Success Stories
Title of Innovation
Diversification in vegetable and strawberry Production
Thematic Area
Crop Diversification
Profie of Innovator
Name :- Sri AshutoshPandey
Village + Post :– NayaBhojpur
Block :- Dumrao
Dist :– Buxar
Pin :- 802119
Mobile No. :- 09431682188
Age : – 48 Yrs.
Education :- Master in Marketing Management
Size of land holding (Ha): - 5.0
Problem/Challenge addressed
Unavailability of good quality planting material of strawberry and market linkage.
Description of innovative Practice/Technology
Mr. AshutoshPanday grows different vegetables around the year. He produces potato, beans, capsicum, cowpea and coriander for off season. Along with these vegetables he started strawberry cultivation for the first time in Buxar district started in 2016 in an area of 0.25 ha because of last year good income (Rs ) and area increased to 0.4 ha in 2017. He harvested 5 tonnes/acre strawberry fruits and sold it at the rate Rs 100 to 200/kg on the basis of market and demand in local as well as Patna market. He got net income from strawberry cultivation of Rs 320,000 per acre. Enhanced the income by 320 times as compare to previous. He also produces potato and green beans in broad bed and in each bed two row of potato and green bean seed were planted. He obtained 140 q/acre potato yield and green beans yield 50-55 q/acre as well as coriander in an area of 500 m2 produced for the month of August and September and he earn Rs. 50000. He also grows vegetable cowpea in spring season in an area of 2 acre and harvested 60 q/acre yield of green pod. This diversification with vegetables he earn an income above Rs 8 lakh/annum.
Practical utility
He introduced strawberry along with vegetables viz. Potato, green bean, coriander and vegetable cowpea in his vegetable cropping system. Because of spread effect of this intervention neighboring farmers are also adopting the same intervention for profitability and sustainability in the system.
Source of information
A source of Income generation technology by KrishiVigyan Kendra (ICAR RCER) Buxar, Bihar.
Economics of different crops
During Last 05 Year 2012-17
Crops | Cost of cultivation (Rs/ha) | Gross return (Rs/ha) | Net return (Rs/ha) | Benefit cost ratio |
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Strawberry | 450000 | 1250000 | 800000 | 1.78 |
Potato | 86500 | 210000 | 123500 | 1.42 |
Beans | 90000 | 246600 | 156600 | 1.74 |
Vegetable Cowpea | 56000 | 150000 | 94000 | 1.67 |
Potential : Acceptance level, horizontal spread of innovation and number of farmer adopting
Farmers coming forward to adopt this technology by 30 farmers by using this intervention.
Please detailed the photos with Caption
A view of strawberry
Potato crop field view
Green bean field view
Vegetable cowpea field view
Honored by Mr. Radha Mohan Singh Ho’ble Union Minister of Agril& FW, GOI
Title of Innovation
Livelihood security through Beekeeping
Thematic Area
Beekeeping
Profie of Innovator
Name :- Sri Manoj Kumar Singh
Village :- Rasen
Post :- Rajpur
Block :- Rajpur
Dist :– Buxar
Pin :- 802128
Mobile No.:- 9576110626 / 9939375217 Age :– 34 Yrs.
Education :- Intermediate
Size of land holding (Ha): - 0.75
Problem/Challenge addressed
Availability of flora in off season and marketing of honey
Description of innovative Practice/Technology
Mr. Manoj Kumar is a marginal farmer in village Rasen, block Rajpur District Buxar, Bihar. He has about one hectare land for cultivation. Earlier, he was a worried and fearful farmer and was unable to fulfill his family’s requirement and conditioned was hand to mouth. He came into contact with some beekeepers in Buxar and started beekeeping. But due to lack of theoretical and practical knowledge of Beekeeping, he could not able to attain the position to fulfill their family requirement. A transformation happened in his life when he attended a Five days Beekeeping training for Rural youth entitled “Beekeeping.
He again restarted Beekeeping under the guidance of KVK Buxar. Specialist of KVK Buxar told him to keep their bee hives in Buxar near the mustard and drum stick crop in November to mid-February. He began with 50 beehives and divided it into 92 bee hives in 3 months. Mr. Manoj Kumar started extraction of honey with the help of honey extractor in month of December and sold to the market @ of 75-85 Rupees per kilogram. In the month of December, he earned about Rs. 3000.00 by sale of 40 kilogram of honey.
In the month of January, production of crop was very high and through five times extraction of honey, he collected about 200 kg honey. At that time he earned about 17000.00 rupees by selling produce @ Rs.85 per kg to broker.
At present he has 850 bee hives and six skilled labour to look the apiary and extraction of honey. Presently he earns Rs 8 to 10 lakh per year and satisfied with own business.
Practical utility
Bee keeping is income generating and given the opportunity for employment generation.
Source of information
A source of Income generation technology by KrishiVigyan Kendra (ICAR RCER) Buxar.
Economics of bee keeping
Honey bee unit | Cost of cultivation | Gross return | Net return | Benefit cost ratio |
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850 unit | 1025000 | 2125000 | 1100000 | 1.07 |
Potential : Acceptance level, horizontal spread of innovation and number of farmer adopting
Please detailed the photos with Caption
Acceptance level is average and now a days more than 50 number of rural youth engaged in bee keeping
Training on honey bee
View of honey bee in bee box
View of honey bee unit
ZERO TILLAGE TECHNOLOGY : An option for sustainable rice-wheat cropping system
Agro-ecology, Farming Situation Analysis with Problem Statement
The climate of the area is semi-arid subtropical, characterized by very hot summers and cool winters. The hottest months are May and June, when the maximum temperature reaches 45–46 ◦C, whereas during December and January, the coldest months of the year, the temperature often drops below 5 ◦C. The average annual rainfall is 1100 mm, 65–82% of which is received through the northwest monsoons during July to October. Rice-wheat cropping system is dominant cropping system of Buxar district and covers 108,000 ha area. Farmers of the district growing long duration rice varieties (MTU 7029) and semi-medium duration variety (BPT 5204). Transplanting of rice started end of June and completed up to first fortnight of August. Late harvesting of rice leads to delayed sowing of wheat. Wheat crop faced the terminal heat problem at the time of heading and grain filling stage, sometime crop lodge due to poor and shallow root establishment and productivity of wheat is very low up to 2.8 t/ha.
Brief Description of Technology, Justification Including Innovation
KVK started the training, awareness and frontline demonstration programme for advancing the sowing date of wheat crop by using zero tillage machine. KVK, Buxar started front line demonstration on zero tillage sowing of wheat in several parts of district in 2012 and continuously giving more emphasis on zero tillage technology (ZTT). KVK organized the field tour, front line demonstration and develop the private service providers for promotion of zero tillage. On and off campus training programme were organized for operation and maintenance of zero tillage machine. Result of zero tillage sowing was glaring, input saving, early crop establishment and producing the high crop yield. The terminal heat and lodging problem was also reduced due to early sowing and establishment of crop in proper depth. Zero tillage sowing of wheat was also promoted by different project of KVK viz. Farmers Participatory Action Research Programme (FPARP), National Innovation on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA), Improved Rice Based Rainfed Agricultural System (IRRAS) and Cereal System Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) project.
Impact Analysis
Impact factor | Before Adoption | After Adoption |
---|---|---|
Farmer Practice | Conventional tillage and broadcasting of wheat seed @ 160 kg/ha | Zero tillage sowing of wheat @ 100-120 kg/ha |
Yield of Product | 2800 kg/ha | 4500 kg/ha |
Fixed Cost | 23000 | 20000 |
Recurring Cost | 5000 | 4000 |
Gross Income | 44800 | 72000 |
Net Profit | 16800 | 48000 |
B:C Ratio | 1.71 | 3.0 |
Marketing | Local market | Farmers producer groups/ITC etc |
Dissemination of knowledge in the locality | Farmers knowledge sharing, Radio | Group meeting, Training, Field day, Tour and exposure visit, KisanMelaetc |
Knowledge gain based on 1- 5 scale* | 1 | 5 |
Feeling of economic security based on 1- 5 scale* | 1 | 4 |
Ability to understand and solve problems based on 1- 5 scale* | 1 | 4 |
Self image in community based on 1- 5 scale* | 2 | 5 |
Self confidence based on 1- 5 scale* | 1 | 5 |
* 1- 5 scale indicates 1 = lowest and 5 = highest
Benefits (Economical and Social)
Adopting of zero tillage technology with high yielding wheat varieties; productivity of wheat per unit area was increases and input cost viz. field preparation, seed rate, fertilizer cost, irrigation cost and weed management cost was reduced and farmers more benefitted. The social acceptances of technology and government subsidy on zero tillage accelerate the adoption of technology. Farmers getting the more profit under zero tillage and social status of the community was also improved.
Adoption, Spread, Up Scaling of Technology and Future Projection
In year 2012 the total area under zero tillage was very low and scattered and limited number of farmers adopting in 800 ha area. KVK, Buxar giving more emphasis on promoting of zero tillage sowing of wheat for sustainable rice-wheat cropping system and in 2018-19 zero tillage sowing of wheat reaches in 45000 ha area and 800 zero tillage machine were available with farmers. In coming years its reaches in peak and will be covers 90% of the wheat growing area.
Economics of Zero tillage demonstration
Year | Average yield (t/ha) | Cost of cultivation (Rs/ha) | Gross return (Rs/ha) | Net return (Rs/ha) | Cost benefit ratio |
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2012-13 | 4.1 | 21500 | 55350 | 33850 | 2.57 |
2013-14 | 4.3 | 23200 | 60200 | 37000 | 2.59 |
2014-15 | 3.9 | 24800 | 56550 | 31750 | 2.28 |
2015-16 | 4.6 | 25100 | 70150 | 45050 | 2.79 |
2016-17 | 5.1 | 25700 | 82875 | 57175 | 3.22 |
2017-18 | 5.1 | 27000 | 88485 | 61485 | 3.27 |
2018-19 | 5.2 | 27840 | 95680 | 67840 | 3.43 |
MSP : 2012-13: Rs 1350, 2013-14: Rs 1400, 2014-15:Rs 1450, 2015-16:Rs 1525, 2016-17:Rs 1625, 2017-18 Rs 1735, 2018-19 Rs 1840
Success Story 4
Title of Innovation
Crop diversification
Thematic Area
Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Cultivation (JapaniesMentha)
Profie of Innovator
Name :- Mr. Kamlesh Kumar Singh
Village :- Bharchakiya
Post :- Unwas
Block :- Itarhi
Dist :– Buxar
Pin :- 802123
Mobile No. :- 9525193262/ 9931075021
Aadhar No. :- 743651474784
Age :– 45 Yrs.
Education :- M.Sc. (Maths.)
Size of land holding (Ha) : - 2.5
Problem/Challenge addressed
Unavailability of mentha sapling and market linkage.
Description of innovative Practice/Technology
Mr. KamleshKumar Singh is a dynamic Innovative farmer with high education degree. He started his own electronic and computer education business from 1991 to 2000 inBuxar district. Hisper annum earning was more than Rs 3.0 Lakh. All of sudden an accident turned his life back to the village and stated his agriculture cultivation.His intervention was to start menthe cultivation in 2012 in an area of 2 ha and produced 320 liter of menthe oil and earned about 3 lakh per annum from mentha oil selling from selling of Rs 1250 per liter. He started menthe cultivation after potato harvesting in the same area. From potato he produced 640 quintal potato and earned Rs 2 lakh. Net income is Rs 5 lakh/annum.
Practical utility
Mentha cultivation can be popularized with proper water management and more demand of menthe oil in industries and medical companies.
Source of information
A source of Income generation technology byKrishiVigyan Kendra (ICAR RCER) Buxar.
Economics of menthe
Crops | Cost of cultivation (Rs/ha) | Gross return (Rs/ha) | Net return (Rs/ha) | Benefit cost ratio |
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Mentha (160 lit/ha) | 45000 | 200000 | 155000 | 3.44 |
Potato | 86000 | 192000 | 106000 | 1.23 |
Potential : Acceptance level, horizontal spread of innovation and number of farmer adopting
Mentha crop area is increasing in the Buxar district and more than 1000 farmers of the district are cultivating mentha crop for its oil.
Farmers with his medicinal plant block
A View of mentha field
A View of mentha crop
Title of Innovation
Conservation Agriculture
Thematic Area
ZT sowing of wheat
Profie of Innovator
Name :- Mr. KamleshPandey
Village :– Geruabandh, Post :- Unwas
Block :- Itarhi, Dist :– Buxar
Pin :- 802123
Mobile No. :- 9162659114
Age :– 50 Yrs.
Education :- Graduation
Size of land holding (Ha) : - 10
Description of innovative Practice/Technology
Description of Innovation :- KamleshPandey is a dynamic Innovative farmer. Earlier he was doing conventional practices of wheat sowing. In 2012 he started sowing of wheat by Zero tillage machine, first year he was benefitted with ZT technology and yield of wheat increased from 26 q/ha to 40 q/ha and field preparation and sowing cost reduced by Rs 3000/ha. Presently he started the early sowing of wheat by ZT machine and harvesting wheat 55 to 60 q/ha. KamleshPandey also become the service provider and trained to other farmers for adaptation of ZT technology.
Practical utility
ZT technology has potential to increase the productivity of crop by advancing the sowing time and reduced the input cost (fuel, irrigation, labour).
Source of information
A source of Income generation” at the KrishiVigyan Kendra (ICAR RCER) Buxar.
Potential : Acceptance level, horizontal spread of innovation and number of farmer adopting
ZT technology become very favorable for Buxar district because farmers adopted rice-wheat cropping system delayed harvesting of long duration rice boosting the adoption of ZT technology. Presently 40% wheat areas of rice-wheat cropping system are sown by ZT and 800 Private Service Provider available in the district.