Goal

• To ensure food Security by Enhancing productivity of the principal crop-paddy and two other area specific crops.
• To enhance income by periodic cash flow through introduction of horticulture, vegetable farming and multi-cropping techniques.
• To build basic infrastructure so far as water is concerned.
• To avail quality seed/saplings through interventions of community nursery.
• To reduce drudgery of women through low cost tools/technologies.
• To diversify the income sources through livestock and fishery.
• To demonstrate low cost models that can be replicated.
• Try to ensure changes through awareness, training, skill and capacity building initiatives, particularly women farmers, specifically the CRPs and the Community Leaders.
• To enhance the Bargaining power of farmers and their access to market.

Expected Output

• Promote SRI (Paddy) and two other crops in 1000 Acre of land.
• Demonstrate horticulture/multi-cropping techniques covering 20 Acre of land. 
• Setting up of 30 community nursery units
• Ensure availability of water in 1000 Acre of land through low cost water lifting devices and low cost water saving irrigation devices.
• Installation of 215 vermin-compost units
• Demonstrate possibilities of drudgery reduction with 1500 Mahila Kisan
• Demonstrate the possibility of diversifying income sources through interventions in livestock with 250 MKs
• Create 60 Community Resource Persons’ to support the clusters/community institutions in planning, production and market linkages.

Project Duration

March 2014 to February 2017

Area of Operation

Kamrup Rural(Bongaon Dev. Block & Chhaygaon Dev. Block)
Dhemaji (Sissiborgaon Dev. Block)

Project Support

Ministry of Rural Development, GoI:       224.51 Lakhs  (88 %)
Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, Mumbai:             30.61   Lakhs  (12 %)