Success Story - 1
Smt. Asha Devi
Husband Name : Sri Yugal Kishor yadav
Qualification : Middle
Village : Bisanpur, Jichho
Block : goradih
Distt. : Bhagalpur
Smt. Aasha Devi born in labour family. She got married in a farmer family. In sasural, she started helping her family in farming and care of animal. But her area of interest was tailoring & stitching since her early days. In the meantime, the village Jichho was adopted by KVK, Sabour, Bhagalpur and she comes in contact of KVK Scientist during off campus training programme organized for women in the village. KVK Scientist found that there was no SHG in the village. So the women were motivated to form the SHG. Smt. Aasha Devi also gets motivated and formed Aang Jyoti SHG. She used to visit KVK regularly and expired to basket of technology of KVK. Initially, she started mushroom farming but she faced problem in procuring spawn and also marketing of produce. Then for shake of her interest she started homestead tailoring and stitching and got training of stitching & embroidery from KVK, Sabour. She takes up tailoring-stitching & embroidery and homestead enterprise. She taken loan from group and purchased new machine. She also uses to impart training to rural girls & women in stitching & embroidery. She also get opportunity to be a part time trainer in Holy Family School, under a welfare project. Beside this she also use to embroidery work in bed sheet & there dress material on order. She earns about 6,000 - 10,000/- per month. She expense her income in education, medical and other unforeseen work as well as saving for future. She is happy with her earning.
Success Story - 2
Farmer Name : Sri Ranjan Kumar Suman
Father Name : Sri Sarweswar Mandal
Village : Barahari, Block- Goradih
Mobile No. : 9430025237
He is having six family members, is a medium farmer. He has about 8.0 hectare of land for cultivation. Earlier, he had been worrying to fulfil the needs of his family members as he was totally dependent on agriculture and there was no any alternative source of income. Primarily he used to cultivate only 1.0 -1.5 ha land for rice with traditional system i.e. transplanted rice (TPR) that involves intensive input in transplanting, weeding, irrigation, harvesting and threshing. The remaining 6.5 – 7.0 hectares of land was cultivated by other farmers (known as batayidar) or on lease basis. Once upon a time he become serious ill during 2011-12 and no man was in the family that can hold the responsibility of agriculture as the family members were either too old age or of children.
The batayidar planed to cover whole land under their ownership without any agreement. This was the stage that turned his mind and he decided to cultivate on whole land under his own ownership. After improvement from ill a transformation happened in his life when he attended farmers training programme on “New advance technology of rice cultivation including DSR” at KVK, Bhagalpur. It was decided by KVK to put a FLD on DSR and Zero tillage (ZT) in wheat with improved varieties and the demonstration was conducted on his field during 2013 - 14. He was impressed to see the overall growth, yield and quality of produce under demonstrated field. In the next season, considering the overall performance he decided to cultivate rice with DSR in 8.0 ha and entire Rabi crops with ZT like wheat, chickpea, lentil etc.
The details of income is given as below.
Crop | Area (ha) | Cost of Cultivation (Rs.) | Net Return (Rs.) |
---|---|---|---|
Rice with DSR | 8.0 ha | 65,000/- | 4,00,000/- |
Wheat with ZT | 5.5 ha | 82,250/- | 2,24,000/- |
Chickpea with ZT | 0.8 ha | 84,00/- | 38,900/- |
Lentil with ZT | 1.0 ha | 12,000/- | 50,000/- |
Mustard | 0.8 ha | 6,900/- | 21,000/- |
Sprayer on hire basis | 1,50,000/- | ||
Total net return in one year | 8,83,900/- |
In this way with the intervention of new technologies from KVK, Sabour, Bhagalpur, he earned a total income of Rs. 8,83,900/- in one year.
Success Story - 3
Sri Kamlesh Kr.
Father’s Name : Balram Mahto
Village : Gokul mathura
Block : Pirpainti
District : Bhagalpur
He produced 10.5 q/ha sesamum yield against the Krishna verity potential yield (i.e. 6-7 q/ha). Sri Mahto has grown in 1.0 acre sesamum in kharif season, 2016 under Cluster Front Line demonstration with the help of KVK, Bhagalpur scientists. Seasamam crop was sown in second week of July after the damage of Chilli crop at 2-3 cm depth with the seecreate of 5.0 kg/ha in proper soil moisture condition ofter PSB inoculation, seed treatments with insecticide, fungicide and use of balance also of fertilizer on the basis of soil test (40:15:20 kg/ha N, P2O5 & K2O). Full dose of P2O5 and half dose of N were applied as basal and remaining half dose of N was top dressed after 30 DAS. Fertilizers were applied uniformly through urea, single super phosphate & muriate of potash. Pendamethalin (30