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Governance Knowledge CentrePromoted by Department of Administrative Reforms and Public GrievancesMinistry of Personnel, Public Grievances and PensionsGovernment of IndiaCase StudyAgricultureRegional Horticulture Promotion Project,December 2010Transparency and Accountabilitylocal population can afford to educate their children and brighten their possibilities for thefuture.“Arun Chettri, a driver by profession waswell aware of the popularity of flowercultivation around Kalimpong. When heheard about the training programme, hesaw it as a welcome opportunity to try hishand at something new and improve hiseconomic prospects. From then on, it hasbeen a story of success; he learnt thetechniques and processes of floriculture,practiced it on his sister’s land and nowhas a nursery ry of his own from where othervillagers buy their saplings. RHPP hashelped him come a long way.”Increasing reach of the ProjectWithin a period of one year, the RHPP has trained 11, 16 and 89 rural people through its longterm, mid-term and short term courses. The training has attracted not only farmers’ but alsopeople from other walks of life like teachers, students and ex-service men. Further trainedvillagers, pass on the training to their friends and relatives and encourage them to adapt newagro-horticultural rticultural techniques. These techniques are also replicated from one village to anothervillage.Looking AheadConvincing farmers of the advantages of the new techniques, a process has now been put inplace to establish a farmers co-operative (see diagram below) with a self-help marketing systemfor mass production. Many meetings have been held in this regard and co-operative leadershave been selected. The co-operative operative staff and participant farmers are being trained.9Researched and documented byOneWorld Foundation India
Governance Knowledge CentrePromoted by Department of Administrative Reforms and Public GrievancesMinistry of Personnel, Public Grievances and PensionsGovernment of IndiaCase StudyAgricultureRegional Horticulture Promotion Project,December 2010Transparency and AccountabilityFIGURE 6: Farmer’s Co-operative operative Matrix DesignRHPP will be in operation till 2012, till then local capacities for training and marketing will beestablished. RHPP and the green house and community service projects have altered localfarming methods and market dynamics creating a ‘new beginning’ for the farmersofKalimpong and placing them on the track of self-sufficiency .Sushma Sherpa, a 35 year old farmer from Upper Samalbong, wears an expectant look as sheattends the first session of the year-long agro-horticulture training programme at Dr.Graham’s Homes in Kalimpong. With a long family history of farming and agriculture as heronly source of income, she is particularly motivated to be here, “I am here to learn about newtechniques, which I am told will l help increase the productivity of my land.”Research was carried out by the OneWorld Foundation India (OWFI), Governance Knowledge Centre (GKC) team.Documentation was created by Research Associate, Sapna KediaFor further information, please contact Naimur Rahman, Director, OWFI at owsa@oneworld.net10Researched and documented byOneWorld Foundation India
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