Improving Food Security for Tribal Farmers
Support India food security
Summary
Enable 5,000 poor tribal households of Udaipur region to shift onto better agriculture practices, and ensuring the resource-poor communities sustainable livelihood and enhance food security.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Agriculture is the main livelihood for more than 70% tribal households. However, low/fragmented landholding, less rainfall, high soil erosion & insufficient infrastructure restrain agriculture productivity. Further, primitive agriculture practices of tribal farmers, particularly less crop diversification, incompatibility between crop selection and resource conditions, intensify the problem. The present agriculture, in process, is incapable of providing the households food security.
Activities
Introduce tribal farmers to better agriculture practices through trainings, demonstration and exposure visits. Extend technical and financial support to use improved variety seeds, plant fruit trees, cultivate vegetables, and use organic fertilizers.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $2,889
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $37,110
Total Funding Goal: $40,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Agriculture will become cost-effective and sustainable in long-term for tribal. Farmers shall grow crops sufficient to meet family needs, along with obtain diverse produces and marketable surplus providing cash income to mitigate crop failure risks.
Project Message
“I'd sown Okra in my vegetable garden (0.05ha). It's my first experience of growing vegetables. But I was able to grow enough to sell off ($ 188). This coming season I'm planning to grow more".
- Lalu Dharma, Gejvi village, One of the Project Benficaries
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Neelima Khetan
Chief Executive
Mohan Sinha Mehta Marg
Old Fatehpura,
Udaipur, Rajasthan 313004
India
+91 294 2450960
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Seva Mandir
Seva Mandir Marg Old Fatehpura
Udaipur,
Rajasthan
313004
India
+91-294-2450960
http://www.sevamandir.org
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Where this Project is Located
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India
and can also be found under 
Economic Development.
For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 11, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 14, 2007
Latest Update from the Field
Matching grant opportunity – Please support Seva Mandir
By Poonam - Friends of Seva Mandir, November 11, 2009 04:38 PM
We wanted to let you know about an exciting opportunity that we are participating in through our partners, Global Giving. A donation made to any of our projects, on Global Giving between November 10 and December 1, will be matched.
Total donations up to $2,500 will be matched at 30%. Donations in the range $2,501 - $7,500 will be matched at 40%. Donations above $7501 will be matched at 50%. However, please note that only donation amounts below $500 will be eligible for matching – any donation above $ 500 will come to us, and make us more eligible for bonus awards but without the matching amount. SO GIVE MORE – GET MORE!
And if we raise the most money or get the most donations, we are eligible for bonus awards. First place for both categories will each receive $5,000, second place in each will receive $3,000 and third place in both categories will each receive $1,000.
Seva Mandir’s page at Global Giving lists 7 projects. Please see http://www.globalgiving.com/dy/v2/content/search.html?q=seva+mandir
Matching funds are limited, so we request you to act as quickly as possible. You can give and also persuade friends and family to give. Minimum donation is $10 and donations are tax-deductible!
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Thank you for anything that you are able to do to support Seva Mandir.
With Greetings for the season,
Seva Mandir
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