Page 3 - Crop Booklet

Background:

Rural India has been facing the daunting
challenge of poverty, estimated at 41.8% (2011).
The incidence of poverty is highest among the
Scheduled Tribes (STs) in the Central and East
Indian plateau, including Jharkhand. The situation
is not because of lack of resources rather lack of
judicious utilization of resources. In view of this
ardent situation, Jharkhand Tribal Development
Society (JTDS) has adopted the “weather based
localised planning & implementation strategy”
which gathered a huge response within the
community.

Weather based localised planning and implementation strategy:

WHY & HOW

“Weather based localized planning & Implementation Strategy” …………Why ?

Inter cropping/
STEP Varied agro STEP Each village is STEP mix cropping -
01 climatic condition 02 different in terms 03 Coping mechanism
across state
of resources
particularly for small &
Marginal farmer

STEP Opportunity for STEP Identification of
micro & macro gaps
04 multiple crops 05 and strategy fore
round the year
hand

Jharkhand being mostly rain fed agriculture dominated zone, land is hardly utilized in Rabi and Zaid season.