March was, to a great extent, month busy in planning and presenting plan and budget outlays across the team members and concerned departments. For KMS a comprehensive work plan was developed and presented in front of the team members. An outlay of 6 lakhs was budgeted for first years activity. In first year 120 to 200 farmers were thought to be taken from four different regions of where partners were working.
The highlights of work-plan under various major role heads of CInI specifying activity and expected outcome were as below:
Research and Knowledge Management:
•Maize yield enhancement scope study –
•Market avenue exploratory study- Database for supply chain and value
chain in 4 regions
•Workshops for partners for common visioning (ab initio), comparative analysis (in middle) and cross sharing the learning of KMS (at last) -- Workshop Proceedings & Action Plan for next year
•Farmer shivirs (at last) --- Feed back remarks reflecting their interest to get involved
•Process Documenatation and generation of colloquial IEC material --- IEC material
Idea Incubation:
•PoP development --- PoP developed in consultation with ERP, KVKs, Patner Organisations
•Field Pilots -----10 to 20 field trials in each region
•Field demonstrations for farmers ---- demonstration done to at least 50 farmers per village
•Farmer to farmer learning ---- at least 40% positive feedback remarks collected from farmers
Networking and Co-ordination with
•Regional field partners (for field demos) - Networking with 4 to 6 regional field partners
•KVKs and other Govt. depts. (for wide extension) – At least one extension partner in each region
•Academic Institutions (research interns) – Production of mutual studies and papers
•Market players (for Value and supply chain establishment)- Value chain and supply chain linkages
Undertaking regular Monitoring
•Development of Scale of Growth - Periodic growth analysis
Monitoring and Review
•Periodic progress reviews – Periodic progress review reports and feedbacks for partners
Aim to cover 30,000 farmer families three year perspective plan/ outreach was also shared.
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