Meeting with Farmer's groups :
Consecutive meetings were organized with the farmers at village level and outcome was as follows :
1. A community Nursery for all crops to be developed.
2. Compost & vermin compost peat to be developed.
3. Biocide /pesticides preparation unit to be set up
4. Water harvesting unit
5. To appraise them for diversified cropping system including some horticultural crops viz; vegetables, Fruits, medicinal, etc, some low cost animal farming, Cow, Goat and Fishing if possible.
6. Marketing linkages will be made by the organisation for opening up the income opportunities of the farmers.
7. A pull of fund for emergency purposes is to be developed by germinating the process of formation of Gramin Bank.
8. To explore the possibility of arranging grant as subsidy through Horticulture, Agri, Fishery, Tribal welfare, Panchayet, animal husbandry, irrigation, etc
Workshop on Crop Insurance, KCC, MSP :
The workshop concentrated on the situational analysis of the area concerned and the necessity of crop insurance, KCC, MSP etc. The workshop reflected with the interaction of the target groups as follows :
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The villages do not have any facilities of market, fertilizer and pesticide / insecticide from the government. Even these farmers do not get the facility of Krishan Credit Card nor did even some of them hear of this facility.
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There is a decline in the proportion of cultivators in the total work force of the district that have added to the unemployed of semi-employed force, which has built a pressure on an already overcrowded agriculture labour market. The decline has been more severe in the rural sector where the proportion of cultivators in the total workforce declined. The lower section of peasantry is forced to sell or lease out their land and many of them join the labour market. According to law of the increasing division of the labour in society, small scale peasant agriculture must inevitably give way to large scale capitalist who also exploits the labour of others, or s/he will suffer the loss of her/his means of production and transformed into a wage worker.
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With this scenario the workshop highlighted the possibilities to be explored by accessing the scopes and schemes of the govt. and by way of mobilizing own and community resources and the natural resources through group mechanism and creation of market for products of agri and allied.
