PROMOTING ZERO-BUDGET NATURAL FARMING IN JAWHAR AND MOKHADA DISTRICTS

Environmentally sustainable and economically viable agricultural model.

Partner organization

Goals

Promoting Zero-Budget Natural Agriculture in Jawhar and Mokhada areas and make agriculture an economically viable, healthy and environmentally friendly activity.

Beneficiaries

120 farming families in the Jawhar and Mokhada districts.

Protagonists

Overview

Multi-year project to promote the Zero-Budget Natural Agriculture model. The beneficiary families receive the necessary training and support for the cultivation of one acre of land, the fencing of the land and the cementing of the farmyard. In the first year, 10 farmers from Jawhar district were selected and trained, who were responsible for training 20 more farmers the following year. In the third year, following the same procedure, 30 more farmers were trained, so that at the end of the three years, 60 farming families were trained and 60 acres of land were cultivated under this system.

At the end of the first phase, the production of the participating families increased by 166%, which meant 198% increase in their profits. In the second phase (2022-2024), fruit tree planting will be introduced among the beneficiary families of the first phase. In addition, the model implemented in the previous phase will be replicated in the Mokhada area to train an additional 60 farming families.

Execution period

– 1st phase: April 2019 – March 2022

– 2nd phase: April 2022 – March 2024

Budget

– Total budget 1st phase 2019 – 2022: 64,133.32 EUR

– Local contribution 1st phase 2019 – 2022: 3,577.40 EUR

– FUNDACIÓN ISABEL MARTÍN contribution 1st phase: 60,555.92 EUR

– Total budget 2022-2023: 37,445.70 EUR

– Local contribution 2022-2023: 10,945.70 EUR

– FUNDACIÓN ISABEL MARTÍN contribution 2022-2023: 26,500.00 EUR

Location

Walvande, Maharashtra, India