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SOLAPUR GROUP
Group composition
Group as a whole
Solapur district at a glance
• In the Decan Plateau
• District with 11 blocks (40-110 villages)
• 4th in size and 17th in population
• 3.2 mil in population, 2.5 mil (rural)
• Average annual rainfall: 550mm, highest 770mm
• Soil type: thin soil layer, sloppy, undulating, poor
water holding capacity
• In Sangola: 108 villages (42 dry), 125,000 people
• Main crops: pomegranate, maize, sorghum, millet,
grapes, sugar cane
• Water table: 200-250m, decreasing
• Average land holding size: 1.5ha/family
Tipehali as an example
• Tipehali: 3,000 people (350hhs), 30
landless
• 4 shop owners, 5 in public admin
Input/Ouput market
• One weekly market
(haat) serves 10 –
15 villages
• 2 Krishi Utpanna
Bazarr Sammittee
(auction markets)
IDE Solapur
• Started in 1997
• 5-block coverage
• 4 staff (IDE Solapur director and 3
support staff)
Places visited
People met
• Drip farmers
• Drip distributors/dealers
• Drip manufacturer
• Agri. input dealers
• Nursery
• Commission agents
• CBO
• Transport agent
• Packing box manufacturer
Situation before IDE
• Migration (whole family as sugar cane cutters, 80-
100km away, 6 months/year, school opportunity
limited/neglected, gross 10K Rs/6 months)
• Limited and uneven rainfall
• Limited pomegranate cultivation (up to 1997), area
increased by NGO/Gov’t projects - well deepening
with introduction of ISI drip
• Promotion of horticulture/pomegranate led to
increased demand for water
• Poor irrigation and drinking water shortage (tankers)
• E.g: 1997 shortage of water no harvest of
pomegranate (PG)
• Supply chain (Sanga commission agents available
etc.) available without drip systems
IDEI’s intervention
• Promotion of AMIT (non-ISI), then easy drip
• Establishment of AMIT supply network,
facilitation of market linkages
• Capacity building (experience sharing) for
farmers and input supply chain
Constraints:
•better cash crop PG higher water demand
drip (ISI) affordability of ISI AMIT
affordability of AMIT easy drip
•Excessive use of pesticides
Drip users
• Crops under drip: PG, veggies, banana,
sugar cane, chilies
• ISI: 20 yrs guarantee, expensive, better off
farmers
• Non-ISI: half of the price of ISI
• Bucket kit: for kitchen garden for own
consumption, less water requirements
• Crisis adoption: less acreage production
under drip, buy water, flood irrigation drip
(bucket kit, easy drip); well deepening and
recharging
Story of “happy” Balu
Karvande
Before 1998 After 1998 since drip use
• Had 160 PGs in 1993 from • Added 260 more with ISI and
gov’t with flood irrigation non-ISI
• Had 2 or 3 labors working • No additional labor required
• Prepared border to prevent
water run-off • Needs 1-2 hrs/day. Night
watering possible
• Needed 3-4 hrs/day for
watering • Yield 40kg/plant (125 fruits),
• PG yield: 25kg/plant (70 better color (thanks to drip
fruits) and/or more fertilization),
• Market: local price doubled
• Migrated every year with • Market: local and export
family, made 10K Rs in 6 • Stops migration
months for the last 16 years
Story of “happy?” Balu
Karvande
After 1998
• Paid 80% of his loan from the LNGO (Rs.
16K)
• Helped his brother with the wedding
• Expanded PG areas up to 410 plants,
bought more drip for watering
• Upgraded house, deepened well
Suggestions:
• stressing the importance of using drip in a
right way
• reliability/replication of learnings
• encouraging biotechnologies
• no honey no money
• Promotion of fruit processing
• Promotion of crop diversification
• Encouraging the participation of other local
institutions (e.g Sangha)
Dhanyavad!
Questions? Comments?