| Sanction Date: | 21-12-2018 | |||
| Project Category | SG | |||
| Year | 2018-2019 | |||
| Project Duration | 2 Years + 9 Months Extension | |||
| BTA : | Livelihood Options & Employment Generation | |||
| Project Site/ State/ Districts/ Villages Covered: |
Uttarakhand |
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| Organization/ Implementation Agency: |
VCSG Uttarakhand University of Horticulture and Forestry Ranichauri Distt.- Tehri Garhwal Uttarakhand |
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| Project Partners: | S.No. | Name | ||
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Center for Business Development and Entrepreneurial Development (CBED) | |||
| Lead Proponent: | Dr. Arvind Bijalwan VCSG Uttarakhand University of Horticulture and Forestry Ranichauri, Distt.- Tehri Garhwal Uttarakhand |
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| Project Brief Description: | The main theme of the project is to increase the income and provide a viable livelihood support linked with cross cutting issues for gender, climate change, migration, human-crop conflicts and aspiration of youth etc. Cultivation of medicinal mushroom justifies the new and innovative ideas to generate the employment on one hand and deals with the climatic issues, wildlife-crop conflicts and migration on another. The project envisages to provide a platform to the SC communities, farmers from underprivileged section, women and marginal farmers of the selected villages so that they can become self-sufficient and also motivate and provide employment opportunities to other people thus promoting entrepreneurship and start up initiatives. The project aims at developing a complete package of medicinal mushroom activities which enables a family to generate income throughout the year. The project will provide a platform for raising the income, creation of employments, address people�s migration, tackling the global climate change, and uplifting the status of marginal farmers and underprivileged communities and supply of good quality medicine. We will explore, understand and establish market linkages for medicinal mushroom at three levels, local, regional and international as per scale of production available in the community. Assessment of marketing needs for farmers� groups will be identified through regular interactive meetings. To build capacity of potential members, marketing specific trainings will be organized which will be followed by refresher trainings. Capacity buildings of farmers groups would be done through exposure visits to the medicinal mushroom growers and agri-business companies. CBED will also help to develop a market information system for the farmers. CBED has a long experience of working with mountain communities and in area of marketing. | |||
| Beneficiaries/ Stakeholders: | The main beneficiaries of this project are marginal farmers including women and SC/ST from deprived community of the selected villages in Tehri Garhwal and Dehradun districts of Uttarakhand. Thus, these villagers would be the main beneficiaries and besides, these other people will be also get indirect employment acting as sellers, companies who will use these products to make drugs and other nutraceuticals, store keepers, transporters etc. |
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| Activity Chart | Click Here | |||
| Total Grants (in Rs.) | Rs. 45,98,000.00 (Rupees: Forty Five Lakh Ninety Eight Thousand Only) | |||
| Project Objectives | Quantifiable Deliverables | Monitoring Indicators |
| Income enhancement of farmers through cultivation of medicinal mushrooms | Provide employment and enhance income 100 SC/ST households by growing medicinal mushroom in empty houses in their villages by growing the medicinal mushroom. | Developed the Number of Mushroom grower (Nos.) |
| Creation of processing unit and storage house (post-harvest management) | New Model as substitute for prevention of crop damage due to wild animal attack, and minimize loss due to weather extremes. | Number of Processing and Storage house developed (Nos.) |
| Development of a sound and feasible marketing system for medicinal mushroom grower. | Alternative Model developed (Nos.) | |
| Providing a marketing channel for dispensing the products | Number of beneficiaries village/ SC/ST community/ local people (Nos.) | |
| Involving marginal farmers, women and underprivileged people (SC, ST, etc.) so as to uplift their living status. | No. of Reports/Research articles/Policy documents prepared and published (Nos.) | |
| S.No. | Name (Sanctioned) | Qualification | Designation (Sanctioned) | Salary (Sanctioned) |
| 1. | 02 JPF | @ Rs.16,000/- + HRA | ||
| 2. | 02 Field Assistant | @ Rs.8,000/- |
| S.No. | Name of Equipment (Sanctioned) | Use of Equipment/ Details | Cost (in INR) |
| 1. | Portable autoclave, Laminar flow, pH meter, weighing machine, 01 laptop and 01 Camera. | 3,00,000/- |
