Harmonizing biodiversity conservation and agricultural
intensification through integration of plant, animal and fish
genetic resources for livelihood security in fragile ecosystems
Component 3 (SRLS). Project Code: 30036
Lead consortium
NBPGR, 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
Objectives
1.
Assessment, documentation and valuation of on- farm agrobiodiversity 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
~100%
(Except NBAGR)
NBPGR, New Delhi: RA- 3, SRF- 3
NBAGR, Karnal: RA- 2, SRF – 2
NBFGR, Lucknow: RA-2, SRF- 2
CSKHPKV, Palampur: RA-1, SRF- 2
MPUAT, Udaipur: RA-1, SRF- 2
ANGRAU, Hyderabad: SRF- 1
APSBDB, Hyderabad: SRF-2
Office Assistant
NBPGR, New Delhi: 1
100%
Objective wise promised deliverables
Objective
Activities
Assessment,
 Survey and
documentation
inventorization of local
and valuation of
bioresources - amount of
on-farm agrodiversity present
biodiversity for • Factors influencing
livelihood and
genetic diversity
food security
 Social, cultural and
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Achievement
• 60-70% area of all
districts systematically
combed
• Data on general farming
practices, carrying
capacity of the traditional
production systems etc.
being documented
economic
Agroecosystem- natural
• Loss of biodiversity over
and farmer managed
Agromorphological,
time and space assessed
farmer selection and
• Studies on population
maintenance
biology currently
Population biology
underway
Local level seed systems
Objective
Activities
Achievement
Assessment of
economic
potential of
target species
vis-a-vis cost
and effect of
conservation
Cost-effectiveness analysis in • Crop, animal and fish
terms of uniqueness and
genetic resource for various
usefulness of diversity
benefit enhancing “addvalue” interventions
 Important for local
identified and currently
livelihoods
being investigated for
 Important for national
nutritional and livelihood
breeding programmes
security of local farmers
 Important for future food
security
• Data generation on
 Important for national
uniqueness and usefulness
consumption or sale
of all other lesser known
 High, useful, or important
local genetic resources
diversity contained in the
used in subsistence farming
country
is underway for their future
 Rare or endangered species potential use
Genetic resources for “add-value” intervention
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 trout
Udaipur: Labeo rajasthanicus, minor carps, Channa marulius, integrated
aquaculture and ornamental fish culture
Adilabad: 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
Objective
Activities
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.
2.
3.
4.
Achievement
• Developing community
information system and
using information for
action plan is currently
The amount and distribution of
underway. CBRs and
genetic diversity being maintained
local knowledge
in traditional farming
documentation system is
The processes being used to
being worked out.
maintain this diversity
The social, economic, cultural and • Potential options to "add
environmental factors influencing
value" to local resources,
farmers to maintain diversity oncurrently underway, are
farm
being implemented
The people maintaining this
through collaboration
diversity in terms of gender, age,
between the community
ethnic and social or economic
and the national GR
status in the community
system.
Objective
Activities
 Improving the material itself
Adding value to targeted
• Participatory varietal/breed selection
species/ populations
• Strengthening farmers' seed/breed management
through technological
interventions for
 Improved farmers' access to genetic materials
enhancing rural livelihood
• CBR and genebanks
security
• 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
Red rice
Chamba rajmash
• 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
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
Hulled red rice
Packaged rajmash
Value added milk
product (khowa)
Maize (Malan) Papad
Popped sorghum
Serving Size 1/4 cup (45g)
Amount per serving
Calories 150
Calories from Fat 0
Hide Daily Values
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
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 0g
0%
Saturated Fat 0g
Cholesterol 0mg
Sodium 0mg
0%
0%
0%
Total Carbohydrates 36g
Dietary Fiber 2g
12%
Protein 3g
Vitamin A
0% Vitamin C
0%
Calcium
Magnesium
0% Iron
8%
2%
%
* 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
Objective
Activities
Achievement
Capacity building
in agrobiodiversity
management for
livelihood security
Organize training camps
on nutrition and health
management of livestocks;
processing, and other “addvalue” 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)
Funds
Released2011-12
TA
Workshop
Contractual
Services
Operational
Expenses
Training
Equipment
Furniture
Works/
Renovation
Others
Total
Funds
% Utilization
Utilized up up to Sept
to Sept 2011 2011
Cumulative
(in lakhs)
Funds
Released
Funds
Utilized
%
Utilization
5.46
0.5908
19.3
5.88
2.35
23.27
107.7
397.8
120.6
24.22
4.71
71.51
22.41
7.70
68.13
92.53
163.48
95.27
21.2
20.9
98.6
145.41
111.36
76.58
0
0
0
0
0.372
0
0
1.17
0
0
0
0
14.77
77.15
1
50
9.07
65.67
0.90
42.97
61.41
85.12
90.00
85.94
0
46.55
0.8156
54.76
0
117.6
2.5
391.27
3.49
331.70
139.60
84.78
No. of meetings held
CIC: 4
1st CIC Meeting 21 March, 2010 at NBPGR, New Delhi
2nd CIC meeting 19th January 2011 at NBPGR, New Delhi
3rd CIC meeting 23-24 March, 2011at MPUAT, Udaipur
4th 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 Delhi
3rd CAC meeting 23-24 March, 2011at MPUAT, Udaipur
4th 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 implemented
Environmental
Positive
benefits
Social
Negative Efforts
Positive
effects
to
benefits
minimize
negative
effects
Cultivation of
Nil
local varieties
linked with lowinput, or organic,
farming can
support farming
systems through
improving
agroecosystem
health and
stability
N.A.
• High price
premia for
traditional
landraces in
domestic and
international
markets
• No variety
alone satisfies
all of the
farmers’
concerns
Negative
effects
Efforts to minimize
negative effects
Anti• Social recognition by
farmer
promoting non-economic
policy
rewards for conservation
distortions 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
Augmenting the
• UMMB are being regularly
availability of the
distributed to selected families
nutrients from fibrous
in the target cluster villages
crop residues through
for productivity enhancement
urea ensiling, UMB
and improving health and
feeding and
productivity status of local
desi cattle.
increasing the
availability of green
fodder by distributing • Further, to augment the
and planting Setaria
availability of green fodder
and Napier cuttings
for feeding throughout the
along the village
year, about 5000 Napier root
bunds and common
cuttings have been planted in
grazing lands
Villlage Sanghani and Gola in
the first phase during the last
monsoon
Impact
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
Productivity (q/ac)
3.86
7.36
Income (Rs.)
15466
29466
Labour employed (man-days)
30
48
Cost-benefit ratio
1.9
2.56
Productivity (q/ac)
3.1
4.9
Income (Rs.)
9300
14700
Labour employed (man-days)
14
20
Cost-benefit ratio
1.69
2.26
Productivity (q/ac)
5.25
7.25
Income (Rs.)
11550
15950
Labour employed (man-days)
16
21
Cost-benefit ratio
2.68
2.95
Productivity (t/ac)
3.60
6.88
Income (Rs.)
57600
110000
Labour employed (man-days)
65
90
Cost-benefit ratio
1.92
2.97
Cotton
(2010-11)
Redgram
(2010-11)
Bengalram
(2010-11)
Dolichos bean
(2010-11)
Key performance indicators
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
Publications
•
•
•
•
•
•
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
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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