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 Awareness programmes on in-situ management
of paddy straw using the Happy Seeder technology
and management of crop stubble burning in North
India just before the onset of Rabi season, were
conducted with approximately 130,000 farmers
from 16 districts of Punjab and Haryana.

Future Plans

 Focus on community institution strengthening
and leadership development for long-term
sustainability of the rural enterprises.
 Agriculture and Rural Markets: Focused
interventions on increasing productivity by at least
20% leading to the development of a market
ecosystem, ensuring an average annual income of
`40,000 for 60-65% of 900,000 beneficiaries in
21 states. Increased focus on strengthening value
Depositing monthly savings to ensure a better future chains along with Farmer Producer Organisations
will be taken up.
Key Achievements  Livestock: Development of livestock-centric
interventions to enhance household incomes to an
average of `65,000 per annum for 280,000
 Projects under the Rural Upliftment Portfolio benefited around 4.6 million poor people, across 298 poor households covering 17 states, with a focus on
pockets of the country. 59% of the total beneficiaries were Below Poverty Line (BPL), while around 17%, 36% productivity enhancement through breed
and 27% were of SC, ST and OBC categories respectively. upgradation, animal health and nutrition,
 Around 83,000 beneficiary households started earning more than Rs 100,000 per annum due to various ecosystem development, and value addition over
interventions. Approximately 60% of these households were benefited by the Lakhpati Kisan flagship the next 5 years.
programme.
 Close to 31,000 village-level Community Institutions (including 1,766 Milk Groups) were operational in
project areas, covering around 420,000 members. 210 Federations and 47 Farmer Producer Companies
covered around 186,000 members across the project areas.
 Various rural marketing initiatives were taken up by Apex Level Institutions across the country. To list a
few: 3,600 quintals of potato was harvested in Nagaland; 100 quintals of apples, 20 quintals of vegetables
and about 100 quintals of basmati rice were marketed in Uttarakhand; 50 quintals of pepper and
vegetables in Andhra Pradesh; 880 quintals of paddy and 470 quintals of tomatoes were sold in Jharkhand
along with cauliflower and cabbage; and soilless saplings worth Rs 23.5 million were produced from 58
polyhouses.
 13,300 small tea-growers adopted sustainable tea-growing practices in Tamil Nadu, resulting in
production of 200,000 quintals of tea.
 2 artificial glaciers, used for summer crop irrigation, were constructed in Ladakh, along with the Village
Coordination Committee. Circle of progress: Women are the epicentre
 A pilot satellite pig-breeding unit was set up in Mizoram. The Producer Groups Federation supplied 103 of a community meeting
tons of pig feed and sold 220 quintals of maize for pig fodder.
 144 poultry units (with an average of 500-600 chicks per unit) were initiated in Vidarbha region of
Maharashtra.
 The programme operationalised by Dairy Health and Nutrition Initiative India Foundation (DHANII) under
the Tata Dairy Mission facilitated an average procurement of approximately 226,000 litres of milk per day,
with 77,700 members providing milk across 1,769 milk pooling points established under the programme.
So far, five Milk Producer Companies (MPC) have been established and operationalised by DHANII – 2 in
Rajasthan and 1 each in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Punjab.
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