Under the sustainable livelihood interventions, the prime focus of Lakhpati Kisan 2.O Program will be on enhancing income at the household-level through two ways – (a) interventions in agricultural production, livestock and NTFP development, promoting water use efficiency and water resources development for bringing in additional areas under irrigation and facilitation of the upscale of higher value crops, (b) promotion of market-linked value chains for sale of the produce.
Tata Trusts and Collectives for Integrated Livelihood Initiatives (CinI)
01.07.2023 to 31.03.2027
Jama, Dumka, Jharkhand
4500Rural Schedule Tribe and marginal farmers
To lift tribal populations of Jama block area irreversibly out of poverty and improve their quality of life and to make them a Lakhpati Kisan.
To lift tribal populations of Jama block area irreversibly out of poverty and improve their quality of life and to make them a Lakhpati Kisan.
Impact of the project set out as success story of the project, below.
Name – Maku Hansda
Village - Kalipur Ranga
SHG- Asul Miru
Joining year-2013
Maku Hansda is a woman of Kalipur Ranga village and her husband is Lukhiram Besra before the project intervention they use to work as a daily wage labour and maintaining family expenses with hard time. The agriculture activities were done in very traditional basis and productions were not sufficient for one year. The crops they use to cultivate were paddy and maize beside these little bits of vegetable for self-consumption. They never thought that through vegetables crops cultivation can tune the life pattern.
She joined in SHG in the year of 2013 and nominal group collection was done by the village women but the women group was limited with consumption loan rather than production. But by the help of PRAVAH organization cash crops cultivation was initiated with the farmers and women were the lead player. In the year 2015-16 cash crops production was introduced by PRAVAH with package of practice (POP). In the year 2020-21 Pravah organization constructed Lift irrigation system for the village community for the purposes of irrigation.
In the initial year she went for 15decimals of chilly crops, seeing the production rate and income, next year she went for 25decimals realizing the income from cash crops for another year she extended the land coverage with drip and mulch in the land and went for 110 decimals in the year 2021-22.
She was capacitated by the PRAVAH –CINI on a regular basis and also imparted training on agriculture and institutional building. These supports encourage her to take the risk and regular follow up by the project personnel’s have changed the life of Maku Hansda.
Now Maku Hansda cultivates only cash crops and paddy, maize cultivation is stopped by her because seeing the less income.
Now she is a Lakhpati farmers and annual income is Rs.120000.00 through vegetable cultivation.
Name - Manju Devi
Village – Amgachhi
S.H.G – Towa Baha
Year of joining- 2015
Manju Devi is a tribal woman of Amgachhi village, the village comes under Tengdhowa panchayat of Jama block, Dumka, Jharkhand. She used to do difficulties because her husband used to go to Gujarat to earn for their family and there was no man to do agriculture work in the house. The financial status of Manju Devi was not good before the project intervention of PRAVAH in the village. So she was thinking to practice some other enterprise along with the agriculture for better income.
In the year 2015 PRAVAH organization intervened in the village with support of CInI-TATA trusts and formed an SHG named Toba Baha. Manju Devi also joined the self-help group and became member of Towa Baha SHG. After joining the SHG she was able to access the new source for enhance their income so she started the goatery enterprises with the support of PRAVAH organization. In initial stage she started goatery with 3 goats but
due to the disease 2 of her goat were died. She was very upset at that time but she did not respond. By the help of PRAVAH taking proper training of deworming, vaccination of PPR & FMD, and control measures of goatery she again started the goatery with 3 Goats and one buck. This time she was succeeded and earned Rs. 12000 in 2016.
After that her interest was awakened in goat farming and she took loan in 2017 from Rang De with the help of Nari Jagriti Sangh Federation, Jama. In 2017 she bought 3 more female goat and earned a handsome income of Rs. 25000. She was motivated by seeing her income and in the year of 2018, she has practiced the rearing with 13 goats as a result of this her income became Rs. 22500 and she was happy to saw her earnings. In 2020 she sold 6 goats and earned Rs.32300 and 2022 she sold 9 goats and earned Rs.47800 after that 11 goat have been left.
Along with the goatery she also developed azolla pit and goat shed with the intervention of PRAVAH. For better fertility rate she used Artificial insemination for their goats which led her to generate a good income for their family. Now she is enjoying a better lifestyle and able to fulfil their basic needs of their family such as their socio-economic status has been developed with the help and support of goatery enterprises and PRAVAH and CInI.
