Harmonizing biodiversity conservation and agricultural intensification through integration of plant,...

Harmonizing biodiversity conservation and agricultural intensification through integration of plant, animal and fish

genetic resources for livelihood security in fragile ecosystemsComponent 3 (SRLS). Project Code: 30036

Lead consortiumNBPGR, New Delhi

Consortium Partners NBAGR, Karnal; NBFGR, Lucknow; CSKHPKV, Palampur;

MPUAT, Udaipur; ANGRAU, Hyderabad; APSBDB, Hyderabad; Seva Mandir, Udaipur

Budget (revised) : Rs. 937.58 Lakhs (2010-13) Date of Sanction : 10 September 2009 Fund release : 22 January 2010

Objectives1. Assessment, documentation and valuation of on- farm agro-

biodiversity for livelihood and food security

2. Assessment of economic potential of target species vis-a-vis cost and effect of conservation

3. Development of an information management system to facilitate planned intervention for conservation, sustainable utilization of targeted species/ population and enhanced market access

4. Adding value to targeted species/populations through technological interventions for enhancing rural livelihood security

5. Capacity building in agro-biodiversity management for livelihood security

Critical gaps• How can biodiversity be mainstreamed in production landscapes?

• How do initiatives, such as training in sustainable harvesting, affect the capacity of small scale or subsistence producers to utilize threatened habitats without inflicting further harm?

• How can local bio-resources be linked to market and economic development of rural poor?

• How are intellectual property rights important to conservation and the sustainable use of biodiversity?

• How have past changes in agricultural biodiversity affected rural livelihoods and nutritional security?

• What are the impacts of climate change on agricultural biodiversity and loss of agricultural biodiversity on adaptability to climate change?

Interventions to bridge these gaps • Inventory of local bioresources and prioritizing diversity and farming

systems for “add value” interventions

• Investigating different options for “adding value” to plant, animal and fish populations in a given social, economic and ecological context through:

Improving the material Improved farmer access to genetic materials Increasing consumer demand for products

• Other interventions and management support to local resources Rain water harvesting structures Vermicomposting Animal health and nutrient management Fisheries related interventions including ornamental fish culture, etc.

Status on Recruitment of Contractual Services for the Year 2010-11, 2011-12 (HYR)

Positions No. of Positions approved Estimated time of staff in position, %

RAs/ SRFs 9 RA / 14 SRF

NBPGR, New Delhi: RA- 3, SRF- 3NBAGR, Karnal: RA- 2, SRF – 2NBFGR, Lucknow: RA-2, SRF- 2CSKHPKV, Palampur: RA-1, SRF- 2MPUAT, Udaipur: RA-1, SRF- 2ANGRAU, Hyderabad: SRF- 1APSBDB, Hyderabad: SRF-2

~100%(Except NBAGR)

Office Assistant NBPGR, New Delhi: 1 100%

Objective wise promised deliverables Objective Activities Achievement

Assessment, documentation and valuation of on-farm agro-biodiversity for livelihood and food security

Survey and inventorization of local bioresources - amount of diversity present

• Factors influencing genetic diversity

Social, cultural and economic

Agroecosystem- natural and farmer managed

Agromorphological, farmer selection and maintenance

Population biology Local level seed systems

• 60-70% area of all districts systematically combed

• Data on general farming practices, carrying capacity of the traditional production systems etc. being documented

• Loss of biodiversity over time and space assessed

• Studies on population biology currently underway

Objective Activities Achievement

Assessment of economic potential of target species vis-a-vis cost and effect of conservation

Cost-effectiveness analysis in terms of uniqueness and usefulness of diversity

Important for local livelihoodsImportant for national breeding programmesImportant for future food securityImportant for national consumption or saleHigh, useful, or important diversity contained in the countryRare or endangered species

• Crop, animal and fish genetic resource for various benefit enhancing “add-value” interventions identified and currently being investigated for nutritional and livelihood security of local farmers

• Data generation on uniqueness and usefulness of all other lesser known local genetic resources used in subsistence farming is underway for their future potential use

Plant

Chamba: Red rice, rajmash and maize (popping and sugary type)

Udaipur: Maize (Malan and Sathi), Sorghum (Desi jowari)

Adilabad: Scented rice (Chittimuthyallu), sorghum, red gram, green gram and black gram

Animal Chamba: Local cattle, gaddi sheep and goat

Udaipur: Gir cow, Surti buffaloes, Sirohi goats and Sonadi sheep

Adilabad: Non-descript local animal: cow (Ponganur, Ongole, Red Kandhari), buffalo (Surti type), goat (Osmanabadi, Konkan Kanyal, Jamunapari), sheep (Nellore)

Fish Chamba: Rainbow trout, Arctic Char, Common carp , Snow troutUdaipur: Labeo rajasthanicus, minor carps, Channa marulius, integrated aquaculture and ornamental fish cultureAdilabad: Carps - Labeo rohita, Cirrhinus mrigala, Labeo calbasu; catfishes - Mystus sp, Wallago attu; eel, Mastacembellus armatus; featherback, Notopterus notopterus; small indigenous species, Chanda nama and freshwater prawn, Macrobrachrium rosenbergii

Genetic resources for “add-value” intervention


Development of an information management system to facilitate planned intervention for conservation, sustainable utilization of targeted species/ population and enhanced market access

Sampling, structuring, documenting and presenting information for action plans particularly

1.The amount and distribution of genetic diversity being maintained in traditional farming2.The processes being used to maintain this diversity3.The social, economic, cultural and environmental factors influencing farmers to maintain diversity on-farm4.The people maintaining this diversity in terms of gender, age, ethnic and social or economic status in the community

• Developing community information system and using information for action plan is currently underway. CBRs and local knowledge documentation system is being worked out.

• Potential options to "add value" to local resources, currently underway, are being implemented through collaboration between the community and the national GR system.

Objective Activities

Adding value to targeted species/ populations through technological interventions for enhancing rural livelihood security

Improving the material itself • Participatory varietal/breed selection• Strengthening farmers' seed/breed management

Improved farmers' access to genetic materials • CBR and genebanks • Seed/breed exchange networks • Linking farmers' seed/ breed supply systems to the

formal sector • Incorporating local resources into agricultural

extension packages • Diversity fairs

Increasing consumer demand • Adding value through processing • Organic farming

Other technological and marketing interventions

Achievements

Improving the material itself

•Over 300 on-farm and on-station demonstration trials conducted

• > 80 ha area in Chamba, 40 ha in Udaipur and 330 ha in Adilabad currently under traditional landraces of above crops with an average of about 350 farm households involved under crop component in each district

•Breed improvement interventions using locally available superior germplasm has started creating desired impact and farmers are greatly benefited participating in these interventions

Red rice Chamba rajmash

Malan maize Local sorghum

Ongole bull

Sirohi goat

Gaddi sheep

Desi poultry

Improved farmers' access to genetic materials

•CBRs

•Community Genebanks

•Diversity fairs

Community Seedbank at Som village Udaipur

Increasing consumer demand

•Adding value through processing•Organic farming

Value added milk product (khowa)

Hulled red rice Packaged rajmash

Maize (Malan) Papad Popped sorghum

Product Features•Himalayan whole grain rice, imported from Bhutan •Grown at 8,000 feet, irrigated with glacier water •Cooks in only 20 minutes •Complex nutty flavor, beautiful russet color •Soft texture, handcrafted, heirloom rice, grown without pesticides and herbicides

Serving Size 1/4 cup (45g)

Amount per serving

Calories 150 Calories from Fat 0

Hide Daily Values % Daily Value*

Total Fat 0g 0%

Saturated Fat 0g 0%

Cholesterol 0mg 0%

Sodium 0mg 0%

Total Carbohydrates 36g 12%

Dietary Fiber 2g

Protein 3g

Vitamin A 0% Vitamin C 0%

Calcium 0% Iron 2%

Magnesium 8% %

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

This rice became available in the United States in the mid 1990s when Lotus Foods began importing it

Other interventions/innovative technologies

Vermicompost unit Compost ready for sale

Fisheries interventions at Udaipur and Adilabad

Vaccination camp

Polylined tanks at Chamba Pond technology at Adilabad


Capacity building in agro-biodiversity management for livelihood security

Organize training camps on nutrition and health management of livestocks; processing, and other “add-value” interventions including awareness generation on biodiversity conservation and use

More than 20 training and awareness camps on various aspects of genetic resource management and use have been organized in which local farmers participated and got benefited

Status of Procurement of major items, Funds Released, Utilized and % utilization

During the years 2011-12 (in lakhs)

Cumulative (in lakhs)

Funds Released- 2011-12

Funds Utilized up to Sept 2011

% Utilization up to Sept 2011

Funds Released

Funds Utilized

% Utilization

TA 5.46 5.88 107.7 24.22 22.41 92.53Workshop 0.5908 2.35 397.8 4.71 7.70 163.48Contractual Services

19.3 23.27 120.6 71.51 68.13 95.27

Operational Expenses

21.2 20.9 98.6 145.41 111.36 76.58

Training 0 0.372 0 14.77 9.07 61.41Equipment 0 0 0 77.15 65.67 85.12Furniture 0 0 0 1 0.90 90.00Works/ Renovation

0 1.17 0 50 42.97 85.94

Others 0 0.8156 0 2.5 3.49 139.60Total 46.55 54.76 117.6 391.27 331.70 84.78

No. of meetings heldCIC: 4 1st CIC Meeting 21 March, 2010 at NBPGR, New Delhi

2nd CIC meeting 19th January 2011 at NBPGR, New Delhi3rd CIC meeting 23-24 March, 2011at MPUAT, Udaipur4th CIC meeting 13th Sept. 2011 at NBPGR, New Delhi

CMU: 2 1st CMU Meeting 27th Oct 2009 at NBPGR, New Delhi 2nd CMU Meeting 23-24 March, 2011at MPUAT, Udaipur CAC: 4 1st CAC meeting 21March, 2010 at NBPGR, New Delhi

2nd CAC meeting 19th January 2011 at NBPGR, New Delhi3rd CAC meeting 23-24 March, 2011at MPUAT, Udaipur4th CAC meeting 13th Sept. 2011 at NBPGR, New Delhi

Synergy with on-going programmes• Attempts underway to include local resources in agricultural extension

packages• Collaboration with State Biodiversity Boards on issues related to farmer

empowerment

Sustainability funds generated: Rs. 70, 544

E&S framework developed and implementedEnvironmental Social

Positive benefits

Negative effects

Efforts to minimize negative effects

Positive benefits

Negative effects

Efforts to minimize negative effects

Cultivation of local varieties linked with low-input, or organic, farming can support farmingsystems through improving agroecosystem health and stability

Nil N.A. • High price premia for traditional landraces in domestic and international markets

• No variety alone satisfies all of the farmers’ concerns

Anti-farmer policy distortions

• Social recognition by promoting non-economic rewards for conservation of agro-biodiversity

• Marketing support though labelling system not only provides direct rewards to growers, but also help to raise public consciousness of the importance of diversity and the need for public policies to sustain it

Success stories/ up-scaled technologies Title Intervention ImpactAugmenting the availability of the nutrients from fibrous crop residues through urea ensiling, UMB feeding and increasing the availability of green fodder by distributing and planting Setaria and Napier cuttings along the village bunds and common grazing lands

• UMMB are being regularly distributed to selected families in the target cluster villages for productivity enhancement and improving health and productivity status of local desi cattle.

• Further, to augment the

availability of green fodder for feeding throughout the year, about 5000 Napier root cuttings have been planted in Villlage Sanghani and Gola in the first phase during the last monsoon

Enhanced milk production upto 1 kg recorded, providing enough economic and nutritional security to farm households

UMMB distributed to farmers at Chamba (H.P.)

Title Intervention Impact

Demonstration of simple and convenient process of scientific and hygienic production of value-added milk products (Khoa) for adoption by farm households to extend the shelf-life of milk

The farmers were organized to collect milk by forming the SHG and process the same into khoa for profitable marketing. To achieve this, the farmers were provided ‘hands-on training’ and technical skills for quality khoa production. Khoa making machine was provided to the group by NBAGR. Generally 5-6 litre milk is required to produce 1 kg khoa. The sale price of 1 kg khoa in nearby market is Rs. 160/-. The working cost per kg khoa produced is Rs. 15/-including labour cost. The net profit from the 1 kg khoa is Rs. 73/- (Price of khoa is Rs. 160/- minus milk and processing cost is Rs. 87/-).

Value enhanced from Rs. 12/- to Rs. 24/- per L

Extended Shelf life of the processed product : 7 days under room temperature (21 days if cool storage facility is provided)

Standard quality product (Khowa)

Farm pond technology at Adilabad

Crop Parameters Traditional Practice Innovative practice

Tomato(2011-12)

Productivity (t/ac) 8.2 14.0

Income (Rs.) 82000 140000

Labour employed (man-days) 48 76

Cost-benefit ratio 1.82 2.54

Cotton(2010-11)

Productivity (q/ac) 3.86 7.36

Income (Rs.) 15466 29466



Redgram(2010-11)


Income (Rs.) 9300 14700



Bengalram(2010-11)


Income (Rs.) 11550 15950



Dolichos bean(2010-11)

Productivity (t/ac) 3.60 6.88

Income (Rs.) 57600 110000



Indicator Baseline Value

Performance

April to Sept 2011

Cumulative

Number of improved technologies made available in disadvantaged areas

Nil - 3

Number of improved technologies adopted in disadvantaged areas

Nil - 3

Number of farmers using these technologies in disadvantaged areas

Nil - -

Increase in agriculture services and processing enterprises in project area

Nil - -

Increase in agriculture-based employment in participating farming households

Nil - -

Number of farmer groups involved in project component activities

Nil - 4

Key performance indicators

•Bulletins/ Manuals: 7•Leaflets/ handouts: 6•Brochure: 4•Survey Proforma: 3•Popular articles: 1•Research papers: 2 (communicated)•Video films 2•News-paper clippings: 24

Publications

Major constraints• Difficulty in documenting impact assessment of various

interventions on daily basis (provision of hiring local level Field Assistants)

• Documenting unique diversity (additional funding for quality analysis from referral/ established labs.)

• Community interventions: Difficulty in forming SHGs/ BMCs/ Cooperatives

• Marketing interventions- provision of hiring consultant for developing marketing model

• Sustainability funds - Limited opportunity

• Monitoring mechanisms for sustainability of interventions

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