(Narayan Bagar, Tharali, Dewal)
Bageshwar (Kapkot)

Objectives :

• Training and dissemination of protective cultivation technology for fruits and vegetables
• Raising of Nursery, Cultivation & Marketing of Medicinal Plants
• Demonstration of solar drying system for dying of fruits and vegetables
• Documentation Of Medicinal Herbs
• Creation of irrigation facility presently identified at Ghesh

Program Outcomes :

• Polyhouses Established : 300
• Poly tunnels : 10
• Direct Program Beneficiaries : 300 farmers
• Medicinal Plants Documented : 160
• Training & Exposure on Agricultural practises : 1500 farmers
• Successful cultivation of seasonal and off-seasonal cash crops in protective conditions.
• Higher altitude villages are now able to grow subtropical crops which was impossible till now.
• Advancement in crop cycle prior to season has been achieved saving valuable time and energy to farmers.
• Farmers preparing & Selling Compost manure.
  Successful linkages
• Farmer and Dawan international, a buying house to trade Medicinal produces.
• Cultivation of Medicinal & Aromatic plants as new income source.
• Irrigation facility benefiting 112 people in upper & remote reaches of Himalayas (Village Gesh)
• New Income opportunities for Youths (fabrication and erection of Polyhouses) - 60 youths trained
  

• Training to farmers on the effective use and benefits of polyhouses based cultivation Exposure trip provided to 14community workers at Delhi Pusa Institute
• Creation of Demonstration unit for onfield training of farmers at Narayan Bagar
• Training of Youths on fabrication and erection of Polyhouses
• Training on Composting to men and women
• Organising Seminar and Exhibition
• Demonstration of Solar Dryers to farmers
• Documentation of Medicinal Plants
  

Karanprayag, Narain Bager, Tharali and Deval Blocks of District Chamoli

Program Objectives :
Organise micro-producer network(s) to generate and capture economies of scale in BDS service delivery.
Establish BDS services to provide inputs for improvement of productivity and production of milk and market access for micro-dairies.
Facilitate private sector providers to supply 75% of all inputs to the micro-dairies
Link BDS clientele with micro finance services, including credit, savings and asset insurance.
Phase out subsidised support
Establish replicable development model
Analyse and disseminate lessons learnt
Impact forest conservation - reduce livestock grazing, one of the major threats to regeneration of the oak forests through promoting improved stall feeding and fodder tree development

Program Outcomes:

Milk Producers
Increase in Income of the existing Milk Producer (Rs.1700/month)
Reduced drudgery by plantation & effective manure compost preparation
New income source generated to new milk producers
Seasonal fluctuation in demand has increased sale of bi-product mix in organized manner
Distribution model activated for SHG groups under constrained remoteness

BSPs & Micro Dairy Enterprises
New job opportunities to jobless youth as BSP (Rs.12000/annum)
Collectors, Sub Collectors
Para Vets, Stud bull keeper
New Job Opportunities to Micro Dairy Enterprisers (Collectors, Sub Collectors)
Shift of Customer base from unorganized market to established dairy shops through the program
Good Quality Milk is assured in the market, Customers Satisfied

15 villages of Narain Bagar Block.

Program Objectives:
Organizing women agricultural producers in ten villages of Nainigarh area Chamoli District

Program Outcome :
Increase the Capacity of women grower committee in 10 villages of Nainigadh area.
Grower committee from 9 villages have collected and marketed Agricultural produce
The Grower committee also started collecting & Marketing milk and Ghee from the villages
Selected Broker for selling their agro produced
Marketing of Citrus Produce

Training of grower committee members.

Marketing cash crops through grower committee.

Market exposure of grower committee

5 Villages of Tharali and Deval Blocks.

Program Objectives:
Establishment of propagatory nursery of kutki and kuth

Program Outcome:
Produce 150,000 seedling of Kutki and kuth.
Plantation of 1,50,000 seedlings in Ghesh,Himani, Balan, Pinau, and Dungri village through farmers.

Gadni Water shed, Narayan Bagar

Program Objectives:
Conservation of Eco – system (protection of Forest, Land and Water)
Program Outcome:
1400 hect. Of Gadani watershed area. Covered
Community self help initiatives towards conservation goals
Flooding water controlled comparatively in following yrs. due to established check dams in the region
Conserved & Protected Land, water and Forest through various watershed initiatives such as plantation activities by women & youths

Training of watershed development for watershed development committee members.

Technical training for WCT members.

Planning and implementation of watershed development activities with active participation of community.

Narain Bager, Tharali, Deval Blocks of District Chamoli

Program Objectives:
To realise mountain community on better living standards through imparting knowledge on Safe Drinking Water, providing healthy Sanitary schemes.

Program Outcome:
Community groups have self established and are maintaining sanitation facility.
Community have effectively participated in the program objectives and understood the importance of healthy living.
Increase in demand and usage on sanitation facility has brought comfort to the village folks.

Constructed 20 drinking water supply scheme

Training of community leader for the smooth functioning of the activities.

Provided low cost sanitary facilities with equal contribution from the beneficiary.

Narain Bager, Tharali, Deval Blocks of District Chamoli

DAP (Australian High Commission, New Delhi)

Program Objectives:
Organising lower income Households (women) into Self Help Groups and engaging them through micro credit activities.

Program Outcome:
113 women have been mobilised into groups.
Enabled micro credit program to the beneficiaries.
Linked Groups to dairy subsector and marketed the agriculture produce in fairs and regional markets.
Reduced drudgery through plantation and increased agriculture yield through vermin compost preparation.
Women members have gained respect and encouragement at home.