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Improved Agriculture Through DBI
Harsha Trust

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ABOUT THE ORGANISATION
• Mission:“To Improve the quality of life of rural poor”.
• Approach: Improved livelihood through
– SHGs, Co-operatives
• Interventions:
NRM, Improved agriculture
Poultry & Goat farming
• Outreach: 5 districts of
Odisha 20,000 families.
• Strength: 60 staffs,

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Old Schemes
• Total 14 schemes
covering 230 families
• Command area coverage
140 acres
• 11 schemes are
operational in Kharif and
Rabi season

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Old Schemes
• Crops taken: Vegetable, fruit
tree plantation
• Average area under vegetable:
30 decimal/farmer
• Average area under fruit tree
plantation: 50 decimal/farmer.
• Average income Rs
5000/farmer

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Current Project
 100 schemes in Koraput and Rayagada Districts in
collaboration with two partner NGOs Pragati and OPDSC.
 First year 20 schemes- 5 Harsha Trust, 10 Pragati and 5
OPDSC.
 Implementation work is in progress in all the sites.

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Components of the Project
• Infrastructure
• Command area development and live
hedge
• Promotion of improved agriculture.

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Coverage
• Harsha Trust: 5 schemes covering 106
families irrigating 55 acres
• OPDSC: 5 schemes covering 218 families
irrigating 117 acres
• Pragati: 10 schemes covering 251
families irrigating 332 acres

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Plan for Agriculture in DBI Sites(Harsha
Trust)
• In two villages, vegetable cultivation with
drip irrigation with 45 families
• 70 families in vegetable cultivation and 36
families in paddy cultivation
• Live hedge with Glaricidia

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Improving Agriculture through DBI
• Focus on vegetable
cultivation from Kharif itself
• Drip has worked better to
reduce the fear of water
shortage
• Horticulture plantation with
convenience of watering the
plants.

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Progress in Agriculture
• Covering 500 families under Drip irrigation
in DBI sites: 400 families in all the DBI’s
implemented by Pradan in Balliguda.
• Introduction of vegetable cultivation after
fruit tree plantation
• Alternate material for fencing are available
and can be mobilised through
convergence.

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Learning
• Moving to high value crops motivate farmers-
vegetables and fruit tree plantation.
• Drip can enhance water use efficiency to great
extend, DBI is feasible in villages earlier
identified as not suitable.
• Fencing has been a major road block in
progressing first generations farmers to higher
level.

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