Be the Champion of Tribal Organic Farmers!
Campaign by Nirmaan Organization
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The Problem
Madia and Muria tribes from the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh are among the most vulnerable communities in India. Trapped in the decades-old violence of the Naxal conflict, they have very poor human development indicators and income levels. With an abundance of natural resources and rich traditional knowledge, they once lived a self-sufficient life in harmony with nature, This way of life has been disrupted with time, due to the impact of many external forces, degrading natural resources, climate change, low productivity, and erosion of traditional crops and diversity. As a result, 57% of the population lives on less than 0.4 $ per day, 70% of women are anemic and 50% of children are stunted.
The Solution
We have identified Climate-resilient Sustainable Farming as a key tool to increase incomes and enable these communities to become self-reliant about food & nutrition. Preserving traditional crops and adopting organic farming practices is a promising and sustainable way to safeguard their livelihood. We have focused on building the capacities and organizing the community as an important approach to achieve this.
Bhoomgaadi, a farmer's collective has emerged out of these efforts through which we are trying to connect their organic produce to market. We work in coordination with the district administration trying to leverage government programs towards creating an eco-system from seeds to market that supports the community to adopt sustainable farming
The Impact
We believe that the process of bringing in long-term changes in the community is slow and demands patient and sustained engagement. In this process, in our journey so far we have had some small successes which have always encouraged us to continue our efforts further. Some of these milestones are:
What We Need your Support for?
- Upscale the current efforts to cover all the 219 villages and convert the entire Dantewada district into Organic by 2025
- Help 3000 more farmers learn improved methods of sustainable farming so that they are able to achieve food security
- Help 1000 farmers become model organic vegetable growers and earn additional income of at least Rs. 50,000 per year
- Support Bhoomgaadi to become a self-sustainable farmer's enterprise by 2024
Your contribution will directly help us support our cadre of 130 community resource persons working in the villages as change-makers, provide intensive training and capacity building for the farmers, carrying out formalities related to much essential organic certification of farmer's groups, establishing systems for community-level production and exchange of seeds, and providing business development support to Bhoomgaadi
More Information about the Program:
Our webpage | Facebook Page | Instagram Page | Articles: YourStory, DowntoEarth, Indian Express
Program Location: Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India
Contact Information: akash.badave@nirmaan.org, +91-9406489449
Updates
23 Oct, 2022
As a part of our efforts to convert Dantewada into 100% organic district, last year 110 villages had passed resolutions to be declared as organic and we had submitted an application to GoI under Large Area Certification (LAC) program. It was a result of traditional tribal wisdom coupled with years of collective efforts. No farmer uses chemical inputs in these villages which cover almost 50% area of the district.
The government had then constituted a high level expert committee to review the application. On 11th October, this committee traveled to Dantewada, visited the field, interacted with the farmers, reviewed the processes followed. In a meeting that followed next day, chaired by the Special Secretory of Agriculture of Chhattisgarh the committee has decided to recommend GoI to certify 110 villages and total area of 65,000 Ha as organic. If remaining formalities go well, this will be the biggest area certified as organic in India under LAC and first of its kind in mainlands. Fingers crossed but hopeful 😊
2 Oct, 2022
- In Dantewada the government has stopped promoting or distributing chemical inputs as a result of the collective work done so far
- In 110 villages of the district no farmer has used chemicals for past five years
- The newly released guidelines of Large Area Certification (LAC) allow for organic certification of entire villages like these in one go
- So, as a step towards the vision of organic Dantewada we decided to focus on certifying these villages under LAC in year 2021-22
- But it was a humongous task which involved reaching out to twice the geographical area of our current engagement with the same team, engaging with Gram Panchayat bodies and every farmer of the village
- Our resource persons facilitated discussion on organic farming in Gram Sabhas across the district
- The resolutions were passed in these 110 villages through Gram Sabha to prohibit any usage of chemical inputs and declare the village as organic
- Village level committees were also formed, empowered to keep the vigilance about usage of chemical inputs
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Akash Badave
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