presentation made to Rotary club, Begumpet at Taj Vivera on 7th May, 2019

1. Unravelling the farmers distress
Challenges in changing scenario
Centre for Sustainable Agriculture

2. Promoting
Agroecological
Approaches
• Organic/Natural Farming
• Adapting to Climate Change
• PGS Regional Council
• Open Source Seed Initiative
Building Producer
Organizations
• Supporting FPOs, CBOs, SHGs
• Food hubs
• Sahaja Aharam Retail
Improving Governance
• Research and Analysis of policy
support and regulatory systems
• Monitoring performance of
public support systems
• Kisan Mitra Helpline
Caring for those who feed the nation
Sikkim
Tripura
Punjab
Maharashtra
Telangana
Andhra Pradesh
CSA offices and Project sites (6 states)
50,000 farmers directly and 200,000 farmers indirectly
CSA areas of Work

3. 0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
12000
14000
16000
18000
20000
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
No. of suicides
Source: NCRB 1995-2016
Farmer Suicides in India 1995-2016
Total 329,898 in 22 years
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4. 0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
1995199619971998199920002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016
Farmers Suicides
Source: NCRB 1995-2016
Farmer Suicides in Telangana 1995-2016
Total 28,965 in 22 years
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5. http://kisanmitra.ekrishi.net
Mandal
Name
No. of
Suicides
Mandal
Name
No. of
Suicides Mandal Name
No. of
Suicides
Cherial 37 Chityala 27 Talamadugu 21
Vikarabad 32 Regonda 26 Peddavoora 21
Gurrampode 32 Husnabad 26 Narayankhed 21
Gajwel 32 Gundala 26 Elkathurthi 21
Medak 30 Nalgonda 25 Devarakonda 21
Jainath 30 Marpalle 24 Chintapalle 21
Jagdevpur 30 Anumula 24 Adilabad 21
Dubbak 29 Narmetta 23 Saidapur 20
Kataram 28 Ramayampet 22 Kangal 20
Doultabad –
Medak 28 Parkal 22 Geesugonda 20
Chevella 28 Kondapak 22 Boath 20
Atmakur 28 Thimmajipet 21
List of mandals with 20 and above farmers’ suicides
since June 2014

6. Percentage share of different income sources
70th Round NSSO, 2014
(ha)
Rs. 4561 Rs. 4152 Rs. 5247 Rs. 7348 Rs. 10730
63.6 57.5
38.3
23.5
15.4 10.3
3.2
32.2
0.7 16.5
40.9
57.3 68.6 77.6 86.2
47.9
25.9
15
12 11.1 10.8 7.6 6.3
11.9
9.8 11.1 8.8 8.1 5.2 4.4 4.3 8
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
<0.01 0.01-0.4 0.41-1.0 1.01-2.00 2.01-4.00 4.01-10.00 >10.00 all sizes
Wage/salaries Cultivation Livestock Non farm business
Rs. 19637 Rs. 41388 Rs. 6426

7. Farmers income in Telangana
Sl no Particulars (Amount in Rs) Telangana (Rs/hh/annum) All India (Rs/hh/annum)
I Farmers income in base year at 2015-16 prices
a. Farm income 63,492 58,246
b. Non Farm income 22,799 38,457
Total 86,291 96,703
II Farmers income in terminal year 2022-23 at 2015-16 prices
a. Farm income 1,11,238 1,08,045
b. Non Farm income 31,916 48,108
Total 1,43,153 1,56,154
III Farmers income in terminal year 2022-23 at current prices
a. Farm income 1,56,522 1,52,031
b. Non farm income 44,909 67,693
Total 2,01,431 2,19,724
Estimation of Income (assuming the inflation @ 5% p.a. During 2015-16 to 2022-23
Source: Doubling the farmers income, Ashok Dalwai Committee http://www.agricoop.nic.in/doubling-farmers-income

8. Land
Labor
Inputs
Subsidies
Capital
Yield
Prices
Income
Production resources
Risks
•Pests and Diseases
•Droughts
•Floods
Moving away
from the hands of
Cultivators
Yields are stagnated
Prices not being remunerative
Ecological risks
•Groundwater depletion
•Pesticide poisoning
•Soil salinity etc
Living costs
Income sources
Social security
Crisis in Agriculture

9. Biovillages
• Natural/organic farming
• Adapting to climate change
• Alternate livelihoods
• Water Positive farming
• Carbon neutral villages

10. Creating Livelihoods
Sericulture
Backyard Poultry
Honey Production
• Developing Livelihoods Plan
• Building the capacities
• Green Enterprises for Bioinputs
• Providing linkages
For diversifying incomes and assets
Composting
Azolla
Sheep and Goat

11. www.sahajaaharam.in
• Natural/Organic Food directly from farmers
• Food/Nutritional Counselling for consumers
• Better price to farmers
• FPOhub to incubate farmer producer organisations

12. KisanMitra
Vikarabad | Adilabad | Manchiryal
1800-120-3244
08500 98 3300
• Supporting distressed families
• Improving last mile delivery of public support
services
• Distress Helpline to resolve grievances and rapid
response in case of extremities
• Monitoring public support services for farmers
• Improving the governance of farm support services

13. LAUNCH OF KISAN MITRA HELPLINE
● A meeting was called in each district, with a representation of
farmers from all mandals & backgrounds and their issues were
heard and followed up
● Launch Dates of Helpline:
○ Vikarabad Dist. : April 14, 2017
○ Adilabad Dist. : Feb 7th, 2018
○ Mancherial Dist. : March 29, 2018
Adilabad Launch with Honourable Minister, Jogu Ramanna Mancherial Launch by the then Dist. Collector Mr. Karnan

15. Central Team
District Level
Coordination
Farmers
direct calls
Field
coordinators
Farmer
Service
Centres
Farmer
Producer
Organisations
District Level
Coordination
Field
coordination
Kisan Mitra Model
http://kisanmitra.ekrishi.net

16. CURRENT STATUS OF KISAN MITRA HELPLINE
As on 23rd April, 2019
District name Cases received Resolved Pending with
departments
Adilabad 2728 956 1772
Mancherial 893 283 610
Vikarabad 5086 3193 1893
Total 8707 4432 4275
District Agriculture Revenue Marketing
Total Resolved Total Resolved Total Resolved
Adilabad 1225 284 799 171 229 218
Mancherial 316 73 345 77 16 13
Vikarabad 1645 1125 1809 811 238 221
Kisan Mitra Helpline:
1800-120-3244
Total Departments: 37
Officials: 200

17. KISAN MITRA - IMPACT AREAS
● Distress/Suicide Farmer Families
○ Pesticide Poisoning
○ Distress Case Counselling & Relief
○ Education for children & Livelihood support
○ Ex-Gratia & other beneficiary schemes
○ Welfare schemes being targeted to Distressed & Needy
● Improving Access to Credit
● Resolving land title related issues
● Feed back to the district and state level bankers committees
● Facilitating ~5000 LEC cards & JLG Group Loans for Tenant Farmers (All Districts)
● Crop Loss & Compensation
● Improving Policies like PMFBY(Crop Insurance) by feedback
● Analysis and presentations on natural disasters like drought, floods, Hailstorms etc
● Improving access to markets
● Open procurement centres
● Timely payments
● Other support systems
● Electricity issues like Transformer Issues, Loose Wires, New connections to villages etc.,
● Water supply and Irrigation/Canal related issues proactively resolved
● Grouping of Issues of FPOs, SHGs and collectively representing & Solving
● Revenue & Rythu Bandhu Issues followed up & communicated
● Improving Regulations: Seeds, Pesticides etc

18. KISAN MITRA - IMPACT - FARMER SUICIDE CASES
1. Conducted a meeting with all suicide affected families and counselled them about loans related to different
corporations and also helped them apply for the same
2. Facilitated sanction of ex-gratia to 3 families
3. Regular counselling and follow up to understand their status
4. Followed up with the government to get widow pension sanctioned, children of suicide farmers admitted to
government hostels and also fee exemptions in a few cases.
Vikarabad meeting of all suicide affected families and awareness program related to loans and ex-gratia

19. 120 Farmer Suicide Families participated in Women’s Day Celebration on
Mar 8th, 2018 - ADILABAD

21. KISAN MITRA - SOME SUICIDE CASES (e.g Mancherial District)
Kothapet, Jannaram Velganoor,
Dandepally
Suddala, Chennur Kommera,

22. KISAN MITRA - IMPACT - ATTEMPTED SUICIDE SURVEY
To understand Farmer Suicides Kisan Mitra team visited many hospitals and listed down
attempted Suicide Farmers and then followed up with each family. This was done in all 3
district and the results when analysed we could uncover various trends & behavioral
patterns which we could normally never infer. A few examples are as below:
- Overwhelmingly increasing Tribal Farmers especially Gond Tribal Community
farmers attempting Suicide
- Farmer Suicides whose root cause is Agrarian Distress but few extreme triggers
as
- Pressure of birth of another Girl Child
- A mother Unable to Feed her infant due to her inability to lactate
- Inability to provide basic healthcare for family members
- Extreme Crop Loss due to Floods etc
We are in process of analysing this data & patterns further to work towards
prevention of Farmer Suicides and to understand the distress better.

23. KISAN MITRA - IMPACT - AGRICULTURE, CROP LOSS &
INSURANCE
● Received ~500 calls from Vikarabad due to Crop Loss of Paddy & Redgram, followed up by discussions with Scientists
& Dist. Admin.
● In the month of August, 2018 many farmers incurred severe crop losses due to heavy rains and many lakhs of acres of
crop was affected in Adilabad and Mancherial with variations in the extent of damage like uprooting of plants, soil
erosion, sand and pebble casting and borewells filled with mud.
● We followed up with the AOs and AEOs and worked with them closely in the enumeration of the crop loss. Insisted
on ensuring proper survey is done in the villages where we received complaints from the farmers that AOs are
claiming that there was no loss when there have been crop losses.
● Also raised funds amounting to around 10 lakhs through Milaap.

24. CROP LOSS - AUGUST 2018 HEAVY RAINS (Adilabad & Mancherial
Districts)

25. KISAN MITRA - IMPACT - MARKETING ISSUES
Cotton Market Price:
Actively involved in analysis of Cotton Market price trends in Adilabad and
worked with the collector in making sure the farmers got the best price in the
state from traders and also continued to monitor on a regular basis.
Red gram payment delay issues:
Kisanmitra was flooded with the calls from Kodangal Mandal regarding Red
gram payment delay in the months of March-May.
Issue: One farmer from Bulkapur village called KisanMitra in distress and
stated that if the payment will not be credited early to his Redgram yield, he
will commit suicide along with 10 other farmers from his village.
Follow up by Kisanmitra:
Kisanmitra immediately sent a message to the collector, and coordinated with
DM Markfed with the details of these farmers and the authorities took an
action and credited the amount in farmers account with in 2-3 days.
There are about 43 issues regarding Market payment delay and KisanMitra
continuously followed up with Markfed and helped the farmers in early
payment.

26. Various Farmers & Agri Labourers die to due to Inhalation Poisoning every season and it has increased Rampantly
in recent past due to advanced Sprayers etc.
The people who survive after treatment also are clueless of what livelihood options they have.
KISAN MITRA - IMPACT - ADILABAD - PESTICIDE POISONING
KisanMitra Team worked along with Pesticide Action Network (PAN) and trained doctors about treatment protocol. Also
Constantly gave feedback to Dist Administration on treatment protocols being followed and corrective measures which
saved farmers’ lives.

27. KISAN MITRA - IMPACT - ELECTRICITY ISSUES
Kisan Mitra team was instrumental in getting
electricity connection to Gantalagudem a
remote tribal (Gond) village in Tandur Mandal,
Mancherial. They had struggled for 22 years
without electricity before our field team
managed to actively follow up with the
electricity department to ensure that poles were
installed and connections given, within a span of
1 week.
Before
---
After

28. KISAN MITRA - IMPACT - PENSION ISSUES (e.g : Mancherial District)
● Kisan Mitra followed up actively with the district administration and tried to get widow pension for around 6 widows of suicide farmers.
● In the 50 requests we had received for pension related issues, we were able to actively follow up with the district administration to get pension
successfully for around 30 eligible people. The rest are under verification to check eligibility criteria, which are also being followed up by our
field team.
Examples:
○ Singam Shetti Rajaiah (68Y) of Nambal Village, Dandepally Mandal reported that two years back he had applied for old age pension.
He hadn't received the pension despite submitting the application multiple times. Kisanmitra followed up with MPDO and PD and he
has been receiving pension from the past two months.
○ Keshav Goud Kambagami of Saligaon Village, Kannepally Mandal was in receipt of Rs.1,500 disability pension till 2016 and the pension
was stopped from Dec-2016. In this regard he submitted SADAREM certificate (POD: 86%) and met Collector and MPDO, but his case
wasn't settled. Kisanmitra followed up with MPDO and PD and he has been receiving pension from the past two months.
○ Rajender Mancherla of Avadam Village, Nennel Mandal who is mentally challenged was not getting disability pension. He used to get
the pension when the amount was Rs. 200 but he stopped receiving the pension after the government increased it to Rs. 1500. Disable
percentage - 40%, But he didn't apply recently and he didn't have any receipt.

29. KISAN MITRA - VILLAGE STUDY - VENKATRAOPETA, LUXETTIPETA MANDAL,
MANCHERIAL
Observations:
● We did a survey along with the VRO since many farmers didn’t get PPB
and many errors were identified in Rythu Bandhu. There it was
identified that 1700 PPB’s were issued in which 600 are clear and
remaining 1100 have errors. In this issue we have been following up
with Revenue department regarding corrections.
● Interviews with a couple of families in the villages their issues brought
out some issues to light
○ Many farmers send their children to private schools (English
Medium) and spend more money than they can earn in a year.
Government school isn’t functioning properly.
○ Unavailability of doctors in the hospital. Any disease is treated
with paracetamol. No emergency services available.
○ Alcoholism is a rampant issue
○ NREGS work isn’t allocated correctly (some farmers got work
only for 5 days)
○ Few farmers migrated to Singapore for work due to huge
financial debts
○ Disability and other pension issues

30. KISAN MITRA - VILLAGE STUDY - KOLAMGUDA, HAJIPUR MANDAL
Village Profile:
● Kolamguda houses 28 families belonging to Kolam tribe.
● Despite the village belonging to Kolams, all the cultivable lands there belong to the farmers of BC community, registered in their
own names.
● Due to dire financial distress, the Kolams were compelled to sell away all their lands and now are left with no option but to work in
those very fields as agricultural labourers earning 150 rupees per day if they are women and 200 rupees if they are men, to
supplement their livelihood.
● Because of their inability to be able to afford decent housing, two families end up sharing a single house.
● They also mentioned that they had to face attacks from people of the upper caste which they could do nothing about and their
helplessness is leading them further into an emotional abyss.
● They don’t have access to affordable medical facilities and many of their children suffer from malnutrition.
Their Requirements:
● Access to nutritious food
● Housing for married couples
● Protect themselves from any attacks from people of upper caste
● Financially better their situation by getting agricultural land allocated in their name which they can cultivate themselves and can
improve their earnings.

31. KISAN MITRA - VILLAGE STUDY -
KOLAMGUDA, HAJIPUR MANDAL, MANCHERIAL
Impact of Kisan Mitra:
● Growing Kitchen Gardens is in Progress.
● School Renovation in Progress.
● Discussing and working towards their Land Rights
● Understanding Health Profile of the Village and work towards
improving nutrition.

32. KISAN MITRA IMPACT - MEDICAL CAMP
Pangidi Somaram village, Kotapally Mandal, Mancherial District:
One of the main issues in this Tribal Remote Village is about
approximately 24 deaths that happened from 2014 with fever and
sudden weight loss of the villagers there, sometimes even very young
people.
Kisan Mitra team followed up this issue with DMHO and he attached us
to two doctors who conducted a medical camp and almost 88 villagers
attended the medical camp and check ups were done and blood samples
were collected for further diagnosis to understand root cause of health
issues.
Following is an executive summary of a research done by the expert
committee on tribal health in India. Please check to understand the
scenario in totality and we could discuss further.
http://www.nhm.gov.in/nhm_components/tribal_report/Executive_Sum
mary.pdf

33. TENANT FARMERS
Tenant Farmers are the worst affected and as per survey done with TISS, ~75% of Farmers who committed suicide are
tenant farmers. Sadly they are not even recognised as Farmers.
As per 2011 Licensed Cultivators Act every Tenant Farmer has to be recognised and given an ID card and all rights such as
Crop Loan, Disaster Compensation etc have to be given. But none of this is being implemented across the state.
In Adilabad, KisanMitra team focusedly worked along with Dist Administration and were able to disburse 6000 Loan
Eligibility Cards(LEC) to Farmers as well as facilitate Loans to ~1000 farmers.

34. Name : Mallappa Tandra
Location : Peddemul Mandal
District: Vikarabad
Cause of Distress:
● Land Succession not done
● Sugarcane Drying up, unable to access to Drip
Irrigation
● Long term Loan from his dead father
● One Daughter Physically Handicapped & Other
Mentally Handicapped
● Health Issues to Mother(Kidney Removed)
Support by KisanMitra:
● Land Succession done in 1 day
● Drip Irrigation sanctioned and being used, borewell
has collapsed, we are helping with recovery
● One Time Settlement of LT Loan in Final Stage
● Education Support to Daughter
KISAN MITRA - IMPACT - DISTRESS CASES

35. Name : Venkataiah
Location : Doma
Mandal
District: VikarabadCause of Distress
● Crop loss continuous 3 years
● Notices from Cooperative Bank, went into Distress &
attempted Suicide
● 2 Oxen Died due to Lightning Strike
Support by Kisan Mitra
● SC Corporation Loan
● One time Settlement of Cooperative Bank
● His Son, Sreenivas employed as Kisan Mitra Field
Coordinator
KISAN MITRA - IMPACT - DISTRESS CASES

36. KISAN MITRA - IMPACT - DISTRESS CASES
Name : Chitukula Narsimlu
Location : Nawabpet
Mandal
District: Vikarabad
Cause of Distress
1. Family Disputes
2. Financial Distress
3. Psychological Issue
4. Land issue
Support by Kisan Mitra
1. Got him Patta Passbook by following up with MRO
2. Got a bathroom constructed for him, also by coordinating with MRO
3. Livelihood support by facilitating him getting 10 goats from Government
4. Education support to daughter by fundraising from volunteers
5. He attempted suicide once and field coordinator and psychologist actively followed up with him till he recovered
6. Psychologist counselled him and also suggested he gets psychiatric help. Our field coordinator personally took him to
Govt. Mental Hospital in Hyderabad and making sure he takes his medication regularly.

37. Name : Narendhar
Location : Beerole
District: Vikarabad
Cause of Distress
● Suffering from TB
● Crop Loss due to Wild Boar Attacks
● Less Market Price
Support by Kisan Mitra
● Gold Loan swapped with Bank Loan to decrease Interest
Rate (by Collector)
● Supported by NGO called i4farmers to purchase a cow
● Regular Counselling
KISAN MITRA - IMPACT - DISTRESS CASES

38. KISAN MITRA - IMPACT - DISTRESS CASES
Name: Lakshmi Vadla
Location: Dadapur, Doma
District: Vikarabad
Cause of Distress:
1. Lakshmi is HIV+. Her husband died of HIV. Luckily her daughters (10
yrs, 5 yrs) are HIV negative.
2. Lakshmi’s health is seriously deteriorated and she has also lost her
eyesight.
3. Her older daughter does all the household work.
4. Financially they are in dire state with absolutely no support for
even basic food related needs.
5. Not getting widow pension.
Support from Kisan Mitra:
1. Trying to get children to hostel with volunteer support.
2. Counselling Lakshmi to join a rehabilitation center for HIV patients.
3. Following up with officials to get widow pension to Lakshmi.

39. KISAN MITRA - IMPACT - DISTRESS CASES
Name: Latha
Location: Nawabpet
District: Vikarabad
Cause of Distress:
Latha had stored an insecticide in the same basket as her lunch and took it to her farm. The cap
of the bottle was loose and the food got laced with the insecticide. Unaware of that, she
consumed her food and a little while after that, she started to have all symptoms of pesticide
poisoning like nausea, vomitings, giddiness, stomach ache etc.,
Support from Kisan Mitra:
1. Followed up regularly with her and ensured she got the right kind of treatment and also
monitored her progress.
2. Counselled her about the care to be taken while storing and spraying of pesticides.
Name: Raju
Ketawath
Location: Marpalle
District: Vikarabad
Cause of Distress:
1. He struggled for 25 years to get a Patta Passbook
2. When he approached government officials for the same, he was asked for a bribe, for
which he also spent around 30,000 rupees.
3. He was in severe distress when he called Kisan Mitra and was almost on the verge of
committing suicide.
Support from Kisan Mitra:
1. Field team immediately followed up and coordinated with the MRO and DT to get him a
passbook within 15 days.

40. KISAN MITRA - IMPACT - DISTRESS CASES
Name: Narsimhulu K
Location: Tattepalle,
Peddemul
District: Vikarabad
Cause of Distress: Issue in buying Urea bags
Narsimhulu called to report that almost 50 farmers had problem in buying urea bags with the dealers
in Peddemul Mandal from past 3 days, but as dispatch ID for EPOS machines is not provided by the
PACS,Tattepalle, dealers are not able to sell the urea bags. So, caller is asking to solve this issue.
Support from Kisan Mitra:
Kisan Mitra contacted Marketing department and DAO. As Kisan Mitra spoke to the authorities
regarding this issue, dealers were informed to give the urea bags by giving receipt manually.
Name: Pasha
Location: Bompally,
Doma
District: Vikarabad
Cause of Distress:
Pasha Thaayar has complained that he doesn’t have power supply lines to his bore-well. He requested every officer (VRO,
MLA, AEO) about this issue but to no avail. This continued for a year. He was using normal low grade wires to get power
supply, but those wires being loose were always creating problem. He lost his cow due to electric shock, when a loose
electric wire fell on it.
Support from Kisan Mitra:
Kisan Mitra coordinated with the AE and then the DE regarding electricity connection for the farmer. Since financially he
was unable to pay the amount, we assured them to provide the connection and he would pay back that amount after he
gets crop yield. Later government paid the amount and provided the connection. Farmer felt happy.

41. Name : Santosh
Location : Boath
Mandal
District: Adilabad
Cause of Distress
● Attempted Suicide
● 1.8 Lakhs of Debt & Crop Loss
● Married 3 sisters
● Second Daughter was born 3 days before he attempted
suicide
Support by KisanMitra:
● KisanMitra team followed on recovery & was take to
collector after discharge
● Help with Dairy business & Crop Loss advice
● Daughters education taken care off
● Crop Loan being given to him by banker
KISAN MITRA - IMPACT - DISTRESS CASES

42. Name :Shivanna
Location : Adilabad
Rural
District: Adilabad
Cause of Distress:
● Called Kisan Mitra at verge of
Committing Suicide
● Crop Loss due to Adilabad
Floods
● Has 9 lakhs loan, Sold Auto
also
● Sold land to SC Corporation
but didn’t receive amount
Kisan Mitra follow up:
● Counselled him for around 1 hour in phone, until field coordinator reached
● Collector counselled him at Prajavaani and gave orders to SC Corporation to
disburse amount immediately.
● BC corporation Loan
KISAN MITRA - IMPACT - DISTRESS CASES

43. KISAN MITRA - IMPACT - MANCHERIAL
Salluri Rajeshwari’s husband Salluri Bannaiah died due to heart attack while ploughing their land behind their
house. She has 3 daughters.
● Her elder daughter Vani Kumari got married, but her husband died to due to heart attack too , which has
led to stress within the family. She is survived by 3 sons.
● Vaishnavi is another daughter studying Degree (B-Com CA)
● Harsha Vardhani (1st Year Intermediate - BiPC)
Land Details & Issues:
They have only 4 guntas of land in which 2 guntas was used for building their house.
Health Issues:
Salluri Rajeshwari has high BP as well as Nervous issues due to which she is unable to work in the field. She
got her CT scan done recently and is on medication.
.
Details of Debts :
Private Debts:
● 2,00,000 was taken in 2009 for Daughter’s marriage for which they have been
paying interest at 3%/month.
● 1,00,000 was taken for personal reasons for birth & death ceremonies of Family members
Name : Salluri Rajeshwari
Village : Naspur
Mandal : Mancherial
District : Mancherial
Caste : SC
Kisan Mitra Intervention:
● Sanctioned NFBS (Rs.20,000) for two women
● Joined one girl in residential school
● Livelihood for elder daughter

44. KISAN MITRA - FARMER SERVICE CENTERS
● FPOs and Women SHGs
● Departments/Offices
● 10 centres in AP and Telangana
● Provide all services to farmers
○ Extension support
○ Inputs
○ Custom hiring centre
○ Financial linkages
○ Procurement for market
● Community Centres
○ Digital Literacy
○ Distress Mapping & Relief
○ Film Screenings & Awareness
○ Community Building

45. KISAN MITRA - AWARENESS AND PUBLICITY

46. How you can support?
● Volunteer
● Adopt a district to manage Kisan Mitra
○ District Coordinator
○ 5-6 field coordinators
● Adopt distress families
○ Support livelihoods
○ Support children education
● Support events/Campaigns
○ Health camps
○ Campaigns on rainwater harvesting
○ Training programs
● Support Centre for Sustainable Agriculture

47. Awards and Recognitions
• 2017: Sakshi Excellence Award for Best Contribution to Agriculture
• 2014: Best Rural Innovation Award for Non Pesticidal Management
in Bihar Rural Innovation Forum
• 2014: Best Rural Innovation Award for ‘Community Managed
Sustainable Agriculture’ in Maharashtra Rural Innovation Forum
• 2012: Best Green Enterprises award by Hivos for NPM scalingup in
AP
• 2010: Krishi Gourav Award for Enebavi
• 2008: TV9 ‘Navya’ Award for effective campaign
• 2005: World Bank Development Market Place Award

48. http://www.csa-india.org
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