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J A N A K A L Y A N A Team Committed for Peoples Empowerment

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Entrepreneurshipin Water

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Livelihood Improvement by retaining educated youths in agriculturesector by imbibing entrepreneurship with innovation

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Water Harvesting to Improve Livelihoods of Tail-end Farmers by Inducing Entrepreneurship

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Contents

Chapter Particulars Page No.Part I : Physical P rogress Report

A Description of the project activities 3A.1 What project activities w ere planned and proposed? 3A.2 What activities w ere implemented as a result of this funding? 4A.2.1 Staff capacity building 4A.2.1.1 Deputing key staffs from Janakalyan, identification of field staffs and

building their capacities4

A.2.1.2 Capacity Building Training 5A.2.2 Promotional activities to orient the farmers about the project concept

in order to convince them to go for excavation of farm ponds6

A.2.2.1 Printing awareness materials on the concept of the project and needof the hour; also door to door contact to orient about the projectconcept

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A.2.2.2 Village level promotional campaign with potential farmers to finalizethe list of farmers for the excavation of farm ponds

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A.2.2.3 Learning cum exposure trip for the participating farmers 10A.2.3 Convergence Workshop at district level 12A.2.4 Excavation of irrigation tank to harvest runoff and use for life-saving

irrigation during peak season; promote fish cultivation in the farm-ponds and plant trees on the bunds of the farm ponds

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A.2.5 Reaching out the farming communities with the impact of the projectinterventions through direct interventions and also through thereports

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A.2.5.1 Field Day celebration in the demonstration field 20A.2.5.2 Result Sharing Program at the end of the project period to reach out

more number of farmers21

A.2.5.3 Quarterly Achievement Reports about the project outcomes 21A.2.6 Ensuring Sustainability of the Project by creating entrepreneurs and

bringing educated youths in agriculture value chain to makeagriculture profit-making

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A.2.6.1 Creating a cadre of village level entrepreneurs through training andcapacity building

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A.2.6.2 Training to the identified entrepreneurs to start their own enterprises 24A.2.6.3 Setting up of self employment ventures 26A.2.7 Measurement & Evaluation 28A.2.7.1 Creating demand for next season for another 50 farmers 28A.2.7.2 Baseline survey and setting bench-mark 29A.2.7.3 External Evaluation Exercise 30A.2.8 Additional Activities 30A.2.8.1 Farmers Day Celebration 30A.2.8.2 Development Dialogue 2011 30A.2.8.3 Community Mela 31A.2.8.4 Visit of Mr. Ravindranath Reddy 32A.2.8.5 Visit of Mr. Naveen Jha 32A.3 Did the actual project comply w ith the terms of grant? If the

actual project activities differ from the proposed, pleaseexplain w hy

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B Impacts 33B.1 Why w as this project important? 33B.2 What impact did this project have? 33B.2.1 Impacts on the lives and livelihoods of farmers through water

harvesting33

B.2.2 Impacts on the lives and livelihoods of youths throughentrepreneurship

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B.3 Please include numbers of beneficiaries served and how theywere affected. Include success stories, letter, or reports frombeneficiaries where possible

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C Issues for Give2Asis attention 35C.1 Please explain any challenges or difficulties that were experienced in

carrying out the original plan and any adjustments that were made35

C.2 Please also include any future plans for this project that you wouldwish to bring to our attentions

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D Supportin g materials 37D.1 Please include photos, DVDs, copies of news reports or other

materials related to the grant, digital photos are preferred, butprinted photos are also welcomed

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Photo Tour 38Appreciation letter from beneficiaries 43

Part I I: Financial progress Report

AnnexesAnnex I List of farmers with complete details 47Annex II List of micro entrepreneurs with complete details 48Annex III Crops details: investment, yield, return and net profit 49

Annex IV Tank excavation details 50Annex V EDP training Module 51


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Livelihood I mprovement by retaining educated youths in agriculturesector by imbibing entrepreneurship w ith innovation

Annual P rogress ReportApril 2010 March 2011

Diversifying farming system to resolve irrigation needs of tail-end farmers in Gadag districtis the objective of taking up a project in Gadag district by Janakalyan with the support of Deshpande Foundation. The project commenced in April 2010 and this report is prepared atthe end of project period to document the outputs, learning and cost benefit analysis of theproject. The format prescribed by the donor agency is adopted for reporting the final reportat the end of the project period.

A. Description of Project Activities : This section of the report narrates the activitiescompleted during the reporting period against those were planned before commencement of the project in the order of budget line items.

A.1 Wh at project activities w ere planned and proposed? The extract of the projectproposal that was submitted to Deshpande Foundation for funding support is presented here.

List of mo nth-wise action plan and the deliverables for the year for Completingthe proposed project activities

Sl .No. Month Activities Deliverables

1 April 2010 Deputing key staffs from Janakalyan,Identification of field staffs,building their capacities

Deliverables forQuarter one

Field team set up 25 Farmersconvinced aboutpackage

Baseline completed 10 entrepreneursselected

2 May 2010 Exposure to farmers & printing literaturesIdentification of 10 potential entrepreneurs& training

3 June 2010 Baseline Survey of individual households& identification of beneficiaries

4 July 2010 District level Convergence w orkshop Deliverables forQuarter tw o

10 farm-pondsexcavated

Cost-sharing 40:60

5 August2010

Excavate farm-ponds with Cost-sharingbasis

6 September2010

Excavate farm-ponds with Cost-sharingbasis

7 October2010

On-farm technical support to the farmers Deliverables of Quarter Three

Activities translatedin field

Benefits of farm-ponds demonstrated

8 November2010

On-farm technical support to the farmers

9 December2010

On-farm technical support to the farmers

10 January2011

Field Day by inviting neighboring farmers& officials

Deliverables of Quarter Four

100 more farmersvisit demo plots

Plan of Action fornext period prepared

11 February2011

Assessment of Impact using multi-stakeholders analysis (Result SharingProgram)

12 March2011

Planning for next phase in consultationwith community and service deliveryagencies


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A.2. Wh at activities w ere implemented as a result of this funding? Following sections of the report describes the activities translated onto ground as perthe plan prepared before commencement of the program in Sandbox.

A.2.1 Staff Capacity Buildi ng:Success of a project of this nature lies in the team and the approach adopted inimplementation of the activities by the team. Janakalyan took utmost care to buildan efficient team within the available resources.

A.2.1.1.Deputing key staffs from Janakalyan, identification of field staffs andbuilding their capacities : Though, the project has a provision for only 2 staffs, wehad to utilize the services of following team in order to make the project a grandsuccess. The team constitutes following members from various disciplines asfurnished in the table below-Sl.No. Responsibility

Name of theteam Member Qualification Experience

ServicePeriod

1 Executive

DirectorPrasen Raptan B.Tech.(Ag.Engg),

PGDMN

13 years with

Janakalyan

1.4.10-

till date

2 ProgramManager

1. Pranab Bala B.Com. LLB 6 years in socialworks1.4.10 -

31.10.102.BasavarajaiahSwami B.Com.

23 years in socialworks

1.9.10-till date

3 AgricultureSpecialist

1. Anant K PUC 1 year in socialsector1.4.10-

30.11.10

2. SudhanyaSikdar 8

th Passed18 years in

agriculture sector & 4 in NGO

1.8.10 till date

4 Field Assistant Nawab Saab 9 th Passed 1 year in NGOsector1.9.10 till date

5 AccountsOfficer Manojit Biswas B.Com. 3 years withJanakalyan 1.4.10-till date

6 DocumentationOfficer

1. Hulagappa B PUC, DCA 3 years withJanakalyan1.4.10 31.10.10

2. PranabMukherjee PUC 8 years in NGO field

1.11.11till date


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A.2.2: Promotional activities to orient the farmers about the project concept inorder to convince them to go for excavation of farm ponds:A series of promotional activities were planned to make the program popular amongthe farming communities and are dealt in the following sections of the report.

A.2.2.1Printing aw areness materials on the concept of the project and need of thehour; also door to door contact to orient about the project concept: About5000 handbills in Kannada and 5000 handbill in English is printed on the projectconcept in addition to 5000 handbills on Janakalyan itself. The handbills have beendistributed in the villages to orient the farming communities about the projectconcept. The soft copies of these handbills are annexed to this report in thepublication section.

A.2.2.2 Village level promotional campaign with potential farmers to finalize thelist of farmers for the excavation of f arm ponds: Introduction of a new conceptwhich has direct impacts on the livelihoods of the farmers is an extremely difficulttask, we have learnt in our previous experiences of 13 years in the livelihood sector.

For us, this is a project intervention while for the farmers it is a matter of theirlivelihood, especially when they need to use their productive land for excavation of farm pond. It was not that easy task for the team to convince the farmers about theproject in the beginning as it was expected. Several rounds of discussions andinteractions for initial 2 months have finally helped us to make an entry in the mindsof the farmers. Brief note on all such activities is felt necessary at this juncture.

Village selection : Selection of the villages is equally important as that of the teambuilding. It took more than 6 months to finalize the list of villages after several stepsand lot of analysis (village selection started from November-December 2009).Interactions with villagers, farmers, opinion leaders, PRI members and also with thefrontline government functionaries involved in implementation of NREGA. Finally, theteam has finalized 4 villages from 4 Gram Panchayats from Gadag district. 1. Yavagal,

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Wh y these set of villages : A study team among the employees of Janakalyan wasconstituted to understand the present scenario and scope of work in each GramPanchayat before selection of the villages.

Gist of the report by the village selection team is presented below to state why thesevillages have been selected for operation-

i. The farmers have only 10-15% irrigation facility by LIS (lift irrigation scheme)from the Benne Halla that passes through these villages.ii. Almost no village has irrigation tanks to harvest rainwater that goes as waste

during rainy season.iii. Single crop is being grown by the farmers due to acute shortage of irrigation

water during the rainy seasoniv. Saline and alkaline soil exist in the farms surrounding the Bennehallav. Ground water is brackish and cannot be used for irrigation in majority of cases

vi. NREGA activities have mostly been to repair of connecting roads, internal roads,etc.

vii. Almost none of the activities have been targeted to create productive agricultureassets such as irrigation tanks, connecting road for the farms, tree plantation,drainage of waterlogged land, flood control measures, etc.

We found great scope for taking up all these activities in these villages to resolveissues to make agriculture profit-making. Therefore, the above villages have beenselected for operation under the project.

Agriculture scenario of these villages : The agriculture scenario of the villagesbefore commencement of our intervention is stated below- Most of the farmers are dependent on rain. Due to lack of technical information, farmers are growing mono-crop. Less than 1.5% land is covered by forest species and another 2% by trees &

grooves thus increasing global warming . About 10-15% farmers have lift-irrigation systems and about 15-20% farmers

get canal water for growing single crop per annum while others completelydependent on agriculture. Agriculture has become a loss-making enterprise and factors contributing to it

being inadequate irrigation, land degradation, physical connectivity, less biomassavailability, etc.

NREGA funds have not been utilized for any agricultural interventions in last 4years.

Potential for taking up asset building activities under NREGA in thesevillages : Based on the study conducted byJanakalyan team, it is found that there ishuge potential for taking up the activitiesproposed by Janakalyan under the followingheads of NREGA-1. Excavation of irrigation tanks in the

farms to harvest water during the rainyseason and using it during peak seasonfor life-saving irrigation.

2. Plantation of trees to strengthen bundsand also generate biomass.

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land; similarly lot of investment required for land development activities such asbunding and silt removal from the land.

4. Connecting road to the farms from the villages need to be improved.

Gram Sabha : Several rounds of gram sabha were conduced to understand thevillage as well as assessing the needs of the farmers. Gram Sabha is the strongesttool that we have made use of during implementation of these activities. Theobjective of garm sabha was to make the community aware about the provisions of NREGA which can be used to create productive assets to make agriculture profit-making. The birds eye view of the gram sabha conducted during the reporting periodis presented below-

Sl. No VillageName

Date of Gramsabha

Participants in the gram sabhaMale Female SC ST Total

1. Yavagal 15-05-2010 23 - 5 4 23Yavagal 06-06-2010 40 - 8 6 40

2. Surkoda 16-05-2010 25 1 10 8 26Surkoda 07-06-2010 25 - 5 3 25

3. Hadali 16-05-2010 25 - 11 6 25Hadali 08-06-2010 26 - 4 6 26

4. Khanapur 17-05-2010 14 - 5 5 14

Janakalyan being new to these villages, it was difficult to ensure participation of women in these gram sabha. However, participation of all caste, creed and religionwas ensured in these Gram Sabhas along with opinion leaders, electedrepresentatives, farmers, labors, etc. Efforts are on to ensure equal participation of women in all the activities including decision making process.

Process follo wed in co nducting Gram Sabha : The schedule for gram sabha in all4 villages was prepared in a staff meeting; accordingly, information was passed on to

the volunteers and contact persons in each of these villages and announced aboutthe date, time and venue of Gram Sabha in advance. The field staffs arrived in thevillages and conducted the Gram Sabha in following order-1. Welcome & Introduction of Janakalyan2. Why Janakalyan has taken up this project with the support of Deshpande

Foundation?3. Salient features of water harvesting program and provisions of NREGA that could

be made use to create productive agriculture assets.4. How do we go ahead from here with the cooperation of villagers?5. Gram sabha concludes with sharing of opinions followed by vote of tanks.

Major issues raised in gram sabha : NREGA being of confrontation nature, as thePRI and government officers have vested interest in its implementation, thecommunities are seem to be skeptic about its implementation. Most of the issuesraised during the gram sabha are in the periphery of it. Some of the important issuesare listed below- 1. NREGA has a provision of Land Development activity and therefore bund

strengthening activities shall be taken up under NREGA on priority basis.2. Can jungle cutting be taken up in the lands of poor farmers under NREGA?3. Irrigation canals have silt deposit and need to be widened and deepened with

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4. Deepening and silt removal from existing irrigation tanks.5. Farm pond is essential for all farmers while NREGA has a provision for

SC/ ST farmers only; how can others get benefit out of it?6. Natural drainage course shall be cleaned, widened and deepened.7. Salinity and alkalinity is common near the drainage canals subsurface and open

drainage is must for most of the farmers.

8. Leveling of land for poor farmers need to be taken up under land developmenthead of the NREGA.

Important questions raised by the community : The major questions raised bythe participants in the gram sabha are-1. Out of 5-6 acres of land that we have, if we excavate an irrigation tank in 1 acre,

would we not be loosing that piece of land?2. The water harvested in irrigation tank would dry up in 2-3 months; how do we

cultivate crops in summer then?3. You are talking about fish cultivation but almost all the people in our villages do

not eat fish regularly; where do we sell the fish?4. Investing 50% is really difficult for small and marginal farmers, specially those

who are economically backward though we need the irrigation tanks the most;are you only targeting rich farmers to make them richer?

5. You are advising for leveraging funds from NREGA, but NREGA provides funds forexcavation of farm ponds for SC/ST communities only; how do we get theirrigation facilities?

6. Lift irrigation schemes are equally beneficial to our farmers; could you help us inlaying lift irrigation schemes?

7. Everybody does not work efficiently during group work and thus the progress/achievement is less under NREGA; Engineer does not make correct payment dueto this problem: what is the way out?

8. PRI members & GP secretary uses machines to complete the works by payinglittle money to the job-card holders to draw money through our cards; what isthe way out?

9. You said the wages would be paid in 15 days, while we have not received thewages for last 3 months; why?10. We get more wages than NREGA if work outside; why should we work with you?11. How do you take up drainage works?12. The GP Secretary said that farm pond cannot be excavated in the land which

comes in the command area of irrigation projects: what is the way out?13. Many of us still do not have job cards; will you provide job cards to such people?14. You have excavated many farm ponds / irrigation tanks using tractors; why cant

you do it in similar ways in Gadag also? Why are you linking it with NREGA?

Major problems encountered in conducting grama sabha: Typical problemsfaced in conducting gram sabha are-1. Drunkards created problems is few gram sabha2. PRI members sometime hijacked the discussions and tried to deviate from the

topics.3. Participation of Secretaries/PDOs remained as an issue though they expressed

their wholehearted support during our discussions.4. Confrontations between the PRI members and communities in some cases, when

they speak out about the misappropriation of the PRI members in implementingNREGA works.

5. In most of the cases, PRI members suggested not to conduct any gram sabhainstead they will provide whatever information we want. They will also provide


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the list of farmers / labors to constitute AIG. The PRI members do not want toconduct gram sabha.

Expectations of the communities from Janakalyan : Janakalyan has beenworking in the villages of Sindhanur and other taluks for last 13 years and is talk of the farmers today. The contribution of Janakalyan to the peasant communities istremendous in their opinion and thus expects the following in future from Janakalyan 1. Addressing individual issues of each farmer related to farming.2. Training to farmers to earn more profit from less investment.3. Training on SRI, IFS and vegetable cultivation in their farms.4. Translate whatever you are talking today it should not be simply discussed and

left.5. Ways to excavate farm ponds to farmers other than SC/ST.6. Ensuring quality seeds, inputs and other necessary materials.

Followed by the 1 st set of gram sabha in the villages, many rounds of individualinteractions and focused group discussions were conducted to orient about the

concept and convince about its advantages.Inviting applications from interested farmers :Finally, applications from interested farmers were invited and received a goodresponse; field staffs then visited all thesefarms to understand the feasibility of taking upthe project activities. The scrutinized farmershave then been asked to submit their landrecords and such records were then verifiedbefore finalizing the list of farmers. The villagewise details of applications received arepresented in the table.

A.2.2.3.Learning cum expo sure trip for the participatin g farmersThe last activity in this series was a learning exposure trip for selected farmers of 3villages organized on 11.6.2010 to Sindhanur taluk where Janakalyan hassuccessfully demonstrated the package proposed for Malaprabha Tail end farmers.About 49 farmers participated from 3 villages and visited about 7 farms where theIntensified Integrated Farming System (IIFS) has been demonstrated successfully byJanakalyan. The farm of Smt. SheelaSikdar at R H Colony No.3 and Sri DeepakMondal of R H Colony No.2 were anexcellent experience for the visitingfarmers. The concept of irrigation tankwith all the productive units was visibleeven in the hot summer when there wasno source of water (canal runs dry sinceApril). The farm ponds were filled withwater and fish was also seen in thesetanks. The farmers of Gadag district alsointeracted with the farmers of Sindhanurtaluk to learn how they have achievedsuch a great success and finally taken anoath before them that they will now invite

Sl.No

Village Participants in exposure Male Female SC ST Total

1 Yavagal 15 - 3 2 152 Surkoda 16 - 4 4 163 Hadali 18 - 6 3 18

Total 49 13 9 49

Intensified Integrated Farming System (IIFS) farm

Smt Sheela w/o Sudhanya Sikdar is a small farmer having 4 acre of land at tail end of TBP. She hasexcavated a farm pond in 1-acre land about 5 yearsback under a project of JANAKALYAN.

About 49 farmers of Gadag have visited her farm on11.6.2010 to learn form her experience whether or not farm pond is a profitable intervention?

In this hot summer she has about 4 feet of water inthe farm pond with 1-acre banana crop, acrevegetable and fish in the farm pond. She said sheearns not less than a lakh rupees every year formthis 4 acres of land.


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the Sindhanur farmers in their farms where they will also develop such models. Themajor learning from this exposure expressed by the farmer are- The positioning of the tanks in the farm and method of excavation of tanks Various productive units of the tanks those can be taken up in the farm after

harvesting rainwater The cooperation between farmers and Janakalyan in making the project

successful and to improve economic status of the farmers The farmers also learnt about the major activities of Janakalyan in last 14 yearsas well as the aims and objectives of Janakalyan

Questions : The important questions asked by the farmers during this exposure tripto the farmers and Janakalyan team were listed below- How can tractor be used for excavation of irrigation tank? Is not JCB faster, economic and productive than tractor to excavate irrigation

tank? Will you also provide a pump set to lift water from the irrigation tank for

irrigating the crops? Where do you sell the fish? One needs to stay at farm in order to protect the vegetable crops from the

grazing animals as well as thieves; is it not difficult? How to handle the excavated soil from the irrigation tank? Can we also grow paddy in our farms as that of you? Where do you get fish seedlings?

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Farmer selection: From amongst the farmers visited Sindhanur and those whosubmitted all the required documents, a list of 33 interested farmers was identified.Since the excavation of farm ponds also depends upon a condition that those whocan manage their share of contribution in excavating farm ponds would derive the

benefits during this year. Therefore, only 2 (Ashok Udikeri & Basavaraj Nagalingappa)among these 33 interested farmers finally agreed and availed the benefits of theproject by excavating an irrigation tank each. Remaining 8 farmers have showninterest only when they saw the benefits of an irrigation tank from these 2 farmers.Final list of 10 farmers is provided in the tank excavation section of the report.

Pro ject Concept Orientation to the farmers of Gadag at Jan akalyan

A.2.3. Convergence Work shop at district level :This task was planned for 1 st quarter of the project but due to unavailability of CEO,Zilla Panchayath, Gadag we could complete it on 12 th October 2010. This importantevent was organized at ZP Meeting Hall in Mini Vidhana Soudha, Gadag; district levelofficers from Department of Forest, Agriculture, Fishery, Health, Education, Irrigation,Watershed and Horticulture along with Executive Officers of Ron & Naragund TalukPanchayat attended this workshop. Chief Executive Officer Mr. Veeranna Turamari,

IAS, Zilla Panchayath, Gadag chaired this meeting.On this great opportunity, a presentation was made by Sri Basavarajaiah Swami onJANAKALYAN, the project that is initiated with the support of Deshpande Foundationin Hadali, Yavagal and Surkod villages of Naragunda and Ron taluka in Gadagdistrict. Brochures on the organization and project were presented to all the officerspresent in the workshop. Lot of discussions generated after the presentation between


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the project team and development officers of the district; identified farmers from ourproject villages also participated in the workshop.

Sri Veeranna Turamari, IAS, CEO of ZP appreciated the project that Janakalyan hastaken up in collaboration with Deshpande Foundation and he advised all the district

officers and EOs of Ron and Naragunda to collaborate with Janakalyan for successfulimplementation of the planned activities and provide necessary support wherevernecessary. The CEO also suggested us to attend the Taluka level KDP meetings andshare our views to all taluka level officers both at Naragunda and Ron so thatconvergence is achieved in true sense.

Gram Panchayath officers, PDOs, AAOs of RSKs, EOs and ZP officers, taluka officersof Horticulture, Agriculture, Watershed, CADA & Fishery Departments were presentin the workshop; also the farmers interacted with all these officers after district levelworkshop and rquested for necessary support, for which departments have alsoshown positive interest towards farmers needs. Prior to the District Level workshop,we the team experienced lot of difficulties to get responses from the grass rootfunctionaries; however, after this meet, all line departments cooperating to the

project team for farmers needs. We could link 3 of our farmers with the departmentto set up vermicompost production units in their farms.

A.2.4. Excavation of irrigation tank to harvest runoff and use for life-savingirrigation during peak season; promote fish cultivation in the farm-pondsand plant trees on the bunds of the farm ponds:Though, it was planned to complete excavation of tanks in the 2 nd quarter but due tounavoidable circumstances and continuous rainfall we could complete excavation of all 10 tanks during the 3 rd quarter only. Further, it is worth mentioning here thatJanakalyan is proud for motivating the farmers for cost sharing to more than 50%. Itis a historical achievement in itself by the Janakalyan team that it has moved fromgrant mode to cost sharing mode, that too in altogether different area. The list of farmers along with complete details about farm ponds, farmers contribution, andorganizations investment is given in Annex-I .


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Source of water : Utmost care has been taken by the project team to identify thefarmer, assess the feasibility of the tank and also the location of the tanks in thefarm considering catchment area and feeder channels so that it receives goodamount of runoff during the rainy reason. The major criterion for selection was thatthe tank must have source to get canal water from Malaprabha irrigation project.Some of the farmers also get the water from nearby small streams/nala. In addition,some of the farmers have an opportunity to lift water from neighboring Bennehallathrough the pump-set already installed in their farms. Out of the 10 tanks excavatedunder the project, 8 tanks have already filled with canal water through naturalstreams. It is clear from the table below that about 6.25 acre of excavated area isproviding life-saving irrigation to 53.80 acres of land of 10 farmers.Name of thefarmer

Land holdingat Tank farm

(acres)

Tank size(acre)

FarmersContribution

(Rs)

Projectgrant(Rs)

TotalExpenses

(Rs)Ashok Udikeri 7.17 0.50 33200 30000 63200Basavaraj Gali 10.18 1.00 58840 50000 108840Mallappa Hadapad 9.11 1.00 61463 50000 111463

Shanmukhappa M 7.10 1.00 67550 50000 117550Shankrayya Sali 4.14 0.25 19900 17500 37400Bapugouda Patil 3.30 1.00 54510 50000 104510Earanna Sanadenni 4.32 0.50 34350 30000 64350Siddappa Barikar 2.20 0.25 20750 17500 38250Dyamanna Gudagi 3.23 0.25 18400 17500 35900BailappaIttappanavar

3.05 0.50 32540 30000 62540

Tota l 5 3.8 0 6 .2 5 4 015 03 3 425 00 7 440 03

Cost Sharing : The total cost of excavation of all 10 irrigation tanks has beenRs.7,44,003/- (Rupees Seven lakhs forty four thousand and three only), of whichRs.4,01,503/- (54%) is contributed by the farmers and the rest of the fundsRs.3,42,500/- (46%) has been invested by the project. It is to be noted here thatour target was to mobilize only 40% of the total cost while we have succeeded to


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mobilize more than 54%, which itself is a great achievement for the Janakalyanteam. In a new area with a new concept, we never expected that farmers wouldcome forward to share in such a huge scale.

Tank Beautification : The farmers have planned to start fish cultivation andcollected details about the fish seedlings while 1 among them has already releasedthe seedlings in the tank. Some of them have grown fodder crop while others havegrown fruit species on the tank bund for strengthening of bund.

More Crop Per Drop: Sri Mallappa Hadapad and Sri Shanmukhappa Mudenguddihave already filled their irrigation tanks by runoff and have decided to start fish andvegetable cultivation activities from immediate effect in Hadali village of Naragundataluk; Sri Udikeri has already released fish seedlings in his irrigation tanks andgrowing vegetables in more than 1 acre of land with the tank water.


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Water Budget : The concept of water budgeting was taught to the farmers; i.e.planning crops based on the availability of water from all sources during a cropperiod.

Natural Farming : The participating farmers have been trained on IIFS concept on8 th October 2010 by an expert in natural farming; Sri Sharanabasava, Director of


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On-farm technical support to the farmers to translate the farm-basedactivities in the field: It was only after the monsoon, we could complete all 10tanks; however, fortunately the 5 tanks which were excavated by end of Octoberwere filled by an unexpected rain in November 2010. All 10 farmers were trained onIIFS activities and thus they could apply the learning as well as harvested water intheir farms. Facilitated the process and thus the farmers have forest trees, fruit trees,flower plants, biomass generating species and grass species on the bunds of the tank,Some of them (those having water in the tank) started fishery, vegetable production,and vermicompost production. Thus, about 5 farmers already transplanted banana,mango, coconut, sapota, neem, guava trees on the bunds. About 2 farmers (SriAshok Udikeri and Sri Shivaputrappa Sannadani) transplanted grass species and onefarmer started fishery activity during the season and 5 farmers prepared lands tostart vegetable production during the season.Sl .No.

Name of thefarmer

Village Species Planted in the farmbanana mango coconut sapota lemon Guava Total

1 Ashok Udikeri Yaavagal 50 2 0 4 5 0 612 Muthappa Gali Yaavagal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

3 Shanmukappa Hadli 30 0 0 0 0 0 304 Shivaputrappa S Hadli 50 2 8 10 10 0 805 Mallappa Hadapad Hadli 50 2 4 4 4 0 646 Bapugoud patil Hadli 30 0 0 0 0 0 307 Shankrayya Sali Hadli 0 0 0 0 0 0 08 Siddappa Barikar Hadli 0 0 1 0 2 0 39 Dyamanna Gudigi Hadli 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

10 Bailappa V Hadli 0 0 0 0 01 0 01Total 210 6 13 18 22 0 269

The project team facilitated the farmers for possible linkage with the linedepartments and supported them in getting benefits. However, it is worthmentioning here that the last 2 tanks excavated during November-December couldnot harvest water and thus we failed to experiment post-tank activities during theyear. We have already trained them but need to wait for next kharif crop to getthese translated onto the field.

Though, the result of this activity could only bee seen after few more days (such astrees planted already, fishery released to the farm ponds, vegetable productionstarted and other activities promoted). However, the farmers started consumingmore vegetables than earlier which is a good signal for balanced nutrition and goodhealth.


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The major difficulty was to find the nursery of required species for the bundstrengthening; however, by the efforts of our team, finally got the nursery but of notrequired quality and quantity. Therefore, decided to promote 2 youths who wouldgrow the nurseries of identified species for our farmers from the next year onward.

Demonstration of benefits of the irrigation tanks: Out of 10 farm ponds

excavated by the project, 8 could harvest water in an unexpected rain duringNovember 2010. The farmers are trained on judicious utilization of water and thusthey have initiated action for implementation of fishery, vermicompost, plantation,fodder, vegetable production, etc. Sri Ashok Udikeri has released fish seedlings to hisirrigation tank in addition to vegetable cultivation and other regular cash crops in hisfarms.

The water harvested in these 8 tanks is being used to irrigate their standing crops; apenny saved is a penny earned and thus the amount saved which the farmer musthave spent to lift the water from the Bennehalla to irrigate these crops, which theyhave saved by irrigating from the tank.


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A.2.5 Reaching out the farming communities with the impact of the projectinterventions through direct interventions and also through the reports:In order to reach out to more number of deserving farmers through demonstrationaleffect, few activities like Field Day, Result Sharing Program, etc. are planned duringthe year. Some of these events are described in the following section of the report.

A.2.5.1. Field Day celebration in the demonstration field: To demonstrate the resultsof our interventions, a Field Day was organized on 10.12.2010 in the farm of SriShivaputhrappa Sandinni wherein Sri C C Patil, the Minister for Child and WomanDevelopment,GoK was thechief guest.All 10participatingfarmersshared theirexperiences

about theproject to thepotentialfarmers of Hadli, Surkodand Yavagalvillages.Manydistinguishedguests likeDr. S T Patil,Director,WALMI

addressed the farmers regarding importance of water and its management in thepresence of President,Vice-president of GP, TP andmembers of ZP along withall frontlinefunctionariesfromdepartmentsof agriculture,horticulture,watershedand fishery.The membersof MicroEntrepreneurs Clubs alsoactively

Field Day Celebration in the farm of Sri Shivaputrappa Sannadani

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Give2Asia in the prescribed format in addition to 4 quarterly progress reports as perthe DF format. Similarly, we have also documented 10 cases of all 10 participatingfarmers along with cases of the micro entrepreneurs. All these reports are annexedto this report for the ready reference of the readers.

A.2.6. Ensuri ng Sustain ability o f the Pro ject by creati ng entre preneurs andbringing educated youths in agriculture value chain to make agricultureprofit-making:Agriculture is primary source of livelihood and about 73% of the population in Indiais directly dependent on it for their survival. But a farmer having productive land alsowishes that his child must be educated to become either doctor or engineer or acomputer engineer and NOT a farmer, given a choice. If the farmer has more than achild, the brilliant child is put in service while the brainless one is put in agricultureby compulsion. Agriculture also requires intelligence to make it profit-making inorder to feed 1.21 crore population of India. Through this intervention, Janakalyan istrying to bring in educated youths into agriculture sector by creating entrepreneurialopportunities in the agriculture value chain.

A.2.6.1 Creating a cadre of village level entrepreneurs through training andcapacity building: We have organized youths from all the 3 project villages andformed 3 Micro Entrepreneurs Clubs (MEC). About 39 educated rural youths havebeen brought under the umbrella of 3 Micro Entrepreneurs clubs. Every groupcollected Rs.50/- per member as membership fee and resolved to save Rs.20 per


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week. All the 3 MECs identified two people as a Representative-1 andRepresentative-2 to operate the bank accounts and nominated them to deal withbank.

MEC Club Youths participated in Orientation training at N aragund office

The details of MECs and the members are given in the following table-Sl .No.

Name of MEC Village Taluk /District

members Savingday

Savings / week

FortnightlyMeeting

1 Dr.Pandith Puttaraj

Gavayi MEC

Yavagal Ron-

Gadag

13 Tuesday Rs.20/- Tuesday

2 Sri.SwamyVivekanand MEC

Surkod Nargund-Gadag

11 Thursday Rs.20/- Thursday

3 Dr.B.R.AmbedkarME Club

Hadali Nargund-Gadag

15 Friday Rs.10/- Friday

Total 39First round of orientation for these youths was on 12.6.2010 at Janakalyan newoffice at Naragund; the concept of entrepreneurship, the fate of Indian agricultureand role of educated youths in making agriculture profit making was discussed in thistraining. The participants expressed this as an interesting intervention and furtherplans are decided in consultation with these youths.

Questions : The important questions raised by the youths during the training are- Would you provide any certificate to us once we complete the training withJanakalyan?

Could anybody participate in the training or only the selected candidates would beable to participate in the training? Would you also provide any stipend?

Would you take us to an exposure to learn more about the irrigation tanks and allthe productive units of IIFS?

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The follow ing trainings were organized for M EC members during the year: Orientation about entrepreneurship in agriculture on 12.6.2010 at Naragund office

by Sri Prasen Raptan, ED, Janakalyan. One day vision building training was organized to 39 youths on 7.9.2010 in Field

Office of Janakalyan at Naragunda; resource person was Sri M. Basavarajaiah,Project Officer of Janakalyan.

One day training on General EDP was organized for all the 39 youths on 24 th September 2010 at Hadli village; resource person was Sri. M. Basavarajaiah,Project Officer of Janakalyan.

About 3 days (9-11 October 2010) by Sri Sharanabasava and Sri BasavarajaiahSwami at Naragund Office.

Thrift and Credit activity: To develop a sense of self-help instead of dependencysyndrome for their self and village development, the thrift & credit activity has beeninitiated through the MECs and all the 3 MEC have been facilitated to open theirsaving bank accounts. A two-days training was organized on 28 th and 29 th October2010 about group activities, thrift and credit activities, book keeping and dealing

with banks. The saving details is provided in the following table-Sl .No.

Name of the MEC Village Total Saving as on31.3.2011

1 Dr.Pandith Puttaraja Gavayi ME Club Yavagal Rs.156002 Sri.Swamy Vivekanand ME Club Surkod Rs.172003 Dr.B.R. Ambedkar ME Club Hadali Rs.13600

A.2.6.2 Training to the identified entrepreneurs to start their own enterprises:During second quarter, the team had completed identification of 39 youths,formation of 3 Micro Entrepreneurs Clubs (MECs) involving 39 youths from 3 villagesi.e. Yavagal, Surkod and Hadli. The training material was developed for EDP training,conducted one day vision building training and 3 days (EDP Module)Entrepreneurship Development Training for all these 39 youths. The team hasorganized youths from all the 3 project villages and formed 3 Micro EntrepreneursClubs (MEC).

Entrepreneurship Development Training : The MEC members are trained on EDP(Entrepreneurship Development Program) for 3 days (9 th to 11 th of October 2010) inour Field Office at Naragunda. Major topics covered and resource person details aregiven in Annex-V.


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Salient features of this training are as follows- A total of 39 youths participated for all the 3 days EDP training on 9 th , 10 th and

11 th October 2010 held at Janakalyan office, Naragunda. Since we adopted lot of exercise, games and participatory tools like, group

discussion, presentation, more than 70% of youths participated actively andinvolved in almost all sessions.

We observed the education level of many of the youths was very low; about 40%of youths were unable to read and write but they were very sharp and involved indiscussions.

Most of the participants expressed their views and expressed their interest in thefirst day of the training to start enterprises agro-based sector like dairy farming,vegetable cultivation, fishery-culture, horticulture, production of bio-fertilizersand medicinal plant extracts for pest management and nutrition management,etc.

The training also focused on their expectations to build strong conviction andconfidence to plan for their enterprises.

About 10 youths decided to start fish culture along with vegetable cultivationimmediately since they have assured water.

About 10 youths decided to start animal husbandry, since they got humanresources and other infrastructures; mobilizing funds from banks and additionalsupport from the departments.

About 5 youths decided to start producing the local plant extracts and marketthem with organic cultivators. They also want to produce vermicompost,

jeevamrutha and Neem Seeds Kernel Extract (NSKE) and cakes of various huskand other agro-wastes.

About 5 youths decided to produce scented sticks, papad, candles through thelocal SHG members and other local human resources with small initial

investment. Based on the experience, they will decide whether to expand thebusiness or otherwise. Another 9 youths have not decided any projects and plans at the end of the

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A.2.6.3 Setting up of self employment ventures: The youths are facilitated to developtheir action plans to start enterprises by at least 10 youths. The team assisted theyouths to meet bankers and various line departments for necessary convergence andother technical and financial support. Among 39 members, 10 had decided to goahead as following- 4 youths decided to build their career through seed entrepreneurship 2 through vegetable production/marketing enterprise 2 through horticulture & forest nursery production and marketing 2 through vermicompost production and marketing enterprise

To start their enterprises, project agreed to help them with technical training andsmall revolving fund through their Micro Entrepreneurs Clubs to establish theirenterprise during next quarter. However, to have the stake of the entrepreneur aswell as MEC, it is decided that the investment shall be shared such that MEC shallhave 50%, the entrepreneur shall have 25% while project will share only 25% of thecost as seed money through the MEC. We asked each group to identify one-two members who can immediately take up

these enterprises through 25:50:25 investments sharing by entrepreneur, MECand project respectively.

The fund provided by the project will be used to promote projects and it will begiven to the members in the form of loan towards initial working capital and laterit will be recovered in easy installments amongst the MEC members.

The MEC decided to support 2-3 members by each group using their savingamount and revolving fund from the project and later mobilizing the bank loanthrough the MECs.

Once they learn about coordination, money management, attitude, behavior andculture of all members so that other members can be linked to banks for theirindividual projects.

Technical Trainings: The team facilitated MEC members to undergo different typesof training to start their own enterprises. About 4 youths have been already trainedin vegetable production and marketing, 6 in vermicompost production and marketing,4 youths and a staff are trained on seed entrepreneurship at KVK, JSS, Suttur,Myosre on 28th and 29th December 2010. Similarly 4 youths have already beenidentified for the nursery raising techniques. The list of these trained entrepreneursare furnished in the table below-


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Village Haat : To provide immediate market to the vegetables produced by ourfarmers, it is decided that a person shall be trained in marketing of vegetables intheir own village. Immediately, he shall purchase the vegetables and start selling inthe village on daily basis in a fixed place so that the villagers come to know that thevegetables would be available in that place between fixed time of the day. This wouldalso bring the changes in consumption level of vegetables than that of now. Later on,when the vegetables of our farmers are harvested can also be sold in the same place.With this objective, a youth has been supported by the project to start the villagehaat in Hadli village.

Creation of first generation entrepreneurs from among the rural youths withoutancestral experiences is really difficult but not impossible tasks. Though, we tooklittle more than expected time to bring the youths on the track, we were sure of completing the tasks.

A.2.7. Measurement & Evaluation : Certain activities like baseline survey to set up thebench mark is carried out in the beginning of the project commencement while someother activities like demand generation is done at the end of the year for next year.These activities are dealt in this section of the report.

A.2.7.1 Creating demand for next season for another 50 farmers: Though we are notsure about the grant for next financial year, with positive hopes and based on thediscussions between us and DF, we have already completed the ground work identify30-40 farmers for 2011-12 that to before July 2011. Action plan is already beenprepared in consultation with farmers and project team. We have already displayedabout 20 flex charts in 20 villages and more than 5000 handbills have beendistributed in 21 villages of Ron (11) & Naragund (10) taluk. More than 100applications have been sold out to the interested farmers.


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Based on our learning from last year, we have designed the pamphlets providing alluseful information and tried to provide all terms and conditions to involve very rightand appropriate farmers from the proposed project villages. The roles of farmers andJanakalyan, both in financial and otherwise, are specifically mentioned in ourpamphlets. The pamphlets also dealt about process and criteria for farmers selectionfor the year 2011-12.

A.2.7.2 Baseline survey and setting bench-mark: Before finalizing the list of finalbeneficiaries, household level information was collected from all the farmers whohave applied for participating in the program to set a baseline in the beginning of theproject. The major outcomes of the household survey are-

About 30% of the land has irrigation facilities through IP sets while rest of the land isunder rain fed condition.

The major crops grown by these farmers are wheat, sorghum, green gram, sunflower,cotton, Bengal gram, ground nut, etc.

Many of the farmers do not have cattle due to shortage of fodder; some of themhave tractors.

Almost every farmer has borrowed loan from banks but are not able to repay for longtime.

Almost 80% farmers have lost their crops in last 5 years either due to drought orflood.

Each household has educated youths meaning educationally forward families but allof them are unemployed.

Socio-economic household survey of farmers by the JANA KALYAN team

After documents review, conducting farm visits and getting opinions from theneighboring farmers, Janakalyan team visited each of these farms to understand thefeasibility of the interventions. The final list of farmers who had complied with all thenecessary terms and conditions are provided below. It is to be noted that not many of these farmers excavated their tanks due to delay in commencement of excavation.


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Sl.No. Name of the farmers Village

Size of thetank Survey No.

Landholding

1 Ashok Udlikeri Yavagal Medium size 80/1 5-002 Bheemanagouda Karada Yavagal Medium Size 493/1A 6-003 Veerappa Navalagunda Yavagal Big size 88/1 9-394 Gurappa Chavadi Surokod Small size 312/1B 4-005 Prabhugouda Muddanagouda Surokod Big size 126/1,2,3,4,12 4-076 Basavaraj Hadakar Yavagal Small size 4-007 Basappa Maddanaguddi Hadali Big size 391/2B 5-108 Basavaraj Manti Hadali Small size 453/1 3-349 Chandrashekhargouda Pati Surokod Small size 87/2 2-33

10 Basavaraj Nagalingappa gali Yavagal Big size 451 9-30

The major outcomes of these farm visits are- The small size of the irrigation tanks would store the water for relatively smallerduration; therefore it was decided that the small size tanks would be excavated with

the farmers those who have irrigation pump (IP) sets so that the water can be liftedfrom the nearby streams and stored during the odd hours when electricity is beingsupplied by the HESCOM to irrigate the crops as per the convenience of the farmersand requirement of the crop cycle.

The land surface is not level and thus would be difficult for irrigating the crops. After excavation of the irrigation tanks, the farmers would require to repair the fieldcanals and put pipes in some cases to channelize water into the irrigation tanks.

A.2.7.3 External Evaluation Exercise : Dr. Rajendra R Poddar, Professor & Head,Department of Agriculture Economics, Agriculture College, Bijapur agreed to conductthe external evaluation at the end of 1 st year of project intervention and would beconducted after harvesting of the summer crops.

A.2.8 Addi tional Activities :A.2.8.1 Farmers Day Celebration: Though it was not planned but was an important

decision that the agriculture partners of DF took to celebrate farmers day on23.12.2010 with Deshpande Foundation. The "Negila Chethana Program" celebratedat DF campus, Hubli on 23.12.2010 wherein about 48 farmers from our projectvillages participated in this program. Highly experienced progressive farmers wereinvited to have dialogue & share their experiences on agriculture, effective use of water, animal husbandry, horticulture and organic farming etc., during this event.

It was an important event where the farmers learnt lots from the experiences of renowned progressive farmers and clarify their doubts/queries about their occupationand its sustainability. We have put up our stall to share our project vision, learning


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and our future plans with the participants and to seek their views and suggestions toproceed further. We were expecting more participants for this event but due toelection process, it was difficult to mobilize more than 50 farmers for this event

A.2.8.2 Development Dialogue 2011: Janakalyan participated in Development Dialogue-2011 organized by Deshpande Foundation at Hubli on 27-29 th January 2011.

This was an event where development practitioners, resource providers,academicians and community participated from many countries wherein Janakalyanand its farmers were also invited. In addition to the field staffs of Janakalyan and thegoverning board members also participated in this event. Dr. Veerendra Hegde of Dharmsthala Manjunath Sukshetra inaugurated the event on 27 th January 2011 andaddressed the community as keynote speaker wherein many prominent speakerswere invited to deal with various developmental issues. Sri Prasen Raptan, ED of Janakalyan was also invited as one of the panel speaker on Water the out of the

box approach on 29 th January 2011. The honorable chairperson of Janakalyan SriMVN Rao also participated in the event in addition to Dr. Naresh Singh and SriNagendra S Kawale. Further, Sri Basavarajaiah Swami, Sri Pranab Mukherjee, SriSudhanya Sikdar also attended the program for all 3 days along with 4 managementtrainees from Sanghvi Innovative Academy, Indore.


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A.2.8.3 Community Mela: It was great opportunity to the farmers of Janakalyan toparticipate in the Community Mela organized as part of Development Dialogue 2010on 29 th January 2011 at Deshpande Foundation. About 17 farmers from our projectvillages i.e. from Hadali, Yaavagal and Surkod attended and benefitted fromDevelopment Dialogue Community Mela.

This was an opportunity through which the farmers could meet large number of development NGOs, people and could also to establish network with them. They

could also learn from the experts and practitioners in agriculture and agro-basedactivities. In addition, they could also share their field realities, difficulties andpresent situation, their expectations, suggestions on how DF and partner NGOs canwork together in a better way to reach the more and more small & marginal farmersin the sandbox region.

A.2.8.4 Visit of Mr. Ravindranath Reddy : Sri Ravindranath Reddy, Program Officer(Agriculture) of Deshpande Foundation visited the project villages and interactedwith farmers and field staffs on 23.7.2010. His second visit was 10.12.2010 toparticipate in the Field Day organized in the farm of Sri Shivaputrappa Sannadeni. Healso visited the project villages and especially the tanks excavated during the yearon 29.3.2011.

A.2.8.5 Visit of Mr. Naveen Jha : The CEO of Deshpande Foundation, Sri Naveen Jhavisited the project villages and the excavated tanks on 29.3.2011 along with SriRavindranath Reddy on 29.3.2011 to have a feel of the project. He also interactedwith many farmers during this visit. He had an opportunity to participate in theResult Sharing Program of Janakalyan but due to shortage of time, he had to leave

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A.3 Did the actual project comply w ith the terms of grant? If the actual projectactivities differ from the proposed, please explain w hyYes; all the planned activities of the project have been complied with the terms of the grant. None of the activities has differed from that of the agreed terms exceptsmall modifications requested in the youths plan. To this effect revised plan wassubmitted and approval is obtained from DF and implemented the revised plan. And

the youth activities implemented and outputs achieved as per the revised plan. Theincomplete task as on 31.3.2011 is external evaluation as the crops are yet to beharvested by the farmers.

B. Impacts:This section of the report deals with the impacts of our intervention with 10 farmersand 10 entrepreneurs at the end of the 1 st year of the project intervention.

B.1 Wh y w as this project important? This particular project intervention was essential in the tail end of Malaprabhairrigation project in the following context- Inadequate irrigation water allows cultivating hardly 30-45% of land and

salinity/alkalinity are other major issues at tail end. The educated youths are moving away from primary sector i.e. agriculture due to

lack of ability to find entrepreneurial opportunities in farming. Many existing schemes of State/Central governments are not being used

effectively to create productive irrigation assets by farmers due to lack of information.

Chemical-heavy farming leading degraded soil, infertile land causing leastproductivity.

Pest immunization caused by application of overdoses of pesticides over a periodof time.

Requirement of credit and inputs is very high in present system of cultivationpractices which makes farming loss-making; also inputs are not reliable and costsdouble the actual price.

Irrigation tank to address 2 extremes of water availability with sub-surface drainage,IIFS, chain completion approach, etc could be an answer, with this assumption thisproject was proposed for sandbox.

B.2. W hat impact did this project have?

B.2.1. Impacts on the lives an d livelihoods of farmers through w ater harvesting:The project has brought both economic as well as social benefits from the tankduring this period; a penny saved is a penny earned. The amount spent towardslifting the water from Bennehalla for irrigation is now saved by the farmer throughthe irrigation tank. The productivity has increased by more than 8-9% at the end of 1 st year. Similarly, the youths have learnt the importance of group activity and howthey can become first generation entrepreneurs. Since the project has commencedonly in April 2010, it is yet not the time to measure impact of our Interventions;however, at the end of the 1 st year of project intervention, we could see the followingimpacts A total of 10 farmers supported to excavate 10 irrigation tanks (4 are big size, 3

are medium size and the rest 3 are of small size) through the project funds andthe 50% costs have been invested by the farmers. We imparted IIFS training toall the 10 farmers and as a result all the 10 farmers utilized the tank water very


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effectively and efficiently. The details of crops grown and the output details aregiven in Annex-1.

The irrigation tanks made it possible to address 2 extremes of water availabilitycausing loss to standing crops and improved land use intensity to 150% from lessthan that in previous years.

The productivity has increased to 150% from that of less than 100% in previousyears.

B.2.2. Impacts on the lives an d livelihoods of youths through entrepreneurship:About 9 youths from Hadali and Yaavagal village started agro-based Micro-enterprises like goat rearing, cow rearing & milk production and marketing,vermicompost production and marketing, vegetable production and marketing andvegetable seeds production and marketing. The major impacts of the interventionsare- Entrepreneurial skills developed among educated youths and about 9 of them

started their self employment ventures along the agriculture value chain to makeit profit-making.

Project succeeded to create 9 first generation entrepreneurs in the villages i.e. job-creators and not job-seekers.

B.3 Please include numbers of beneficiaries served and how they w ere affected.Inclu de success stories, letters, or reports from beneficiaries w here possible.

The beneficiaries those were served by the project and impacts on them aresummarized in the table below-

Activities completed Number of Beneficiaries

I mpacts by the interventions at theend of the project on the beneficiaries

Deputing key staffs fromJanakalyan, identification of

field staffs, building theircapacities

2 staff

2 staffs got opportunities to enhance theircapacities and earn for their livelihoods

through this activity under livelihoodimprovement programExposure to farmers & printing literatures 49 farmers

49 farmers learnt the importance irrigationtanks in tail end, rights and entitlementsunder NREGA and how agriculture can bemade profit making

Identification of 10 potentialentrepreneurs & training 9 youths

9 youths have learnt how employmentopportunities could be created in agriculturesector

Baseline Survey of individual households& identification of beneficiaries

50 farmers

10 famers

50 families understood their family situation

10 farmers have got opportunities to securetheir livelihood

Irrigation tank excavation 10 families More than 65 acres of land is cultivatedwithout any mental pressure

Farmers training on IIFS 4 farmers and5 staff

Farmers trained on IIFS at KVK to diversifycropping pattern to intensify resource use.Farmers started vegetable and fishery afterthe training.

Formation of MicroEntrepreneurs Clubs invillages

39 youths & 4Staffs

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District Level Convergenceworkshop

More than 48officers

About 48 officers and 4 farmers participatedin the workshop; the project concept andorganization introduced to the audience

Field Day Celebration More than 300farmers

More than 300 farmers from neighboringvillages participated and understood theimportance of water harvesting

Farmer Day Celebration 48 farmers & 6staffs About 48 farmers and 6 staffs of Janakalyanparticipated and understood about DF andits plans for farmers livelihoodimprovement.

EntrepreneurshipDevelopment Training

39 youths About 39 youths have been trained onentrepreneurship and are on toes to initiatetheir self-employment of ventures.

Technical training to theyouths for setting up theirself employment ventures

16 youths 4 youths are trained on seedentrepreneurship, 4 on vegetableproduction & sale, 6 on vermicompostproduction & sale, 4 on nursery raising & sale.

Result Sharing Program 100 farmers About 100 farmers could realize the conceptof project and benefits of the irrigation tank

Planning for next phase inconsultation withcommunity and servicedelivery agencies

100 farmers More than 100 farmers applied and wouldbe able to derive the benefits during nextyear

Participation of 17 farmersin Development DialogueCommunity Mela

17 farmers About 17 farmers benefitted from theprogram

C. Issues for Give2Asia Attention: Any social project would always have some issues of concern and the project of thisnature which has direct impacts on the livelihoods of the communities will have

many such issues. Some of these issues have been listed below-

C.1 Please explain any challenges or difficulties that were experienced incarrying out the original plan and any adjustments that were made

The major challenges / difficulties faced during the year are listed below; however,despite all these difficulties we did not change the original plan but completed all thetasks but some of the activities were delayed by some time.

Introduction of a new concept in a new area itself is a challenging task; gainingthe confidence of the farmers of this area for Janakalyan team is a majorchallenge that we have achieved during the year.

Commencement of project in the end of April was a challenge for the team; theproject commenced effectively in May and monsoon commenced in June beforewe could finalize the list of beneficiaries for farm pond excavation. Excavation of irrigation tanks became difficult due to onset of monsoon.

The blind belief among the farmers of this region about the irrigation tank is verystrong; the farmers believe that lot of problems can happen to the families if theexcavated farm pond is closed for any reason. Therefore they hesitate to goahead with excavation of farm pond.

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though we were expecting it long back. A project of this nature should start withCROP YEAR so that we get enough time for preparatory works.

There are series of activities to be completed before starting excavation (pleaserefer our activity list and/or budget items) of farm ponds with the farmers, whichhave been completed by the team in this short span of first 2 months- Staff capacity building training towards farm pond concept Printing awareness materials on the concept of the project and need of thehour; also door to door contact to orient about the project concept

Village level promotional campaign with potential farmers to finalize the list of farmers for the excavation of farm ponds

Learning cum exposure trip for the participating farmers Household survey to set up a benchmark (baseline) in the beginning of theproject

Only after completing all these activities, one can start excavation of farm pondsand thus we have completed 1 farm pond, which we feel as our achievement.

Ron & Naragund (Gadag District) is a new area where Janakalyan has initiated alivelihood based new intervention and one would agree that 1 quarter is too shortperiod to build a new team, introduce a new project concept to the farmers,convince them for putting (0.5-1.0 acre) land for excavation of farm ponds. Weneed to demonstrate them that this piece of land would bring more income afterexcavation of farm ponds, which it otherwise brings now.

Some of the farmers did not agree to excavate tank with tractors but with JCB/Hitachi; the bunds of the tank excavated with JCB/Hitachi cannot stop seepage isa fact but was difficult to convince the farmers.

The farmers of this region have their own reservations against agriculturalpractices and receive the advice only if they satisfy themselves about all doubts;therefore, it was difficult for the team to introduce new concepts in the area.

Due to onset of monsoon, some of the farmers had completed sowing and thus

requested to excavate the farm pond after harvest of the standing crops whichalso delayed the excavation of tanks and thus demonstration of tank use.

July-December is totally not a right time to excavate new irrigation tanks,because farmers remain busy in agriculture operation in their farms.

Farmers face difficulty in arranging their cost-share as they already invested infarm activities during July-December.

Farmers would not wish to loose their standings crops once they complete sowingin the land where they actually want to excavate farm pond and distribute theexcavated soil. Therefore, one must start excavation in April-June months.

Difficult to operate soil-removing machines due to intermittent and continuousrains during monsoon period.

Some of the needy farmers find it difficult to contribute 50%; farmers, thoughinterested, get excluded from the benefits they really deserve.

Farmers could not participate in plantation activities, vermicompost, since all thefarmers were busy in harvesting their onion crops after excavation of the tank.

Farmers were very busy in their farm activities and thus could not participateactively in the Field Day and the Farmers Day celebration program which wereorganized during December month. Even then, we could successfully ensureparticipation of about 300 farmers for field day and about 50 farmers in thefarmers day celebration at DF campus, Hubli.


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C2. Please also include any future plans for this project that you wo uld w ish tobring to our attention: The proposal has already been submitted to Deshpande Foundation for continuationof the project. Based on the demand from the farming communities, we are planningto excavate at least 100 tanks in next 3 years (2011-14) with the support of Deshpande Foundation.

D Supporting Materials:As part of the project intervention, lots of printing materials are developed; some of these materials are pasted here for ready reference of the readers.

D.1 Please provide photos, DVDs, copies of news reports or other materialsrelated to the grant. Digital photos are preferred, but printed photos arealso welcomed. The project has developed 3 types of brochures on the project concept in English & localvernacular languages, which have been widely circulated in the project villages. The softcopies of the same are annexed to this report while a sample is presented below.

Brochure on Project Concept in Kannada language

Brochure on JANAKALYAN Brochure on Project Concept


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PHOTO TOUR ON AGRICULTURE INTERVENTIONS IN SANDBOX

Meeting with farmers to assess their needs Project Concept Orientation to farmers

Farmers field visits by the project team Learning exposure to Sindhanur Project

Socio-economic household survey by team Role clarity workshop with stakeholders


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Commencement of excavation of tank Excavation of irrigation tank in progress

Water harvested in the irrigation tank Onion crops sown with the tank water

Crop grown with life saving irrigation Technical training to farmers at UAS, Raichur

Technical training on IIFS concept at UAS, Raichur with practical field visits and theory


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PHOTO TOUR ON MICRO ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Vision building workshop for the rural educated youths of project villages in SANDBOX

General Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP) for the Micro Entrepreneurs


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Appreciation letter from the Beneficiaries


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CERTIFICATION

Name of Grantee: JanakalyanDonor: Deshpande Foundation FundGrant Amount: US$21,678.00Grant Period: April 26, 2010 to March 31, 2011Grantee Fiscal Year End: March 31

I certify that the grant funds described in this report have been received and expended asdetailed above in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Grant Agreement.

These expenditures are substantiated by documentation in our files.

Name: PRASEN RAPTAN

Title: Executive Director

Date 5.4.2011

*this signed certification MUST be submitted with any report for Give2Asia.


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Annex IList of f armers with complete details

Sl.No.

Name of thefarmer

Fathers Name VillagePhone

NumberSurveynumber

Landholding(acres)

Estimatedcost

(Lakh))

StartingDate

Completiondate

TotalExpenses

(Rs)

FarmersContribution

(Rs)

Projectgrant(Rs)

Water Source Current Status

1 Ashok Udikeri Yallappa Udikeri Yavagal 9880881660 80 7.17 0.6 7/10/2010 7/19/2010 63200 33200 30000

catchment water, Streamwater & Malaprabha majorCanal water & Bennehallawater through Irrigation

Pumpsets

Tank formation completedand water filled by stream

seepage water more than 3times since from completion

of tank

2 Basavaraj Gali Nagalingappa Gali Yavagal 9632482047 451/2B 10.18 1.00 9/5/2010 9/16/2010 108840 58840 50000

catchment water, Streamwater & Malaprabha majorCanal water & Bennehallawater through Irrigation

Pumpsets

Tank formation completedand yet water to be fill ed.

Farmer want to deepen thetank hence not filled the

tank.

3MallappaHadapad

YallapppaHadapad,

Hadli 9611385594 262 9.11 1.00 8/10/2010 23/10/2010 111463 61463 50000catchment water, Stream

water & Malaprabha majorCanal water


seepage water

4Shanmukhappa

MudenguddiKalakappa

mudenguddiHadli 9880436831 391/2A 7.10 1.00 12/10/201 25/10/2010 117550 67550 50000

catchment water, Streamwater & Malaprabha major

Canal water


seepage water

5 Shankrayya SaliSathveerayya Sali Hadli 9741348123347/3/2 4.14 0.35 9/10/2010 31/10/2010 37400 19900 17500catchment water, Stream


Tank formation completedand yet water to be filled

6Bapugouda

PatilHanumanthgouda

PatilHadli - 451 3.30 1.00 4/10/2010 15/10/2010 104510 54510 50000

catchment water fromrainfall & Malaprabha major

Canal water

Tank formation completedand if rain comes, tank will fill

otherwise canal water notcoming, since it is in tail end.

7Earanna

SanadenniShivaputhrappa

SanadenniHadli 9731020608 212/3A 4.32 0.60 24/10/201 30/10/2010 64350 34350 30000


Canal water

Tank formation completedand water is filling bypumping water from

Bennehalla.

8SiddappaBarikar

Yallappa Barikar Hadli 7760433016 180 2.20 0.35 4/12/2010 9/12/2010 38250 20750 17500catchment water, Stream



Bennehalla.

9Dyamanna

GudagiMallappa Gudagi Hadli 9902221929 142 3.23 0.35 20/12/201 26/12/2010 35900 18400 17500


Canal water


Bennehalla.

10Bailappa

ittappanavarMallappa

IttappanavarHadli 9686128735 304 3.05 0.60 19/12/201 31/12/2010 62540 32540 30000


Canal water


Bennehalla.Total 53.80 6.85 744003 401503 342500


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Annex IIList of Micro Entrepreneurs w ith Complete details

Sl.No

Name of the PersonDate of

joining theprogram

VillageName of Project

Total Project CostOccupation

Annualincome

Name of MEC

Phone No.Entrepreneur(33%)

MEC(33%)

JANAKALYAN(33%)

TOTAL(100%)

1 Earanna Chickreddy April 2010 Hdali Cow Rearing 8000 2000 2000 12000 MicroEntrepreneur

10000

S u b h a s

h C

h a n d r a B o s e

M E C

, H a d a l i

9741658640

2 Earanna SanadenniHadagali

April 2010 Hdali Bendi Seeds 1334 1333 1333 4000 MicroEntrepreneur

8000 9901926931

3 Nawab Sab April 2010 Hdali Vegetablemarketing

1334 1333 1333 4000 MicroEntrepreneur

25000 8762450978

4 VeerayyaShivaputhrayya Shapur

April 2010 Hdali Vermi compostProduction


6000 8762145815

5 Eashwara Gujjayi April 2010 Yaavagal Goat Rearing 2000 2000 2000 6000 MicroEntrepreneur

8000

P u t t a r a j G a v a y i

M E C

, Y a a a b a l 9741551618

6 Hemanth Darji April 2010 Yaavagal Onion SeedsProduction


10000 9972008317

7 Umesh Gali April 2010 Yaavagal Onion SeedsProduction


10000 9741809931

8 Basavaraj Udikeri April 2010 Yaavagal Onion SeedsProduction


10000

B a s a v e s

h w a

a M E C

.

Y a a v a g a l 9880881660

9 SangappaRamachandrappa Barji

April 2010 Yaavagal Goat Rearing 2000 2000 2000 6000 MicroEntrepreneur

8000 9741494171

TOTAL 24006 17997 17997 60000


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Annex IIICrop Details: Inves tment, Yie ld, Return an d Net Pro fit

Sl.No.

Farmer Land holding Land use Expenditure Total yield(quintals)

TotalReturn

NetIncome

1 Ashok Udikeri 7.17 7.35 71700 18.5 80700 137800

2 Basavaraj Gali 10.18 14.00 130000 123 447600 317600

3 Mallappa Hadapad 9.11 9.00 135000 70 280000 145000

4 Shanmukhappa M 7.1 9.20 36500 29 82600 46100

5 Shankrayya Sali 4.14 6.14 48000 100 196850 148850

6 Bapugouda Patil 3.3 1.00 10000 9 22500 12500

7 Earanna Sanadenni 4.32 4.67 44600 62.5 137500 92900

8 Siddappa Barikar 2.2 4.00 14400 31 35840 20140

9 Dyamanna Gudagi 3.23 6.00 13700 27 32700 19000

10 Bailappa ittappanavar 3.05 5.00 12100 52 54000 41900

Total 53.8 66.36 516000 522 1370290 981790Percentage Increase 123% 266% 190%

It is clear

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