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Applied Research on Rain-fed Farming Systems and Dry Land Horticulture in the Hills of Tripura, India
Description/achievement of initiative

The project’s ultimate goal is to improve the socio-economic conditions of the population of 3-4 tribal communities in the hills of Tripura, India, by developing sustainable agriculture production systems.

Implementation methodologies

This goal of this project will be achieved by developing appropriate technologies for crop management, which will in turn lead to an increase in crop productivity. The Mansur Ali Foundation started the "Center for Research on Rain-fed Farming System and Dry Land Horticulture” on April 2015. Year 1 Plantation is complete (total area is 5.76 ha).

Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer

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Coordination mechanisms/governance structure

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Partner(s)

Center for Research on Rain-fed Farming System and Dry Land Horticulture, a farm research unit of the Mansur Ali Foundation, a charitable trust registered under the Indian Trust Act-1882 (Registration No: 10397/2014)
Progress reports
Goal 1
1.1 - By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day
1.2 - By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions
1.3 - Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable
1.4 - By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance
1.5 - By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters
1.b - Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions
Goal 2
2.1 - By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round
2.2 - By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons
2.3 - By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment
2.4 - By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
2.5 - By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed
2.a - Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries
2.b - Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round
2.c - Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility
Goal 13
Goal 15
August 2017
Generate alternative income opportunities among local tribal forest dwellers
December 2018
Achieving food and nutritional security via the development of agri-production technologies
September 2020
Replication of developed agri-production technologies suitable for hills of Tripura (i.e., among the tribal population of the research center’s adjacent villages)
Staff / Technical expertise
Baharul Islam Majumder, Agronomist
In-kind contribution
Baharul Islam Majumder, Trustee Chairman of the Mansur Ali Foundation
Other, please specify
NGO Consultant : Dibykanti Singh, MORD
Other, please specify
NGO Consultant : Dibykanti Singh, MORD
Staff / Technical expertise
Pradip Datta and Dr. Rajib Ghosh, Horticulturists

Basic information
Time-frame: April, 2015 - April 2025
Partners
Center for Research on Rain-fed Farming System and Dry Land Horticulture, a farm research unit of the Mansur Ali Foundation, a charitable trust registered under the Indian Trust Act-1882 (Registration No: 10397/2014)
Countries
Contact information
Baharul Islam Majumder, Director, State Land Use Board,Department of Agriculture, Government of Tripura, mansuralifoundation@gmail.com
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