Orientation and Brainstorming Programme on Operationalising CCASA Programmes under NMSA in Jharkhand

Orientation and Brainstorming Programme on Operationalising Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture Programmes under NMSA in Jharkha nd Venue:

Krishak Bhavan, Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi, Jharkhand

Date:

July 15 - 16, 2014

CONTENTS SUMMARY

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ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN ................................................................................................. 2

SESSION - 1

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PROCEEDINGS IN BRIEF ............................................................................................... 4

SESSION - 2

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ACTION POINTS EMERGING FROM THE WORKSHOP ..............................................9

SESSION - 3

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SPECIFIC OPERATIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS ..................................................... 13

SESSION - 4

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ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN .............................................................................................. 23

ANNEXURE - 1 :

Prof. A. Wahood's Presentation - Climate Change and Its Impact ............ 25

ANNEXURE - 2 :

A. Ravindra's Presentation..................................................................................... 34

ANNEXURE - 3 :

Pratyush Singh's Presentation ............................................................................. 39

ANNEXURE - 4 :

RRA CP - Chattarpur Block, Palamu district, Jharkhand ............................. 46

ANNEXURE - 5 :

Dr. Renuka Rani's Presentation ............................................................................ 53

ANNEXURE - 6 :

PROGRAMME AGENDA................................................................................................ 55

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SUMMARY : ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN 1. Constitute a small sub-committee with a convener to draft state specific operational modalities for NMSA in Jharkhand – this can be completed in one week time. MANAGE & RRA Network can work along with this committee to synthesize experiences within Jharkhand and from across the country to develop the state specific NMSA guidelines. a. Most of the recommendations emerging from the workshop can be embedded into the Jharkhand State Specific process guidelines. These guidelines may be made operational from the year 2015-16. Good consensus has emerged on several aspects during the workshop. The State Specific Guidelines can have two parts i) the guidelines for operationalising the Clusters b) operationalising the Comprehensive Pilot Blocks. b. Jharkhand has the opportunity of pioneering such robust method of grounding NMSA in the country; the draft guidelines may be shared with Min of Agriculture and ratified. This can provide necessary clarity for future scaling up.

2. Set up time lines (an internal workshop dates of DoA) for finalizing the draft guidelines developed by the committee.

3. Constitute a „Knowledge Cell‟ at BAU in collaboration with reputed civil society organisations in the state to back up the facilitating agencies in developing appropriate technology – the cell can synthesize experiences emerging from various KVKs in NICRA, AICRIPDA and AICRIP-AM. 4. Revisit criteria and process of cluster and Comprehensive Pilot Block selection and set up processes for grounding.

5. Once the program modalities are finalised, the process of selecting facilitating agency can be completed, which is a major mile-stone for grounding the NMSA program.

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6. NMSA-CFT (MGNREGS) Program convergence: A meeting may be organised between NRLM and Secretary/ Director Dept of Agriculture to explore possible integration of the MGNREGS-CFT – NRLM- programs with NMSA. High convergence possibility if the cluster and facilitating agencies are the same for these programs.

7. MOU with Relevant Departments: As a part of the State Specific Process Guidelines within the frame of national guidelines, the draft MOUs can be prepared for each of the converging departments to issue GOs prioritizing the NMSA clusters and Comprehensive Pilot Blocks a. In the allocation of time of technical personnel and b. Priority allocation of scheme budgets within the district based on the participatory Sustainable Agriculture Plans c. To work with the identified community/ farmers’ organisations in the field.

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SESSION - 1: PROCEEDINGS IN BRIEF The workshop was organized under the guidance of Dr. N M Kulkarni, Secretary, Agriculture, Govt. of Jharkhand, Dr. Krishna Dev Prasad Sahu, Director Agriculture in order to build capacities of State, District and Block level officials for effective implementation of National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA). Director- Horticulture, Director-Soil Conservation, Joint Directors, District Agriculture Officers of 6 districts and PD, ATMA, representatives of GIZ and of civil societies – SPWD, PRADAN, CInI, VSK and facilitators from the RRA Network actively participated in this program.

Dr. B. Renuka Rani from MANAGE welcomed the participants to the brainstorming workshop on developing operational modalities for NMSAJharkhand

organized

by

the

Department of Agriculture, Jharkhand and

facilitated

by

MANAGE

Hyderabad and RRA Network. Stressing on the need to focus on all aspects of agriculture production system to marketing under NMSA program. He also pointed out to find out alternative solutions through innovations for sustainable agriculture development under climate change. Dr R P Singh Ratan, Director Extension, Birsa Agriculture University, discussed emerging challenges faced

by Indian Agriculture particularly he recognized high input mechanized farming in Punjab unable to provide sustainable agriculture production. He asked participants to give emphasis on agro-ecological planning process with community under NMSA program and set the objectives of such the programs under NMSA to achieve productivity with profitability, equity, stability and sustainability in rainfed farming in Jharkhand.

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Dr. Krishna Dev Prasad Sahu, Director Agriculture, Jharkhand presided over the inaugural session of the workshop. Observing that climate change is the reality in Indian Agriculture, drawing from his own earlier field experiences, stressed on the need to work on soil health improvement, diversification in cropping system, and capacity building of farmers to come up with alternative

sustainable

agriculture

model in Jharkhand. He informed that 6 districts of Jharkhand will implement NMSA program through convergence between various line departments like agriculture, livestock, fisheries, rural development, PRI for improving rainfed farming system in the state.

In the 1st technical session of the workshop, Dr. A Wadood, Chairperson, Department of Agriculture Physics and Meteorology, BAU, provided detail account of climate variability and climate change in Jharkhand. Emphasising that Jharkhand has never faced a meteorological drought, he pointed to the need to manage pre-monsoon, early season and mid-season droughts which have become a concern. Observing that most part of Jharkhand is benefiting with Climate Change in terms of increasing trend in rainfall, the Palamau region under Agro-climatic Zone V is worst affected with declining rainfall and increasing variability. He stressed on better management and contingency planning for cropping systems in upland and medium to include short-duration varieties and crops. Shift away from rice based system to millets, pulses and oilseed based cropping pattern is desirable in these lands. (see Annexure 1 for detailed presentation).

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Mr. A. Ravindra from WASSAN / Revitalizing Rainfed Agriculture (RRA) Network explained the context of neglect of rainfed agriculture and stressed on the need for differentiated policies for rainfed agriculture and on the need for complete

investments.

He

explained

about

the

background

of

the

Comprehensive Pilot Blocks proposal under NMSA and the vision of the working group on NRM and RF for the 12th five year plan to move towards Block Level, location specific, Comprehensive and convergent planning and implementation with dedicated facilitating agency – as the necessary architecture of achieve growth in rainfed agriculture. (See Annexure 2).

Mr. Pratyush Singh, Technical Officer, GIZ in his presentation shared the initiative of Climate Change Knowledge Network which was initiated in 4 blocks of Jharkhand. He stressed on the need for quick dissemination of knowledge and information to farmers would be one of the key aspects to build capacities of the farmers to take right decision on their farming practices. He shared the efforts of the CC-KN program in this direction and the base line situation. (See Annexure 3).

Detailed case example Chattarpur Block‟s (Palamau District, Jharkhand) Comprehensive Pilot Program on Rainfed Agriculture in participatory planning for securing rainfed agriculture, strengthening fisheries and livestock systems by establishing community level institutional systems and convergence with mainstream planning was shared by Vikas Sahyog Kendra, Palamau- an NGO working in Chhatarpur Block of Palamau district. This is part of the national pilot program launched by the RRA Network in 9 states following the working group‟s recommendations for the 12th FYP that are intended to generate experiences for Comprehensive Block Pilots of NMSA. (Annexure 4) The participant District Agriculture Officers shared their views and issues on the present field situation, various initiatives they have taken up. Dr. Renuka 6|Brainstorming workshop on NMSA - JHARKHAND

from MANAGE in her summing up the input session presentation, emphasised on the need to make certain shifts in the way programs are delivered and emphasised on the need for ATMA to play a more prominent role to facilitate organisation of farmers‟ groups, in capacity building and convergence.

(Annexure - 5).

With these inputs the workshop moved to groups based deliberations.

Participants then divided into three groups to discuss on three major aspects of NMSA programme, i.e. planning process, implementation mechanism and institutional requirement and their role. After discussion the groups presented their recommendations before the participants to get common consensus. The group presented commonly agreed recommendation to Dr N M Kulkarni, Secretary, Agriculture, Govt of Jharkhand for his kind consideration.

In the final session of the workshop, Mr. Balaram, State Advisor to Supreme Court on food security in his remarks, expressed the need to move away from relief and „doles‟ towards strengthening sustainable agriculture. Working with community institutions, strengthening planning process, treating people with dignity and integration of traditional community knowledge into the planning, he observed, are fundamental. He also emphasised on the need to work in the most marginal environments in the state which are badly affected by climate variability.

Dr. N M Kulkarni, Secretary, Agriculture, appreciated participants for coming out with very concrete recommendations for effective implementation of NMSA in Jharkhand. Observing that the „dooms day forecasts‟ of climate change as unrealistic, Dr Kulkarni emphasised on need for changing mind-sets from seeing agriculture as a „gamble‟ towards developing robust farming systems and dealing with climate variability as a matter of science. The need is to move away from the „doles‟ system in program implementation.

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Acknowledging the difficulties in achieving Departmental convergence, he felt that this is much more necessary for the success of NMSA. He pointed out that farmers wisdom on agriculture should be respected and integrated with modern science to come out with location specific technical innovations suited for rainfed farming. On the selection criteria for NGOs Dr Kulkarni, stressed on the need for the facilitating agencies to be „local‟ within the block. He congratulated organizers for coming up with concrete recommendations and actions points for the Department of Agriculture, Government of Jharkhand and hoped for continued support of MANAGE in making NMSA successful in Jharkhand. He suggested that the next year‟s action plan for NMSA be prepared in the lines of the recommendations emerging from the workshop and sought for a detailed note with action points / recommendations from the workshop to take necessary next steps.

Ms. Aashima thanked the participants for their active participation and the Secretary, Director Agriculture for their support in making this possible. Special thanks were extended to Mr. Brahma Dev Sah, Asst Director, soil and water conservation for his initiative and support in organising this workshop.

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SESSION - 2: ACTION POINTS EMERGING FROM THE WORKSHOP The following action points emerged from the presentations and deliberations in the workshop.

PRIORITIES FOR NMSA IN JHARKHAND: 1. Agro-ecological basis for identification and delineation of clusters and Blocks is important.

2. Productivity with profitability, stability and sustainability can be the guiding principles for choice of activities. Exclusive productivity related initiatives that are not sustainable must be avoided.

3. Revival of the agro-ecological services is important while targeting productivity enhancement.

4. Nature of Climate Variability and Climate Change in Jharkhand & Focus Areas for NMSA in Jharkhand (see Slides from the presentation of Dr. A. Wadood, Birsa Agriculture University):  Jharkhand never experienced meteorological droughts; but, agriculture droughts are common.  Pre-monsoon shortages in rainfall, Early Season Drought and MidSeason Drought are the problem areas – NMSA must focus on adaptation strategies and programs for managing these situations at farmer/ area levels.  Agro-Climatic Zone V is most deficient in rainfall and is worst affected by climate variability and climate change.

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 While rest of the Jharkhand is experiencing a positive impact of Climate Change in terms of increasing rainfall, Zone-V – Palamau experienced a

substantial

declining

trend

in

total rainfall.

5. Priority Activities: Four major focus areas for NMSA-Jharkhand

action

have emerged from the discussions: i.

Improving

„soil

profile‟ to allow more

rain

infiltrate

to and

retained – through addition of organic matter ii. Ensuring 2 or 3 life saving / protective Irrigation through local water harvesting iii.

Appropriate crop patterns and diversification supported by a seed system that provides suitable seeds (diverse varieties and crops) according to contingencies

iv. Strengthening of livestock and fish production systems to enable diversification.

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6. Shifts required in program implementation: The challenges of Climate Variability and Change can not be met merely from the conventional activities of Department of Agriculture alone.

Integrated actions on natural resources management (improving the quality of soils, biomass improvement and water management), livestock and fisheries are much needed. Considering this complexity, the workshop

strongly

recommended

the

following

shifts

in

the

implementation of NMSA:

i. Subsidy driven technology promotion ďƒ to

participatory planning

based program approach ii. Subsidy led distribution of inputs ďƒ to an approach of Strengthening Production Systems.

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iii. Technology delivery through demonstrations ďƒ to forming, networking and capacitating farmersâ€&#x; institution to access technology Developing community managed service delivery systems is the key to achieving NMSA objectives.

In view of the above required shifts, the workshop recommends an independent facilitating agency to anchor the program in the field. As the Secretary observed, such an organisation must be rooted in the district with professional staff to anchor the program facilitation. The Departmentâ€&#x;s role can then be supporting that facilitating agency in terms of : i. Technical support and sourcing technologies (and inputs like seeds) for the identified problems ii. Assessment and approval of the plans and funding iii. Monitoring and supporting the facilitating agency iv. Regulation, where required v. Enabling convergence within Dept of Agrl Schemes and with other departments.

In view of the long-term nature of the NMSA program and the challenges as above, the workshop recommends the Dept of Agriculture of Jharkhand to adapt the national NMSA guidelines to the specific requirements and agroecological and administrative specificities of Jharkhand. A small drafting committee can be constituted for this purpose.

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SESSION - 3: SPECIFIC OPERATIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS 1. Cluster Approach : a. A cluster of villages/ GPs need to be selected based on similarity of agro-ecological considerations. The cluster need to be sizeable, ideally consisting of one or two Gram Panchayats. b. Total number of clusters and overall allocation per cluster need to be arrived at based on the budget provisions. Taking the lead time available for the next season -2015-16 (starting early 2015) a more structured effort need to be made to

identify

clusters, nominating the responsible agency and preparing the cluster Sustainable Agriculture Action Plans for NMSA for the year 2015-16; c. The clusters can be chosen to allow landscape level planning to realise the full potential and may consider the following : i. Possibility of building farmers‟ institutions to realise economies of scale (Small Farmers‟ Agri-business Consortium considers around 1000 farmers as an appropriate scale for a Farmers‟ Producer Organisation).

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ii. Within a reasonable hydrological boundaries so that there is an integration of water resources development with sustainable agriculture. iii. Replicability of model/ processes must be taken up as a criteria. iv. A saturation approach based on participatory planning should be attempted instead of mere convergence of subsidised interventions. d. Choosing smaller clusters must be avoided as it limits the scope for farmers‟ institution development and significance of visible impact & also, because agriculture/ livestock depends on much wider range of natural resources (grazing for example). e. Careful and scientific method of selecting clusters at least for the nextyear (2014-15 must be attempted) considering long-term planning under NMSA. f. The „Cluster Facilitating Team’ program initiated by the Rural Development department for MGNREGS makes good provision for field level facilitation and comprehensive planning. Integrating the NMSA clusters with these CFT clusters will bring in an automatic convergence between NMSA and MGNREGS and builds an integration of Natural Resources Development and Sustainable Agriculture Development.

2. Comprehensive Pilot Blocks under CCSAMNN: a. The purpose of Comprehensive Pilot Blocks under CCSAMNN was envisaged as: “Comprehensive pilot blocks will be supported to illustrate functional mechanism for dissemination of rainfed technologies, planning, convergence and coordination with flagship schemes/Missions like MGNREGS, IWMP, Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP), RKVY, NFSM, NHM, NMAET etc.

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Such an integrated action of input and output flows across agriculture, livestock and other production systems will harness the growth potential of the rainfed production systems, imparting sustainability of local production systems while negotiating climate change risks�

(Page 5 of guidelines). b. Selection of Comprehensive Pilot Blocks need to be looked separately from the Knowledge Networking part of the CCSSMNN component as it involves intensive field work in establishing functional mechanisms of planning, convergence aimed at demonstrating sustainable growth paths for rainfed agriculture. Experience from these pilots is intended to provide direction to state policies, programs and processes and must therefore, be replicable. c. Reflecting on the present situation against the above expectation, the group observed that the two Blocks selected at both located in favourable situations least affected by Climate Change/ variability. d. The criteria adopted for CC-Knowledge Networking i.e. a good level of agriculture development, presence of good KVKs, good infrastructure etc., is well appreciated for the purpose of knowledge networking but introduces a strong bias against poorer regions most affected by climate change. Separate criteria must be developed for Comprehensive Pilot Block which includes the climate change projections. e. The analysis of Climate Change in different agro-ecological zones brought out that Agro-Climatic Zone V (Palamau region) is worst affected by climate change with increasing uncertainty and declining rainfall and has the worst development indicators. f. Patamda selected for Comprehensive Pilot Block, on the other hand, already has high levels of agriculture development, is in high growth path and is least affected by Climate change. Visibility of impacts of 15 | B r a i n s t o r m i n g w o r k s h o p o n N M S A - J H A R K H A N D

the program will be lower as the base level is high and replicability of the processes is questionable as the situation in the Block is unique. g. The group recommends that at least one of the Comprehensive Pilot Blocks must be chosen in the rain shadow areas of Jharkhand in AC Zone V (Palamau region). Considering the work already in progressin convergence with various departments, Chhatarpur Block in collaboration with RRA National Network may be chosen for the purpose. h. For the chosen Comprehensive Pilot Blocks – the processes of selection

of

consortium,

contracting

and

rolling

out

the

implementation process need to be started. It is important that the detailed expectations, processes, financial mechanisms and roll-out plans be developed for this purpose immediately. This can be part of the State Specific Process Guidelines for NMSA. 3. On Planning Processes and Methodology: a. So far there is no systematic participatory planning at the ground. In the absence of setting up the objectives (i.e. what is to be achieved and what is to be piloted?) there is a danger of the program reducing to subsidy led delivery of inputs/ assets, which is not the objective of NMSA. b. The group repeatedly stressed on the need for robust planning at the initial stages to look systematically into the production systems, their problems, risks due to climate variability etc., and evolve location specific options. c. Area based and production approach may exclude the landless households; it is important to mix household-area-production systems approach. Where possible, cluster specific growth engines may also be identified and end-to-end solutions provided.

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d. Planning process must be participatory and involve community level institutions. Enabling such a process is not possible without a local team with capacity for participatory planning.

4. On Convergence: a. Convergence should not be seen as all departments delivering their respective subsidised inputs/ assets in one area. Prescriptive / indicative unit costs in the NMSA guidelines are pointed out as source of confusion. Clarifying this within Jharkhand State Specific Operational Modalities/ Guidelines may be useful. b. It is felt that the following are crucial for convergence: i. A participatory plan that is demand based which addresses specific constraints or targets specific opportunities for building climate resilience. ii. Community level institutions (Farmer Producersâ€&#x; Organisations, SHGs/ others and GPs), their control over processes and ownership is important.

iii. While the above two are necessary, there must be Departmental directions

for

convergence

with

chosen

clusters

/

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departments viz., Rural Development, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries,

Horticulture,

Soil

Conservation,

Irrigation

Development and Forest Department. iv. Each of these Departments giving a Circular/ GO on considering the NMSA clusters and Comprehensive Pilot Blocks as priority in budget allocation and technical support will enable convergence. v. The case for convergence with the CFT-MGNREGS initiative is already made above (see 1.d.). vi. No pooling of budgets is envisaged at any level. It is expected that each Department will work with its own budgets and programs with two conditions: 1. The programs and budgets will be integrated into the demand-based

participatory

sustainable

agriculture

action plans 2. Departments will work with and through the farmers’ / community organisations/ Gram Panchayats on ground and as far as possible, will not deliver individual based subsidised inputs from NMSA. vii. Convergence is expected at the community level institutions, participatory sustainable agriculture action plans and through the notification issued by each Department prioritizing NMSA clusters. These are the instruments of convergence.

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5. Institutional arrangements Fig 1 developed by one of the Groups depicts the suggested institutional mechanism, administration and fund-flow. Some of the points are reemphasised below.

Institutional Design for National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture Pilot Program, Jharkhand

MANAGE (Building CB modules and training of all Stakeholder)

National Level

Steering Committee (Chaired by Secretary, Agriculture)

State Level

Core Committee (Chaired by District Collector with all Line Departments)

District Level

Convergence Committee (Chaired by BDO with all Line Departments)

Program Desk in DoA (2 Professional Staff)

Convergence Desk at ATMA, DAO (1 Convergence officer)

Block Level

GO/NGOs/ Program Facilitation Agency Gram Panchayat & FPOs

Technical collaborations with CRIDA, SAUs, KVKs etc

Gram Panchayat

Program Facilitation Agency (BTM & ATMs and Dedicated Professional Staff )

Pool of Village Level Resource Persons

a. At the community level: i.

At the cluster level relevant community organisations (Farmers‟ Interest Groups, Farmers‟ Producers‟ Organisations, Gram

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Panchayats etc.) as relevant for the Cluster must be recognised and authorised as the NMSA implementing organisations. ii. The roles, authorities of such community organisations implementing the program must be detailed (in the Jharkhand State Specific Program Guidelines). This includes mandatory approvals of these organisations for the plans and selection of farmers or areas. The role of Gram Sabha in approving the program activities/ plans needs to be emphasised. iii. These recognised and

authorized

cluster/

Block level

organisations will be platforms for convergence for all the Departments. b. Program facilitation: i. The complexities and challenges of climate variability, its impact on highly diverse and location specific production systems need to be understood and appropriate options developed along with the farmers to make any significant impact as envisaged in NMSA. It must be recognised that this process can not be done without a dedicated team facilitating the process on ground and an agency responsible. ii. The mechanism of selection, roles, responsibilities, reporting systems, funding arrangements etc., need to be developed. iii. Clear deliverables with time lines for the program facilitating agency to be evolve in line with the project cycle and detailed in the Jharkhand State Specific Process Guidelines for NMSA. The provision of 5% admn costs in the guidelines may be used for this purpose.

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6. Program support and administration i.

Diagrammatic representation of the institutional structure developed by Group2 presented above details institutional mechanisms at various levels.

ii.

The role of the officials in the Agrl Department need to shift away from program implementation to focusing on technical support, convergence, assessment of the plans, monitoring.

iii.

ATMA as the only technical body in the district with a mandate to work across the Departments, must take the role of playing a convergence facilitator, and anchor the capacity building role in collaboration with MANAGE.

iv.

In addition, a full-time person at ATMA in the district can bring KVK, research stations and liaison with NICRA, AICRIPDA and AICRP-Agro-meteology and other technical programs and support the Facilitating Agency and BTMs in the Block in technology sourcing for the local problems, carrying out limited demonstrations.

v.

As there is no pooling of funds required, all the departments will follow their administrative lines but work only through the farmersâ€&#x; organisations / other CBOs taking responsibility for field implementation.

Capacity building, and technical support vi. Given the nature of the program, capacities of all functionaries, of the full time staff in the field in particular are of utmost importance for any meaningful results to come. There is not much focus on this aspect in the guidelines.

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vii. ATMA – be the nodal agency for capacity building of the dedicated staff of the program and be made responsible with support from MANAGE. Allocation of costs for capacity building is necessary. viii. MANAGE may be requested to support the Jharkhand NFSM program for orienting and building capacities of all the functionaries from Block and above. b. CC Knowledge and information dissemination i. The CC knowledge dissemination and networking pioneered by GIZ can be extended to all the clusters and Comprehensive Pilot Blocks. ii. Such a knowledge network institutionalised within the entire frame of operation of NMSA adds substantial value to the actions on ground.

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SESSION - 4: ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN 1. Constitute a small sub-committee with a convener to draft state specific operational modalities for NMSA in Jharkhand – this can be completed in one week time. MANAGE & RRA Network can work along with this committee to synthesize experiences within Jharkhand and from across the country to develop the state specific NMSA guidelines. a. Most of the recommendations emerging from the workshop can be embeddedinto the Jharkhand State Specific process guidelines. These guidelines may be made operational from the year 2015-16. Good consensus has emerged on several aspects during the workshop. The State Specific Guidelines can have two parts i) the guidelines for operationalising the Clusters b) operationalising the Comprehensive Pilot Blocks. b. Jharkhand has the opportunity of pioneering such robust method of grounding NMSA in the country; the draft guidelines may be shared with Min of Agriculture and ratified. This can provide necessary clarity for future scaling up.

2. Set up time lines (an internal workshop dates of DoA) for finalizing the draft guidelines developed by the committee.

3. Constitute a „Knowledge Cell‟ at BAU in collaboration with reputed civil society organisations in the state to back up the facilitating agencies in developing appropriate technology – the cell can synthesize experiences emerging from various KVKs in NICRA, AICRIPDA and AICRIP-AM. 4. Revisit criteria and process of cluster and Comprehensive Pilot Block selection and set up processes for grounding.

5. Once the program modalities are finalised, the process of selecting facilitating agency can be completed, which is a major mile-stone for grounding the NMSA program.

6. NMSA-CFT (MGNREGS) Program convergence: A meeting may be organised between NRLM and Secretary/ Director Dept of Agriculture to explore possible integration of the MGNREGS-CFT – NRLM- programs with NMSA. High convergence possibility if the cluster and facilitating agencies are the same for these programs.

7. MOU with Relevant Departments:As a part of the State Specific Process Guidelines within the frame of national guidelines, the draft MOUs can be prepared for each of the converging departments to issue GOs prioritizing the NMSA clusters and Comprehensive Pilot Blocks i. in the allocation of time of technical personnel and ii. priority allocation of scheme budgets within the district based on the participatory Sustainable Agriculture Plans iii. to work with the identified community/ farmersâ€&#x; organisations in the field.

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ANNEXURE - 1: Prof. A. Wahood's Presentation Climate Change and Its Impact

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ANNEXURE - 2: A. Ravindra's Presentation

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ANNEXURE - 3: Pratyush Singh's Presentation

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40 | B r a i n s t o r m i n g w o r k s h o p o n N M S A - J H A R K H A N D

41 | B r a i n s t o r m i n g w o r k s h o p o n N M S A - J H A R K H A N D

42 | B r a i n s t o r m i n g w o r k s h o p o n N M S A - J H A R K H A N D

43 | B r a i n s t o r m i n g w o r k s h o p o n N M S A - J H A R K H A N D

44 | B r a i n s t o r m i n g w o r k s h o p o n N M S A - J H A R K H A N D

45 | B r a i n s t o r m i n g w o r k s h o p o n N M S A - J H A R K H A N D

ANNEXURE - 4: RRA CP - Chattarpur Block, Palamu district, Jharkhand

46 | B r a i n s t o r m i n g w o r k s h o p o n N M S A - J H A R K H A N D

47 | B r a i n s t o r m i n g w o r k s h o p o n N M S A - J H A R K H A N D

48 | B r a i n s t o r m i n g w o r k s h o p o n N M S A - J H A R K H A N D

49 | B r a i n s t o r m i n g w o r k s h o p o n N M S A - J H A R K H A N D

50 | B r a i n s t o r m i n g w o r k s h o p o n N M S A - J H A R K H A N D

51 | B r a i n s t o r m i n g w o r k s h o p o n N M S A - J H A R K H A N D

52 | B r a i n s t o r m i n g w o r k s h o p o n N M S A - J H A R K H A N D

ANNEXURE - 5: Dr. Renuka Rani's Presentation

53 | B r a i n s t o r m i n g w o r k s h o p o n N M S A - J H A R K H A N D

54 | B r a i n s t o r m i n g w o r k s h o p o n N M S A - J H A R K H A N D

ANNEXURE - 6: PROGRAMME AGENDA Day 1 9.30 – 10:30hrs 10.30-11:30 hrs 10:30 to 10:45 hrs 10:45 to 11:15hrs

11:15 to 11:30 hrs 11:30 to 11:45 hrs 11:30 -1:00 11:45 to 12:10 hrs 12:10-12:30hrs

12:30 – 13:30hrs 13:30 – 14:30 hrs 14:30 – 16:30 hrs 14:30 – 14:45 hrs 14:45 – 15:15hrs

15:15 – 15:45hrs 15:45 – 16:00hrs 16:00 – 17:00hrs

17:00 – 18:00hrs Day 2 9:30 - 11:00hrs

11:00 -11:30 hrs 11:30 – 13:00

13.00 to 13:20

13.20 – 13.30

Registration Inaugural session Welcome and objectives of the workshop Overview of Agriculture Programme of Department of Agriculture, Jharkhand Remarks and Expectations of the Workshop Challenges of Rainfed Agriculture in Jharkhand

Dr Renuka Rani, MANAGE Dr K D P Sahu, Director, Agriculture, Govt of Jharkhand

TEA BREAK Technical Session I Rainfed Agriculture Policy and Brief introduction of NMSA Weather Forecast, Agro-met Advisories and Its implications

Mr. Ravindra, RRA Network

Brief on Annual Action Plans/ major programs in the districts – Sharing by District Agriculture Officers LUNCH Technical Session 2 : Understanding Bottleneck in Rainfed Agriculture System under Climate Change Overview of CCKN – IA Re-structuring investments and support systems for Rainfed Agriculture – RRA Approach on Block level Comprehensive Pilot programs – Experience of Chhatarpur Emerging Extension & Facilitation System for Effective Implementation of NMSA TEA BREAK Group work on Operationalizing NMSA in Jharkhand– Institution, Planning, Implementation, Monitoring, HR, Budget Presentation & Discussion Summary of the points emerging from the group discussion for developing consensus on Operational Modalities of NMSA in Jharkhand TEA BREAK Plenary Session on Finalizing Operational Modalities of NMSA in Jharkhand – Presentation by Group & Remark from Plenary

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Formation of a drafting preparing state guidelines

committee

Reflections and CLOSE OF THE WORKSHOP

for

Dr. R P Singh Ratan, Director Extension, BAU

Dr A Wadood, Chairperson, Department of Agriculture Physics and Meteorology, BAU

Mr.Pratyush, GIZ Mr. Ravindra, RRA Network & VSK

Dr Renuka Rani, MANAGE

Dr N M Kulkarni, Secretary, Agriculture, Dr K D P Sahu, Director Agriculture, Director, Fisheries Dr N M Kulkarni, Secretary, Agriculture, Dr K D P Sahu, Director Agriculture, Dr.Renuka, MANAGE