Success Stories
Learning Experience of Farm Innovators – 2018
S.N. | Particulars | Remarks |
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1 | Title of innovation | Dairy unit with dairy processing and vermi-compost |
2 | Thematic Area | Dairy Management |
3 | Profile of Innovator | Name - Santosh Kumar Village: – Sheikhwara Post: – Sheikhwara Block: - Bodhgaya Dist: – Gaya Pin: - 824234 Mobile No.: - 8210018734 Age: – 43 Years Education: - Graduation Size of land holding (Ha): - 4 ha |
4 | Problem/Challenge addressed | Spoilage of unsold milk |
5 | Description of innovative Practice/Technology | He started mobile milk vending machine of capacity of 500 lit. to sell his milk. He also installed a 1000 lit. capacity cool chamber and manufacturing some of the processed product like lassi, ghee, paneer etc. |
6 | Practical utility | Mobile milk vending machine and dairy processing can be widely accepted. |
7 | Source of information | BAU, Sabour and other dairy processing unit |
8 | Economic /Profitability of innovative practice/technology(costs and return) (Per intervention or area or household) | Gross expenditure – 43.6 lac Gross return – 68.2 lac Profit – 24.6 lac |
9 | Potential : Acceptance level, horizontal spread of innovation and number of farmer adopting | The innovation has been spread by him among farmers in his area and activity as master trainer of the innovation. |
10 | Illustrate with high quality photos with caption, graphs |
- Dairy Unit
- Vermi-compost Unit
- Mobile Milk Vending Machine
- Dairy Chilling Machine
Learning Experience of Farm Innovators – 2018
S.N. | Particulars | Remarks |
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1 | Title of innovation | “Single Malt Honey” a value added product |
2 | Thematic Area | Value Addition |
3 | Profile of Innovator | Name :- Sri Shashi Kumar Village :- Surhari Post :- Bhadeji Block :- Manpur Dist :- Gaya Pin :- 823003 Mobile No. :- 9431224880/7544999921 Aadhar No. :- 960976352850 Age :- 48 Years Education:- Graduate Size of land holding (Ha):- 1.20 ha |
4 | Problem/Challenge addressed | Labour Problem |
5 | Description of innovative Practice/Technology | Initially, he started his firm in bee keeping entitled “Shiva Honey” and started to sale his honey under brand name “Shiva Agro”. But he sold his product only @ Rs. 300/kg. Now he started selling his product under brand name “Single Mal Honey” in which he value added his honey by bottling/packaging as Litchi honey, Guava honey, Karanj honey, etc. for which he is getting Rs. 1000/kg honey. |
6 | Practical utility | The net profit of the entrepreneur increased considerably. Hence, the innovation should be spread among the beekeepers for its adoption. |
7 | Source of information | BAU, Sabour |
8 | Economic /Profitability of innovative practice/technology(costs and return) (Per intervention or area or household) | Gross expenditure – 28.00 lac Gross return – 40.00 lac Net profit – 12.00 lac BCR – 1.43 |
9 | Potential : Acceptance level, horizontal spread of innovation and number of farmer adopting | The innovation has been spread by him among more than 250 farmers in different parts of the state who are working with him. |
10 | Illustrate with high quality photos with caption, graphs |
- Single Malt Honey
- Identification of queen honey bee
- Beekeeping Training
- Bee Boxes
- Honey Processing Lab
- Honey Processing Unit
Surface seeding of wheat after paddy harvesting
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1 | Name of the farmer | Braj Kishore Singh |
2 | Name of the grassroots innovation/Venture/Innovative approach developed by the farmers | Surface seeding of wheat after paddy harvesting |
3 | Address | Village: Pachoi; PO:Dema Fatehpur, Block- Khizarsarai, Gaya-824233 |
4 | Mobile Number | 7979098413 |
5 | goluprince4@gmail.com | |
6 | Website (if any) | |
7 | Annual Turnover | 25,00,000/-; profit Rs. 8 lakh |
8 | Description of the innovation (Para I) | Mr. Singh is graduate and innovative farmer having 15.0 ha of own land, cultivating Rice, Wheat and Mungbean by adopting modern tools and technologies on his field. |
9 | Para II | It was actually accidental innovation. Stagnation of irrigation water in one corner of field led to this innovation. |
10 | Para III | Once he irrigated the field for ploughing and planned for wheat sowing. Due to uneven field, water stagnation was more in about 0.10 acre of land in lower part which left unploughed. Rest part was sown with wheat. But he was worried about rest part where ploughing was not possible and sowing time naturally delayed. After one week he simply broadcast the wheat seed in the corner part under very high moisture condition considered the attempt risky.Fortunately, he got bumper yield from that part of field and doing this practice from last two years. |
11 | Para IV | i. Reduction in cost of cultivation by 25-30% ii. Saving of irrigation water. iii. Timelines in what sowing by upto 7 to 10 days iv. More tillering and enhancement in yield by 10-15%. |
12 | Para V | He wishes to validate this technology on scientific forum and want to spread this for the welfare of farming community. |
13 | Para VI | Save yield loss from delayed sowing and reduce cost of cultivation. Scientists and farmers should go through this technology for its assessment & validation. |
IFS model as per local market demand and self-marketing.
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1 | Name of the farmer | Ramjee Chaudhry |
2 | Name of the grassroots innovation/Venture/Innovative approach developed by the farmers | IFS model as per local market demand and self-marketing. |
3 | Address | Vill- Afjalpur, P.O.: BitiBigha, Block- Sherghati, Distt.-Gaya-823001 |
4 | Mobile Number | 9661081487 |
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6 | Website (if any) | |
7 | Annual Turnover | 30,00,000/-, Profit-(7.5 lakh per annum) |
8 | Description of the innovation (Para I) | RamjeeChaudhary is simple middle pass progressive farmer having only 1.5 ha of own land. His source of income is agriculture and allied activities along with marketing. |
9 | Para II | RamjeeChaudhry observed demand of locally produced items is more which fetches higher price also. High margin of middle man compelled him to sell his product directly to the market. |
10 | Para III | Intervention of local varieties of vegetables, fish farming in local pond as per the need & choice of locality. Use of poultry litter in vegetable and fish farming. Direct selling of produce to market for higher profit and to abolish middle man. |
11 | Para IV | Use of local resources inputs reduced production cost by 15% and simultaneously the produce fetched 30 to 40% higher price in comparison to conventional produce/practices. Direct market linkage provides additional income. |
12 | Para V | The innovator wishes to produce vegetables totally in organic mode for higher profit and to minimize health hazards. He wants to enhance self-life of produce through the use of organic resources. He also wants to rear local brands of poultry. |
13 | Para VI | Abolish middle man for higher profit and emphasize on local varieties/enterprise for more demand and profit as well. |
Intervention in Banana cultivation through Grain Nain variety (G9)
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1 | Name of the farmer | BabulalYadav |
2 | Name of the grassroots innovation/Venture/Innovative approach developed by the farmers | Intervention in Banana cultivation through Grain Nain variety (G9) |
3 | Address | Vill-Morbe, P.O.-Gurpa, Block-Fatehpur, Gaya |
4 | Mobile Number | 9934875957 |
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6 | Website (if any) | |
7 | Annual Turnover | 1200000/-, profit 3.5 Lakh |
8 | Description of the innovation (Para I) | Very simple and traditional farmer having 3.20 ha of land and hardly maintaining his large family through cultivating rice and wheat |
9 | Para II | Poor economic status led him towards cultivation of Banana, Papaya tec. |
10 | Para III | Traditional variety of Banana is not doing well under the climatic condition of Gaya district. He came to know about the G-9 variety and its specialty through Horticulture department. He gathered the whole package of practices and started cultivation in 1.0 acre of land. Maintained allthe standard and finally harvested the bumper crop. |
11 | Para IV | Simply by changing crop choice his earning was almost 3 times higher than traditionally grown Rice –Wheat. His life style changed and presently, he is affording to educate his family members. He is also engaged in direct marketing of produce for the consumer and gaining additional benefits. |
12 | Para V | He wishes to improve his method of irrigation and install drip system in such commercial crops for water and labour saving |
13 | Para VI | Plantation and Horticultural crop in the way forward for multiplying farm and family income. |
Use of music to enhance the productivity of dairy unit
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1 | Name of the farmer | Subodh Kumar |
2 | Name of the grassroots innovation/Venture/Innovative approach developed by the farmers | Use of music to enhance the productivity of dairy unit |
3 | Address | Magadh Dairy, Kusapi, Block-Chandauti, Gaya |
4 | Mobile Number | 9835260601 |
5 | subodhsinghmagadhdairy@gamil.com | |
6 | Website (if any) | |
7 | Annual Turnover | 1 crore |
8 | Description of the innovation (Para I) | Subodh Kumar having L.L.B. degree left service of Railway and started dairy farm in 1998 with 10 cows and now he is earning approx 2 lakh per month by 100 cows and 30 buffalos. |
9 | Para II | He believes that by trying new things in dairy farming he can minimize his problem related to dairy farming like low productivity and stress. He thinks if music can reduce stress in human beings why not it also helps animals to reduce stress so that productivity can enhanced. |
10 | Para III | Playing music during feeding and milking for 3-4 hours and due to this, animals are very calm and easy to handle. Continuous use of music in dairy farm productivity was increased. |
11 | Para IV | Use of music in dairy farm productivity is increased up to 5%. Music reduces the stress in animals and also easy to handle during feeding and milking. |
12 | Para V | He wishes to use nonconventional and old age practices along with some modern technologies in his dairy farm so that he can earn more profit. |
13 | Para VI | Scientist should think over on this approach for their further suggestion regarding duration and type of music for getting more benefits. |
Use of Deshi Poultry as a biological method for control of ectoparasite in dairy animals.
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1 | Name of the farmer | Santosh Kumar |
2 | Name of the grassroots innovation/Venture/Innovative approach developed by the farmers | Use of Deshi Poultry as a biological method for control of ectoparasite in dairy animals. |
3 | Address | S/o- Sri BaldevYadav, Vill- Shekhwara, Block- Bodhgaya |
4 | Mobile Number | 9801672245 |
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6 | Website (if any) | |
7 | Annual Turnover | 90 lakhs |
8 | Description of the innovation (Para I) | Santosh Kumar, a graduate farmer started a dairy unit in 2003 with 2 cows and presently he have 180 milch cows in his dairy unit |
9 | Para II | In spite of using medicine, ectoparasitereoccurs in his dairy farm. So he thinks how to get rid from these by other method and finally he used deshi poultry as a biological method for ectoparasite control in his farm. |
10 | Para III | He uses deshi poultry in his farm for control of ectoparsite in dairy animals. He does not made any other arrangement and shelter to keep these deshi birds, these birds graze in farms and also pick ectoparasite in day and in night they use branches of tree as ashelter. |
11 | Para IV | Use of deshi birds save the cost of medicine Get rid from reoccurrence of ectoparasite Additional income from backyard without any additional feeding cost Help to produce milk less use of medicine and chemicals |
12 | Para V | In future he wants to use these kinds of indigenous technologies to reduce effort, chemical cost and simultaneously to enhance income also. |
13 | Para VI | Farmers and scientist must try these type of practices to help dairy entrepreneurs. |