Village changes its name to HARIT PRAYAS
था मुस्किल, ना कुछ भी आसान था,
कठिनाइया थी, फिर भी हिम्मत नही हारे हम,
कदम बढ़ाया, और असंभव को संभव कर दिखाया..
-विनोद पांडे
The impact of HARIT PRAYAS project Sustainable Agriculture and entitlements has gone so deep amongst the community of Majhota village ( a HARIT PRAYAS project village in Chatarpur) that community members of Majhota village and Panchayat of the villages ( Silone Panchayat) has passed resolution ( on 20th April 2012) in the Panchayat to have the village name HARIT PRAYAS instead of Majhota. All the HHs of the Majhota village has also submitted an application to the Panchayat to have their village name HARIT PRAYAS, Panchayat has also passed resolution in the Panchayat meeting and send it to the block.
“The residents, none of whom own designer watches, eat at restaurants or use computers, wanted to thank HARIT PRAYAS for giving them something that they consider a luxury – Sustainable Agriculture with low input cost ( reduces input cost to 86%)”
We call it our biggest achievement and impact of HARIT PRAYAS project. It’s the love and ownership of the village community for the HARIT PRAYAS project. Now for coming 100s and 1000’s of year the village would be called as HARIT PRAYAS. Probably future generation would also query about the reason for the name of the village.
Now officially Majhota is known as HARIT PRAYAS i.e. even on the postal address it would be written as:
Village: HARIT PRAYAS ( Majhota)
Panchayat: Silone
There would be a formal/official inauguration of the village with name HARIT PRAYAS on 9th June 2012 where in Block official, PRI members & village community would be participating. We along with our Donor Agency (Caritas Spain-Supporting for HARIT PRAYAS Project) would also be attending the event.
About Majhota:
In total around 120 Farming families (includes mainly SC ,OBCs & Gen) , Target HHS 70 ( SC & OBC-small, marginalized & landless farmers), comes under Silone Panchayat of Bijawar block.
How all this has happened?
This is all the effort of our HARIT PRAYAS team at Chatarpur, with their regular vist to the Majhota and intervention on promoting sustainable agricultuire, which has shown greater impact on reducing the input cost ( by 86%) and increasing the production by 25% has developed a concept of organic low cost agriculture revolution amngst the farmers. Now not only the farmers from Majhota, buta also the near by 28 villages farmers comes to HARIT PRAYAS (Majhota) to learn organic cultivation.
Agriculture is the backbone of farmers from Majhota village, but input ( in the form of DAP & Urea) and the input cost on agriculture is keep on increasing and production remains the same, which in turn leads farmers to leave agriculture and migrate to near by cities to do other labour work. Seasonal migration as per the baseline was 50% of total population in 2011, With our intervention on promoting sustainable agriculture ( through the formation of Farmers club and linkages with agriculture department and KVK) , initially it took time for the farmers to understand the concept, but once they understood that concept of low input cost through the usage of locally available organic resources, they have started using it and the motivation seeded by our team members was so high that out of 110 HHs Majohota village in the very first year around 50 farmers have done organic cultivation in their entire land and in resulkt they have received good production with very minimal cost. Non-availability and high cost of urea also supported our intervention. The increase in production and benefit from the agriculture has now reduced migration to hardly 5-6% ( in the recent application of monitoring tools-March 2012).
Real Heroes for this change!
Rajesh & Vinod: From bring the change: Our field staff- Rajesh Stnami ( Cluster Coordinator) and our Project field Supervisor Mr. Vinod with their daily visits interaction with community, they formed a cultural team of HARIT PRAYAS along with the community members, and started promoting the organic cultivation through cultural evenings in the form of folk songs. Its Majhota community, who has developed the themes song of HARIT PRAYAS accentuating on its process promotion on sustainable agriculture and women empowerment
HARDEEN: From the beginning Hardeen, a small farmer from Majhota has taken interest in the sustainable agriculture and from the guidance through HARIT PRAYAS various trainings he has done organic cultivation in his entire 5 bigha of land and reaped good production ( increase of around 25% in compare to the usage of Urea and DAP). He has moved to other villages and shared the concept of organic cultivation, in his own village he has demonstrated the usage of organic cultivation on his field to many farmers and also given organic inputs (manure, amrit pani, neem pani etc) to other farmers. Watch Hardeen on:
Ms. Asha Devi: Sarpanch of Silone Panchayat, who has from the beginning supported HARIT PRAYAS project and even made HARIT PRAYAS Silone VIC as the Panchayat Resource Center for facilitating community on various development government schemes.
Ms. Preeti: The Project Coordinator of HARIT PRAYAS has developed a systematic plan and keeps the team moral high to have sustainable impact of HARIOT PRAYAS . She has on an average 18-20 field visit, which in turn has made her a household girl in the project villages. Community of HARIT PRAYAS (Majhota) own her like their village daughter.
Fr. Joseph: He has given ample space opportunity and high level of motivation to the staff of HARIT PRAYAS project to bring a sustainable change. He himself has visited Majhota village many times (coming from Satrna-165 kms). His proper follow-up of the change happening in the project villages has contributed a lot for bringing change like HARIT PRAYAS (Majhota).
What else is the out put of HARIT PRAYAS at HARIT PRAYAS (Majhota)?
- At present we have one farmers club ( 17 members, including 10 Male Farmers and 6 female farmers),
- One Mahila Mandal with 16 Members-quite active and gone beyond saving and credit, address village level issues in Panchayat.
- We have also facilitated trainings on entitlement in HARIT PRAYAS ( Majhota) and in terms of result in compare to only 20 Job Cards ( in baseline) now all the HHS have Job cards, and now to get job in NREGA farmers demand the job through written application that too in the off season ( of agriculture).
- We have also trained women as an enterpenuers in Agarbatti making and now Women of HARIT PRAYAS Majhota are dealing with Agarbatti Making with brand name-HARIT PRAYAS.
From Caritas India
Ms. Shimray & Mr. Vinod Pandey (4 times in year). Ms. Shimray has conducted a quite interesting training ( in Nov 2011) cum workshop their on the birth of boy child or girl child and explained so well that now almsit each and every village community has clarity on the formation of girl and boy child, and hope it is spreading to other villages and we hope in long run the small workshop of an hour would have impact on reducing female feticide in Bundelkhand region!
सिर्फ़ हंगामा, खड़ा करना, मेरा मकसद नही
sirf hangama, khada karna, mera maksad nahi
सारी कोशिश, है की ये, सूरत बदलनी चाहिए
saari koshish, hai ki ye, soorat badalni chahiye
मेरे सीने में नही, तो तेरे सीने में सही
mere seene mein nahi, to tere seene mein sahi
हो कही भी आग लेकिन, आग जलनी चाहिए
ho kahi bhi aag lekin, aag jalni chahiye
Poet Dushyant Kumar wrote above lines on bringing change-describes that its not only we talk about change…but instead we must bring change! And with Caritas HARIT PRAYAS and LIFE project we have tried to bring some of the institutional changes (which probably not happened earlier)!
For more on HARIT PRAYAS log on to http://www.caritasindia.org/ (blog-HARIT PRAYAS) or www.haritprayas.blogspot.com or on Face book (HARIT PRAYAS).
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