AFPRO

Project Strategy

Recognizing three phases of flood prone area like Pre Flood Situation (Feb – May), Disaster Preparedness

( June – Sept) and Post Flood Operation (Oct – Jan)

Promotion of alternative model to cope up with the flood situation and explore the livelihood options depending on availability of water resources and soil conditions.

Rice Cultivation for flood prone areas:

Late Transplanted Sali rice (end sept) with traditional photo period sensitive variety (Manohar Sali) with closer spacing, higher no of seedling and 60 days old seedling
Late Transplanted HYV Sali rice up to mid Sept with 25 days old seedling
Broadcasted sprouted rice seed in end of August to 1st wk of sept immediately after flood subsides
Boro Paddy from December to April/May in low lying areas or peaty land with stagnant water or with irrigation
Early Ahu (irrigated) from mid Feb and very early ahu (rainfed) from March

Rice Variety to be adopted

Submergence tolerant variety – Jalashree and Jalkunwari
Variety for Staggered planting – Gitesh
Deep water rice – Panindra and padmanath
Post flood rice variety with short duration – Luit, kapilee (100-110 days duration); Lachit, Govind (120 days), Kalinga 3, Sonamukhi, Heera
Boro (summer) rice variety (Joymati, Chandrama, Kanaklata)
Transplanted ahu paddy variety (Luit and Disang).
System Rice Intesification.

Crop Planning during flood free period

Summer moong (Green gram) and black gram from mid Feb to May for harvesting before flood.
In Upland land sowing of green gram and black gram up to middle of September.
Rape and mustard from 15th to 30th October.
Potatoes from 1st to 30 th October.
Wheat and oat from mid November to mid December.
Rabi maize from mid September to mid October.
Summer maize from February
Pulses such as lentil and kesari (Lathyrus) as relay crop in rice fields around November.
Peas from mid Nov to mid of Dec.
Summer Vegetables from Feb to May and winter vegetable from Oct - Feb

C. Land and Water Resources Development:

Improvement of farm management practices through agronomic interventions - seed priming, nutrient recycling, green manuring, vermi compost, Deep tillage etc.)
Watershed as approach - Soil and Moisture Conservation measures which include field bunding, gulley checks, trenching, pasture development, vegetative hedging and plantation, etc
Water Resources Development (WRD) where the emphasis would be on the renovation of the existing water harvesting structures, development of small water harvesting structures particularly earthen structures like farm pond, earthen storage tanks, flash-dams, dug wells etc.
Flood Alarming system

D. Livestock and Fishery Development

E. Institutional mechanism for sustainability of the interventions

Bring synergy in the ongoing programmes
Development of inclusive, self-managed and sustainable Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and their Federations for livelihoods improvement.
Setting up CBOs like the Federation of SHGs and the Cluster Resource Centre
Involvement of existing CBO promoted by Departments, NGOs etc. in the project interventions.
Training and orienting CBO representatives in participatory planning, budgeting, appraisal, procurement, implementation & operation and maintenance aspects;

F. Disaster preparedness

Seed and Grain Storage
Fodder Storage
Silage making
Protection of Pond, Tank, Drainage line, Embankment, culvert and other infrastructures
Community actions
Health and Sanitation issues for human being
Disease prevention care like vaccination, de-worming of livestock
Strengthening Non farm activities as a viable source of income during crisis period.

G. Extension

Establishing Farmer to Farmer extension
Generating knowledge through project team by documenting the best practices and approaches.
Ensure dissemination of the experiences within the sector by organizing workshop and seminars for scaling up.