Solving Problems, Shifting systems Sourcing power

through a Noetic Framework in TISS

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Name : Brijesh Panchal Area of work Jadvasha khurd,Jadvasha Kalan,Morda, Tehsil & District :Ratlam About project: Economic Sufficiency of the Farmers of Jadvasha khurd, Jadvasha Kalan and Morda.

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My inner capacities: What values and principles must I embody to make this happen? Empowerment, Freedom, Justice Issue: farmers are not getting fairer prices Of their crops and milk. Systems shifts: Principles of initiative : (a) What systems must be changed in government/ What values and principles need to underpin the initiative? Title of my initiative: Krishimitra business/ community/ my family to make this Freedom happen? Justice Shift from the traditional and exploitative equality market system to creating new market system which is fairer for the farmers (b) What innovative alternatives will you create to make this happen? Creating new options for financial institution. Creating new mechanism for market.

Name: Brijesh Panchal

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Visible, Measurable Deliverables: (A)How do the problems show up (give 1 or 2 examples)? Limited access of the financial capital and It is for limited purpose.(for organic crops and dairy cooperatives) Not getting fairer prices of their crops and milk[Limited accessibility of dairy and limited options for crop market(only Govt.Mandi )] And unnecessary Involvement of the Middleman (B)State what will change visibly because of your actions Increase in the income of the farmers of 3 villages. People of three villages will get the Minimum Support Price and Total cost of Production of the Agricultural Produce.

Operational Strategy

Leadership Skills:

Providing information for decisionmaking:

Identifying individuals Capacity building of individuals. Creating network sourcing inner wisdom Exchange knowledge and information

Information regarding various law, policies, schemes knowledge and information for working skills and tools for micro planning

Results:
Increase the 20% income of the farmers of Jadvasha Khurd, Jadvasha Kalan and Morda

Supporting Change Makers / Risk Takers: Identify the NGOs/government workers/civil society members/ media journalists Creating network between Champaigns and other stakeholders Involving with civil society and media .

Creating Enabling Environment (Policy, Law, Trusts etc): Identifying the common values/ issues with people and building up from it. identifying NGOs/ civil societies working on the same issue and partnering with them other support systems partnership with government, banks etc setting up monitoring units Creating networks for safety and support. Media and Jatra.

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Rural Transformation Fellowship Strategy Paper of Project Krishimitra Villages: Jadvasha Khurd,Jadvasha Kalan and Morda,District:Ratlam Madhya Pradesh Context: .Madhya Pradesh has the highest proportion of Indias dry land districts within its area. Twenty-three per cent of Indias 177 dry land districts occupying 19 per cent of Indias dry area are in MP. Also 89 per cent of districts in MP covering 81 percent of the area are dry land [Shah et al 1998]. According to the comprehensive classification of the National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning (NBSS and LUP), 76 per cent of Madhya Pradesh is situated in semi-arid and dry sub-humid agro-ecological subregions (AESRs).3 MP has a growing period (the period in which soil moisture is adequate for supporting plant growth) of 150 to 180 days. At present 24 per cent of the cropped area in the state is irrigated. Even if the ultimate irrigation potential from surface and groundwater sources were realised, over 55 per cent of the cropped area in MP would still remain rain fed. Given the overwhelming importance of agriculture in the state economy, a breakthrough in rain fed dry land agriculture can be said to hold the key for development of Madhya Pradesh. Within the overall picture of MP, the performance of the AESRs within the state has been highly variable. This adds another dimension to the unique significance of MP in the national scene. Encompassing as it does a wide variety of ecological conditions, MP can be said to typify the two most important development experiences in Indias rain fed agriculture the near stagnation of the relatively high rainfall eastern region and the increasingly unsustainable tube well-led agricultural development in the hard rock regions of the country. Total production in Madhya Pradesh Approximately 49.03% of the geographical area is under cultivation. Of the total gross cropped area Crop group Cereals covers 38% , Crop group Pulses 22% and Crop group Oilseed 31% and the remaining is covered by Crop group Commercial ( cotton & sugarcane etc.), vegetables, fruit, fodder and medicinal crops. Ratlam Known historically as Ratnapuri, is a city in the Malwa region in Madhya Pradesh of central India. .and its comes under the Malwa region is also famous for the vegetables production Here on the basis of the data of agricultural production what I felt that is because of the new economic policy of liberalization, privatization and globalization lead to the commercial crops where farmers only focus on the cash-crops. But now the problem is arise is that big farmers and merchants (middle man) are able to access the market easily because of the quantity of production and influence on the market but what about the small and marginal farmers who grow less quantity of the crops and what if their crop will fail also they Krishimitra

are not that much educated they can use the government schemes??This question comes to my mind . But here what I felt Is that I need to focus on both small as well as the big farmers so that we can influence the market of the agriculture and for that vital thing is cooperation and for that I need to focus on government schemes for over all transformation of the village. Purpose of the programs:
Increase the economic sufficiency through create more options for the financial capital accessibility for the 40% farmers also for organic farming and for purchase of milk animal(through help of cooperatives)

Create diverse options for selling their crops and involve more people for crop insurance. Create the link between Dairy Union for selling of milk or link cooperative with the local dairy(Sanchi Dairy) Program components (outcomes/outputs): When I think about the three villages of Ratlam districts that time I feel that the components of program will unite the people of the village and create the new future the villagers on the base of sustainable livelihoods and prosperous and dignified life of the farmers. Outcome 1: economic sufficiency of the farmers and risk reduction in rural agriculture sector(in numbers) Objective: increase in sufficiency and risk reduction and reduction of despair through the increase in diversification of income source, increase in agricultural income, reduction on external dependency, and integration of livelihood options Outcome :for 40% of small and marginal farmer increase income by 50% by establishing organic ,multi cropping ,creating dairy unit in 2 villages. This objective will be achieved through the following outputs 1. Create new co-operatives: Intervention: enterprise development in the areas of agriculture inputs ,value addition and markets; that are co-operatively managed and addresses the concerns of farmers ;of the poorest increases the skills and competence in managing agriculture sector; enhances sufficiency and are economically sustainable . Output:create and support 2. Direct Market Access: Intervention: direct market access of agriculture produce that ensures fair price for organic agricultural produce ;that is non-exploitative and easily accessible to farmers.(use of the Radio for creating the awareness of the crop price )

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Output:2 projects that ensure direct market access of agriculture produce without middleman (including 1 mandis, interdependent local market that ensures household food consumption in 3 villages) Radio for crop price(output) 3. Introducing the Crop Insurance Schemes: Intervention: Find out the Insurance schemes for crops and create the link between farmers, government officials and Insurance Company. Output:20% farmers will able to access the crop insurance. 4. Creating bulk sms service for current rate of the crops: Intervention: creating the bulk sms service in Ratlam Mandi with the help of government department which provide everyday recent updates of the crop price on cell phone. and information of other market options. Output: Creating bulk SMS system in 1 Ratlam mandi and other tools for market information 5. Accessibility of financial capital: Intervention: creating link with the financial institution with Farmers and create new sources for that. Outcome B: Well being and social security Objective: ensure peoples well being and social security through financial inclusion particularly 3 villages. 1. Adhar Card: Unique Identification Intervention: inclusion in civic entitlements, particularly governance and development schemes Output: ensuring 100% of the people in 3 villages have UID registration 2. Finacial inclusion: Intervention: financial inclusion wherein all people are financially literate ,have bank accounts and can operate them, and are able to access and use credit easily from fair and accountable mechanisms for their well-being . Output: 100% of people in 3 villages have functional bank accounts; 5new credit mechanisms that ensures easy access and accountable credit easily from fair and accountable mechanisms for their well being Output: 100% of people in 3 villages have functional accounts; 5 new credit mechanisms that ensure easy access and accountable credit are established. Operational strategies: A four pronged operational strategy will be adopted for the implementation of the programs. the four parts of the strategy include fostering transformational leadership, partnering with champions who support risk takers; ensuring access and use of relevant information ,and creating an enabling environment to achieve the programs purpose and objectives. Krishimitra

1. System transformers: Intervention: leadership constituencies:

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Farmers and rural people who will lead the sustainable and sustainable agriculture practice and cooperative(people ) Community leaders to innovate and establish local living communities Government officials and village functionaries to ensure accountable governance Fellows from the local living communities. to lead sustainable change .

2. Championship of Risk Takers: Intervention: champions will be enrolled to enable local living communities by supporting system transformers to challenge the existing systems and structures and act intelligently to transform them:
Government and corporate officials who will support equal accesses and use of capital and markets for sustainable agro-enterprise Government officials who are informed and competent, and are committed to administering mandi accountably and efficiently. Media persons with integrity who are willing to speak for the concerns of local communities and marginal farmers. Leaders from various sectors who are committed to the possibility of local living communities and champion this vision.

3. Information: Intervention: wisdom ICT centres will be established to provide easily accessible, current information on rights and entitlements so that communities are entitled to informed action and consent.
Information related to sustainable farming ,pricing, capital and markets Information related to development planning and implementation including social security schemes.

4. Enabling environment: Intervention: the program will create an enabling environment through three outputs: partnership will be established with the following:
Financial institutions to promote easy credit access and accountable credit mechanisms Government and corporate to support equal access and use of capital and markets for thriving and sustainable agro-enterprise Ngos and peoples movements to support program purpose and delivery Media organizations to give voice to rural communities and visibilise their challenges and successes Donor agencies concerned about the challenges of rural communities and marginal farmers for creating technical mechanisms for spreading awareness of prices of the crops.(radio,bulk sms)

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 Multi-stakeholders engagement: multi-stakeholder platforms will be facilitated that include diverse constituencies and address peer learning, advocacy and collective action for local living communities. Campaigns: Campaigns will be undertaken for advocacy that enrols civil society in the purpose of the program in the following:

Policies: The programs will undertake policy advocacy particularly related to cooperative, Mandi Act.

Operational strategic output:

Leadership programs for 20 bankers who promote easy credit access and accountable credit mechanisms Leadership programs for 20 government and leader to enable them support on creating cooperative. Establish 3 village wisdom (Panchayat center) ICT centres that provide information on financial capital and ,social security and commons. Current information on rights and entitlements is easily accessible in the villages (sustainable farming ,pricing ,capital ,markets and etc) Campaign for agriculture marketing: organic farming, multi cropping and adequate household food consumption.

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ROADMAP
January
Start with bulk SMS services Opening of Bank Accounts and UID cards Meeting with Sanchi Dairy Enrol 10 community volunteers for collecting village profile, Ratlam mandi data PRA Karvy - appeal to set stalls in village(for UID) Follow up Linking the village people with Sanchi Dairy Find out the donor for computers in village Panchayat. Find out the software for online crop market and price system. Meeting local traders Follow up

February

March

Create the cooperative society or linking with the old cooperative society Create the new market linkages for organic farming Identify champions Follow up Create the space for organic crops in mandi itself Networking with NGOs (Org farming)

April

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Identifying from 4-5 n meeting with crop insurance company Follow up Find out the government officials for training Follow up of the all the activities and publish one article on the basis of my experiences

May

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