.1 OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT

Vision: To enhance the income & skills of the women farmers f r o m improved agriculture practices

and allied activities through institutions of women belonging to poor households

Goals : To empower the women farmers through production & income enhancement by taking up System

of Rice Intensification, System of Wheat Intensification, System of Root Intensification (SRI) in pulses,

oilseeds, vegetable, etc. and apiculture, vermi-compost promotion, NPM based natural farming through

the community institutions of poor. The specific objectives of the proposed project are as follows;

(i) To promote agriculture productivity enhancement programme through System of Root

Intensification (SRI) in 10 crops such as cereals, pulses & vegetables to achieve food and

nutrition security.

(ii) To promote the maximum use of land by covering the agriculture land with crops throughout

the year for retaining essential nutrient in the soil.

(iii) To promote non-pesticide based natural farming in the agriculture land.

(iv) To promote vermi-compost for improving soil health & increase water retention capacity of

the soil.

(v) To promote apiculture as a secondary source of livelihoods for bringing additional income

and nutrition.

(vi) To create a pool of local resources for the management and expansion of the agriculture

based livelihoods programmes.

(vii) To strengthen the women SHGs and their federation for management of the agriculture

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Objectives Description of Objectives Key Outputs/Verification Indicators

1. Mobilize the poor women

farmers among the SHGs &

enhance their skills, knowledge

to facilitate plan and

implement agriculture & allied

activities

1. Orientation, training & exposure of

women SHG members on agriculture

& allied activities

2. Train the SHGs & their higher level

federations on micro-planning,

community led extension mechanism

& management through community

institution architecture

1.1.a. 112500 poor women farmers will

be mobilized for agriculture & allied

activities

1.1.b The SHGs and their higher level

federations such as VOs and WFPCs will

plan & implement agriculture and allied

activities in around 1400

2. Village Resource Persons

(VRPs) developed for

providing handholding support

to women farmers in

agriculture & allied activities

2.1 VRPs will be trained on various

agriculture practices, technologies and

group management aspects

2.1.a. Approximately 1400 VRPs will be

identified & trained to provide

handholding support to around 112500

women farmers belonging to SHGs

through VOs & WFPCs in a period of

three years

3. Increased crop productivity

of Women Farmers through

improved agriculture practices,

techniques through

demonstration and adoption.

3.1 Improved agriculture practices

such as PVSP, SRI, SWI, System of

Root Intensification in pulses, oilseeds,

vegetable, community based irrigation

management, etc will be

demonstrated and scaled up

3.2 NPM based natural farming

promotion of vermi-compost pits and

use of vermi-compost in the improved

agriculture practices

3.3 Apiculture will be taken up for

additional income enhancement

3.1.a Around 80% of the women farmers

belonging to SHGs will take up 3

agriculture and allied interventions in a

year.

3.1.b Around 80% of the 112500 women

farmers will increase their yield by two

times in the newly introduced crop

practices & 60% will have 2 times

enhanced income


will have improved soil health and water

retention capacity of the soil at the end of

three years

3.3.a. Around 80% of the 2500 women

farmers will havve additional income

15000 per annum in a normal season

4. Best practicing women

farmers and community

resource persons will be

developed

4.1. Best practicing women farmers

will be identified through organized

Kisan days & developed for

mobilization of women SHG members

to scale up agriculture & allied

activities as part of NRLM

4.2 Best VRPs will be developed as

Skilled Extension Workers (who will

manage 10 VRPs in 10 Villages), will

be used for scaling up & integration

into NRLM

4.1.a Around 7000 best practicing

farmers will be identified through Kisan

Days and further trained for mobilizing

women SHG members for scaling up in

NRLM

4.2.a. Around 140 Skilled Extension

Workers will be developed for scaling up

into NRLM


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2.2 PROJECT STRATEGY

The MKSP project is proposed for 9 districts 15 blocks 45 clusters and 1400 villages of Bihar. It is envisaged

that this project would cover around 112500 numbers of women farmers of 3476 Village Organization.

JEEViKA had already been working in these districts as a result the SHG of women and federation of SHG

called VO and federation of VO called CLF is in place. Since these CBOs are already into the agriculture

sector their core functioning will remain same however will be further strengthened by providing inputs in

regard to organizational development and agriculture based livelihood interventions. These CBOs shall be the

pivotal point for planning and implementation of the initiatives planned in the project. Under MKSP project

the under mentioned activity would be initiated or extended.

Sr. Items Activities

1 To promote agriculture productivity enhancement programme through System of Root

Intensification (SRI) in 10 crops such as cereals, pulses & vegetables to achieve food and

nutrition security 1.1 Organizing ToTs & Exposure visits for Mahila Kisans (i) Awareness generation about the project-

objectives, modalities, role project team and

CBOs

(ii) Participatory identification of eligible

women farmers for the project

(iii) Concept seeding with the existing

groups and newly formed groups,

identification of capacity building needs,

prepare CB plan

(vi) Establishment of group norms and

handhold support for nurturing 1.2 Selection of VRPs (i) Awareness generation (meeting, exposure,

etc.)

1.3 ToT and Exposures of CRP (i) Training of VRP, CRP on various aspects

of agriculture based livelihoods

1.4 Demonstrations of SCI in 10 crops – SRI SWI and

cereals , pulses and vegetables

Self explanatory

2 To promote the maximum use of land by

covering the agriculture land with crops through

out the year for retaining essential nutrient in

the soil

Self explanatory

2.1 Organizing Front line Demonstrations with VRP on

multiple cropping

(i) Training VRP on development of

demonstration plots

(ii) Organizing women farmer trainings on

these plots for hands on experience and

learning

(iii) Organizing exposures and cross visits on

these demonstration plots

2.2 Training on crop planning Conducting trainings on multiple cropping

and incorporating those in microplanning

exercise

2.3 Promotion of Landless Kitchen garden For landless and poorest for poor to ensure

nutritional and food security.

3 To promote vermi-compost for improving soil

health & increased water retention capacity

of the soil

(i) Increasing awareness on health of

soil and soil as living skin of earth

through use of vermi compost

Sr. # Items Activities


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3.1 Exposure and Training of VRP and CRPs on

vermicompost benefits and usages, vermipit

construction

Self Explanatory

3.2 Construction of demonstration Vermi-compost pits

increased adoption

Self Explanatory

3.3 VRP handholding in construction of Vermi pits VRPs will be trained vermi compost

technologies for handholding

members in construction of pits

2.3 COMMUNITY INSTITUTIONS ARCHITECTURE

BRLPS has been working in the agriculture based livelihood promotion since last few years and the

progress is happening. The MKSP is a value addition initiative of BRLPS’s past and current work in

the area. Primary groups of women i.e. SHG & village organizations are in place covering almost 60%

of the target community. More are being organized. A three tier development of community based

organizations as mentioned in the following table provides the information on community institutions

formed so far and being instrumental in project implementation.

Sr.

District Block Cluster Progress in CBO formation & development

(nos.) SHGs formed Village organization(VO) CLF

09 15 45 55704 3476 25

LIVELIHOOD INITIATIVES:

i. Agriculture productivity enhancement activities :

Different agriculture productivity enhancement measures have been initiated where farmers have

realized yield increment from (20-25)%. Sustainable agriculture practices have been disseminated

amongst target project beneficiaries. Good agriculture practices like line sowing, seed treatment,

proper seed rate, plant spacing, integrated pest management practices, use of organic fertilizers

like vermi composting, SRI , SWI, irrigation water management, etc. have been disseminated

which has resulted not only in the terms of productivity enhancement but also have reduced

cost of production.

System of root intensification for paddy and wheat is widely disseminated resulting in higher yield

and cost cutting in production. Based on the grass-root realities, the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project

has piloted PVSP, SRI and SWI the women farmers got encouraging results. In SRI & SWI the

productivity increased by two times and ensured food security for the poor households.

Hence, looking at the availability of small landholding in the form of own land / leasing land /

share-cropping land / izara land and yielding less production leading to inadequate food security,

the project has strong belief to pilot and scale up System of Root Intensification in pulses, oilseed,

vegetable to increase the productivity of all the crops by two times and ensure food and nutrition

security along with creation of additional income at the level of poor households. Under this

proposed project; SRI and SWI will be undertaken in the new villages and pilot and scale up of

System of Root Intensification in pulses, oilseed, vegetable, etc.

NPM based natural farming, vermi-compost pit making and apiculture will also be added in the


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basket of poor for reduction of input cost in agriculture and additional income through sale of

vermi-compost and honey in the market. Quality seed production, processing, certification and

selling will be undertaken to provide quality certified seeds to the poor women farmers through

Participatory Varietal Selection & Promotion (PVSP) programme.

The project mobilizes the poor household women to form Self Help Groups (SHGs) with the help

of transect walk and social mapping. Each Self Help Groups comprises around 10- 15 members

belonging to poor households. The project follows the saturation approach and in every village,

efforts are made to mobilize all the poor households into the fold of SHGs. There are around 7-15

nos. of SHGs in a Village Organization depending on the population & poor households in the

villages. The SHGs are federated into the Village Organizations at the Village level, which

undertake the larger level interventions for the benefit of the SHG members.

Till December 2010, the project has mobilized around 354540 poor households to form 29545

SHGs and 1452 VOs were formed in the project. The project has undertaken System of Rice

Intensification (SRI), System of Wheat Intensification (SWI), Participatory Varietal Selection &

Promotion (PVSP) programme, Vermi-compost pit and Green Manuring promotion under the

agriculture based livelihoods with existing SHGs.

In the project, the SHG members have selected seed by adopting Participatory Varietal Selection &

Promotion (PVSP) programme and followed the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) and System

of Wheat Intensification (SWI) and the yield have been more than two times in both paddy and

wheat. Basing on the success of the SRI and SWI; System of Root Intensification (SRI) have been

piloted in Rapeseed & Green Gram and the yield have been more than 2 times.

Promotion of vermi-compost pit making and its use has improved the soil health by enhancing the

water retention capacity of the soil. The use of green manure is also found to be beneficial in

improving the soil health.

The low cost community based extension1 & monitoring mechanism has been inbuilt within the

community institution. Each village organization has a Village Resource Person, who has been

trained to handhold the SHG members and manage the Management Information System (MIS) of

the Agriculture Intervention. The village organization has a 3 member livelihoods committee,

which monitor the agriculture programme and verifies the work of the VRP. Weekly VRP meeting

is organized to update the progress and support the VRP for better performance in the agriculture

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To address the issue of institutional credit for agriculture approaches/strategies were taken:

(i) Microfinance is to be provided through micro financing scheme of BRLPS already in place in the CBOs.

These SHGs also are linked to bank and they can leverage credit from bank. The credit given to CBOs is for

varied purpose including agriculture or other livelihoods promotional sectors.

ii) At the producer company level the requirement for working capital loan and capital asset loan would be met

through internal financing through BRLPS as well as bank linkage met through borrowing from the banking

institutions.


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Chapter 3 Detailed Program Component

3.1 Detail of Proposed Action

Plans for promoting and enhancing food and nutritional security for women farmers

The food and nutrition security will be promoted by enhancing the yield of main staple food crops i.e.,

paddy and wheat. The nutritional security will be achieved by yield enhancement of pulses and

vegetable crops. The following interventions will be taken up through System of Root

Intensification methodologies, honey production in a period of three years as follows;

a) System of Rice Intensification (SRI) with 25000 SHG households

b) System of Wheat Intensification (SWI) with 50000 SHG households

c) System of Root Intensification (SRI) in Rape seed with 10000 SHG households

d) System of Root Intensification (SRI) in Green Gram with 25000 SHG households

e) System of Root Intensification (SRI) in Tomato with 25000 SHG households

f) System of Root Intensification (SRI) in Brinjal with 25000 SHG households

g) System of Root Intensification (SRI) in Chilli with 25000 SHG households

h) System of Root Intensification (SRI) in Ladies Finger with 50000 SHG households

i) System of Root Intensification (SRI) in Ridge Gourd with 10000 SHG households

j) System of Root Intensification (SRI) in Cauliflower with 10000 SHG households

k) Arhar in Bunds will be promoted in bunds with 25000 SHG households

l) Machan Bidhi in System of Root Intensification (SRI) Bottle Gourd with 10000

SHG households

m) Machan Bidhi in System of Root Intensification (SRI) Bitter Gourd with 10000

SHG households

n) Vermi-compost will be promoted with 10000 SHG households

o) Beekeeping will be promoted with 2500 SHG households

p) Non pesticides based natural farming will be promoted with 25000 SHG households

q) Equipment management such as Cono-Weeder, Seed Dibbler & Irrigation System will be

managed through higher level federation of the community institution such as Village

Organizations

STRATEGIES ADDRESSING SUSTAINABLE/EVERGREEN/REGENERATIVE

AGRICULTURE

a) Soil Health Improvement through NPM based natural farming / community managed

sustainable agriculture & vermin-compost pit promotion :

Promotion of NPM based natural farming also known as community managed sustainable

agriculture will be demonstrated and scaled up to 25000 women farmer households. Community

Managed Sustainable Agriculture is an understanding of the soil, soil fertility, ploughing back

crop residues, dung and the role of earthworms. It includes focusing on the role of local

earthworm & its reactivation in the soil, which is critical for the tropical countries. CMSA does

not mean stopping of fertilizer suddenly, the use of fertilizer is gradual reduction and it is

coupled with application of tank silt, ploughing back crop residues, mulching, dung based

inoculants and the application of azolla in paddy fields, etc. The azolla use will reduce the urea

use to 50% in one go. Azolla can totally meet the requirements of nitrogen without any need for

external urea application.

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building soil microbial activity. Every crop removes substantial amount of nutrients, but the

formation of the grain only takes 15 percent of those nutrients. The remaining 85 of nutrients are

used in the growth the entire plant. The consumer uses the grain as main product and straw as a

bi-product from the paddy or other crop plants. This is recommended that crop residues should

be returned to the soil either directly or through the animal route during the crop period.

Promotion of Vermi-compost pit making and its use will also be enhanced to create an organic

environment for the plant and it will loosen the soil for better aeration and improved water

retention capacity of the soil. The vermi-compost pit will be promoted with around 10000

women farmers on an economic basis and the marketable surplus will cater to at least 75000

women farmers belonging to SHG households. Around 3 crops per year will be taken up with

112500 women farmers leading to continuous crop cover in the agriculture land will have better

water retention capacity. The pulses cultivation through System of Root Intensification

methodology will add continuous nitrogen in the soil through root nodule

MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF SEEDS (IDENTIFICATION & ADOPTION OF SUITABLE

FARMER PREFERRED VARIETIES FROM A BASKET OF CHOICE)

Participatory varietal selection and promotion (PVSP) programme will be carried out for the

selection of seed by the women farmers in all the crops. PVSP is a method intended to

understand the felt and perceived needs of the farmers for suitable crop varieties and allow them to

test, identify, and adopt/spread the suitable “farmer preferred” varieties from a “basket of choices”

provided to them. Steps followed in PVSP are:

(a) Identification of farmers’ preference: In PVSP an understanding is developed about the qualities or

attributes on which farmers prefer a particular variety which is under cultivation in the area for a

long time and popular. This variety or varieties are called the local check. There must be some

preferred traits (viz. high yield, better taste, short maturity, drought resistance, etc.) because of

which the variety is preferred over others. Participatory methodologies are applied to get this

information from the farmers/villagers.

(b) Search process for varieties: Based on this understanding a search process is carried out to identify

varieties within the released and pre-released varieties of the Research institutions all over the

country, which have attributes matching or closely matching with the farmers’ preferred traits that

were identified at the first stage. This process ends with the procurement of seeds in smaller

quantities of those varieties which have attributes closer to what farmers are looking for. These

varieties are called the introductory varieties.

(c) Trial in farmers’ field: The seeds of these varieties are then tested in the farmers’ field in a very

small quantity alongside their local check in the same field and under same management

practices. No additional inputs are recommended for the introductory varieties. Typically in a

village 3-4 variety of a crop is tested with at least 4-6 replications for each variety. Simultaneously

with one farmer per village all introductory varieties are tested in one field to compare the relative

performance of each variety under same inputs and management practices.

(d) Evaluation by farmers: During the cropping season and post harvest the focused group discussions

are conducted with the participating and observant farmers to evaluate the performance of the

introductory varieties vis-à-vis the popular local check. Through this process the preferred varieties

are screened by the farmers themselves. A scientific database is also developed about the

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(e) Dissemination of preferred varieties: The varieties are identified as preferred through this process, the

seeds of which are multiplied locally through proper seed production process and disseminated

within the area.

The benefits of involving farmers in identifying appropriate varieties are significant in terms of:

(I) YIELD INCREMENT:

Yield increases up to 30-40% by adopting new varieties against local variety, (ii) reduction in cost of

components like fertilizer, irrigation, pesticides, (iii) increasing varietal diversity in the area, and

finally (iv) the increased awareness among the farmers, about the newly found varieties empowering

them to demand for more such technologies.

(II) BIO-DIVERSITY ENHANCEMENT – POLY CROPPING, MULTI-LAYER FARMING

ETC.

Three crops per women farmers will be undertaken, cereals-pulses, pulses-vegetables will be taken as

mixed farming and agriculture-apiculture will be taken as integrated farming.

(III) RESILIENT TO CLIMATE CHANGE

In case of water stagnation caused due to flood, shorter duration seed varieties will be taken up for adoption

of System of Rice Intensification and other related crops. In case of drought, alternative cropping

pattern will also be promoted such as in case of drought, pulses will be taken up to reduce losses to the

women farmers.

1. Targeting : Approach and Details on landless, small and marginal farmers as project participants- The

Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project is mobilizing the poor households into the fold of SHGs and around

40% of the SHG households have agriculture land ranging from 1/16th to 1/5th of a hectare of land.

Around 10% of the SHG members take 1/5th of a hectare of land on lease or share cropping basis to

undertake agriculture activities. Around 40%-50% of the SHG households out of 354540 SHG households

will be the project participants under MKSP and their average land holding is ranging from 1/16th to

1/5th of a hectare of land.

2. Plans for Post-project Sustainability and Scaling up strategies: In the first year 12500 interventions will be

taken up as demonstration, where all the required inputs will be provided and in the subsequent years

the women farmers will adopt these practices themselves. In the second year 50000 interventions will be

taken up as demonstration, where all the required inputs will be provided and in the subsequent years the

women farmers will take up by themselves by the support of VRPs only. In the third year, 50000

interventions will be taken up as demonstrations, where all the required inputs will be provided and in

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The said interventions shall be implemented by VRP for which they shall be paid an honorarium.

The VRP service charge is a tool to assess the adoption rate and sustainability of the

programme. The irrigation support system and the equipments will be provided to the

Village Organizations and the VO will manage the assets on a service charge basis for its

sustainability. Exposure during the critical stages of the intervention, campaigning through

digital green mechanism and new women farmer mobilization through 7000 best practicing

women farmers & 140 Skilled Extension Workers will be pooled together for expansion in the

old villages in existing area and new villages under National Rural Livelihood Mission.

Cono weeder in SRI & SWI, Mahila Seed Drill / Dibbler will be developed and promoted for

reducing drudgery of the women farmers.

3. Plans for awareness generation with regard to “women farmers” rights entitlements under

different schemes related to her identity as “women farmer”. Any plans towards enhancing

accessibility of land to women farmers. The outcome of the proposed programme will have at

least 10% women farmers have access to land through land leasing because of at least 2 times

production enhancement through SRI methodology in different crops.

4. Any other plans to intervene in value chain development (end-to-end solution) e.g., intervention

in production / processing / marketing. Plans for increase market accessibility of women

farmers. Like; the Women Farmers Producers Companies will undertake the seed production,

processing and marketing and the Village Organizations will also undertake the vermi-compost

preparation and its marketing. In the proposed project, it is envisaged that around 100000

women farmers will access to quality seeds and vermi-compost for 3 crops per annum in a patch

of 1/5th to 1/16th of a hectare of land from marketing / collective procurement by Women

Farmers Producers Companies and the Village Organizations.

5. Strategies for disseminating knowledge. Including plans for skill up-gradation among women

The VRP will impart training to the SHG members (women farmers) in the SHG meeting and

VO meeting. The livelihoods committee members & the office bearers of the VO will be trained

from the team members of the Block Project Implementation Unit. Best Practicing Farmers

will be identified and trained from the Kisan days organized in the Villages. Best Livelihoods

Committee members will be identified and trained to further refining their skills through

cluster adhibesan organized in the cluster. The VRPs will be trained by agriculture experts at

the BPIU level. The potential VRPs will be identified and trained as Skilled Extension Workers

and will be made part of the cluster level federation. The best practicing women farmers further

engaged in mobilizing new women farmers for the improved agriculture interventions in the new

villages.

6. Plans for increasing access of credit to women farmers and women groups. The Initial

Capitalization Fund of the project followed by the credit linkage from the commercial banks to

the women farmers through SHGs is the process of credit access under the proposed project.

7. Direct Incremental income returns to the women farmers. The gross incremental income per

woman farmer per annum is Rs. 36492/- and the net incremental income per woman farmer

per annum is Rs. 27816/-.

Plans for community contribution of any kind, be it in-kind or monetary or regular thrift. The

SHGs have their own savings is around Rs. 19.67 crore, inter-loaning is Rs. 54 crore, credit

received through SHGs as Initial Capitalization Fund is Rs. 69 crore and from commercial banks is

approximately Rs. 40 crore. The women farmers contribute in the service charge of the Village

Resource Persons i.e., Rs. 10/- per women farmers per month and from the second year onwards

and use her own resources for the interventions in the subsequent years. For vermi-compost pit

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8. Plans aiming at drudgery reduction for women farmers per pit and 4000/- per four beehives for undertaking

the interventions.

3.2 TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING OF COMMUNITIES

Training of the women farmers would be facilitated by the men or women community cadre named Village

Resource Person(VRP). Each VRP would handhold 50-60 farmers on every intervention. Village resource

person, men and women, will be groomed on institutional and technical aspects with a view that they will be

serving as service providers in the local area.

3.3 TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING OF COMMUNITY PROFESSIONALS

Village resource person and CRPs selected through kisan days. After selection of the cadre they would be

trained on different farming practices like PVSP, SWI, IPM, INM, Biological & indigenous methods of pest

control, vegetable gardening, promotion and strengthening of primary groups and other interventions.

Training modules will be developed for different intervention These VRPs would also maintain

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Chapter 4 Implementation Arrangements

The project would be implemented by BRLPS with the existing teams based at State, District & Block level.

JEEViKA already has a structured body for the planning, execution & implementation known as State

Project Management Unit, District Project Co-ordination Unit & Block Project Implementation Unit. The

entire team would comprise of Professionals, Subject Matter Specialists, Assistants and Consultants.

At village level all the women are already organized in to SHGs, VOs and CLF. These Community Based

Organizations are running numerous programs on different area like income generating activities, social

issues, capacity building etc.

4.1 IMPLEMENTATION DESIGN

Elements of Implementation Process: Since the project is already working in livelihoods context

implementation of MKSP becomes field tested activity for BRLPS. The process of implementation of

livelihoods activity is already in place and hence would be turn to roll out MKSP is detailed below.

i. Identification of women farmers through SHG micro planning: A field level micro planning would

be held to identify the women farmers. The micro planning would be done by community cadre

(CM, VRP, SEW) already working in the area.

ii. Identification of VRPs through VOs: As the VRPs are placed in many VOs the same identified

VRPs would be working with the women farmers. In the VOs where the VRPs have not been

identified it would be done by the VO members after the micro planning is done by the other

community cadre.

iii. Identification of SEWs through BPIUs / CLFs: The VRPs would gradually be trained and groomed

to provide training as well as monitor other VRPs from the same cluster. Out of the VRPs already

working in the field CLF where formed or BPIU where CLF is not into existence would select SEW.

iv. Training of staffs through Agriculture Experts: Livelihoods manager placed at district level would

impart training to other block level staff. In case any technical training is to be organized different

agencies having expertise in the subject would be hired to impart the training.

v. Training of VRPs through Agriculture Experts / Agriculture Experts of the Expert Agencies

vi. Orientation, training and exposure through demonstration of enrolled women farmers: The farmers

would be trained by VRPs on the agriculture and other livelihoods practices for which the VRPs

have been trained. These women farmers would be sent to other blocks/district where the

intervention has already been started for exposure.

vii. Handholding support to the SHG members during the intercultural operations by the VRPs: As the

VRPs are from the same area they are able to convince as well as provide hand hold support to

farmers on agricultural or other livelihoods practices.

viii. Crop monitoring by the VRPs & recommendation to women on a weekly basis: VRPs would visit

the plots of farmers on daily basis and recommend farmers accordingly at different stages of crops.

These VRPs in case finds any problem or issues which they are not capable of handling would in

turn inform the livelihood specialist placed at block level so that timely action can be taken.

ix. VRPs imparting training to women farmers in the SHG meetings: The VRPs would impart training

to SHG members on regular weekly basis on different stages of crop as well as to take feedback

from farmers about their field.

x. Weekly VRP meeting for the review of the VRP and programme performance: Weekly VRP meeting

would be held at cluster level by SEW/ LHS to keep a close follow up and review of the

intervention.

xi. Organizing monthly Kisan Days during the crop in the agriculture field: Kisan days would be

organized just before crop cutting. This process would help to identify best practicing farmer and she

could be further promoted as agriculture CRPs.

xii. Organizing monthly Cluster Adhibesan during the crop in the agriculture field: Cluster Adhibesan

would be organized for each crop/intervention to promote best VRP of the cluster.

xiii. Fortnightly Block Project Implementation Unit (BPIU) meeting shall be held.


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xiv. Monthly District Project Coordination Unit (DPCU) meeting shall be done.

xv. Exposure of new women farmers to the existing demonstration sites during the critical stages shall be

done.

xvi. Cross Verification Mechanism will be adopted during yield assessment.

xvii. VRP register will be maintained for all the agriculture and allied activities.

PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN & FLOW

Internal structure for implementation: The Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project will engage its existing

staff through the field team members of BRLPS and one agriculture experts will be hired in every

20 villages or expert agency will be hired to place one agriculture expert in every 20 villages.

i. Geography and Yearly Distribution

The MKSP will be implemented in 15 blocks of 9 districts namely Gaya, Nalanda,

Muzaffarpur, Madhubani, Khagaria, Purnea, Saharsa, Supaul and Madhepura of Bihar. The

yearly distribution of nos. of women farmers is distributed in 3 years across 9 districts is indicated

under the column of Year 1, Year 2, Year 3 & total will be as follows;

Sl.

No.

Proposed Activities

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Total

1 System of Rice Intensification 5000 15000 5000 25000

2 System of Wheat Intensification 10000 35000 5000 50000

3 System of Root Intensification in Rapeseed 1000 7000 2000 10000

4 System of Root Intensification in Green Gram 5000 15000 5000 25000

5 System of Root Intensification in Tomato 5000 15000 5000 25000

6 System of Root Intensification in Brinjal 5000 15000 5000 25000

7 System of Root Intensification in Chilli 5000 15000 5000 25000

8 System of Root Intensification in Ladies Finger 10000 35000 5000 50000

9 System of Root Intensification in Ridge Gourd 1000 7000 2000 10000

10 System of Root Intensification in Cauliflower 1000 7000 2000 10000

11 Arhar in Bunds 5000 15000 5000 25000

12 Machan Bidhi Bottle Gourd 1000 7000 2000 10000

13 Machan Bidhi Bitter Gourd 1000 7000 2000 10000

14 Vermi Compost Pit making 2000 7000 1000 10000

15 Beekeeping with 4 hives 500 1500 500 2500

16 Natural Farming / NPM promotion 5000 15000 5000 25000

17 SRI - Cono Weeder (CW) 500 1500 500 2500

18 SWI - Cono Weeder (CW) 1000 3500 500 5000

19 Irrigation Support (IS) 500 500 0 1000

20 SWI - Seed Dibbler / Seed Drill 500 1500 500 2500


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Chapter 5 Implementation schedule

With the MKSP funds being transferred, livelihood team has started preparing detailed village level micro

plan. BRLPS follows a standard format for this purpose which will be used for the documentation of the

plan. Participatory exercises are being conducted in the village for the preparation of the plan in village

organizations. Gantt Chart for the same is as below.

4. Activity Schedule (Gantt Chart) :

S.No. Items Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

1 To promote agriculture productivity

enhancement programme through

System of Root

Intensification (SRI) in 10 crops such as

cereals, pulses & vegetables to achieve

food and

nutrition security

1.1 Organizing ToTs & Exposure visits for

Mahila Kisans

1.2 Selection of VRPs

1.3 ToT and Exposures of CRP

1.4 Demonstrations of SCI in 10 crops – SRI

SWI and creals , pulses and vegetables

2 To promote the maximum use of land

by covering the agriculture land with

crops through

out the year for retaining essential

nutrient in the soil

2.1 Organizing Front line Demonstrations with

VRP on multiple cropping

2.2 Training on crop planning

2.3 Promotion of Landless Kitchen garden

3 To promote vermi-compost for

improving soil health & increased water

retention capacity

of the soil

3.1 Exposure and Training of VRP and CRPs

on vermicompost benefits and usages,

vermipit construction

3.2 Construction of demonstration

vemicompost pits for increased adoption

3.3 VRP handholding in construction of

vermipits

4 To create a pool of local resources for

the management and expansion of the

agriculture

based livelihoods programmes


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4.1 Selection of VRPs through Village

organisations

4.2 Training of VRPs

4.3 Selection of best performing mahila Kisan

through Kisan Diwas

4.4 Creation and grooming of CRPs

4.5 Development of trainings modules,

training materials & Audio Visuals Aids

5 To strengthen the women SHGs and

their federation for management of the

agriculture based livelihoods

programmes

5.1 Selection of livelihoods committee,

procurement committee in VO

5.2 Training of livelihoods committee,

procurement committee in VO

5.3 Awareness generation of Livelihoods

Activities in Village organisations and

CLFs

5.4 Community procurement of assets

5.5 Establishment of cross verification

mechanism


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Chapter 6 Results framework- impact, outcomes and outputs

The project framework for achieving the objectives under Mahila Kisan Shashaktikaran Pariyojana with

the key outputs are described below in the table. It details the entire process of mobilizing women farmers

into CBOs, selection of VRPs, introduction of Sustainable Agriculture Techniques and recognition of best

practioners.

TABLE: PROJECT FRAMEWORK

Objectives Description of Objectives Key Outputs/Verification Indicators

1. Mobilize the poor

women farmers

among the SHGs &

enhance their skills,

knowledge to

facilitate plan and

implement

agriculture & allied

activities

1. Orientation, training &

exposure of women SHG

members on agriculture & allied

activities

2. Train the SHGs and their

higher level federations on

micro-planning, community led

extension mechanism &

management through

community institution

architecture

1.1.a. 112500 poor women farmers will

be mobilized for agriculture & allied

activities

1.1.b The SHGs and their higher level

federations such as VOs and WFPCs will

plan & implement agriculture and allied

activities in around 1400 villages

2. Village Resource

Persons (VRPs)

developed for

providing

handholding support

to women farmers in

agriculture & allied

activities

2.1 VRPs will be trained on

various agriculture practices,

technologies and group

management aspects

2.1.a. Approximately 1400 VRPs will be

identified & trained to provide

handholding support to around 112500

women farmers belonging to SHGs

through VOs & WFPCs in a period of

three years

3. Increased crop

productivity of

Women Farmers

through improved

agriculture

practices,

techniques through

demonstration and

adoption.

3.1 Improved agriculture

practices such as PVSP, SRI,

SWI, System of Root

Intensification in pulses,

oilseeds, vegetable, community

based irrigation management,

etc will be demonstrated and

scaled up

3.2 NPM based natural farming,

promotion of vermi-compost

pits and use of vermi-compost

in the improved agriculture

practices

3.3 Apiculture will be taken up

for additional income

enhancement


belonging to SHGs will take up 3

agriculture and allied interventions in a

year.

3.1.b. Around 80% of the 112500 women

farmers will increase their yield by two

times in the newly introduced crop

practices & 60% will have 2 times

enhanced income

3.2.a. Around 30% of the women farmers

will have improved Soil health & water

retention capacity of soil at the end of

three years

3.3.a. Around 80% of the 2500 women

farmers will have additional income

15000 per annum in a normal season

4. Best practicing

women farmers and

community resource

persons will be

developed

4.1. Best practicing women

farmers will be identified

through organized Kisan days &

developed for mobilization of

women SHG members to scale

up agriculture & allied activities

as part of NRLM

4.2 Best VRPs will be developed

as Skilled Extension Workers

(who will manage 10 VRPs in

10 Villages), will be used for

scaling up and integration into

NRLM

4.1.a Around 7000 best practicing

farmers will be identified through Kisan

Days and further trained for mobilizing

women SHG members for scaling up in

4.2.b. Around 140 Skilled Extension

Workers will be developed for scaling up

into NRLM.


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Chapter 7: Monitoring and Evaluation

The monitoring and evaluation proposed under the project is based on the requirements predetermined for

MKSP project with an objective to empower women farmers through the livelihood intervention

introduced to the CBOs. The overall objective of the M & E would be as;

i. Understanding Performance (inputs, activities, results, process quality) and Effectiveness

(outcomes and impact)

ii. Being Accountable (for the entire execution)

iii. Extract Key Learning

iv. Apply back learning to action on the field and at planning level too

Rather than just capturing the data and information, the attention would be given to all the bullet points

featured above. The components of the monitoring, evaluation & learning framework are;

a. Resource Monitoring: The quality of inputs i. e. human resource, availability of funds and other

materials shall be an essential component under the M&E of the project.

b. Process Monitoring: Quality execution of the key activity shall be taken care of.

c. Deliverables Monitoring: The achievement shall be checked against the target set.

d. Impact Monitoring: The changes brought about in the target group shall be monitored and case

studies shall be developed on the same.

e. To monitor the activities at CBOs, a Community led system is already in place in the villages

called Cross Verification Mechanism (CVM).

f. Lastly, the project already has a policy for addressing the public disclosures.

7.1 WEB-BASED MIS

The project already has a data collection MIS developed on Excel Sheet where the data shall be fed by the

professionals placed at the BPIUs and DPCUs. The data than would be shared with the SPMU and

NRLM for development made.

The MIS data collection sheets basically foucs the Monthly Progress Report, Financials Report, and

Quarterly Progress Reports.

7.2 REVIEW MECHANISM

BRLPS already has a structured body that executes, implements and reviews at block and district level.

The progress of MKSP Blocks shall be reviewed by the Block Project Manger along with the Livelihoods

Specialist and Young Professionals placed in the BPIU. Then the DPM shall review the same and actions

would be taken when a problem is encountered or remedy will be figured out for loop holes. And off-

course we have a state team for the reviewing the progress.

7.2.1 CROSS VERIFICATION MECHANISM: It is also known as Community Monitoring

Mechanism. It aims to improve the programme quality and help in identifying the best plots. One team

from a VO/PG in a village will visit a VO/PG in other village of the same cluster. At least one CVM will

be carried out per VO/PG per season.

It has to ensured that all the VOs/PGs in a particular cluster have teams from other VO/PGs visiting them

for CVM in a given season. The process of CVM is;

i. The 2 best practicing farmers will be trained on the cross verification mechanism to carry out

verification with support of social audit sub-committee/livelihood sub-committee members to

improve programme quality.

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iii. The CVM will be organized once in a crop cycle, once after seedling/sapling transplantation of

15-25 days after sowing or 15-20 days before harvesting or maximum fruiting stage.

iv. The SEW will prepare a schedule of CVM and submit to CLF for approval.

v. The sub-committee members of the VO/PG office bearer will facilitate the CVM for CVM team.

vi. The service charge payment of the CVM is Rs. 30/- X nos. of farmer’s plot visited.

vii. The CVM team will submit the CVM report (attested or recommended by VO/PG and certified

by the SEW/CC) in two copies. One copy will be submitted to CLF and the other in the BPIU

(BPM/Livelihoods Specialist/ Accountants)

viii. The service charge of CVM team will be paid from the BPIU.

ix. The BPIU will make 2 copies of the report. The photocopy shall remain with the VO/PG and the

original shall be submitted to the BPIU for payment procedures and filing.


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Chapter 8: Budget Narrative

The comprehensive budget of the proposed project is Rs. 97,60,38,240/-. There are 3 budget

heads namely Agriculture Input Support cost, Capacity Building cost and Development Support

cost. The budget break-up and percentage of the budget head is mentioned below;

1. Agriculture & allied activities Input Support Cost (68.88%) : Rs. 67,23,05,000/-

2. Capacity Building Cost (26.35%) : Rs. 25,72,33,240/-

3. Development Support Cost (4.76%) : Rs. 4,65,00,000/-

The budget details are presented below.

Sl. No Activity Details Total Total

A Agriculture Input Support Cost Physical Financial Physical Financial Physical Financial Physical Financial

1 System of Rice Intensification 5000 5605000 15000 16815000 5000 5605000 25000 28025000

2 System of Wheat Intensification 10000 9000000 35000 31500000 5000 4500000 50000 45000000

3 System of Root Intensification in Rapeseed 1000 1252000 7000 8764000 2000 2504000 10000 12520000

4

System of Root Intensification in Green

Gram

5000 5000000 15000 15000000 5000 5000000 25000 25000000

5System of Root Intensification in Tomato 5000 5770000 15000 17310000 5000 5770000 25000 28850000

6System of Root Intensification in Brinjal 5000 8020000 15000 24060000 5000 8020000 25000 40100000

7 System of Root Intensification in Chilli 5000 10290000 15000 30870000 5000 10290000 25000 51450000

8

System of Root Intensification in Ladies

Finger

10000 12000000 35000 42000000 5000 6000000 50000 60000000

9

System of Root Intensification in Ridge

Gourd

1000 999000 7000 6993000 2000 1998000 10000 9990000

10

System of Root Intensification in

Cauliflower

1000 1754000 7000 12278000 2000 3508000 10000 17540000

11 Arhar in Bunds 5000 4650000 15000 13950000 5000 4650000 25000 23250000

12 Machan Bidhi Bottle Gourd 1000 1899000 7000 13293000 2000 3798000 10000 18990000

13 Machan Bidhi Bitter Gourd 1000 1749000 7000 12243000 2000 3498000 10000 17490000

14 Vermi Compost Pit making 2000 17500000 7000 61250000 1000 8750000 10000 87500000

15 Beekeeping with 4 hives 500 5000000 1500 15000000 500 5000000 2500 25000000

16 Natural Farming / NPM promotion 5000 10000000 15000 30000000 5000 10000000 25000 50000000

17 SRI - Cono Weeder (CW) 500 600000 1500 1800000 500 600000 2500 3000000

18 SWI - Cono Weeder (CW) 1000 1400000 3500 4900000 500 700000 5000 7000000

19 Irrigation Support (IS) 500 55800000 500 55800000 0 0 1000 111600000

20 SWI - Seed Dibbler / Seed Drill 500 2000000 1500 6000000 500 2000000 2500 10000000

TOTAL-A 218500 419826000 56500 92191000 337500 672305000

B

CAPACITY BUILDING COST

(26.35%)

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3


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Total Intervention 337500

Total SHG Member 112500

Total Investment 976038240

Investment per SHG Member / Woman Farmer 8676

Return on Investment 4105300000

Benefit Vs Cost Analysis 3.21

Gross Incremental Annual Income/Woman Farmer/year 36492

Net Incremental Annual Income/Woman Farmer/year 27816

21

Service Charge of Village Resource

Person

500 54000000 700 63000000 200 10800000 1400 127800000

22

Weekly Village Resource Person Meeting

Cost

144 3600000 96 4032000 48 786240 288 8418240

23 Kisan Days in Villages 12 12000000 8 11200000 4 1600000 24 24800000

24 Cluster Adhibesan in clusters 12 3000000 8 2800000 4 400000 24 6200000

25

Training of Village Resource Persons 500 3000000 700 4200000 200 400000 1400 7600000

26 Training of SHG Members 10000 18000000 40000 48000000 10000 6000000 60000 72000000

27

Training Material Development –

Lumpsum

2500000 2500000 0 0 5000000

28 Community Monitoring Mechanism 125 1406250 175 656250 50 562500 350 2625000

29 Training of Field Staffs 50 1350000 70 1260000 20 180000 140 2790000

TOTAL-B 98856250 137648250 20728740 257233240

C DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT COST

(4.76%)

30 25 22500000 35 21000000 10 3000000 70 46500000

TOTAL-C 22500000 21000000 3000000 0 46500000

TOTAL COST 281644250 578474250 115919740 976038240

Hiring of Short term Consultants / Agency

(different levels)


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a. Project Investments : Rs. 97,60,38,240/- and Support Requested under MKSP is Rs. 732028680/-.

b. Rationale for the various line items related to Proposed Action C3 & C4 is

S. No Agriculture Input Support Cost (68.88%) Unit Description Unit Cost Unit Amount

1 System of Rice Intensification 0.25 acre per farmer 1121 25000 28025000

2 System of Wheat Intensification 0.25 acre per farmer 900 50000 45000000

3 System of Root Intensification in Rapeseed 0.1 acre per farmer 1252 10000 12520000

4 System of Root Intensification in Green Gram 0.25 acre per farmer 1000 25000 25000000

5 System of Root Intensification in Tomato 0.05 acre per farmer 1154 25000 28850000

6 System of Root Intensification in Brinjal 0.05 acre per farmer 1604 25000 40100000

7 System of Root Intensification in Chilli 0.05 acre per farmer 2058 25000 51450000

8 System of Root Intensification in Ladies Finger 0.05 acre per farmer 1200 50000 60000000

9System of Root Intensification in Ridge Gourd 0.05 acre per farmer 999 10000 9990000

10System of Root Intensification in Cauliflower 0.05 acre per farmer 1754 10000 17540000

11 Arhar in Bunds 0.5 acre per farmer 930 25000 23250000

12 Machan Bidhi Bottle Gourd 0.05 acre per farmer 1899 10000 18990000

13 Machan Bidhi Bitter Gourd 0.05 acre per farmer 1749 10000 17490000

14 Vermi Compost Pit making 7 pits per farmer 8750 10000 87500000

15Beekeeping 4 beehives per farmer 10000 2500 25000000

16 Natural Farming / NPM promotion 0.25 acre per farmer 2000 25000 50000000

17 SRI - Cono Weeder (CW) 1 CW for 10 farmers 1200 2500 3000000

18 SWI - Cono Weeder (CW) 1 CW for 10 farmers 1400 5000 7000000

19 Irrigation Support (IS) 1 IS for 10 farmers 111600 1000 111600000

20 SWI - Seed Dibbler / Seed Drill (SD) 1 SD for 20 farmers 4000 2500 10000000

TOTAL-A Around 112500 farmers 337500 672305000


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RATIONALE OF C 4 IS MENTIONED BELOW;

Sl.

No.

CAPACITY BUILDING COST (26.35%) Unit Calculation

1 Service Charge of Village Resource Person 1400 127800000 1400 VRPs*36 months*3000/-per VRP/100

2 Weekly Village Resource Person Meeting Cost 288 8418240 1400 VRPs*36 months*50/- per VRP

3 Kisan Days in Villages 24 24800000 1400 VRPs*4 weeks*3 months*2000/-

/Kisan Days

4 Cluster Adhibesan (CA) in clusters 24 6200000 50 Villages*12 Cluster Adhibesan*5000/-

/CA

5

Training of Village Resource Persons

1400

7600000

1400 VRPs*4 modules*3 seasons*3

days*500/- per participants

6

Training of SHG Members

60000

72000000

60000 Women farmers*4 modules*3

seasons*150/- per participants

7 Training Material Development - Lumpsum 0 5000000 Lumpsum

8

Community Monitoring Mechanism

350

2625000

350 best practicing women farmers /

VRPs* 5 days*5 members*3

seasons*150/- per participants

9

Training of Field Staffs

140

2790000

149 Staffs*3 Seasons*3 Crops*4

Modules*750/- per participants


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The multiplication may not match with the total amount, as the activities/trainings will be undertaken in the phase

wise manner, which has been indicated in the year wise budget presented in the page no. 14 & 15 (detailed budget)

Rational of C4 is mentioned below;

S

..

N

o

.

Development

Support Cost

(4.76%)

Unit Amount Calculation

1 Hiring of Short

term

Consultants/Age

ncy (different

levels)

70 46500000 1 Agriculture

Expert per

20

villages*250

00/- per

month

c. Cost elements (natural heads of accounts) under each budget line item. The description of the line item has been

indicated clearly in the detailed budget, page no. 14 & 15

d. Plan for leverage other sources of fund in the proposed project e.g.

NRLM/NREGS/SGSY/RKVY/NFSM/NABARD/NHM/Donors. The 25% of the Govt. contribution will be

leveraged through various schemes such as NRLM/NREGS/SGSY/RKVY/NFSM/NABARD/NHM etc.

e. Explanation of cost elements including description of capital expenditure items with break-up and unit cost for

all items/components.

S

l

.

N

o

.

Capital

Expenditure

Unit

Desc

ripti

on

U

n

i

t

C

o

s

t

U

n

i

t

s

1 SRI - Cono

Weeder (CW)

1

CW

for

10

farm

ers

1

2

0

0

2

5

0

0

2 SWI - Cono

Weeder (CW)

1

CW

for

10

farm

ers

1

4

0

0

5

0

0

0

3 Irrigation

Support (IS)

1 IS

for

10

farm

ers

1

1

1

6

0

0

1

0

0

0

4 SWI - Seed

Dibbler / Seed

Drill

1 SD

for

20

farm

ers

4

0

0

0

2

5

0

0

The Irrigation Support System comprising 120 feet boring with submersible and a generator set as electricity is

inadequate or unavailable in most of the villages. One of the Irrigation Support System will be created for 10

farmers i. e. estimated to be Rs. 111600/-. The Cono Weeder for SRI/SWI, Seed Dibbler/Seed Drill and Irrigation

Support System will be the assets of the Village Organization and the women farmers will be charged nominal

service charges for using the assets of the VO. The service charge deposited in the VO will be used for the repair

& maintenance of the assets and service charge will be paid to the community service providers, who will transfer

the assets for usage in agriculture crop of the women farmers and also for the repair and maintenance.

The Capacity building component is around 26.35% of the entire investment and 26% of the total

investment/budget goes for capacity building of women farmers.


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Chapter9: Basic PIA Information

Human Resource under MKSP

i. BRLPS has over Livelihood Specialist in the blocks looking after the entire livelihood intervention in the MKSP Blocks.

These staffs shall also be handed over the responsibility to of looking after MKSP Intervention in these 15 blocks.

ii. BRLPS also has dedicated community cadre called Village Resource Person & Skilled Extentsion Worker who

capacitates, builds and imparts training to the SHG members on livelihood intervention.

iii. At State Project Management Unit, we have SPM-Lh and a dedicated YP to monitor the progress and facilitate the

districts to implement the programme.

Name of PIA Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society (JEEViKA)

Legal Status(NGO/Network NGO/CBO/Producer

Co./Section-25 Co/Pvt. Co Independent Society under Department of Finance, Govt. of Bihar

If Network NGO, number of partners being supported? Not Applicable

Registration No. & Date of Registration Sankhya 76/2005-06, 19/12/2005

Name of Donors in the past 3 years, if any (give max)

1. Government of Bihar

2. World Bank

3.National Food Security Mission

Name with Size (Budget in INR) of relevant projects

handled in the past 3 years (give max 3)

1. Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project

2.Scaling up of SRI 3.Scaling up of SWI

Annual Revenue of PIA for the most recent audited

financial year

2007-08:INR 36062168.80

2008-09: INR 90413641.17

2009-10: INR 833691208

List of ongoing projects (max. 3) and their size (INR)

Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society & INR 504 Crore

Scaling up of SRI & INR 2.37 Crore

Completion of last projects (MM/YY) Scaling of SRI (12/2010)

Total value of assets available with the PIA

Experience of working with (i) Women SHGs/Group (Y/N)

(ii) Agriculture based livelihoods with the existing women

groups

(i) Yes

(ii) Yes

In the proposed project, how muc % of the

implementation is undertaken by your existing capacities

and how much % is leveraged from external community

based organizations in the project area

The project has formed & nurtured 29545 SHGs and in the

proposed project 100% of the implementation will be

understaken by existing 29545 SHGs


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