Acknowledgement
District IPM Farmers Society, Rautahat feels great pleasure to express sincere gratitude to
Ms. Carol Djeddah, Lead Technical Officer, FAO Rome for her meticulous concern with the
Junior Farmers Field and Life School in Rautahat.
The society expresses its deepest acknowledgement to Ms. Bui Thi Lan, FAO Representative
in Nepal for her kind concern, inspiring guidance and opportunity for conduction of Junior
Farmers Field and Life School under Jobs for Peace programme.
The society takes the opportunity to express sincere gratitude to Mr Jaap Van de Pol, FAO
International Consultant on JFFLS, for his precious contribution to establish this programme
for the first time in Nepal.
Similarly, it also expresses cordial thanks and bottomless sense of gratitude to Mr. Laxman
Prasad Gautam, Assistant FAO Representative in Nepal, Mr. Sonam Dhakwa gempo, FAO
Administrative Officer, Mr. Choodamani Bhandari, FAO Programme officer and all other
concerned staff members for their constructive suggestions, valuable support, cordial help
and kind cooperation.
Likewise, IPM Society, Rautahat takes honour to express hearty acknowledgment to Mr.
Arun Kumar kayastha, National Coordinator, Jobs for Peace Programme, for his inspiring
guidance, encouragement, and incredible support rendered throughout the programme
period. It extends its gratitude to Ms Raj Kumari Jha, Project Assistant, Jobs for Peace
Programme for her continuous constructive suggestions, and close coordination during
programme implementation. Society wish to thank Mr. Thakur Chauhan, National
Coordinator, Jobs for Peace Programme and Mr. Badri Bishal Karmacharya, Monitoring and
Evaluation Specialist, Jobs for Peace Programme, for their support to JFFLS.
The Society is grateful to Mr. Om Prakash Karna and Mr. Ram Prakash Sah, Senior
Agriculture Development Officers and also to Mr. Ram Ekbal Saha, IPM Facilitator, and
other staff of District Agriculture Development Office, Rautahat, Dr. Jeevan Singh, Chief,
District Livestock Service Office and IPM facilitator for their support and cooperation to this
programme.
Finally, the deepest acknowledgment goes to all the JFFLS facilitators, participants, parents
of the participants, VDC representatives and others, directly or indirectly concerned
personalities for active and enthusiastic facilitation, participation, unforgettable hospitality
and outstanding support to run JFFLS effectively and successfully.
District IPM Farmers Society, Rautahat
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Executive Summary
Jobs for Peace Programme, supported by FAO Nepal selected 10 VDCs out of 96
VDCs in Rautahat for its programme implementation. IPM Farmers Society, Rautahat
organized 10 Junior Farmers Field and Life Schools in the selected Programme VDCs for
the first time in Nepal with its great initiation and proper management. The classes
were conducted on winter season vegetable crops from the beginning of January 2010
to the end of July 2010 with financial support of FAO Nepal. The main objective of JFFLS
conduction is to empower the youths with the skill of promoting economical farming
and capacitate them to identify for proper linkage with the market for enterprise
development in inclusive way by forming groups of youths giving high priority to the
welfare of under or unemployed youths (boys and girls) from poor, dalit and scheduled
caste and communities.
The JFFLS experiment showed that 20-25% production was increased with 60%
reduction in use of chemical pesticide. They have learnt to grow healthy vegetables for
healthy, wealthy and safe life. A total of 300 participants graduated from JFFLS
including 50% girl participants. By this programme JFFLS participants were empowered
and became expert in their own field. The participants received trainings on capacity
building, observation, analyzing, decision making and organizing skills. Through this
programme, request was made to various development organizations to pay attention
on the performance of junior farmer’s organization/network and to grant necessary
assistance, so that they can perform such type of work independently. After completion
of JFFLS, participants learnt the importance of balanced dose of chemical fertilizer
for healthy crop production as well as diseases and insect pests management. Being
impressed by IPM methodology participants felt that they can do organic farming. They
learnt the importance of balanced diet, personal and social hygiene maintenance to be
safe from diseases and some basic skills of business with available resources for income
generation.
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At the end of JFFLS, the participants were able to produce healthy crop with minimal
financial resources using local dung fertilizer and local bio and botanical pesticides.
They also learnt best techniques to do vegetable farming safely by preventing health
hazards of chemical. Moreover, they also learnt to generate income and to plan
business based on local resources.
The JFFLSs in Rautahat is registered as youth farmers group at District Agriculture
Development Office, Rautahat with the aim of registering into cooperatives for the
sustainability of the programme. The participating youths promoted JFFLS very well
during celebration of the graduation day.
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