Raj Kumar G.C, Program Director, iDE Nepal Rabindra Karki, Program Engineer, iDE Nepal Gun Magar, Senior M and E Officer, iDE Nepal Overview of project progress Since initiating the project one and a half years ago, it has encountered massive earthquakes and political strikes with a devastating blockade of essential supplies that still hampers full […]

Dr Fraser Sugden, IWMI Nepal Collective farming has been often written-off as irrelevant in the 21st century – yet a new model of collective production has the potential to revolutionise smallholder irrigated agriculture and gender empowerment in the Gangetic plains. The project Improving Dry Season Irrigation for Marginal and Tenant Farmers in the Eastern Gangetic […]

Sakhi with the support of IWMI, ICAR and local farmers are implementing innovative dry season agriculture pilot farms in two blocks of Madhubani district namely Andhrathari and Babubarhi. During the first Rabi season (2015-16), the team is working with 45 farmers directly. A total of 5 farmer groups have been formed and cultivation was initiated […]

Despite ongoing strikes and blockade in the district, nursery raising and off-season vegetable training was successfully conducted in four different sites of our project area in January 2016. On-farm nursery raising trainings were organized, facilitated by an agriculture technician from our Saptari based local partner “Jilla Krshak Samuha Sangh (JKSS)”. The overall objective of the […]

The land and water (L&W) project seeks to optimize agriculture based livelihoods opportunity for the small, marginal and landless communities during the dry season. In the Cooch Behar site large tracks of land remain fallow during the dry season. The project works with the communities and the local University to together work out strategy and […]

In Madhubani, Bihar, Anoj and Stephanie from IWMI and one Sakhi staff met seven farmer groups established by Sakhi in the villages of Loha Piper and Bhagwatipur. The farmers discussed the value of a functioning group and collective farming for women and tenants’ empowerment, while the group dynamics and the style of communication in the […]

  Farmers’ training and demonstrations were held in the project sites of West Bengal on 13-14th November, 2015 on use of residual soil moisture through relay cropping (rainfed paddy-lentil). The farmers were given hands on training on seed preparation and sowing of lentil in standing paddy fields. The interventions were taken up at two sites […]

by Fraser Sugden and Anoj Kumar On the 22nd of September, Anoj Kumar and Fraser Sugden visited the farmer collectives set up by   Pragiti Grameen Vikas Samiti (PGVS) in Sahar of Bhojpur district, Bihar. The purpose was to understand the potential for collective farming as a solution for improved productivity for marginal and tenant farmers in […]

When the venue for review and planning meeting was being discussed we proposed CDHI, fully aware of our physical and locational limitation. An initial positive note from Erik encouraged us to insist our request. When the final decision was taken CDHI team accepted this as opportunity for witness to and being part of the great churning that it felt would mark the occasion. The review and planning meeting offered us opportunity to welcome our colleagues and partners from Nepal, Bangladesh, India and Australia. It was quite fulfilling!

iDE Nepal, implementing partner of “Improving water use for dry season agriculture by marginal and tenant farmer project ( ACIAR-LWR project)” in Nepal has been creating a clean irrigation solution that enables millions of smallholder farmers to grow high value vegetables and increase their incomes. As part of this, iDE is introducing an efficient and […]