EXPERIENCES

1. Active Participation in sapling, seed sowing.

2. Helped cadre at Monday stalls.
3. Participation in input preparation
4. Took part in Rain water harvesting ad geo tagging survey
5. CC experiments
6. Implementation of models
7. Placing sticky traps in field
8. Keenly observed pricing and demand for NF produce physically
9. Involved in selling NF inputs
10. Observed the quality of stored NF produce in storage rooms
11. Visited nutri gardens and involved in supply of produce to anganwadi, cooking activities,
12. Accompanied women labour in doing inter cultural activities
13. Training programmes like SHGs meetings,VO meeting, de briefing.
14. Wheel of 9 principles activity
15. Suggesting the inputs for the pest attack at field.
16. SHG meetings and awareness progression women personal health.
17. Participation in cultural events of village.
 GROUP WORK

• BY:
• B. NANDANA (YP)
• LOKA PAVANI (YP)
• SWATHI (YP)
• MOUNIKA (YP)
• RAZIA (YP)
• ANNA GUPTA (YP)
• SHAIK HASSAN (YP)
• LAVANYA (YP)
• ADITYA (YP)
• PRAVEEN RATHOD(YEL)
• NAGENDRA (YEL)
 OBSERVATIONS:
14. Trade in and trade out –
1. Decision making process
• Trade in – Yellow sticky traps, livestock, agriculture implements, agri
2. Flow of information
commodities,
3. Role of Community mobilization • Trade out – Agriculture commodities, pottery, handlooms, hand
4. Political influence in case of special recommendations. crafts

5. Reasons behind a farmer to convert to NF – fear of change, 15. Government schemes implemented – MGNREGA, RSK, PM Kissan,
doubtfulness of the effectiveness of inputs, weak market linkages Pension, Annadatha sukhi bhava, AP micro irrigation project, etc
16. Observed Institutions in village: SHG, RSK, Gram panchayat,
6. Rivalry between hierarchy.
community halls, Anganwadi, community health center, veterinary
7. Transformation to NF hospital

8. Difference observed on life style, health status, financial status. 17. Marketing channels – local mandi, APMC, Paddy procurement centers,
farmer cooperatives.
9. Difference between the NF and CF in aspects of soil health, climate
resistance crop, shelf life, quality, etc 18. Near by market observations on the prices, timings and sales of the
products.
10. Gender clock
19. Data manipulation is done at different levels of staff
11. Socio political aspects of villages
20. Coordination among district staff.
12. Transact walk and observed natural resources, institutions,
committees, social setup
13. Observed livelihoods i.e MSME
 I N T E RA C T I O N S O N :

 Agricultural aspects:
• NF activities – Monday stalls, wall writings, campaigns, convergence with line departments.
• Models – A grade, ATM, PMDS, RMDS, 365 day green coverage
• Input preparation
 What are the livelihoods and economies of scale
 Tools and Strategies for scaling up and follow-up the farmers
 What are the changes in health and life style
 Role of line department in APCNF
 Effect of political and social aspects in working.
 What are the sources of income?
 Are you getting help in terms of training, access to inputs, access to markets?
 Roles and responsibilities of each cadre
 Annual target of this year and last year.
 Coordination among staff and among field staff and district,
 Action plan and strategies to implement at district and
tools to used to monitor whole NF workings
mandal.
 How staff resolves Conflicts and challenges in field.
 Is work and targets reached on time. If not what is the
 Data (urvi) and their background checkups reason
 how many times field staff gets trainings.  What marketing channels farmer adopt to sell their
produce – at local, RSK, mandal, etc
 About briefing and de briefing meetings.
 Role of SHG, VO in APCNF
 What are the challenges faced by field staff.
 NPM shop management, products and their prices,
 How often MTs/ MMTLs, DPM, NFA visit fields
frequency of sales, raw material procurement and their
 How does the Master Trainer oversee the performance and availability.
coordination of different farmer cadres  Are you happy in doing NF ,what kind of benefits that
 Record maintenance/ village records you are getting ,what are the challenges that you are
facing in adopting NF ?
 How super set dashboards are useful at district level
 Financial aspects of the district
 WHAT WOULD I DO IF I WERE A DISTRICT PROJECT MANAGER

1. Time to time monitoring and follow-up of staff members and activities taken 6. Form a special village groups who are into the NF which helps
up in the following:

2. Surprise visits to the ground field Updates on the crops

Market price fluctuations
3. Conduct more training and de briefing for more understanding of activities,
short term targets, to address the issues and resolve them, Input availability status
4. To make the cadre competitive mindset NPM shop input prices and updates.

5. Rewards and appreciation for the employee of month (ICRP, Unit incharge, MT, Technical support
NFA) Government schemes
• Display their names at district office notice board.
• Exposure visits for all 7. Collaborations with NGOs, FPOs, Private limited.
8. Focus more on food baskets.
• 5 demonstration field visit to each CF 9. Promoting processing units.
10. Encouraging Agri businesses.
 DAILY ACTIVITIES

• Photo and videos: with the regular shadowing of ICRP, Unit incharges,
MT/MMTL and attending activities and village, mandal level programs we have
captured pictures and video clips.

• Daily readings: we allotted 15 – 20 mins time for daily readings on the topics
like farming, NF, current affairs, case studies in rural India and other
interesting topics which are productive.
Readings through linkdin, village square, medium, PARI, etc.

• Daily writings: We allotted average of 30 mins to write a page note on the

topics like todays inspiration, on village, NF, new things learnt today, opinion
on schemes of Agriculture and rural development, etc.
 OTHER ACTIVITIES

• community engagement in bringing awareness in village and in

farmers of shg groups
• A grade and ATM models of S2S farmers and natural farming
practices for their field
• Slogans writing on the walls at crowded places to
bring awareness
• NPM shop and the inputs availability in the village
• observed Perception of conventional farmers towards natural
farming while doing analysis between NF and non NF farmer.