1. Welcome
Jamgoria Sevabrata
Purulia, West Bengal

2. Vision 2020
 Graduate 10000 families out of poverty
 Year long food-grain from own source and
20000 cash in a year.
 Target – anybody less than 12 month food
sufficiency mainly SC and ST.
 Strategy –
 Reduction of risk in farming system by ensuring
irrigation (kharif and other season).
 DBI
 Decentralized water bodies (HAPA)
 Intensification of crops (SRI) and
diversification of crops (maize, pulses,
vegetable, horticulture and oilseed)

3. DBI facts till date
 Number of sites- 23
 Number of active sites - 16
 Number of farmers benefited (active and would
be active)- 3000
 Number of Water Users group Formed – 23.
 Number of SHGs running in the DBI villages –
170
 Total kharif command area created – 2500 acres
 Total rabi command area created – 1000 acres.

4. Benefits in kharif
 Command area created 2500 acre
 SRI covered in 500 acres
 Production ensured in whole
command are for kharif paddy
 Command area increased using many
techniques.
 Tomato raised in 1000 acres.
 Other vegetables in 500 acres.

5. Kharif contd…
 Small farmers’
 average land holding 60 decimal.
 Without changing the practice – 5 quintal extra
paddy - 5000 rupees
 Changed practice to SRI in half of the holdings –
10 quintal extra paddy – 10000 rupees.
 Tomato in half of the holding – 30000 rupees
 Conservative estimate is 5000 rupees extra
income per acre.
 Extra income 125 lakhs per annum in kharif
with an investment of 150 lakhs.

6. Benefits in Rabi
 Rabi command area created 1000 acres.
 Major crops are mustard, wheat and vegetables.
 Mustard cultivated in 500 acres wheat in 300
acres and vegetables in rest.
 50% of mustard and wheat is done through SRI
methods.
 Cucumber and watermelon is the main crop in
vegetable.
 Rough estimates say average extra income in
rabi is 10000 rupees per acre.
 So total extra income 100 lakhs rupees per
annum in rabi (investment counted in Kharif)

7. Anil, Baliguma
 Has 60 decimal land in command area
 Has done SRI paddy in 45 Decimal land and earned
7700 rupees extra
 Has done SRI mustard 16 Decimal land and earned
6000 Extra
 Has done tomato 15 decimal in Kharif, earned
12000 rupees extra
 Has done cauliflower 10 decimal land, Cabbage 10
decimal
 Including kharif and rabi he earned 41700 Rupees
extra.
 Sent his two children to hostel.
 Bought a cow.
 Repaired the house and thatched the new roof.
 Took a pond in lease for fish cultivation.
 Successfully graduated out of poverty.

8. Linkages with other institution:
 The Jabla Krishi cooparetive Bank private
Limited selected Jabla Dhabardih DBI
command area for seed production site.
 The 50 farmers draw agriculture support for
wheat cultivation in rabi season from Block
Agriculture office in Jabla Dhabardih DBI
site.
 Small WHS is being constructed in 6 DBI
command areas through MGNREGS.
 The district Agri Irrigation department is
renovating DBI water source at Nunia
Chatra village.

9. Way forward
 Organised planning and production among
the DBI sites.
 Producer company?
 Dead storage in the DBI source can be used
in irrigation through the same system using
a small pump-set.
 Already in use in many DBI sites but needs
proper technology to convert the DBI inlet
in LI inlet
 Much more focus on SHG and agriculture.

10. Johar ge