Farmers benefit from BAIF’s contribution

Lead:  BAIF is working in the field of farming, livestock and rural development for many years.  Many schemes supplementing agriculture are implemented in villages.  This article gives an overview of the work BAIF is doing in agriculture-based entrepreneurship.  

The small place called  Sakhare is in Palghar district, Taluka Vikramgad.  Family of 5 of Baburao Lahare.  Monsoon dependent rice farm.  The rice crop used to be just enough for the family.  The only option to earn more income was to go to someone else’s farm and work as labour.  Survival was barely possible.  They planted 200 saplings of mograa (Arabian Jasmine) with the help of BAIF in 2005-6, and they acquired the knowledge and science of mograa plantation and care.  Today they have 1200 plants of mograa.  The fruit of their hard work of preparing the required soil, planting the saplings and taking care of them earned them an income of Rs. 3,94,000/- in the year 2018-19 from mograa plantation.  They received the ‘Krushi sanman award’ awarded by Zee 24 Taas and Media Routes in the category ‘Flower plantation in dry land’.