Agriculture Income through Skill Improvement of the agriculture labourers

The project objective is to enhance the skills of agriculture labourers/youths on modern agriculture equipment with the support of technology. The key strategy is skill development training to the youth.  There will be a training of in house training of 25 days and practical training of 25 days (Training Plan in attached in Annexure) will be conducted for the selected beneficiaries.  The training will be provides on different stretches over a period of time based on the agriculture seasons( Rabi and khariff).  The training is focused on enhancing the skills to use the modern equipment’s related to agriculture such as driving a tractor and maintenance of it, Repair and maintance of Tilege equipment and field operation of soil farming equipment, harvesting and thrashing equipment, spraying and dusting,  etc. 

The idea is to develop  SMART Agriculture workers in every district with improved knowledge of agriculture operations and know-how of agriculture equipments. It is an innovative intervention first of its kind in the state of MP to strengthening the capacity of Small and Marginal farmers. Majority of farmers they depend on landless labourers belong to ST and SC. These agri labour are getting social security under the Mukhyamantri Mandoor Suraksh scheme but no skill development input engaged in their own profession. These smart workers will be connected through a network managed by Gramodyog sansthan so that these resources get utilized across the district.

These trainees will be orgnised into a SELF HELP GROUPS as per the norms and these groups will be linked with the NRLM to access the benefit of the schemes.  They will go under this training programme and  as a result they will produce organic manure for their own needs as well as for sale purpose. They will not only get regular income  through selling of organic manure but also this organic manure will improve the soil health.

Each and every beneficiary trained under the project will be given a SMART TOOL KIT for the daily operational use. These beneficiaries were not only trained on modern equipment’s but also basic agricultural practices to be done in their respective district. 

More over Project also envision to continuously support the beneficiary through continued agricultural education through the help of a mobile application. This application will help the youths to continuously update their knowledge and review the knowledge they have gained.  Mobile Application will also gave information about the weather forecasting and market scenario.

Training on know-how of farming equipments including crop reseduce management, land preparation, planting, crop management, harvesting and post-harvest processing. The empowered agricultural laboureres will reduce the service cost of machine and tools and labour by up to 50% for the farmers. Farmers will be benefited from their service of bare foot engineers and also save lot of time and transportation cost on machine and service.

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