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: $2,764
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $37,235
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
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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 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 14, 2007
Latest Update from the Field
World Bank - Development Marketplace
By Ms. Deepti Ameta - In Charge Reporting and Communications, August 17, 2009 03:44 PM
Greetings from Seva Mandir!
Dear Friends,
Thank you for your continuing support to our programs. I am writing to share with you a bit of news.
Seva Mandir has recently won a Development Marketplace Grant Competition, organized by the Word Bank. The competition was exclusively for grassroots initiatives in South Asia to address the problem of undernutrition.
The Seva Mandir's project on 'Addressing Iron Deficiency Anemia in Rural Rajasthan through Iron Fortification of Flour at Village Level' was one of the 21 projects that won the competition in Development Marketplace.
We are all very excited at this achievement. If you have any queries on this project then please do write to me.
We are very happy to share this news with you. Thank you for all your support and contributions. We really appreciate it.
With warm regards,
Deepti
deepti@sevamandir.org
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