By Florian Moder of the NICE project, formerly known as CCKN-IA Project in India

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INCLUSIVE DIGITALIZATION:
NICE for Sustainable Soil
Management (niceSSM) former
CCKN-IA Project
SUSTAINABLE SOILS AND SUSTAINABLE
AGRICULTURE

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Content
1. Setting the stage - Key Facts about the project
2. Looking back – what is the most important
success factor of your ICT- solution?
3. Where have been the biggest challenges?
Questions?

3. “Due to Climate change, I was facing lot of problems.
Everything has changed; climate shocks affect the crop yield.
Farming has been passed from generations and is still the
only source of income but not the sustainable one.
- Babulal Gowda (farmer from Odisha)
 Over 5.7 million Ha affected in 2009 due to late arrival of monsoon
and erratic rainfall
 10 times increase in incidences of extreme weather events from
1930 to 2010
 9 million farmers in Maharashtra, over were affected by drought in
2015
 Intensive cultivation and depletion of soil fertility
 120 M Ha of land is degraded
 Nearly 3.7 M ha is deteriorated due to depletion of organic matter
 Additional 76 million tonnes of food grains to be produced to feed the
growing population
 Vision 2022: Doubling of farmers incomes – technology, resource
management and better markets

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5. Use of NICE
 NICE as advisory platform for climate change successfully piloted
 Strengthening capacities and knowledge to enhance resilience of farmers
 ProSoil further develops NICE as a living tool:
 Integration of soil health and weather based information (weather
services from IMD)
 Strong real time reporting tool: analysis of data at every level
Soil Protection and Rehabilitation for Food Security
Establishment of localized, dynamic, two-way advisory process: Network
for Information on Climate (Ex) change - NICE
NICE: An ICT innovation
- cross-cutting solutions to achieve SDGs -
 Web-based open source platform
 Adaptive and scalable ICT supported by 2
mobile APPs (API based)
 Import and export of data and information
from existing agriculture systems
 Institutional mechanisms to timely develop
and disseminate validated, localized, quality
advisories
 Localization and decentralized advisories to
farmers using multiple modes  two-way
communication
 Content creation by authorized persons
 3-tier validation process

6. Establishing scalable approaches and solutions towards Sustainable Soil
Management
Sustainability
and
Convergence
Area based soil
protection and
sustainable
farming
measures
niceSSM
Inclusive
Digital
Transformatio
n for Rural
Advisory and
Services
Urban-Rural
Cycle
Business
models on
“Closing the
carbon and
nutrient loop”
NICE as
digital
platform
Developing a
digital platform
for advisory
and
monitoring
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South-South exchange, Collaborations, synergies and
leveraging
Objectives
 Implemented measures are covering an area of 53,000 ha (area
approach);
 Yield increases of 28% (wheat, rice, pigeon pea)
 Strengthening public support and extension services using ICT
based NICE platform
 Guidelines for mainstreaming innovative incentive mechanisms for
soil fertility management
 Facilitation of stakeholder networks at national and international
levels and Contributing to the dialogue on soil health
 Improved exchange and learning through South-South exchange
Start with CCKN-IA, now Soil
Protection and Rehabilitation
for Food Security (ProSoil)
Strategic cooperation with: National Bank for Agriculture
and Rural Development (NABARD)
Time line: 2015 - 2021
Implemented in Maharahstra, Madhya Pradesh
Implemented by GIZ (in cooperations with NGOs - BAIF,
WOTR, FES; Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare,
MOAFW, MANAGE; UDD Maharashtra, State Agricultural
Universities, IISS, BITS Pilani Univ. and international
research institutes- ICRISAT, IWMI, SEI, Leeds, CIAT,
Krishi Vigyan Kendras)

7. Most important success factor
 Open source, adaptive ICT backbone called NICE
(Network for Information on Climate (Ex) change across multiple
stakeholders
 Institutional mechanisms for effective, timely development
of localized quality advisories and its dissemination
 Quality Assurance : ICTs amplify
 Effective Delivery
 Partner with the ICT Industry  NTT DATA
 Digital Agenda of the government of India
 The project endorsed the Principles for Digital
Development fully from the beginning on

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 More than 90% farmers perceived that advisories were locally contextual and
relevant to their needs
 91% farmers said the advisories are localized and understandable
 65% of farmers received responses to their queries within 2 days and almost 62%
said the responses addressed their needs
 The solutions provided through advisories were affordable and easy to implement
 76.89% surveyed member farmers adopted 50% or more advisories disseminated
through CCKN-IA
 Builds on knowledge and expertise of over 1200 experts and extension cadre
 Delivers localized advisories to around 173,000 farmers
 85% of the farmers reported benefiting from increased yields and 74% from reduced
production costs.
Impact

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Where have been the biggest challenges?
 Missing support / capacities within GIZ towards ICT based
solutions in 2013
 Find team members who are able to act agile and have a
understanding, both on ICT and Agriculture
 Capacities on partner side / find the right partner
 Limited access to the ICT System at Ministry level
 Ensuring gender balance
 Hardware and willingness to invest

10. “The key to success is the proper
information and knowledge about
agriculture” – Namita, Odisha,
“I am saving approximately 50% of the
money which I used to spend on pesticides.
Other farmers also come to me for timely
information and knowledge” – Ranchandar,
a grapes farmer from Maharashtra
Kamakhya a farmer from Odisha, got a
yield of 15 quintals of rice per acre,
making him the champion in his village
The advisories have really improved my knowledge.
I try to implement myself in the field. It’s always good
to implement the information by myself and also
share with fellow farmers- Ghansu Mahto a farmers
from Jharkhand

11. “Earlier the information flow was asymmetric
and largely it was top-down to communities but
not vice-versa. Now farmers get better and
localized advisories on almost a real time basis.
After weekly meetings or even otherwise, I send
queries of the farmers and the response time is
2-7 days which is very quick”
– Baby Behera, Local Extension Expert, Odisha
INDIA@COP22

12. Digitalization can effectively help in quality localized knowledge management for adaptation in agriculture
Questions? Contacts:
navin.horo@giz.de
florian.moder@giz.de