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undertaken across 980,000 acres and covered along with funding from the MakeMyTrip Foundation.
216,000 households.
• Livestock-related interventions covered 306,000
households. While 169,000 households were
covered under dairy, goat rearing, piggery and
poultry interventions covered 84,000, 17,000 and
10,000 households, respectively. Interventions
across fishery and other livestock covered
26,000 households.
• Non-farm interventions covered around
5,000 households, including around
1,000 entrepreneurs, whose average
annual income stood at `110,000.
• Various rural marketing initiatives were
taken up by apex level institutions
across the country.
• This included marketing of 1,900 tons
of agricultural inputs and around
100,000 tons of livestock inputs. On the
output marketing side, these institutions
sold 7,300 tons of agriculture produce
and 8,750 tons of livestock produce.
• Training programmes were conducted for over
600,000 beneficiaries comprising 53,300 sessions.
Besides, 130,000 community institution members were
also covered through 16,500 training sessions.
• Awareness programmes on paddy straw management
using the Happy Seeder technology and to prevent crop
stubble burning in North India just before the onset of
the Rabi crop season were also conducted, with
approximately 130,000 farmers from 16 districts of
Punjab and Haryana.
• A community-based tourism project has been initiated in
the Tehri and Rudraprayag districts of Uttarakhand,
• The Antaran programme now supports 2,400 artisans
through 230 artisan entrepreneurs across six weaving
clusters in four states. Over 2,000 market-friendly
products were developed as an outcome of 2,200
education sessions held for the artisans. Over 50%
of these artisan entrepreneurs now have access to
direct digital sales channels, while 250 new B2B
buyers have been introduced to them.
GOING FORWARD
• Evaluation of several technology
providers across the “Farming as a
Service” model.
• A new climate resiliency proposal
using Agri Tech Hydroponics Fodder
and multi-crop production system is
being developed.
• In Uttarakhand, 1,000 households have
been registered under an Organic
Production Certification Programme.
• Given the initial success on hydroponic vegetables and
fodder in Uttarakhand, hydroponic fodder stations are
being planned in more states.
• Income resilience building through non-farm
components in the context of the landless rural poor,
resource sustainability crisis, climate change, natural
disasters, economic shocks and less than 10% youth
adopting farming as primary livelihood.
• Digitisation of FPOs – discussions are ongoing with
service providers for the adoption of digitised forward
and backward linkage solutions across 10 FPOs.
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