Millet Mission Odisha – Prabhat NGO Rayagada

Millet Mission ODISHA

Government of Odisha is implementing Millet mission to revive and multiply millet base crops and to strengthen the food security and nutrition security of tribal and highland area people. The main objective of this programme is to Increase household consumption of millets by about 25% to enhance household nutrition security, to promote millet-processing enterprises at Gram Panchayats and Block Level, to improve productivity of millets crops and make them profitability and to develop millets enterprises and establishing market linkages to urban/rural markets with focus on women entrepreneurs.

PRABHAT is implementing this programme in Chandrapur block of Rayagada district in Odisha. More than 650 farmers from 55 villages are supported for Ragi (millet cultivation) during kharif in their 457 acres land.   The farmers are provided high yielding seeds with other agricultural inputs and oriented for Systematic Millet Intensification (SMI), Line Showing and Line Transplantation techniques; similarly, the farmers are oriented on organic fertilizer preparation for improved farming process.

PRABHAT has organized community level training programmes to build the capacity of progressive farmers, entrepreneurs, community resource persons and undergone exposure visits to out of state for learning. 

As part of the Programme we had undertaken following training and awareness programmes to improve household level consumption of Millets.

 

  • Residential Training within District for 10-member women campaign team,
  • Campaigns in villages to increase awareness on household consumption of millets,
  • Residential Training of entrepreneurs, farmers, CRPs on millet processing, packing, value addition etc and linkages with Banks,
  • Exposure Visit outside State on Processing, value added products and Markets for CRPs, NGO staff, Entrepreneurs, Traders and Department Officials.
  • Block Level Training and Orientation of the CBO on community seed centre management,
  • Residential Training of seed farmers,
  • Residential Training of Trainers within district on System of Millet Intensification,

Farmers Producer Company Ltd.

PRABHAT has promoted a Farmers Producer Company (FPO) named “DANGASORDA FARMERS PRODUCER COMPANY LIMITED” of farmers with support from Odisha Millet Mission to create an enabling policy environment for investment in Farmers Producer Organizations and to leverage their Collective Marketing Power. The FPO is registered under Company Act, 1956 and opened a bank account at Dangasorda Utkal Gramya Bank. Until now, 123 members of 35 villages are enlisted in it and an executive body is formed. 123 Share Holders are enrolled in FPO and Rs.96000/- share capital has collected.  This year the FPO has marketed 17 quintals pulses, 12 Quintals oil seeds, 350 Quintals of Ragi (millets).