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been working in 4,990 villages across 11 states, activities. Non-farm interventions include the
facilitating the enrolment of more than 254,000 development of nurseries, handicrafts, musical bands,
shareholders in the FPCs formed under various homestays, restaurants, and others. Consequently, the
schemes. 26 large-scale FPCs (with more than 10,000 average annual household income in the project
members) have been developed by FDRVC in area has grown by nearly `81,000 since the
partnership with the National Rural Economic beginning of the programme.
Transformation programme (NRETP), MoRD and
National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) with an • Mission Pulses – Uttarakhand: Currently being
assured support commitment of `2.89 billion to implemented in 9 districts and covering over 29,000
these FPCs. households across 500 villages, this programme has:
a) introduced improved varieties of seeds; b) promoted
• Showcasing success in di cult and unaddressed areas: improved practises in local varieties; c) showcased
An FPO operating in Sham Valley, Ladakh, produced and production and post-harvesting technologies; d)
marketed nearly 262 quintals of apricots through the introduced farm mechanisation; and e) supported
adoption of solar-powered dryers. The FPO also organised marketing in the region.
explored exports of over 210 quintals of the produce to
the Middle East. • Sujalam Sufalam – East Uttar Pradesh: This initiative
directly impacts the lives of 111,000 households by
• Transforming traditional weavers to Artisan enhancing agriculture productivity, value chain
Entrepreneurs: Strengthening 77 new Artisan strengthening and institutional development, thereby
Entrepreneurs during the year, taking the total of the doubling agriculture income for 80% of target
micro-enterprises under the Antaran crafts programme households across 13 blocks in 4 districts since the
to 328. These enterprises garnered a total revenue of inception of the programme. The successful adoption of
`200 million – an impressive five-fold increase over the the Paddy-Potato-Onion cropping value chain (against
last year. Around 3,000 artisans work along with these Paddy-Wheat crops traditionally followed) increased
enterprises, show-casing the handloom heritage of the potato and onion yields by 100% and 95%, respectively.
six lesser-known clusters from Andhra Pradesh
(Venkatagiri), Assam (Kamrup and Nalbari), Nagaland
and Odisha (Maniabandha and Gopalpur) to prestigious
national and international buying houses. Over 3,000
new design samples created by these artisans were
showcased at exhibitions.

• Livelihood Skills - Uttarakhand: Launched in 2018, this
programme has so far benefited 24,000 households
across over 650 villages, especially empowering women
from rural mountain communities by first developing
their skills, and second creating livelihood-generating
ecosystems in their villages. Over 18,000 women have
been trained in livelihood-generation skills, and over
11,800 households have started income-generating

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