Case study -1
Annapurna secures her food and shelter
Puvvala Chandramma belongs to S.T (Jatapu), single women of Marriguda Village of
Biyyalavalasa Panchayat in Kurupam Mandal, Vizianagaram Dist, Andhra Pradesh. She is a
member in Mutyalamma Mahila Sangam. Her
husband
died in 1997. She was shelter less and landless.
So she
was sheltered by her parents. She has no
children.
Her parents have 1.5 acres of dry and rocky
land.
After few years she also lost her parents. She
was
cultivating 1.5 acres dry land but she hasn’t got
much
returns. So she got credits from I.K.P 2 times. In
the 1st
dose she got Rs 4000/- and invested for sheep rearing. In
one year duration she
settled hand loans
and group credits. She
applied for second
dose and bought
2bullocks and started
farming. She was
raising sesame, Ragi and horsegram crops and earn only
Rs 4588/- she was not satisfied with the returns. While
attending the Gramasabha held in Marriguda she came to
know about MKSP – SERP – Annapurna crop model, She got 3day training in Sept 2013, and
start work with colleague beneficiaries as a group work and prepared soil beds, furrows and
trenches and Planted core plants like mango, sapota, guava, pomegranate, Orange, lemon,
Drumstic etc… in the East west direction. Sown different types of crops under poly & inter
cropping methodology.
Crop wise income details during the 1st and 2nd seasons
Sl.No
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Crop
Amaranthus
Kenaf
Raddish
Bitter gourd
Bottle gourd
Ladies finger
Barabati
Brinjal
Ridge gourd
Tomoto
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
Maize
Beans
Cowpea
Green gram
Black gram
Marry gold
Chilly
Sweet potato
Redgram
Annapurna
Yield
46 kattas
85 kattas
68 kattas
32 kgs
89 pods
35 kgs
49 kgs
70 kgs
54 kgs
Rate
10
10
10
30
15
40
40
40
40
Income
460
850
680
960
1335
1400
1960
2800
2160
1440
2
20
50
50
50
100
40
30
30
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1400
770
400
750
500
2500
8795
1005
8kgX40
112kgX10
1055
70 kgs
15.5 kgs
8 kgs
15 kgs
5 Baskets
62.5kgs
293kgs
33.5kgs
Total income Rs 32,275/Surrounding employees, are coming to Chandramma’s
field to buy vegetables, cereals etc… so there is no
difficult for Marketing. She kept Rs 10,000/- to
construction of house under housing scheme.
Seed bank : Chandramma questioning who will gives us
seed for next year? She started to produce all local
varieties of seeds.
Recently Maa T.V Picturised her story and she got best
women farmer cash award by the well know cine hero
Narasimharaju. And also she was honored with
Sankranthi rythu puraskar by the Principle Secretary Rural Development, Andhra Pradesh in
2014.
Case Study 2
Name: Puvvala Kothamma
Husband Name: Puvvala Dhannu
Age : 50 years
SHG Name: Mali Mahila Sangam 1
Village Name : Rayagada Jammu
Gram panchayat : Rayagada Jammu
Mandal: Gummalakshmipuram
District: Vizianagaram
Date of Annapurna crop model started: Aug – 2013
Land owned : 2.50 Acres Rain fed
Puvvala Kothamma is a Tribal woman belongs to Jathapu. She was married in age of 18 years. She was blessed
with 5 daughters. Her husband Puvvala Dannu cultivating 2 ½ acres of Dry land. Her all children studying in different
schools and colleges. Her elder daughter studying B.A in Parvathipuram. It is very difficult to provide nutritional food to
their family. She is a member in SHG and got information about Annapurna model of Agriculture and started work.
During August to March she got sufficient nutritious food and earn as given below.
S. No
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Name of the Crop
Tamota
Brinjal
Marrigold
Cabbage
Maize
Kenalf
Amaranthus
Ridge guard
Bottle guard
Chilies
Green gram
Raddish
Beans
Black gram
Red gram
Groundnut
Total
Yielding
200 kg
100 kg
10 kg
150 nos
20 kattas
30 kattas
20 kg
20 nos
50 kg
10 kg
10 kg
150 kg
15 kg
30 kg
13 kg
Rate
30
30
200
200
3
5
5
30
10
20
40
20
40
30
30
20
Amount
6000
3000
200
200
450
100
150
600
200
1000
400
200
6000
450
900
260
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