Impact
- Improved agronomy - Scientific practices result in residue-free cultivation with higher yield
- Better support - FPO provide member farmers with processing facilities and forward linkages
- Consumer connect - Digital tracking of farm activities ensures True-to-Type production
- Capacity building - Regular farmer meetings include series of skill building webinars for FPOs to build knowledge and improve core competence
- Improved finance options - FPO linkages with NABKISAN makes availing loans for operations easy
- Insurance - Experiment and advocacy on insurance, sharing success stories with farmers
- Mechanization: It has reduced cost of cultivation and improved crop yield
- Digital: Weekly digital farmer meetings to assist farmers on critical activities as per actual field visits
Outreach
Current Locations
Asagaon, Dist – Bhandara; Dindori, Dist – Nashik; Hosur, Dist - Krishnagiri
FPOs - 2
Villages - 40
Area Covered - 2,100 acres
Farmers Connected - 931
Crops - Paddy & Tomato
Output
Asgaon Paddy Project
Yield Improvement: 17-18 qtl to 22-23 qtl
Input cost reduction: Rs. 3,000/acre
Finance linkage with NABKISAN & FPO availed: Rs. 47 Lakhs
Insurance: Yield-based insurance products experimented on for paddy crop
Nashik Tomato Project
Yield Improvement: 28-29 Mt to 37-38 Mt
Operational cost reduction due to mechanical sprayer: Rs. 11,000
Reduction in C Grade tomatoes: From 18-20% to 8-10%
Insurance: Experiment in weather-based insurance
Eligibility of the insured: Farmers became eligible for claim due to weather swings
Hosur Tomato Project
Regular farmer meetings and guidance to enhance farm productivity
Digital compliance: Digital application ease to track of farm activities for farm to fork traceability.
Digital tools usage (Drishti): Focus in terms of crop health, biotic and abiotic stress helped to track low productive plots for corrective actions. Focus in terms of crop health, biotic and abiotic stress helped in terms of pest forecasts and to track low productive plots for corrective actions.
