progress update at states level

4th National Steering Committee Meeting

Establishment of Climate Change Knowledge Network for the

Indian Agriculture (CCKN-IA)

25th of April 2016

A2/18, Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi

Establishment of Climate Change Network for Indian Agriculture (CCKN-IA)

Progress update of CCKN-IA in the three States

Jharkhand

Establishment of Climate Change Network for Indian Agriculture (CCKN -IA)

Major achievements in Jharkhand

• Notification of Consortium Facilitating Agency (CFA): State Agricultural

Management and Extension Training Institute (SAMETI) was nominated as

Consortium Facilitating Agency (CFA) for Jharkhand state on 10th April, 2015.

• Signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between CFA and

MANAGE: Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between

SAMETI as CFA-Jharkhand and MANAGE as National Consortium facilitating

agency on 16th September 2015.

• CFA has started its work responsibilities in content development and monitoring

–ATMA system engaged

• Regular monitoring and handholding support to Content Development

Team and field extension agents on NICE

• Content development production –structured

• Dissemination process –structured and streamlined

• Structured local plants doctors training for 41 field extension agents

(Kharif and Rabi Season)

• Development of crop calendar -2016 (Government support)

• Convergence with other government programs like -National Mission for

Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) and Bringing Green Revolution in Eastern

India (BGREI)


Key highlights -NICE

• Organizations/ Department directly engaged with CCKN-IA- State

Agriculture Department, District Agriculture Offices, Birsa Agriculture University,

Krishi Vigyan Kendra, SAMETI, and NGOs

• Number of sites for regular information up gradation -41villages

• Number of scientists for location specific content development- 13

scientists

• Number of KVKs supporting training programs of CCKN-IA- 2 KVKs

• Number of NGOs coordinating support to CCKN-IA in implementation- 3

• Number of field extension agents trained on NICE – 41 field extension

agents

• Number of scientists trained on NICE – 13 scientists

• Number of contents (one pager developed) till March 51 one pager

• Number of farmers registered on NICE till March-1806 farmers

• Tablet distributed to field extension agents – 41 Tablets

• Number of contents disseminated during March 2016 in both the districts-

175 (One pagers and agro met advisories)


Content development process-


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Ranchi East Singhbhum

Avarage number of Agro-met advisory shareed month basis

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34%

24%

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Agronomy

Horticulture

Livestock

Plant Protection

Thematic Content Flow

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Monthwise Content Flow

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Ranchi East Singhbhum

District Wise Content Flow

Decentralization of agro-met advisories at village level

• Bi-weekly agromet advisories are regularly shared to field extension

agents though NICE and Telegram application

• The weather forecast and related advisories are written on the centrally

constructed blackboards

• Farmers frequently read, analyze and try to adopt the information

provided


Content displayed at village level

• Development of Knowledge products such as a Crop Calendar -A

Crop calendar for farmers of Ranchi and East Singhbhum district was

developed that contains static information. The calendars were printed

and shared to more than 1910 farmers in March 2016.

• District Agriculture Offices –Support in East Singhbhum


Training of field extension agents as local plant

experts during Kharif and Rabi season

• In this training field extension agents were trained on identification of

major pests and disease of important crops cultivated in Kharif season.

The field extension agents were also trained on low cost management

methods.


Block level camps for field extension agents and

progressive farmers

• Block level camps for 41 field extension agents and farmers were

organized from 21st to 28th September 2015. Practical demonstrations,

field visits and cross learning events were organized. More than 100

progressive farmers in each block participated in these camps.


CCKN-IA video production

• CCKN-IA team at Jharkhand had produced a video for stakeholders on

it objective, process, major strategies, and activities. The video can be

found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy0XqE5ByIE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy0XqE5ByIE

Content development and management Workshop-

State level • A workshop was organized under the chairmanship of Director

Extension Education, Birsa Agriculture University to discuss the

strategies of content flow management at Jharkhand and develop a six

month action plan for content development and dissemination.

• District Agriculture Officers, KVK representatives (Content

Development Team), Nodal officer-CCKN-IA, CFA coordinator

participate in the workshop.


Partners workshop at MANAGE –Content

Development

• Two day workshop for nominated CFA, CCKN-IA team and content

development team was organized at MANAGE, Hyderabad from 15-16

of September 2015. In the workshop, role of all the major stakeholders

and institutions were finalized.

• Two day workshop for nominated CFA, CCKN-IA team and content

development team was organized at MANAGE, Hyderabad from 21-22

of April 2016. In the workshop, content development processes were

finalized.


Exposure visit to Germany

• Training and exposure visit on “ICT Based Knowledge Management

Systems for Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture” was conducted

from 20th to 28th February 2016 at Germany. Visits were organized to

German meteorology department, Biochar center, Potsdam institute for

climate change and research, Training center, Julius Kuehn Institute,

and Thunen institute


Way ahead …

• State Steering Committee Meeting

• Demonstration of climate change adaptation pilots

• Strengthen the content development process –NICE+

• Strengthen feedback and dissemination system –

NICE+

• Development of training modules – CCA

• Development of block level contingency plans


Maharashtra


Review and Monitoring

• Additional Chief Secretary reviewed the project on

Oct 2015

• State Steering Committee Meeting on Feb 2016

• Internal Review Meeting on Progress at PD ATMA

office.

• Regular meeting with Tehsil Agricultural Officer

and KVK regarding progress at field level

Establishment of a “Unit” to operate the CCKN-IA

• Director ATMA, is the Project Controller of the project and Dy. Director, ATMA

is the Nodal Officer of the project at State while Project Director ATMA is the

Nodal Officer at District level.

• Principal RAMETI, Pune nominated as Coordinator of Consortium Facilitating

Agency for this project to look after the other stakeholders of this project and

MANAGE, Hyderabad is nominated as National Consortium Facilitating

Agency.

• Subject Matter Specialists (SMSs) from four KVKs nominated for content

generation

• MPKV, Rahuri nominated 23 scientists for validation of contents created by

nominated SMS of KVKs


Establishment of a “Unit” to operate the CCKN-IA

• IPPP with Reuters Market Light (RML) a private agency to provide climate

change adaptation advisories along with market information to 20,000 farmers

in project blocks. Over 19000 farmers enrolled till date. They collected

feedback from 1000 subscribers.

• Met representatives of FAO at Hyderabad to discuss their project entitled

“Farm Water School”. Also, visited project site in Kurnool district of Hyderabad

to collect the get the clear picture of the project. They want to extend their

project in Maharashtra and seeks appointment of Hon ACS, Agriculture

regarding this


CONTENT CREATION

• 19 thousand farmers are registered for getting

information personaly via sms

• KVKs are generating block level one pagers for

each domain in each week. (Domains are

Agronomy, Horticulture, Plant Protection and

Livestock)

• Crop Pest Weather Calendar designed, printed

and distributed to farmers.

CONTENT CREATION

• Field Group visits of content team to enlist the

current field scenario and major field problems.

• Trainings to Field Agents how to collect feedback

and query from the farmers to help content team to

know exact status in the field.

CONTENT DISSEMINATION

• Around 19 thousand farmers are getting weather

based agro advisories, weather alerts and market

information

• Crop Pest Weather calendar printed and

distributed to farmers

• 27 tablets with 3g data enabled sim distributed to

extension workers.

• 24 notice boards installed at villages

CAPACITY BUILDING / BRAINSTORMING

WORKSOHP

Establishment of Climate Change Network for Indian Agriculture (CCKN -IA) 27/04/2016

• International Visit for Senior Agricultural Officials

• Training to Content Team and Field agents on NICE

platform

• Training to Agricultural Assistants on Climate

Change Adaptation in Agriculture.

• Adding slots on Climate Adaptation training for

Agricultural Assistants in RAMETI Training calendar

• Brainstorming workshops on design of one pagers

for the farmers/

CAMPAIGN


• Campaigning of CCKN at village level with the help

of Govt machinery in Govt’s Krishi Jagruti Saptah

• Organizing Farmers Group meeting under the

chairmanship of Director ATMA

• Visit of villages by Nodal Officer along with other

stakeholders

NEW INITIATIVES


• Farmer’s Field School on Climate Change

Adaptation through KVKs

• Climate Water School a project initiative by FAO

(upscaling in Maharashtra)

• Logics for Automated Weather Advisory System with

the help of MPKV, Rahuri

• Converging Govt Schemes like

CROPSAP/HORTSAP, NMSA etc

• Cadre of Climate Smart Farmers at Field Levels


Publications: Livestock Calendar

Publications: FAQs on Climate Smart Farming


Adding New Partners

• All State Agricultural University of Maharashtra

• MRSAC

• NABARD

• Private partners / NGOs who are giving advisories to farmers


Key Highlights

• 19000 plus farmers are registered for this project with the help of RML

• Feedback mechanism started

• Group visit of content team to check the current scenarios of villages

• Regular handholding support on NICE platform to agricultural

assistants and content team

• Trainings to Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture by RAMETI to

Agricultural Assistants

• Livestock calendars with the help of MPKV, Rahuri

Establishment of Climate Change Network in Indian Agriculture (CCKN -IA)

Odisha

25th April 2016 Establishment of Climate Change Network for Indian Agriculture (CCKN -IA)

Highlights


1. Participation of DoA officials and State Expert in

Training-cum-Exposure in Germany on “Application of

ICT based Knowledge Management System for

Climate Change in Agriculture”

2. MoU between MANAGE & IMAGE signed

3. Orientation and Stakeholder discussion at MANAGE in

Sep 2015 for content teams

4. Nomination of CFAs – ToRs & guidelines for Content

development and dissemination, HR & hardware support

5. Joint planning of project activities in the states and

Annual Action Plan for 2016

6. Internal Review Mission in Feb 2016

7. Field visit and review by Director General, MANAGE in

CCKN-IA areas

8. National Workshop on Content Development at

MANAGE

9. Pilot testing- Biochar preparation & application trials at

farm level


State Steering Committee meeting on 2nd

July 2015

• NICE Content and Field Agent teams

trained and TABs handed over

• 2nd District Working Groups (DWG)

meetings conducted in districts (Oct-

Nov 2015)

• Review of CCKN-IA content team by CFA

& NCFA in Dec 2015

• Review of NICE team at Dhenkanal &

Ganjam by Nodal Officer & DDAs

• Communication from Commissioner-

Agri. On convergence of RAD

component & Soil Health Card

Achievements in Odisha


Training programmes...

• Training-cum-exposure visit of Field Agents

on thematic areas (horticulture, aquaculture

& livestock) in SAU & ICAR institutes,

Bhubaneswar

• Practical oriented training on “Identification &

Management of Insects, Diseases of crops”

for Field Agents in pilot districts

• TAB distribution and hands-on training to

Field Agents

• Refresher training for Subject Matter Experts

(NICE) conducted at IMAGE by OUAT,

CIFA, OLRDS


Crop Calendar & other Publications,

Documents

• Normal Weather Crop Calendars edited

& improved – 4 sets for 4 pilot blocks

(under print)

• Passport size booklets on Seed

treatment, Soil water management &

Pest management translated into Odia

(under print)

• Printed registers with formats for field

agents to conduct weekly meetings to

record feedback/ query under NICE



Content Development & Dissemination

• Periodic hand-holding and review of content as well field agents

activities through visits & meetings

• 30 nos. of village agricultural workers & Krushak Sathi

nominated as field agents operationalisation of NICE

• 32 nos. of content creators, validators, translators and content

managers from Agriculture, Horticulture, Fishery & AH from line

dept.

• Almost 90 sms & 64 one-pagers created by district teams and

disseminated on NICE and/ or Whatsapp, Telegram

• State level Content Advisory Group meeting conducted to take

stock of content relevance and quality


Extension services and Information Dissemination

through Field Agent

Content

Validato

r at

district

level

Content

Manager

at district

level –

Query &

Feedback

• Farmer registration through TAB application - NICE

• Uploading farmers personalized information (crops/ livestock, soil/ land

etc.) & downloading contents – SMS, 1-pager, Video on TABLET

• Field Visit & interaction with farmers – query & feedback collection,

dissemination of one pager/ video, updating on Notice Boards, query

response

Content : SMS, Video,

One pager,

Query,

feedback

Content Flow Process & Query/ Feedback

Mechanism

Content Need

Identification-

Block

• Needs & types of content requirement decided

based on cropping systems, farming situation &

resources available (season wise done)

• Contents shall be

developed on NICE web

platform at Block level

Contents

created at

block level-

SMS, One-

pager &

Agro-met

advisory

Contents

Disseminated

S

M

S

One Pager, Video & Agro-met Advisory

Query/ Feedback

Query/ Feedback

Query Response

& Content Customization

Contents

Validated-

translated-

approved • Contents validated & translated,

approved on NICE web platform

at District level

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Consortium Facilitating Agency (CFA)

activities • Managing content development and

dissemination process

• Monitoring activities through field visits and

review meetings

• Instalment received from NCFA as per CFA

budget plan

• Payment guidelines and ToRs to Content

teams and field agents

• Payment of remuneration to Content teams

and field agents from Oct’15 till Mar’16

shortly

• Strengthening of CFA through hardware

support


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Mr. Anup Das (Odisha)

Mr. Somnath Choudhury

(Maharashtra)

In cooperation with

Implemented by

Ministry of

Agriculture

India, Rainfed

Division

27/04/2016 CCKN-IA

MANAGE

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