1. Welcome to ICIMOD Knowledge
Park at Godavari
Participants from Asia Pacific Graduate's Forum for Green
Economy
(28th Sept. 2012)
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Kathmandu, Nepal

2. A place
– Where different technologies and (farming) practices useful
for sustainable development can be tested, selected, and
demonstrated
– Where farmers and those who work with them can be
trained
– Serve as a repository for plant germplasm resources and
associated floral & faunal biodiversity

4. Interventions
• Vegetation management
• Soil management
• Water management
• Income generation packages
• Livestock and fish farming
• Biodiversity
• Renewable energy technologies
• Support functions and scientific research
• Community outreach
• Services, training, and publications

5. Vegetation management
– Forest and shrub-land management
– Multi-storied vegetation with continuous ground cover
– Orchids, wild edible, medicinal, and aromatic plants
– Swampy-wetland area development: reclamation of wetland area
– Biomass study plot
– Carbon monitoring plot
– Bamboo mgt. plot

6. Soil management
– Sloping agricultural land technology (SALT)
– Green manure and cover crops
– EM composting, Biodynamic, Vermi composting, Tunnel method
of composting, Black plastic composting
– Bio-pesticides and plant tonics

7. Water Management
– Natural Spring Water Harvesting
– Water Harvesting Pond
– Roof Top Rain Water Harvesting (Ferrous cement jar)
– Stone line/ grass line water ways
– Gravity Sprinkler Irrigation, Easy Drip Irrigation, Treadle pump

8. Livestock and fish farming
– Goat husbandry
– Angora rabbits
– Fish farming

9. Income Generation Packages
– Fruits, nuts, and spices
– Medicinal and aromatic plants
– Broom grass
– Cardamom cultivation
– Paulownia tomentosa
– Lapsi (Hog plum)
– Plastic film technology (PFT)
– Beekeeping (Apices cerana)
– Shitake Mushroom cultivation
– Organic vegetable farming

10. Biodiversity
– Flora and fauna
– 694 Plants species (biomass study-2002)
– 231 Wild animals
– Swampy wetland area
– Beekeeping

11. Renewable Energy Technologies
Solar technologies
– Sosto solar drier
– Solar parabolic cooker
– Solar oven
– Solaqua still plant
– Trombe hut
Non-solar technologies
– Bio-briquetting technology (beehive/others)
– Improved cooking stoves
– Peltric set technology
– Puxin bio-gas plant
– Cycle water pump
– Hydro ram water pump
– Cool chamber

12. Support functions and scientific
research
– Nursery research
– Meteorological monitoring
– Biomass study
– Soil erosion monitoring
– Air pollution monitoring
– Carbon monitoring

13. Community outreach
– Collaboration with NGOs
– Working with forest user groups
– 3-DM (participatory 3-dimensional model)
– Awareness/Exposure
– Distribution of materials

14. 5000
4500 Number of Visitors 4307
Visitors
4000
3685 3673
3500 3206
3000
2500 2404 2449
2177
2000 1604 1851
1680 1672
1500
1186
1000 876
500 240 412
267 309
0
1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Year
Visitors in ICIMOD D & T Center in (Jan-Dec. 2010)
5000
4500 4307
4000
Number of visitors
3500
2958
3000
2429 1878
2500
2000 1552 1406
1500
907
1000 585 150
322 442
500 292
0
Students Farmers RMCs and others Total
Visitors

15. Seeing is believing
• Today, Godavari is spreading ideas that are
used again and again at various levels and in
different places. It is helping to build a
potential for change as well as raising
awareness of the endless possibilities for
people across the greater Himalayan region.
• Truly ‘seeing is believing’ – what better way
to spread knowledge than to help people to
see and do for themselves...

16. Now and then
1994 2004

17. Thank You