Presentation from States

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3rd National Steering Committee Meeting

Establishment of Climate Change Knowledge Network for the

Indian Agriculture (CCKN-IA)

18th of June 2015

21 Jor Bagh, GIZ Office, New Delhi

Establishment of Climate Change Network for Indian Agriculture (CCKN-IA)

Progress update of CCKN-IA in the three States

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List of achievements since the last NSC

in Odisha, Maharashtra and Jharkhand

1. Participation in customized training course on

“Agrometeorology towards better advisories for

serving end users requirement” incl. exposure

visit on watershed management and improved

Farming systems in Ahmednagar

2. Joint planning of project alignment in the states

and schedule for 2015

3. Nomination of CFAs

4. Nomination of Subject Matter Experts and

Extension Agents

5. Comprehensive training of Subject Matter Experts

and Extension Agents

6. Network Coverage Assessment

7. Vulnerability Study

18/06/2015 Establishment of Climate Change Network for Indian Agriculture (CCKN -IA)

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Jharkhand

Establishment of Climate Change Network for Indian Agriculture (CCKN -IA)

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Achievements in Jharkhand

• IMD training and exposure visit to Maharashtra

• Development of crop calendar

• Training program- Krishak Mitra and farmers

• Selection of field extension agents

• Nomination of Subject Matter Experts for (NICE)

• Notification of Consortium Facilitating Agency (CFA)

• State Steering Committee Meeting

• Rapid assessment

• NICE training- for field extension agents and content team

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IMD Training and Exposure Visit to Maharashtra

Customized training course on “Agrometeorology towards better advisories for serving

end users requirement”

— Concept of Integrated AAS

— General meteorology and weather forecasting

— Agriculture risk management

— Drought management in dryland agriculture- strategies to maximize production

— Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

Exposure visit –

— Watershed management – Improved and Integrated farming system

Participants from Jharkhand- Nodal Officer, District Agriculture Officers, Technical Officer, Birsa

Agriculture University- Met Dept, and KVK

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Snaps of IMD training

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Crop Calendar for Jharkhand

Objective: farmers get a set of decision options – what crops, when,

how, what probable threats vis-à-vis monthly crop planning

• Information on weekly agriculture practices and static information of

agro advisories under normal climatic conditions.

• Most important aspects of weekly agro advisories were translated as

pictorial diagram for each week in the crop calendar under normal

weather condition.

• Crop calendar contains information on common pests and its

management for the entire month.

• Twelve different themes covered

• Distributed to farmers –Jan 15.

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Crop Calendar developed for farmers under CCKN-IA project

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Training program - “Developing awareness of farmers on

understanding Agro met-advisories and use of ICT for

accessing agriculture related information”

• Objective: Farmers have improved understanding on agro-met advisories

contents and regularly refer to Agro-met Advisories bulletins to access timely

agriculture and weather information

• Participants: Krishak Mitra, Progressive Farmers and Farmers for each Gram

Panchayats selected under CCKN-IA.

6/19/2015

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Sl no District Number of Krishak Mitra

trained at KVK Number of farmers trained at

GP level

1 Ranchi 30 457

2 East Singhbhum 30 508

Total 60 965

No of Farmers and Krishak Mitra Trained

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Training Programs at East Singhbhum district

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Training Programs at Ranchi District

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Training materials developed


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Notification of Consortium Facilitating Agency (CFA)

• Department of Agriculture and Cane Development has notified State

Agricultural Management Extension Training Institute (SAMETI) as

the Consortium Facilitating Agency for Jharkhand (letter number 1356 dated 10-04-

2015)

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Selection of Field Extension Agents

• For piloting the strategy of CCKN-IA in the Kharif season, Field

Extension Agents from 41 villages have been identified.

• 20 Krishak Mitras from East Singhbhum district and 21 Krishak

Mitras and progressive farmers from Ranchi district have been

identified

• Field Extension Agents will act as a field level facilitators to disseminate

timely, relevance and authorized information to farmers and share the

feedback back to the NICE technical platform.

• Act as interface between farmers and NICE system

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Nomination of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)

• Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and Content Director has been

nominated.

• Personals from KVK (SMS) and AFMU specialized in respective KD

6/19/2015

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NICE training – Field extension agents

• Training of selected Krishak Mitras –Ranchi and East Singhbhum

• 41 Krishak Mitra trained on NICE


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NICE training – Content team


• Training of Content team–Ranchi and East Singhbhum

• 12 Subject Matter Experts trained on NICE

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Network Coverage Assessment

• Network coverage and performance assessment for all the selected

CCKN-IA villages was carried out by a provide agency Handygo.

• The network coverage and performance assessment detailed out the

performance and coverage of 3G, 2G, and voice services of major

service provider like – BSNL, Airtel, Idea, Reliance, Tata, Vodafone.

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Notification of Blocks under CCSAMMN component of NMSA

• Two CCKN-IA blocks has been notified by Department of Agriculture

and Sugarcane Development by Letter Number 2458 dated 12-08-

2014.

Sl no District Block

1 Ranchi Angara

2 East Singhbhum Patamda

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State Steering Committee Meeting

• Second State Steering Committee Meeting was held – 8th May 2015

• Discussed the progress made

• Approval of action plan for next six month


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Rapid Assessment

• Rapid assessment on- information needs- Crops, livestock, horticulture,

crop development phases

• Mode of information and time

• Block level assessment

• Focused Group Discussion in each block of CCKN-IA – Progressive

farmers, KVK, Krishak Mitras

• Content developed will be based on

rapid assessment

• Filed visits

- Meeting with farmers

Extension functionaries


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Rapid Assessment


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Maharashtra


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State Steering Committee Meeting

Establishment of Climate Change Network for Indian Agriculture (CCKN -IA) 18/06/2015

• Date : November 24, 2015

• Venue: Sakhar Sankul, Pune

• Chairman: Dr. S.K. Goel,

Additional Chief Secretary

(Agriculture and Marketing)

• Number of Participants: 37

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Minutes of State Steering

Committee Meeting


• Options to scale up and continue

the network (some business model

and ways to optimize existing

public resources)

• Govt. initiatives should be used in

this projects

• Results of Baseline survey

• Briefing on progress of NMSA

• Implementation of Consortium

Facilitating Agency (CFA)

• Director (ATMA) will be Nodal

Officer at the state and Project

Director (ATMA) will be at district

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Crop Calendar

• Crop-Pest-Weather Calendar

which can be used by farmers,

extension agents, state

agricultural officers and others

who are belonging to farming

community can use them

• Brief information about district’s

normal as well as extreme

weather, common crops and

their insect / pests

• Advisories on insect / pests


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Trainings


• Subject Matter Experts

• No. 27

• how to create, develop,

validate, translate and

disseminate agricultural

information using NICE

platform

• Agricultural Extension Workers

• 33 Supervisors and

Agricultural Assistants

• how to disseminate

agricultural information via

NICE platform

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Nominations


• In Ahmednagar six Agricultural supervisors and eleven Agricultural Assistants

where as in Pune districts nine Agricultural supervisors and ten Agricultural

Assistants from Pune identified for the dissemination of agricultural information

and feedback collection

• Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri nominated 12 scientists for the content

development and validation in different domains

• KVKs of Ahmednagar and Pune districts identified 4-5 Subject Matter Specialists

for content generation

• Principal Regional Agricultural Extension Management Training

Institute (RAMETI) nominated as Consortium Facilitating Agency

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Farmer’s Need Assessment


• With the help of state agricultural department, documentation are

going on regarding at which stage of crops farmers are suffering

due to aberrant weather conditions as well as the source from

where farmers are getting such type of information

• This information can be used as actual need of the farmers

• Random selection of farmers

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Data Base of Cropping Pattern

and Weather Pattern


• Documentation on season wise

cropping pattern in our

selected blocks

• Documentation on block level

rainfall pattern

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Farmer’s Registration


• Agricultural Assistants started

collecting information of

Farmer’s. Information collected

are

• Crop sown

• Varieties choosen

• Date of sowing

• Soil etc

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Field Visits

• Regular visits in villages to find

out the common points where

hard copy of agricultural

information can be pasted

• Discussion with Farmers Friend

about the agricultural issues in

the villages

• Awareness among the villagers

about the project


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RML – in CCKN-IA

• Pilot initiatives with 20,000

farmers

• iPPP mode (as decided in

the NSC 2014)

• This includes “top-up” of

10,000 existing subscribers

with climate change relavent

information

• 10,000 new subscriptions for

farmers in the pilot districts

in Maharashtra


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Attending Other Weather or

Climate Change Related Programs

• State Agricultural Advisories

Program by State Agricultural

Department

• GovClim Services by TERI

University and Norwegian

partner

• Block level Irrigation Advisory

System by MPKV, Rahuri


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Odisha


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Achievements in Odisha

Steering committee meeting in Aug’ 14

• Chairmanship of Principal Secretary, Agriculture

• State Technical Advisory Group (TAG)

• District Working Groups (DWG) formed

• CCKN-IA pilot districts & blocks notified under NMSA (comp-D)

• Separate Climate Change Cell (CCSAMMN) cell formed at

Directorate of Agriculture & Food Production, Bhubaneswar


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Crop Calendar

• Normal weather crop calendar prepared – 4 sets for 4 pilot

blocks for major cultivated crops

• Illustrates Package of Practices depicted with photographs & text

• 4000 calendars being distributed in pilot villages

• Major cultivated crops covered

• Validated by OUAT

• Local practices by farmers validated during field visits


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Training programmes...

• “Impact of climate change on agriculture & allied sectors and

agriculture knowledge information systems operational in Odisha”

• Three day session for district level officers, KVK/ RRTTS specialists,

AAOs, BTMs (ATMA) conducted at IMAGE, Bhubaneswar

• Two number of 2-day session (ToT) for BLTA (ATMA), VAWs,

Krushak Sathi, NGO personnel at district level

• Twelve no. of 1-day training sessions for farmers at GP level

• Printed booklets – government schemes, AKIS & information flyer

distributed


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Operationalisation of NICE platform

• Subject matter specialists from Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal

Husbandry & Fishery, KVK/ RRTTS nominated by the state for content

management process (32 officials)

• Village agricultural workers & Krushak Sathi nominated as field agents

operationalisation of NICE (30 extension workers)

• Hands on practical training conducted for SMEs and FAs on content

creation, validation, translation & dissemination incl. tablet application

• State level Content Advisory Group nominated by OUAT



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Consortium Facilitating Agency (CFA)

• IMAGE being nominated as CFA

• A full time officer from DA & FP deployed by state government as

CFA coordinator

• CCKN-IA cell operational at IMAGE premises

• A short study conducted jointly by OUAT (Agro-met dept.) & GIZ

on content identification & dissemination process for CCKN-IA,

Odisha


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Name of State : Odisha

Name of District : Dhenkanal & Ganjam

Name of Block : Dhenkanal sadar, Kankadahad & Chatrapur, Sanakhemundi

For what crops and livestock would

you like to have information in the

Kharif Season 2015?

Sowing type Duration of crop At what Important stages of that crops you would

definately like to have information

At what tentative duration (week) you would

like to have information on

By which mode would you like to have

information Responsible Subject Matter Expert

Paddy

Broadcasting Short duration Summer ploughing & variety selection Within 2nd week of May SMS SME- Agronomy

Seed treatment Within 1st week of June One pager SME- Agronomy / Plant protection

Land preparation Within 2nd week of June SMS SME- Agronomy

Seed sowing & nutrient application Within 2nd week of June One pager SME- Agronomy

Top dressing of fertiliser Within 1st week of July SMS SME- Agronomy

XX

Specific pest management SME-Plant protection

Medium duration Summer ploughing & variety selection Within 4th week of April SMS SME- Agronomy

Seed treatment Within 4th week of May One pager SME- Agronomy / Plant protection

Land preparation Within 1st week of June SMS SME- Agronomy

Seed sowing & nutrient application Within 2nd week of June One pager SME- Agronomy

Top dressing of fertiliser Within 1st week of July SMS SME- Agronomy

XX


Long duration Summer ploughing & variety selection Within 4th week of April SMS SME- Agronomy

Seed treatment Within 3rd week of May One pager SME- Agronomy / Plant protection

Land preparation Within 4th week of June SMS SME- Agronomy

Seed sowing & nutrient application Within 1st week of June One pager SME- Agronomy

Top dressing of fertiliser Within 4th week of June SMS SME- Agronomy

Second top dressing of fertiliser Within 3rd week of July SMS SME- Agronomy

XX


Transplanting Medium duration Summer ploughing & variety selection Within 4th week of April SMS SME- Agronomy

Seed treatment Within 4th week of May One pager SME- Agronomy / Plant protection

Nursery raising Within 1st week of June SMS SME- Agronomy

Land preparation Within 3rd week of June One pager SME- Agronomy

Nutrient application & transplanting Within 4th week of June SMS SME- Agronomy

Top dressing of fertiliser Within 3rd week of July SMS SME- Agronomy

Second top dressing of fertiliser Within 1st week of August SMS SME- Agronomy

XX


Long duration Summer ploughing & variety selection Within 4th week of April SMS SME- Agronomy

Seed treatment Within 3rd week of May One pager SME- Agronomy / Plant protection

Nursery raising Within 4th week of May SMS SME- Agronomy

Land preparation Within 2nd week of June One pager SME- Agronomy

Nutrient application & transplanting Within 3rd week of June SMS SME- Agronomy

Top dressing of fertiliser Within 2nd week of July SMS SME- Agronomy

Second top dressing of fertiliser Within 4th week of July SMS SME- Agronomy

XX





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