Success Stories
Divyayan Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Morabadi, Ranchi
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Divyayan Ki Utkarsh Gatha- Full Version
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Krishi Darshan Ranchi Friday Story 01st June 2018
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Krishi Darshan Ranchi 27th November 2015 Doc
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Krishi Darshan Ranchi 12th August 2016 aviF
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Krishi Darshan Ranchi Story 16th June 2017
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Krishi Darshan Ranchi 05th August 2016
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Krishi Darshan Ranchi Story 22th December 2017
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Krishi Darshan Ranchi 14th November 2016
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Krishi Darshan Ranchi 06th June 2016
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Krishi Darshan Ranchi 10th February 2016
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Krishi Darshan Ranchi 18th October 2016
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Krishi Darshan Ranchi 17th June 2016
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Krishi Darshan Ranchi 07th June 2016
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Scientific Pig Farming : A Successful Venture
Theme of the success story : Animal Husbandry
| Name of Farmer | Tapendra Mahto |
|---|---|
| Address | P.O.- Bariatu, Panchayat - Kulhi Block - Dulmi, Dist- Ramgarh (Jharkhand) |
| Contact details (Phone, Mobile, email Id) | Mobile No - 09835112853 |
| Landholding (in ha.) | 4.32 Hectare |
| Irrigated (in ha.) | 0.6 Hectare |
| Un-irrigated (in ha.) | 3.72 hectare |
| Membership details (in Self-Help Group, Producers Cooperative / Company, Cooperative Society etc.) | Tapendra Mahto was the founder of Vivekananda Seva Sangh Organisation in his village. He worked as president of village for several years. Now the organisation is working well for the development of village under supervision of Divyayan Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Morabadi. Presently he is a member of the organisation. |
| Brief about individual/ group (about 250 words) | Sri Tapendra Mahto aged 38 years is the resident of a small beautiful village besides hilly areas of Ranchi situated in Ramgarh district. He has one small brother and two sisters. Sisters are already married and living happily, with their family. Tapendra Mahto was having a land of more than 10 acres area , but he along with his father were able to grow only upland paddy and sweet potato on this land . Growing only two crops annually by traditional method does not provided sufficient income for leading a family of 6 members. So, his family was suffering from financial crisis. He has completed his education up to Intermediate, but the critical situation of family compelled him to drop out education and face the battlefield of life. In this situation, Tapendra heard about Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama and KVK Training Programmes. He got linked with it and received training from kvk . Intervention of KVK, his personal efforts strong determination and hard labour guided him to choose right path and ultimately he became able to fetch more income from farming and animals husbandry Sector which transformed his life fully. |
| Write up on of success story (about 500 words) | PREVIOUS STATUS OF FARMER : Few years back, Shri Tapendra Mahto was a traditional farmer, who could not continue his education due to financial problems of family. He was practicing farming and animals rearing work only by the traditional knowledge which he learned from his father and villagers. The income earned was very meagre and not sufficient for the family. TRANSFORMATION IN LIFE : Tapendra came to know about activities of Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama and KVK training programmes. He decided to take training from kvk, rushed with his friends to Ranchi and got enrolled in regular training programme of KVK in 2010 on Integrated Agriculture, which motivated him to know more about animal husbandry. He assessed the demand of animal’s products in the market and scope of income generation from this sector during training programme. KVK INTERVENTION : After getting suggestions from the KVK scientists, he decided to take special training in animal’s husbandry and artificial insemination. He was given 3 months training in animal husbandry and 45 days training in artificial insemination, which enriched his knowledge about this sector. He learned skills related to animal’s rearing and with changed attitude, he planned to start pig farming along with crop production and milch animals rearing, which he was doing earlier. He was also provided with Nitrogen container and other equipments for AI work. SUCCESSFUL VENTURE : Tapendra Mahto learned while training pig farming is more economical and feasible than any other kind of live stock. Hence seeing the market potential and to use his deserted land, he started a semi potential piggery unit with 10 pigs. Besides that he purchased with 30 dual purpose poultry birds and 30 ducks for making full use of all human and non human resources he had in getting more income. By efforts of KVK Scientists and approach of a local minister, he managed to take a loan of 6 lakhs from bank. Fortunately, Under Piggery Development Scheme of Animal Husbandry Department he availed a Subsidy amount of 4 lakh 20 thousand, which he used in initial expenditure of making piggery shed, equipped with boring for water supply and other facilities. Gradually, He increased no. of pigs in the farm. Presently, he is having a scientific, Semi intensive Pig farm having 20 female 4 male pigs with 60 piglets. He engaged two workers in this farm on daily payment basis. The fertility of the females were appreciable and in one furrowing of a sow(female pig) minimum 6-8 piglets obtained which come to a marketable age at about 7 months. He is getting an average income of Rs 10,000-12,000 per month from his pig farm. By using the technologies of seintific farming he is now growing more than two crops in a year i.e vegetables groundnut etc. Whole family of Tapendra is engaged in looking after his two buffaloes, Poultry and Pig farm. Tapendra besides coordinating the farm management activities is also working as ‘Pashu-Mitra’ in linkage with Block animal husbandry department. He is earning about Rs 15000/ month by treatment of animals and AI work . By getting an income of Rs 30,000/- month from all sources, he got appreciation and respect in society. He started his education again and he is doing his graduation. He purchased a Tata magic auto and a motor cycle for convenience in transportation of produces to the market. His family also started business of a small tent house. He is now a self reliant farmer and very-very obliged to Ashrama and KVK for making great transformation in his life. |
| Factors responsible for success (e.g., individual efforts, leadership qualities, innovativeness, and support form Govt. Department, responsiveness to change etc.) | Individual efforts, responsiveness to change and support from Divyayan KVK. |
| Impact of success story on other farmers in locality | He motivated 3-4 boys of his village to participate in training programmes of KVK and be self-reliant like him. They have started their work as per his suggestion. |
| Awards / rewards / appreciation received | APPRECIATION RECEIVED Local minister Sri Chandra Prakash Choudhary visited his Farm appreciated him very much and also helped him in getting loan from bank. |
| Impact Factor | Before Adoption | After Adoption |
|---|---|---|
| Crop / Agricultural Practice | Only farming of paddy and tuber crops by traditional system | Growing more than one crops following integrated farming system and intensive animal husbandry |
| Yield of crop / product | Paddy, maize, sweet potato etc | Piggery and agro-vet advisory service |
| Sale Value | 76000 | 475000 |
| Input Cost | 10000 | 75000 |
| Labour Cost | 1000 | 35000 |
| Any Other Cost | 5000 | 5000 |
| Net Saving / Net Profit | Rs.60000/annum | Rs.3,60000/annum |
Scientific Dairy Farming : A Successful Venture
Theme of the success story: Animal Husbandry
| Name of Farmer | Sri Falindra Mahto |
|---|---|
| Village | Hesalpiri |
| Address | P.O.- Soba, Block- Burmu, Ranchi |
| Contact details (Phone, mobile, email Id) | Mobile No - 9709223209, 7766962021, 8521823567 |
| Landholding (in ha.) | 0.6 Hectare |
| Irrigated (in ha.) | 0.3 Hectare |
| Un-irrigated (in ha.) | 0.3 hectare |
| Membership details (in Self-Help Group, Producers Cooperative/ Company, Cooperative Society etc.) | Member of Vivekananda Seva Sangh, a village level voluntary organisation working for all round development of villages. |
| Brief about individual/ group (about 250 words) | Falindra Mahto lives in a small village Hesalpiri. Hesalpiri village is situated in Burmu Block of Ranchi district. The village is having good connection with nearby towns/ cities through Pucca road. Farmers residing in village are mainly small and marginal farmers but have a progressive trend. The village has a local organisation named Vivekananda Seva Sangan through which it is working for development of Village under guidance of Divyayan Krishi Vigyan Kendra and Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama. His father’s name is Sri Jaleshwar Mahto and mother is Smt. Mani Devi. He has a small family of six members. He has two brothers and one sister. Sister is happily married in a well off family. Brothers are working with him in dairy Farm, go for collection of milk and work on their small agricultural farm. Although Falindra is youngest among all brothers but he was bestowed with the responsibility of supporting his family from very young age. He couldn’t finish his education after Intermediate due to these responsibilities. Sometimes whole family has to work as waged labourers for survival of their family. His father could manage to make only meagre income from his small farm of less than 2 acres agriculture land. In this situation animal husbandry which they were doing since last 6 years was the only sector where there was scope for fetching more income. Understanding this fact Mr. Falindara learned about Scientific Dairy Farming from KVK and did it successfully which transformed his life fully from a deprived, traditional farmer to a progressive successful farmer. His brothers always cooperated him in his work and now the whole family is earning through agricultural activities, mainly through dairy farming. They are now serving for the Development of village also through Vivekanand Seva Sangh (a village level organization formed by Divyayan KVK ex-trainees). |
| Write up on of success story (about 500 words) | Previous Status : Sri Falindra Mahto belongs to the group of small farmers. The income from the Agricultural form was not enough for survival of the family so, from the very early age he was struggling to earn money by doing farming on small piece of land and dairy farming. After continuing efforts for more than 2 years he could not succeed to earn more by traditional methods. His family income was only Rs6000/ month. By this meagre amount it was difficult to fulfil the needs of all family members (6 members) the income was also not regular because his land was not irrigated and cows were not in milk production for the whole year. Transforming Life : Due to effects of adverse climate conditions on crop production and increasing input cost, there is growing awareness on significant role of animal husbandry for addressing such problems. Although our country has large populations of livestock, the productivity of milk and other livestock’s per animals is very low. Reasons behind low productivity were the same with the farmers of that village also i.e.- poor management of Dairy farm, faulty feeding of animals , poor breed etc. Scientific Intervention of KVK : During regular follow up programmes of KVK, Falindra met with the animals’ husbandry scientist and was suggested to attend the training programme of KVK on Dairy farming and Artificial insemination. In 2010, he participated in 3 months training programme on Dairy farming and artificial insemination organised by KVK, Ranchi He received strong motivation and learned skills of farm management and artificial insemination. By his own interest and KVK training programme he also learned about treatment of common ailments of animals, vaccination skills etc. After training he was provided with Nitrogen container and required equipments for AI to start private veterinary practice. Dreams Come True : When he returned to his village he started managing his Dairy Farm in Scientific way. His brothers also supported him in this work. He was getting only 3-5 Kg milk, previously, which was increased up to 10-12 Kg daily. He started collecting milk from nearby villages also for sell to Sudha milk co-operatives society and in Ranchi city. Gradually, he started selling about 60 Kg milk/day by his own production and collection from other farmers. He was working under regular supervision of the scientists. Now, he is doing private veterinary practice/ animals health care services and door to door artificial insemination services for his supplementary income. Getting income from all sources the purchased more Cross-bred cows. Now Mr. Falindra and his family are maintaining a dairy farm of 6 adult cows and two buffaloes with their calves. With wise management of farm he ensures that six animals remain in production throughout the year. He is getting about 25-30 litres milk daily. Additional income helped him to make a permanent shed for cows with sufficient space for each animal. With all efforts he managed to earn an average income of about 45,000 per month which is shared by three brothers. He has constructed a nice building for his family. His family is also enjoying a good socio-economic status in the village leading a comfortable life. His whole family feels indebted to Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Divyayan Krishi Vigyan Kendra for bringing happiness and change in their life. Mr Falindra has now become a role model for a number of unemployed youth by getting about Rs15000-20000 income per month; many farmers like Mr. Falindra in Ranchi district are working under guidance of KVK scientist and learning from KVK’S a training programme continuously which is also helpful in attracting and retaining rural youth in agriculture and animal husbandry and thus reducing migration rate. |
| Factors responsible for success (e.g., individual efforts, leadership qualities, innovativeness, and support form Govt. Department, responsiveness to change etc.) | Individual efforts, responsiveness to change and support from Divyayan KVK. |
| Impact of success story on other farmers in locality | 8-10 boys from the village took part in training programmes of KVK and working in his guidance in dairy farming .he often works as resource person in kvk training programmes. |
| Awards / rewards / appreciation received |
| Impact Factor | Before Adoption | After Adoption |
|---|---|---|
| Crop / Agricultural Practice | Farming of paddy and vegetables. He was doing dairy farming traditionally. | Growing more than one crops in a year with high production along with managing a dairy farm of 8 animals successfully |
| Yield of crop / product | Paddy, milk, etc | Milk, vegetables, agro-vet advisory |
| Sale Value | 95000 | 8,25000 |
| Input Cost | 18000 | 250000 |
| Labour Cost | 1000 | 15000 |
| Any Other Cost | 4000 | 20000 |
| Net Saving / Net Profit | Rs 72000/ annum | Rs 5,40000/annum |
Integrated Farming for Sustainable Development
Theme of the success story : Integrated Farming
| Name of Farmer | Gandura Oraon |
|---|---|
| Village | Gurgurjari |
| Address | Village – Gurgurjari, Block– Mandar, District– Ranchi |
| Contact details (Phone, mobile, email Id) | 7250959075 / 7870311851 |
| Landholding (in ha.) | 8 + 15 (on lease) |
| Irrigated (in ha.) | 10 |
| Un-irrigated (in ha.) | 13 |
| Membership details (in Self-Help Group, Producers Cooperative/ Company, Cooperative Society etc.) | Vivekananda Seva sangh, LAMPS, Kembo |
| Brief about individual/ group (about 250 words) | Shri Gandura Oraon an unmarried, 38 year old farmer, born in a poor tribal family of Gurgurjari village located about 45 km away from the Ranchi district headquarter. The village was marked by absence of law and order rampant alcoholism, lack of primary education and health facilities as well as basic infrastructure in nineteen eighties. The village was then dominated by some upper cast families, who does not allow others to work and earn livelihood. Betrayed with such pathetic conditions in village father of Shri Gandura Oraon has left the village. With a four members family Shri Gandura’s uneducated father was looking for a job to feed the family members. In search of livelihood and protection for family members Shri Gandura’s father reached Allahabad and his whole family worked as agriculture labour in Allahabad for about 15 years. Since his childhood Shri Gandura had strong zeal to achieve a respectful position in society. With the all hindrance he has managed to continue his education as well as worked as agriculture labourer in his childhood. He has passed his matriculation from Allahabad and done his Intermediate from Ranchi. Due to hard work and limited nutrition health of Shri Gandura Oraon’s father gradually declined which forced the family to return to his native village in 1998. With the time law and order conditions of his village has also improved and villagers were able to work in their field. After his return to his native village his father expires within 3 years and the responsibility of family came on shoulder of Shri Gandura Oraon, who was then studying in graduation. Shri Gandura Oraon left his graduation studies and started full time farming to sustain his five member family. |
| Write up on of success story (about 500 words) | Like other farmers Shri Gandura Oraon was initially a resource poor and technically weak farmer. He tried various crops and even after so much of hard work he could not manage to earn profit from agriculture. In search of technical knowledge of agriculture he has visited several agricultural offices and in the year 2006 he came to know about the Divyayan Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Morabadi, Ranchi, which is imparting on-campus and off-campus training on different agriculture, horticulture and allied subjects like poultry, bee-keeping, mushroom cultivation etc. He was enrolled in Divyayan and undergone 6 weeks training on Integrated Farming System. After completion of training he transforms these constraints into opportunity under the guidance of scientists of KVK. He has taken up Integrated system of farming and fully utilized his endeavour and help from Scientist of KVK to acquire scientific knowledge of farming. He has started his scientific crop cultivation and was initially with limited resources focused on cultivation of Paddy and vegetables. With the profit earned from vegetable crops and help of Divyayan KVK regarding convergence from different government schemes gradually Shri Gandura Oraon extended his activities he purchased pump sets, Tractor, rotavator, power tiller, conoweeder and other agricultural implements, which increased his work efficiency. Shri Gandura Oraon, a man of great self-confidence managed to take profit from different government schemes with the help of Divyayan KVK and started cultivation of marigold as well as gladiolus in 2010. He also started profitable Animal Husbandry to support his agriculture and for additional source of income. Today he is working in many field of farming and he is cultivating cereals, cash crops, ornamental plants, vegetables etc. not only to earn his livelihood but to thrust the demand of market. Besides vegetable cultivation he has also stepped his opportunity in other related field of allied subject and now he is maintaining a flock of chickens & ducklings and 3 pair of goats and 2 cows which is also increasing his income. Shri Gandura Oraon has also taken 15 acres of land on lease and is doing intensive cultivation of vegetables, flowers and other crops. He has also started seed production of paddy and green gram. At present he has developed a successful and profitable agriculture business. Besides supporting his family with good socio economic status he is also working as social motivator and he has involved himself in upliftment of livelihood of his villagers and other nearby villages too. He offers his agricultural implements to other farmers on very low hiring charges. He has become an entrepreneur and offering jobs to many agricultural labours and preventing the migration from his village. He has helped and guided his fellow villagers to get benefitted from various subsidy schemes of central and state government. Now, he has achieved respectful position in society. |
| Factors responsible for success (e.g., individual efforts, leadership qualities, innovativeness, and support form Govt. Department, responsiveness to change etc.) | Better farm planning, Progressiveness, quick adaptive to new technologies, promptness, Diligent nature of working. With the knowledge acquired from Divyayan KVK Shri Gandura Oraon is now Kisan Credit card holder, regularly do Crop insurance, Benefitted in National horticulture Mission, Got government subsidy on dairy and fisheries, purchased pump sets, rotavator, power tiller, cone weeder and other agriculture implements on subsidy under different schemes of Agricultural Management Agency, got financed his Tractor from United Bank of India and constructed wells for irrigation under MNAREGA. |
| Impact of success story on other farmers in locality | Following Shri Gandura Oraon, farmers of Gurgurjari village and other nearby villages such as Mahuajari, Bansjari, Kembo also started large scale vegetable cultivation and some farmers are now in cultivation of marigold and gladiolus too. |
| Awards / rewards / appreciation received | Best farmer award of Mandar block by ATMA, Ranchi and district level best farmer award in Divyayan KVK kisan mela. |
| Impact Factor | Before Adoption | After Adoption |
|---|---|---|
| Crop / Agricultural Practice | Paddy | Integrated farming |
| Yield of crop / product | 80 q | Cereals, vegetables, flowers, duck, poultry, etc |
| Sale Value | 100000 | 940000 |
| Input Cost | 30000 | 250000 |
| Labour Cost | 40000 | 300000 |
| Any Other Cost | 5000 | 50000 |
| Net Saving / Net Profit | 25000/annum | 340000/annum |
Vegetable Farming for Sustainable Development
Theme of the success story: Olericulture
| Name of Farmer | Birsa Oreya |
|---|---|
| Village | Gutigara |
| Address | Village – Gutigara, Block– Murhu, District– Khunti |
| Contact details (Phone, mobile, email Id) | 8809376863 |
| Landholding (in ha.) | 2 |
| Irrigated (in ha.) | 1 |
| Un-irrigated (in ha.) | 1 |
| Membership details (in Self-Help Group, Producers Cooperative/ Company, Cooperative Society etc.) | Vivekananda Self Help group, Gutigara and Vivekananda Seva sangh |
| Brief about individual/ group (about 250 words) | Sri Birsa Oreya son of Sri Sushil Oreya, a resource poor farmer, is a 26 years old young farmer having 7 members in his family. He has 4 brothers and one Sister. Born in a poor family of very remote naxalite affected village, he could not take much education. Being distressed from his bad economic situation, he was looking for a job as well as working as daily wages labour to barely earn food for his family member. Mean while Scientists of Divyayan Krishi Vigyayan Kendra, Ranchi visited to his village and motivated him to join one month training programme on off season vegetable cultivation, which was being organised in his village by Divyayan Krishi Vigyayan Kendra, Ranchi. After completion of training, Mr. Oreya joined Vivekananda Seva Sangh and self help group, a village level organisation formed by Divyayan KVK, Ranchi. Regular visit of KVK Scientists motivated him for earning money by putting his efforts in agriculture/ Horticulture. He is working as resource person for Divyayan Krishi Vigyan Kendra in village level training programme and having 4 year experience in the field of agriculture & horticulture. At the same time he runs and monitors a Self Help Groups in his village Gutigara. He started growing vegetables namely French Beans, Tomato, Peas, Radish, Brinjal, Chilli & Green Leafy vegetables since 2012. Earlier they used to grow field crops like paddy, ragi, and jowar. The area where Sri Birsa Oreya practices horticulture is predominantly a horticultural area. The yield of tomato which is realized, ranged from 250 – 275 q/ha is the highest in the nearby villages and is known for earliest supply of the tomato in khunti district market which fetches very good income from the market. |
| Write up on of success story | Sri Birsa Oreya is a farmer of tribal dominant district Khunti and is working hard in his field for his family survival. But due to lack of resources and technical knowledge he is not getting the desirable output even with his sufficient land holding for his existence. Later on after the start of Akhandanada seva prakalp project of our institution, he came in contact of Divyayan Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Ranchi in the year 2011-12. KVK scientist provided training on vegetable cultivation and technical guidance to Sri Birsa Oreya with some financial assistance by Project. A package of technologies and seeds of improved varieties were provided for demonstrations by the Divyayan Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Ramchi during the year 2012. After knowing about the technologies Mr. Birsa Oryen visited and interacted with Scientist of Divyayan Krishi Vigyan Kendra. He started growing improved and hybrid varieties of vegetable from 2012 and he is realizing continuously higher yields. Mr. Birsa Oryen was constantly in touch with KVK scientist and field level worker and as a follow up, scientist visited his field regularly. He has been provided with all the need based knowledge & skill, which included enrichment of fertilizer and pest management by scientists of Divyayan Krishi Vigyan Kendra. Mr. Birsa Oryen is hard working farmer and he is able to grasp the technologies faster and adopt it. He is actively involved in all day to day working of the farm and marketing. He is can now identify important insect pest of vegetables especially tomato, including fruit borer and their management practices. During his visit to KVK he came to know about the off season vegetable. He now prefers to grow off season vegetables because of their higher price in market. For enrichment of soil he started using compost, organic liquid fertilizer, bio-fertilizer (Phosphate Solubilizing Bacteria (PSB), Azospirillum &Azotobacter) and bio-pesticides. He was also found to actively guide other farmers in adoption of new technologies. With his intervention they have started to grow different vegetable crops in a season in the village and as a result they are realizing better price in the market. He is also started growing other improved varieties like Brinjal: BNR-218, Chilli: BNR-206. Earlier Sri Birsa Oreya as a small time farmer used to bring his vegetables for sale at important markets of Khunti. Once he started growing in large scale and neighbouring vegetable vendors came to know about his produce and quality of the vegetable grown in the field of Sri Birsa Oreya. Hence the vendors come to his place and purchase the produce. He has also motivated other farmers in village and neighbouring village also. By adopting of different technologies he is now one of the successful farmers of the locality and is very well established and known farmer of the village and district. He is now a source of inspiration for all the other farmers of the locality who's are learning the things for improving their livelihood. The key to his success seems to his eagerness to learn and understand very soon, hard work & positive attitude. He is a model rural youth for district and nearby areas. |
| Factors responsible for success (e.g., individual efforts, leadership qualities, innovativeness, and support form Govt. Department etc.) | Individual efforts and innovativeness, leadrship |
| Impact of success story on other farmers in locality | Sri Birsa Oreya is now one of the successful farmers of the locality and is very well established and known farmer of the village and nearby areas. He is now a source of inspiration for all the other farmers of the locality who's are learning the things for improving their livelihood. |
| Awards / rewards / appreciation received |
| Impact Factor | Before Adoption | After Adoption |
|---|---|---|
| Crop / Agricultural Practice | Rice | Tomato |
| Yield of crop / product | 50 | 740 |
| Sale Value | 60000 | 592000 |
| Input Cost | 15000 | 104070 |
| Labour Cost | 32000 | 99228 |
| Any Other Cost | 1200 | 15000 |
| Net Saving / Net Profit | 11800/annum | 373702/annum |
Giri's Life gets New Taste with Honey
Theme of Success Story (Bee-keeping)
| Name of Farmer | Radhakant Giri |
|---|---|
| Village | Bhant Boreya |
| Address | Panchayat - , Block - Burmu, Dist. - Ranchi |
| Contact details (Phone, mobile, email ID) | |
| Landholding (in ha.) | 14.00 ha. |
| Irrigated (in ha.) | 10.00 ha. |
| Un-irrigated (in ha.) | 4.00 ha. (rainfed) |
| Membership details (in Self-Help Group, Producers Co-operative/Company, Co-operative Society etc.) | NA |
| Brief about individual/group (about 250 words) | Sri Giri is a progressive farmer from Bhantboreya village under Burmu Block of Ranchi District. His family members include his mother, father, wife and two children. In addition he lives in a combined family with his four brothers and their family. His sister who is youngest among them is happily married in a well off family. Among 5 brothers & sisters, Sri Giri was bestowed with the responsibility of his family at a very younger age. The socio economic condition of Sri Giri did not allow him to continue his studies after intermediate. He had to do something to support his family to earn livelihood and honey production was the way out for him to reach his goal. Although, Farming was practiced by his family members for a long period but low production and low profit did not lure Sri Giri to try his hand in this field. The area was also having vast reach in farming but at a sustainable level only. The area was rich in natural resources which provoked Sri Giri to try something different. So, he decided honey production as there was not much competition in the area. But initially Sri Giri was unsuccessful in his endeavor due to Indian bees and lack of knowledge. But after getting success in honey production he has started integrated farming and owns honey processing unit today and a major supplier of honey in India. He also owns one orchard of guava and litchi admeasuring 2 ha. In this orchard he grows crops like ginger, turmeric, elephant foot yam and colocasia. He also grows paddy in 4 ha. of land every year and he is a major producer of cabbage and maize in his area. Thus, Sri Giri has become one of the biggest farmers in the state by adopting scientific techniques of farming. He is leading a good living, having new age farm mechanization, good schooling to his children and better life to his family members. |
| Write up on success story (about 500 words) | After his initial failures, Sri Giri heard about training institute i.e. Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Divyayan Krishi Vigyan Kendra situated at Morabadi, Ranchi where rural youth are trained in agriculture and allied subjects free of cost for self-reliance. He got himself enrolled for 45 days motivational programme at Divyayan Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ranchi in 1997. Immediately after that Sri Giri took special training course of honey bee keeping from Divyayan KVK because honeybee keeping was his home business from long time and honey production with two boxes of Italian bees. But as it said, the road to success is not easy neither it was for Sri Giri. The production of honey was not upto satisfactory level and there were initial hiccups. But in those tuff times family members stood by side of Sri Giri and supported him through every thick and thin. They were the main strength of Sri Giri. And with passage of time Sri Giri learned even the minute details of honey production and took his business to new heights. To extend his learning and knowledge he completed master training course from Central Bee Research Training Centre, Pune in February 2012. Today he owns more than 300 boxes of honey bee and produces about 18000 kg of honey every year. To meet this level of production he moves his boxes to different places throughout the year as shown below :
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| Factors responsible for success (e.g. individual efforts, leadership qualities, innovativeness and support from Govt. department, responsiveness to change etc.) | Factors responsible for his success are individual efforts, hard work, and innovativeness, and responsiveness, risk taking capacity, patience and major support from Divyayan KVK. |
| Impact of success story on other farmers in the locality | Farmers of Bhantboreya are much inspired by Sri Raddhakant Giri. After getting training from him they have also started bee keeping and today his village is famous as honey village in Jharkhand. |
| Awards/ rewards/ appreciation received | The success of Sri Giri has also been recognized by Govt. and he has been honoured by former President Mrs. Pratibha Devi Singh Patil in 2007. He was also awarded by HARP Plandu. He also got Best farmer award in Block and District level. |
| Impact Factor | Before Adoption (1996-97) | After Adoption ( 2014-15) |
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| Crop/ Agricultural Practice | Honey bee keeping - Indian Bees Cereal crops (2ha) - Paddy and maize |
Honey bee keeping - Italian bees (300 boxes) Cereal crops (5ha) – Paddy & Maize Tuber crops (1ha) - Elepahant foot yam & Colocasia Spices (1ha) – Ginger & Turmeric Vegetables (0.8 ha) - Cabbage Orchard (2ha) - Guava & Litchi |
| Yield of crop / product | Honey – 5.5 qtl Paddy & Maize(2ha)- 70qtl |
Honey- 180qtl Paddy & Maize- 250qtl EFY & Colocasia-220qtl Ginger & Turmeric – 200qtl Cabbage – 300qtl |
| Sale value (per annum) | 1,44000/- | 36,40,000/- |
| Input Cost (per annum) | 48,000/- | 10,53,000/- |
| Labour Cost (per annum) | 22,000/- | 4,22,000 |
| Any other cost | - | 1,20,000/- |
| Net saving / Net Profit (per annum) | 74,000/- | 20,45,000/- |
Phal Udyog Nursery: A boon for Srawan life
Theme of the Success Story – Quality sapling production with good nursery management
| Name of Farmer | Srawan Kumar Gupta |
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| Village | Jarigarh |
| Address | Block + Thana- Jariagarh, Dist.- Khunti |
| Contact details (Phone, mobile, email Id) | C-92, Harmu Housing Colony, Behind Sahajanand Chowk, Thana- Argora, Ranchi- 834012. Mob. 9431360542/ 9709254037 |
| Landholding (in ha.) | 3 + 5 (leased) |
| Irrigated (in ha.) | 6 |
| Un-irrigated (in ha.) | 2 |
| Membership details (in Self-Help Group, Producers Cooperative/ Company, Cooperative Society etc.) | Phal Udyog Nursery, near sarla birla school, Mahilong, Namkom, Ranchi- 835 013 |
| Brief about individual/ group (about 250 words) | Sri Srawan Kumar Gupta S/o Shri Foolchand Sahu is a native of Jariagarh village of Khunti district. His village is a very remote village situated in deep forest of Karra block of Khunti district is about 60 km from capital city of Ranchi. Born in a lower middle class family of a remote village Sri Srawan Kumar has 3 brother and three sisters. His father was a resource poor farmer, whose income from agriculture was barely sufficient to feed his big family twice daily. Sri Srawan Kumar took his initial education in Government Middle School situated in his village. He did his matric from Jublee High School, Gobindpur, only 3 km from his village. After completion of his 10th he came to Ranchi for further education and completed his graduation in Economics from Marwari College, Ranchi during the year 1996. Sri Kumar was an average student from poor family. During his graduation he has visited Divyayan Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Morabadi, Ranchi and got inspired from the technical and spiritual training being provided in the premises of Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama which leads to success in his life. Srawan kumar was unemployed after completing graduation and was by nature an in born entrepreneur and was looking for an opportunity to excel. During 1992, once he visited Divyayan KVK and having seen the nursery he was encouraged to start a nursery. Later on with the technical support from our KVK scientists he established a small nursery. Today his nursery houses more than 2 lakhs fruit plants and 2.5 lakhs timber plants and the largest private supplier of saplings in Jharkhand. His clientele includes State Govt. agencies, Birsa Agricultural University, ICAR Institutes, KVKs etc. |
| Write up on of success story (about 500 words) | Inspired from the activities of Divyayan Krishi Vigyan Kendra Sri Srawan Kumar visited KVK several times and took informal training on vegetative propagation techniques of horticultural and forest plants. After graduation assessing his capability and competition in education for a job Sri Srawan Kumar went back to his village with the aim to start his own nursery business. After studying and learning about nursery business he started his business with grafting in 100 mango plants and raising 500 papaya seedlings in 1998. Considering his deep interest in nursery business his father borrowed money from bank and manage to give Rs.30000/- to him to start his business in the year 2000. Sri Srawan Kumar has planted about 1600 mother plants in his village on his family land as well as villagers land to get scion for grafting purpose. Initially he started his commercial nursery at Tupudana area of Ranchi on 3 acre private land situated on Ranchi- Khunti road during 2002. Seeing his progress the owner of land refused to leased out his land to Sri Srawan Kumar and forced him to shift his nursery over night. Sri Srawan Kumar then took shelter in a sister organization of Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Morabadi, Ranchi situated nearby for the time being. Latter in initial period of 2007 he shifted his nursery to present venue. Sri Srawan Kumar produce and market plants with well developed roots, he also assures the establishment of plants in the main field of his customers and regularly follow the progress of the plants. This unique nature of business of Sri Srawan Kumar has earned the faith of farmers in him and his nursery business excelled in very short period. Today he is dealing in various crops like mango (13 varieties), litchi, guava (6 varieties), sapota, jamun, pomegranate, lime, lemon, jackfruit, banana, papaya and tik etc. Today his nursery houses more than 2 lakhs fruit plants and 2.5 lakhs timber plants and the largest private supplier of saplings in Jharkhand. He has expanded his business out of Jharkhand too and he is supplying plants to Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Bihar also. His nursery has been rated as 3 Star by the Directorate of Horticulture, GOI. He provided job to about 40 rural youth in his nursery. During production of plants in nursery sri sarwan kumar has made some innovative efforts for better survival of plants and establishing credibility as supplier. These innovation were published by IIHR. Innovation – I The survival rate of the Mango plant is only 50 to 60 percent whereas of Guava plants is around 70 percent in Jharkhand. To increase the survival rate Mr. Gupta tried many methods and at last found a new way to increase the survival rate of the Mango Plants. He increased the tube size and used pond mud as base material. He kept the plant in the tube for 3 years and allowed the roots to grow substantially. He always sales a 3 year old plants to the customer. By this method the survival rate of these plants increased to 95% in mango and 90% in guava. Today, he is having more than 2 lakhs mother plants. Innovation – II For growing maximum number of female papaya seedling he tried many methods and found a method which produced maximum number of female seedling. He cuts the Papaya into three equal parts and throws out the top part. 80% to 90% seeds from the middle part grow into female seedling and it gives round shape fruit where as 80% to 90% seeds from the lowest part grow into female seedling and it gives elongated shape. By adopting of different technologies in his nursery he is now one of the successful progressive farmers of the locality and is very well established and known farmer of the district and Jharkhand. He is now a source of inspiration for all the other young farmers of the locality who's are learning the things for improving their livelihood. The key to his success seems to her eagerness to learn and understand very soon, hard work & positive attitude. He is a model rural youth for district, state and our country. |
| Factors responsible for success (e.g., individual efforts, leadership qualities, innovativeness, and support form Govt. Department, responsiveness to change etc.) | Factors responsible for his success are individual efforts, hard work, and innovativeness, and responsiveness, risk taking capacity, patience and major support from Divyayan KVK. |
| Impact of success story on other farmers in locality | Being a laborious, altruist and innovator farmer of his area he always motivate the farmers to bring change in agriculture and do something innovative in agriculture so that our coming generation will adopt agriculture as a profession. Many farmers of Ranchi district and nearby district visit his nursery and get motivated. |
| Awards / rewards / appreciation received |
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| Impact Factor | Before Adoption | After Adoption |
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| Mango/guava/litchi/lemon/tik etc | 2000 to 3000 plant/ annum | 2.5 to 3.0 lakh/ annum |
| Yield of crop / product | ||
| Sale Value | Rs 35/plant | Rs. 80/plant |
| Input Cost | Rs. 35000 | 80 to 90 lakh/annum |
| Labour Cost | Rs 10000 | 40 lakh/annum |
