National Agricultural Innovation Project Component 3:(PROJECT CODE:30036 & NBPGR CODE:060-NAIP-SKP-10)::Project Period Four Years [September 2009 to 31 March 2013] & Total Budget outlay of the project:Rs.889.68 Lakhs
NAIP-BIODIVERSITY PROJECT COMPONENT-3,[FUNDED BY GEF]
Consortium Advisory Committee
Third CAC meeting
Fourth CAC MEETING
Proceedings of the First Meeting of Consortium Advisory Committee (CAC) of NAIP sub-project "Harmonizing biodiversity conservation and agricultural intensification through integration of plant, animal and fish genetic resources for livelihood security in fragile ecosystems" held on 21.3.2010 at NBPGR, New Delhi-12

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The first meeting of CAC of the NAIP sub-project on "Harmonizing biodiversity conservation and agricultural intensification through integration of plant, animal and fish genetic resources for livelihood security in fragile ecosystems" was organized on 21.3.2010 at NBPGR in continuation to the Launch Workshop of the project held on 20.3.2010. The following CAC members were present:
  1. Dr. R.S. Rana : Chairman
  2. Dr. A.P. Srivastava : Member
  3. Mr. D.S. Murthy : Member
  4. Dr. K.E. Prasada Rao : Member
  5. Dr. B.P. Singh : Member
  6. Dr. B.D. Sharma : Member
  7. Ms. Anita Sharma : Member
  8. Sh. Sunda Ram : Member
  9. Dr. S.K. Sharma : Member & CL
  10. Dr. I.S. Bisht : Member Secretary & CPI (Acting)
One CAC member, Dr. Y. K. Gupta, could not participate.

The Director, NBPGR and Consortium Leader (CL) of the above stated NAIP sub-project welcomed the Chairman and members of the CAC, and other project participants (Annexure-I).

The Chairman, Dr. R.S. Rana, in his opening remarks, congratulated the Consortium Leader Dr. Sharma, Principal Investigator (A) Dr. Bisht and all the eight project partners on undertaking such a unique national project that integrates indigenous genetic resources management and use at local communities level and links the same to sustainable development and livelihood security of the local inhabitants. He emphasized that interventions for on-farm management of genetic resources should be undertaken with all-inclusive and active participatory mode at all stages of the process. The use of participatory methods can serve to include farmers in the research process and to incorporate their knowledge and experience on local socioeconomic and agroecological conditions, their genetic resource management practices, and the characteristics and origins of their varieties/breeds as part of the project data.

Dr. A.P. Srivastava, the National Coordinator of NAIP Component-3 (SRLS) highlighted the role of CAC, being the apex advisory body, in successful operation and execution of various project activities including monitoring effectiveness of implementation and adherence to the agreed objectives, evaluating outcomes and impact, need-based mid-course corrections, recommending re-allocations of funds between sub-project activities and if necessary, their reorientation. CAC can also help in facilitating the dissemination and up-scaling of replicable results.

The Acting CPI of the project, Dr. I.S. Bisht, made a brief presentation highlighting main features of the project for information of the CAC Chairman and members. The presentation was appreciated and was followed by interactive comments/considered views of all participants that were duly discussed and deliberated upon.

The presentation about the project was followed by individual presentations of various project partners viz. NBAGR, Karnal; NBFGR, Lucknow; MPUAT, Udaipur & its NGO associate Seva Mandir; CSK-HPKV, Palampur; ANGRAU, Adilabad, and APSBDB, Hyderabad. Community based interventions for the next six months on bioresource documentation, identification of promising genotypes/farming systems for interventions, and exploring various "value addition" options to local resources, for enhancing livelihood security of the local inhabitants, were deliberated by individual project partners including assemblage of baseline information for uploading in M&E tracking system of the NAIP for future monitoring.

The following recommendations emerged based on discussions held subsequent to the presentations made by the project partners:

  1. The baseline information, as envisaged under M&E initiatives, should be completed by 31st May 2010 by all consortium partners and made available to the CPI for finalization and onward transmission to PIU, NAIP and uploading in M&E tracking system online by 30th June 2010.
  2. The structured information on various project activities to be undertaken for the next six months, based on M&E format, should be developed by all project partners individually and for the entire project at CPI level, objective and activity-wise. The same should be submitted to PIU, NAIP and also uploaded in M&E tracking system online for future monitoring of the outputs/outcome thereon latest by 15th May 2010.
  3. Farmer participants at selected villages/clusters in respective districts should be finalized at the earliest for detailed bioresource inventorisation and "add value" interventions. Strict transparency in selection of farmer participants should be observed and representation from weaker sections of the community should be ensured.
  4. The first interaction meeting at all three districts should be organized as early as feasible so that actual interventions could start without losing time. Only project- oriented interventions should be undertaken on priority.
  5. Consortium partners should work in close collaboration at each stage of project implementation. Survey of baseline data for plant, animal and fish resources, and identification of farm families for interventions integrating all three components should be jointly undertaken. The three Bureaus, however, are major partners in bioresource inventorisation whereas the respective universities should take lead in addressing "add value" or benefit enhancing options for farmers from local bioresource diversity available at the community level.
  6. At community level interface, support of SHGs, Village Panchayats and other local self-government institutions may be sought. Social conflicts, if any, should always be avoided/managed.
  7. For developing Community Biodiversity Registers (CBRs) or community gene banks, expertise of State Biodiversity Boards should also be considered wherever such initiatives are in place. Community genebanks may provide a way for farmers to store valuable germplasm in a community based ex situ setting. This approach may enhance benefits when integrated with, for example, a 'seed exchange' network, helping to improve farmers' control over their genetic material. CBRs, on the other hand, not only keep track of households who manage local resources at community level but affirm the value of indigenous knowledge of these resources and encourage their continued use and conservation. IPR issues, if any, should also be duly addressed.
  8. The A.P. State Biodiversity Board (APSBDB) should restructure its activities in tune with the project requirements rather than focusing upon its mandated obligations as the State Biodiversity Board.
  9. Modalities should be worked out to bring synergy with other NAIP projects, operative in these districts, and other development/extension activities of the line departments working in the area. Duplication of efforts should always be avoided.
  10. Efforts should be made to incorporate local resources into agricultural extension packages. Training of extension personnel, to make them recognize importance of local resources for conservation and local livelihoods, would help strengthen the relationship between farming community and the national genetic resource management system.
  11. All consortium partners should designate one nodal person from their respective institutions for effective liaisoning and communicating with the Chairman, CAC on project's performance and periodic update. Objective-wise, area-wise and activity-wise matrices need to be developed indicating who will do what, considering that it will assist proper monitoring.
  12. An efficient financial management should be in place to ensure timely submission of SoEs, AUC and annual accounts so that fund flow operates smoothly. The CPI/CCPI should make use of the delegated powers for successful and timely implementation of project activities in the best possible manner.
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair.
(I.S. Bisht)
(S.K. Sharma)
(R.S. Rana)
Acting CPI
Consortium Leader
Chairman, CAC.
The first meeting of CAC Member.
  1. Dr. R.S. Rana : Chairman
  2. Dr. A.P. Srivastava : Member
  3. Mr. D.S. Murthy : Member
  4. Dr. K.E. Prasada Rao : Member
  5. Dr. B.P. Singh : Member
  6. Dr. B.D. Sharma : Member
  7. Ms. Anita Sharma : Member
  8. Sh. Sunda Ram : Member
  9. Dr. S.K. Sharma : Member & CL
  10. Dr. I.S. Bisht : Member Secretary & CPI (Acting)
List of Participants
CAC Members
  1. Dr. R.S. Rana : Chairman
  2. Dr. A.P. Srivastava : Member
  3. Mr. D.S. Murthy : Member
  4. Dr. K.E. Prasada Rao : Member
  5. Dr. B.P. Singh : Member
  6. Dr. B.D. Sharma : Member
  7. Ms. Anita Sharma : Member
  8. Sh. Sunda Ram : Member
  9. Dr. S.K. Sharma : Member & Consortium Leader
  10. Dr. I.S. Bisht : Member & Acting CPI
NBPGR: Lead Consortium
  1. Dr. S.K. Malik
  2. Dr. K.C. Bhatt
  3. Dr. Gunjeet Kumar
  4. Dr. K. S. Varaprasad
  5. Dr. S.R. Pandravada
  6. Dr. N.K.Dwivedi
  7. Dr. J.C. Rana
Consortium Partners
NBAGR, Karnal
  1. Dr. B.K. Joshi, Director
  2. Dr. Anand Jain
NBFGR, Lucknow
  1. Dr. W.S. Lakra, Director
  2. Dr. K.K. lal
  3. Dr. P.Punia
  4. Dr.(Mrs). Mohindra
  5. Dr. L.K.Tyagi
  6. Sh. R.K.Singh
CSKHPKV, Palampur
  1. Dr. R.P Kaushik
  2. Dr. Alok Sharma
  3. Dr. R.C. Chauhan
  4. Dr. U.K. Puri
  5. Dr Gopal Katna
  6. Dr M.C. Rana
  7. Dr Shivani Katoch
MPUAT, Udaipur
  1. Prof. S.R.Maloo
  2. Dr. S.P. Tailor
  3. Dr. N.K. Jain
  4. Dr. V.P. Saini
ANGRAU, Adilabad
  1. Dr. P. Ramesh
APSBDB, Hyderabad
  1. Mr. Rajeev Mathew
Seva Mandir, Udaipur
  1. Mr. S. Tiwari
  2. Mr. N. Ameta
1st CAC Meeting
NAIP Sub-project "Harmonizing biodiversity conservation and agricultural intensification through integration of plant, animal and fish genetic resources for livelihood security in fragile ecosystems"
PROGRAMME
(21st March 2010)
Venue: Dr. B.P. Pal Auditorium, NBPGR, New Delhi
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10:00 to 13:30 hrs
CAC Meeting
  • Welcome remarks by Director, NBPGR, New Delhi
  • Remarks by Chairman, CAC
  • Remarks of NC
  • About the project: CPI
  • Presentations on Workplan for next six months by all consortium partners
  • Presentation on format for baseline survey
  • Remarks by members CAC
  • Concluding remarks by Chairman, CAC
  • Vote of thanks
13:30 Lunch
2nd CAC meeting of the NAIP sub-project.
Proceedings of the 2nd meeting of Consortium Advisory Committee of NAIP sub-project “Harmonizing biodiversity conservation and agricultural intensification through integration of plant, animal and fish genetic resources for livelihood security in fragile ecosystems” held on 19.1.2011 at NBPGR, New Delhi-12
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The Second meeting of Consortium Advisory Committee (CAC) of the NAIP sub-project on “Harmonizing biodiversity conservation and agricultural intensification through integration of plant, animal and fish genetic resources for livelihood security in fragile ecosystems” was held under the chairmanship of Dr. R. S. Rana on 19.1.2011 at 10.00 A.M. in the H B Singh committee room, NBPGR, New Delhi. The meeting was attended by other CAC members and CoPIs of the project, the list of participants is attached as Annexure – I.
The meeting was organized as per the following Agenda items/programme:
  1. Welcome: Dr. K. C. Bansal, Director NBPGR
  2. Opening remarks: Dr. R.S. Rana, Chairman CAC
  3. Presentations on progress of the project: Dr. S. K.Pareek, CPI and Member Secretary
  4. Remarks by the Chairman and Members
  5. Remarks by NC- Component 3: Dr. A. P. Srivastava
  6. Addition/Deletion of CoPIs
  7. Minor modifications/recommendation in budgetary provisions of project centers
  8. Remarks by the CAC members
  9. Concluding remarks by Chairman, CAC
  10. Any other item with the permission of chair
  11. Vote of thanks: Dr. I. S. Bisht, CoPI

The meeting started with the welcome address by Dr. K. C. Bansal, Director, NBPGR and Consortium Leader (CL). Dr. Bansal welcomed the chairman Dr. R. S. Rana and other CAC members, namely Dr. A. P. Srivastava, NC, PIU-NAIP, Dr. B. D. Sharma, Smt. Anita Sharma, Shri Sunda Ram, CPI and CoPIs of the project. Dr. Bansal expressed his happiness and mentioned that it is a matter of great honour for NBPGR (ICAR) to lead and coordinate such a dream project where plant, animal and fish components are integrated and the project partners are working together for bio-resource conservation and use. The three backward districts where the project is operative, Chamba, Udaipur and Adilabad, represent distinct agro-climatic conditions and are rich in bio- resources. All the project activities are focusing on on-farm conservation and agricultural intensification aimed at enhancing the livelihood security of communities living in these backward and harsh terrains. The farm communities of such areas have immensely contributed to develop and conserve these valuable bio-resources. Now this is the commitment of the nation to address all issues related to conservation and sustainable utilization of these bio-resources in such a way that they become part of the farming systems. In fact, the uniqueness of the project is to deploy the local bio-resources in production systems thereby fulfilling the twin objectives of resource conservation and use. These bio-resources are the treasure and raw material for further improvement in plant, animal and fish sectors.

The Director, NBPGR expressed his happiness about the desired progress that the project has made during the last 7-8 months. He specifically congratulated Dr. S.K. Pareek (CPI) about the appreciation the project received from PIU, NAIP during the review meeting of the project held on 20th December 2010. He congratulated Dr. S. K. Pareek and all other Consortium partners for their dedicated efforts and willing support to the programme. He thanked all project partners and requested them for their continued and willing support for this much needed cause in the best interest of the nation.

Dr. R.S. Rana, Chairman CAC, in his opening remarks, congratulated Dr. Pareek and the entire project team for the excellent work being carried out. Dr. Rana further emphasized about the uniqueness of the project in the sense that India is one of the Biodiversity rich nations and efforts to conserve and utilize the bio-resources need to be strengthened. Sustainable utilization depends on sustainable conservation of these bio-resources. The farmers are the focal point under the project and technological interventions should always be farmer friendly with minimum risk involved. He expressed his happiness on such a dream project being led by the NBPGR with which he has a long association. Dr. Rana further mentioned that, in 2012, the Conference of Parties (193 member nations) of CBD will be organized in India and world community at large is looking forward for such model case studies which can be translated to other parts of the globe wherein biodiversity conservation and agricultural intensification together address the livelihood security of rural communities.

He further emphasized that about 1000 farm families in each district are the beneficiary under the project. The three ICAR national institutes (NBPGR, NBAGR & NBFGR) and State Agricultural Universities, NGOs, local institutions and line- departments are jointly working as a team. This will be another successful experiment (like the earlier NATP project on Plant Biodiversity with over 140 partners from 90 organizations worked together for PGR management) and will bring new recognition to ICAR and the GEF. Dr Rana mentioned that the CAC has a defined mandate which includes, setting priorities; mobilizing the broad community of clients and beneficiaries; monitoring effectiveness of implementation and adherence to the agreed objectives; evaluating outcomes and impact; recommending reallocations of funding between sub-project activities and if necessary, of sub-project reorientation; facilitating the dissemination and up-scaling of replicable results. He suggested that members of CAC and CIC should participate in group meetings, workshops and also be invited for on- the- spot visit of the project sites.

In his presentation Dr. Pareek informed that this project is GEF funded (grant to Govt. of India) through NAIP. The GEF has identified some areas and among these, one was related to Biodiversity. The DG, ICAR wanted a project which can demonstrate the harmonizing the bioresource conservation and agrarian reforms because the advancement in agricultural technologies has a negative impact on bioresource conservation but for sustainability of agriculture in India both the components (agricultural reforms and bioresource conservation) should go hand in hand. We have lost enough but we can't afford to lose more of the biodiversity. This is not only the national requirement but the global mandate that we can't imagine of a growth without conservation of bioresource and in this context plant, animal and fish has to go together in traditional subsistence farming.

The on-farm conservation through use has unique advantage in the whole evolutionary process where the bio-resources are in use and farmers are the breeders, conservators and users themselves. Therefore, through farmers' participation this project has been given a mandate to develop a model on harmonizing agrarian reforms and biodiversity conservation. Realizing the uniqueness of India in biodiversity, three distinct agro climatic zones represented by Chamba, Udaipur and Adilabad were selected. The landraces in these districts are distinct and unique, animals are predominantly non - descript types and the richness of fish resources has a vast potential. These resources after value addition will not only find the good market but will further placed in various studies for gene discovery and allele mining. This is a unique project and probably first in the world of its own kind, therefore, it requires lot of efforts and coordination and all partners/ stake holders working in three districts should work as a team to address all issues related to the project. This will show the visibility to all scientists working in the project, their organization, ICAR and country and it will also serve as a model to Ministry of Environment and Forest and GEF. Dr Pareek further said that he and Dr. B. D. Sharma (Member CAC) had discussions with Dr P. L. Gautam, Chairman, PPV&FRA who has kindly agreed to provide full support in registering the farmer's varieties.

Dr. S. K. Pareek made an elaborate presentation on the project covering the concept of the project, target areas, objective and activities, monitoring indicators, outcome, output, and deliverables. He also presented a detailed report (March to December 2010) on the progress made (objective wise and activity wise covering biodiversity conservation and agricultural interventions) under the project in all three components (plant, animal and fish) in three districts Chamba, Udaipur and Adilabad. He presented a detailed account of the workshops and trainings organized, participation of farmers, women, line- departments and other stakeholders, key innovations, partnership and linkages with the line-departments and other stakeholders, procurement status, finance (budget utilization), reporting and coverage by press and media. A brief report on salient achievements made under the project is given below.

Salient achievement
  • The baseline survey has been completed in Chamba (Bharmour, Salooni and Bhatiyaat blocks), Udaipur (Som, Chanawada & Netawala) and Adilabad (Kerameri, Indervelly, Khanapur and Bheemini) and analysis of collected data is in progress.
  • The preliminary survey of bio-resources (plant, animal and fish) indicates that crop landraces have unique features for adaptability in harsh environment and have unique traits for nutritional, fodder, medicinal, keeping quality etc. The non descript animal/ local cattle if provided better feed and nutrition and health care then they will be more productive production. Addition of fish component in farming system will increase benefit to communities.
  • Selection of beneficiaries (1000) in each district is in progress and resource persons in each cluster have been identified.
  • Proforma for bio diversity documentation developed and 12 teams for each component in each district have undertaken survey of bio- resources in 2010. Similarly 12 teams in each district will be visiting different sites (Feb-March 2011) for survey and documentation of bio-resources.
  • Three exploration undertaken 738 accessions (367Chamba, 83 Udaipur and 571Adilabad) of unique landraces have been collected.
  • Two unique germplasm of linseed has been registered from Adilabad with NBPGR.
  • Multiplication of landraces and demonstration undertaken in all three districts. The collected germplasm/landraces have been grown for evaluation and characterization at project centers and also at farmers field to develop the seed chain of local landraces having unique qualities.
  • 60 On-farm trials of promising landraces undertaken at 91farmers field Chamba (21), Udaipur (41) and Adilabad (29).
  • Seed multiplication has been undertaken for landraces Chamba: karad dhan (red rice), rajmash, mash, maize popping type and maize sugary, Udaipur: Maize (Malan and Sathi), Adilabad: Sorghum (popping type), green gram and black gram.
  • The karad (means kathor) a local landrace which grows very well at higher elevation (4500 - 5000 ft.) in Chihun village and due to its awned character it is less damaged by monkeys and also tolerant to shattering.
  • A blast resistant local germplasm was identified. The rice landraces which are infected by blight at Malan are not susceptible to blight at higher attitude.
  • Improvement of animal health and management by Vaccination, De-worming, Min Mix feeding has shown positive response and impact will be seen in due course of time.
  • The interventions for fish farming and ornamental fish have been welcomed and going to give increased income to farmers at very low input.
  • The awareness camps organized has sensitized the farmers and now farmers started thinking and understanding about the importance of conservations and use.
  • The most important aspect is the location specificity of landraces which suggest that the Geographical Indicators can be developed for some of the landraces which are endemic to specific area and has high nutritional traits and potential. This will help in sovereign right of the country
  • Desi cattle and local sheep and goat preferred by farmers. Migratory rout for gaddi sheep and goat in Chamba identified.
  • Training material for grass root level training to farmers has been developed.
  • A 95 years old resident of Panghala recollected & shared his memories (Memory Bank) about old landraces with biodiversity group.
  • Interventions through food supplements, medicines, uromin bricks etc. have been undertaken. A module for clean milk production has been developed. Customized 3-Dimensional Models of a wide range of themes covering critical aspects of Animal Health Production and Livestock Management have been got prepared which will be useful for disseminating information to the Semi - literate and illiterate farmers.
  • In Chamba Fish species Onchorhymchus mykiss (Rainbow trout) and Salvenius spp. (Arctic Char) in Bharmour, Cyprinus carpio (Common carp) in Salooni and in Batiyaat indigenous fish species like snow trout Schizothorax spp. have been cultured.
  • In Udaipur captive breeding and propagation of indigenous species (Labeo rajasthanicus, minor carps, Channa marulius) has been undertaken in Som river and lake Jaisamand. Integrated aquaculture (fish and prawn) with agriculture (livestock and poultry) has also been undertaken. Ornamental fish culture is undertaken in Chanawada.
  • In all 9 trainings have been organized for awareness generation including six biodiversity fairs which benefited 1468 farmers and other stakeholders including woman conservators. In additions six interaction meetings with stakeholders have been organized (Total participants 807).
  • Six monthly interaction meetings in three districts, leftover farmers training programme and national workshop have been planned for this year.
  • A wide coverage in press and media has been given to the programme in all three districts
Following initiatives have been undertaken
  • Nutritional quality evaluation of the landraces
  • Procurement of the seed for seed multiplication
  • Involvement of PPV&FRA for registration of farmers variety
  • Blast resistant local germplasm identified & tested for introduction
  • GI status to unique land races
  • A model for clean milk and khoya production
  • Composite fish farming and ornamental fish culture
  • Creation of self help groups and resource persons.
  • All awareness camps and farmers trainings have been organized by involving local line departments, institutes and stakeholders.
  • In Minjar fair all line departments participated where 25% stalls were from biodiversity and in SARAS fair the red rice was sold @ Rs 60/kg.
  • Hon'ble CM of HP has announced that the semen of local bull will be made available to all centers for AI purpose.
After the presentation of progress by CPI, Dr. Rana, Chairman, members of CAC and other participants had in-depth discussions and based on deliberations and suggestions following recommendations were made:
  • Baseline survey report should serve as a benchmark. Each district should prepare a document on the present status of bio- resources and agriculture and critically analyze the gaps, in addition to the baseline survey report as desired by the NAIP. Based on this document, the progress needs to be reported periodically using appropriate monitoring indicators.
  • Landless families may also be selected as target groups who can be associated to under take other activities such as animal husbandry, fisheries, value addition of farm produce, marketing, etc.
  • The people biodiversity registers which are being developed under the project should have linkages with State Biodiversity Board and NBA. The chairman CAC agreed to provide necessary guidance and direction.
  • Efforts can be made to document malnutrition status of young children, pregnant women and lactating mother as a part of biodiversity register.
  • It is a welcome proposition that under this project registration of farmer's varieties and unique germplasm as well as their nutritional qualities has been undertaken. These efforts will further enhance the outcome of the project. The CAC will provide needed support and PPV& FRA should also be involved in this process.
  • Some of the important activities which are already initiated in the project are welcome step. The activities such as a) creation of biodiversity register, community seed bank and museum in each district, b) training of resource persons, c) procurement of seed (local landraces) by respective university to develop seed chain and value addition and seed production at farmers field are the priorities.
  • Since the seed and seed chain will play a vital role in enhancing livelihood security in these districts, the target farmers may be provided with the seed bins to store the seed material.
  • Schools (students & teachers), local institutions and other related stakeholders be involved in awareness generation on biodiversity conservation and use. To spread the message, visitors and VIPs may be invited to visit the project sites.
  • All the practices of good agronomic managements be followed along with the integrated nutrition management based on soil test report in on-farm demonstration of landraces and farmer's varieties.
  • While assessing the yield potential of the local bio-resources, the cost of production and the associated risk factor should be minimum.
  • Each consortium partners should have one scientist identified for reporting to the CAC through CPI.
  • The committee felt that animal genetic resource component seems to be slightly weak in comparison to other two components and unavailability of NBAGR was felt. The Consortium Leader and CPI will take up the matter with Director NBAGR so that this important component shows desired progress.
  • The CAC recommended the changes in the Consortium Leader and CoPIs as per the annexure II and III. The PIU NAIP may kindly issue required notification so that CoPIs feel themselves as part of the project.
  • As a result of the change of CL and CoPIs in different centers, the composition of CIC and CMU has been revised and given in annexure IV & V. The CAC approved the required changes and recommends PIU NAIP to issue office orders.
  • The CAC also approved the re-appropriation of the items and also recommended the budgetary support to different centers as per the annexure VI. The PIU NAIP may kindly issue required office orders.
The meeting ended with vote of thanks to the Chair and all participants by Dr. I. S. Bisht, CoPI of the project
(S.K.Pareek)
(K.C. Bansal)
(R.S. Rana)
CPI
Consortium Leader
Chairman, CAC.
List of Participants

CAC Members

  1. Dr. R. S. Rana : Chairman
  2. Dr. A. P. Srivastava: Member
  3. Dr. B. D. Sharma : Member
  4. Smt. Anita Sharma : Member
  5. Sh. Sunda Ram : Member
  6. Dr. K. C. Bansal : Member
  7. Dr. K. K. Lal : Representative of Director NBFGR
  8. Dr. S. K. Pareek : Member Secretary & CPI
NBPGR: Lead Institute
  1. Dr. I. S. Bisht : CoPI
  2. Dr. Manoranjan Dutta : CoPI
  3. Dr. B. S. Phogat : CoPI
  4. Dr. S. K. Malik : CoPI
  5. Dr. K. C. Bhatt : CoPI
  6. Dr. Hanuman Lal : CoPI
  7. Dr. S. K. Yadav : CoPI
  8. Dr. D. B. Parakh : CoPI
  9. Dr. R. K. Tyagi : CoPI
  10. Dr. Sushil Pandey : CoPI
  11. Dr. Veena Gupta : CoPI
  12. Dr. Anjali Kak : CoPI
  13. Dr. Archna Singh : RA
  14. Dr. P. B. Singh : RA
  15. Sh. Firoz Ahmad : RA
  16. Sh. Ravi Shanker : Office Assistant
Proceedings of the 3rd meeting of Consortium Advisory Committee of NAIP sub-project “Harmonizing biodiversity conservation and agricultural intensification through integration of plant, animal and fish genetic resources for livelihood security in fragile ecosystems” Under Component 3 (SRLS) Project Code: 30036 GEF funded, held on 24.3.2011 at MPUAT, Udaipur
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The Third meeting of Consortium Advisory Committee (CAC) of the NAIP sub-project on “Harmonizing biodiversity conservation and agricultural intensification through integration of plant, animal and fish genetic resources for livelihood security in fragile ecosystems” Under Component 3 (SRLS) Project Code: 30036 GEF funded, was held under the chairmanship of Dr. B. P. Singh on 24.3.2011 at MPUAT, Udaipur. The meeting was attended by other CAC members and CoPIs from all consortium partners and RA/SRFs of the project working in all three districts, the list of participants is attached as Annexure – I.
The meeting was organized as per the following Agenda items/programme:
  1. Welcome: Dr. S. K. Pareek, CPI, and Member Secretary
  2. Opening remarks: Chairman CAC
  3. Presentations on progress of the project: Dr. S. K. Pareek, CPI and Member Secretary
  4. Remarks by the Chairman Remarks by the CAC members
  5. Concluding remarks by Chairman, CAC
  6. Any other item with the permission of chair
  7. Vote of thanks: Dr. I. S. Bisht, CoPI
The meeting started with the welcome address by Dr. S. K. Pareek, CPI and Member Secretary, NBPGR, New Delhi. Dr. Pareek welcomed the chairman Dr. B. P. Singh and other CAC members, namely Dr. Y. K. Gupta, Dr. B. D. Sharma, Smt. Anita Sharma, Shri Sunda Ram Verma, and CoPIs of the project. He expressed his happiness on the progress of the project and congratulated all Co PIs and other consortium partners for their dedicated efforts and willing support to the programme. He thanked all project partners and requested them for their continued and willing support for this much needed cause in the best interest of the nation. All the project activities are focusing on on-farm conservation and agricultural intensification aimed at enhancing the livelihood security of communities living in these backward and harsh terrains of Chamba, Udaipur and Adilabad.

Dr. B.P. Singh, Chairman CAC, in his opening remarks, congratulated Dr. Pareek and the entire project team for the excellent work being carried out. Dr. Singh said that he and all other members of CAC were participating in the 2nd National Workshop and reviewed the progress of the project in three districts namely Chamba, Udaipur and Adilabad covering all three components viz., plant, animal and fish. He said that I along with the other members express our appreciation to the project team for doing the excellent work in these difficult conditions. The all project partners are working as a family. The results received so far are encouraging and still lot to be done and I am confident that this project will develop a replicable model. He further emphasized that efforts to conserve and utilize the bio-resources need to be strengthened through emphasis on quality of these resources which are associated with them. The farmers are the focal point under this project and technological interventions should always be farmer- friendly with minimum risk involved.

Dr. S. K. Pareek made an elaborate presentation on the project covering the concept of the project, target areas, objective and activities, monitoring indicators, outcome, output, and deliverables. He also presented a detailed report (March to December 2010) on the progress made (objective-wise and activity-wise covering biodiversity conservation and agricultural interventions) under the project in all three components (plant, animal and fish) in three districts Chamba, Udaipur and Adilabad. He presented a detailed account of the workshops and trainings organized, participation of farmers, women, line- departments and other stakeholders, key innovations, partnership and linkages with the line-departments and other stakeholders, procurement status, finance (budget utilization), reporting and coverage by press and media.

After the presentation of progress by CPI, Dr. B. P. Singh, Chairman, members of CAC and other participants had in-depth discussions and based on deliberations and suggestions, following recommendations /suggestions were made:

Recommendations
Baseline survey report should serve as a benchmark. Based on baseline data 3-4 benchmark indicators must be identified for each component in each cluster/district (which will not change later), based on these parameters, the progress of each component will be reported and monitored periodically.
(Action: all concerned)
One person has been identified in each district for providing online information for monitoring and evaluation of the project: Chamba: Dr. J. C. Rana (Plant component), Dr. P. K. Viz (Animal component) Dr. K. K. Lal (Fish component). Udaipur: Dr. N. K. Dwivedi (Plant component), Dr. Anand Jain (Animal component), Dr. K. K. Lal (Fish component) Adilabad: Dr. Someshwar Rao (Plant component), Dr. K. N. Raja (Animal component), Dr. P. Punia (Fish component).
(Action: all concerned)
Each consortium partners should have one scientist identified for reporting to the CAC through CPI.
(Action: all concerned)
Dr. S. L. Mehta desired that one day meeting should be organized where he would like to participate and interact with all the CoPIs of NAIP Biodiversity project.
(Action: NBPGR)
Identity cards of the farmers and resource persons should be created and distributed in each district.
(Action: CSKHPKV, Palampur; MPUAT, Udaipur; ANGRAU, Hyderabad)
All the practices of good agronomic managements be followed along with the integrated nutrition management based on soil test report in on-farm demonstration of landraces and farmers’ varieties.
(Action: all concerned)
While assessing the yield potential of the local bio-resources, the cost of production and the associated risk factor should be minimum and ascertain.
(Action: all concerned universities)
For characterization and evaluation at farmer’s field and research stations specific observations are to be recorded for uniqueness of germplasm, registration of farmer’s varieties and GI status to important landraces.
(Action: all concerned)
It was decided that using the funds for group meeting a meeting of plant component be organized involving all CoPI’s dealing with plant component to develop the strategies for getting GI status, registration of farmer’s varieties, Biodiversity register, village level seed gene bank, quality evaluation, documentation of ITK, IPR issues and exploring market avenues etc along with up scaling of interventions and their horizontal spread.
(Action: all concerned)
Similar efforts be made for animal component under the leadership of Dr. B. K. Joshi (PL Animal Component) at Karnal. The team should workout enhancement in improvement of animal component through increasing the intervention levels, upscaling of desired interventions (fodder component needs to be addressed), horizontal spread of such interventions.
(Action: Dr. B. K. Joshi, P/L AGR)
Similar efforts be made for fish component also under the leadership of Dr. J. K. Jena (PL Fish Component) at Lucknow. The team should workout enhancement in improvement of fish component through increasing the intervention levels, upscaling of desired interventions, horizontal spread of such interventions.
(Action: Dr. J. K. Jena P/L FGR)
Some of the important activities which are already initiated in the project are welcome step. The activities such as creation of biodiversity register, (the project should have linkages with State Biodiversity Board and NBA) community seed bank and museum in each district, training of resource persons, and procurement of seed (local landraces) by respective universities to develop seed chain, seed production at farmers’ fields are the priorities and value addition through quality evaluation.
(Action: all concerned universities)
In September the Co PIs of one consortia can visit any other consortia where good work is going on as part of a learning process. Similarly a small group of farmers may also be invited to visit different districts. It mean that the innovative farmers from one districts should visit other two districts.
(Action: all concerned)
Mr. Sundaram Verma, CAC Member suggested that Biodiversity competition should be held at village level for school children in order to create greater awareness among school children for biodiversity in their surroundings.
(Action: all concerned)
The proper documentation of farmers data, input supplied along with all relevant records be maintained systematically in each district.
(Action: all concerned)
A film of 7-10 minutes should be made this year as success story in each district.
(Action:all concerned)
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair and all participants by Dr. I. S. Bisht, CoPI of the project
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair.
(S.K. Pareek)
(K.C.Bansal)
(B.P. Singh)
CPI
Consortium Leader
Chairman, CAC.
List of Participants
CAC Members
  1. Dr. Dr. B. P.Singh : Chairman
  2. Dr. Y.K. Gupta : Member
  3. Dr. B. D. Sharma : Member
  4. Smt. Anita Sharma : Member
  5. Sh. Sunda Ram : Member
  6. Dr. S. K. Pareek : Member & Acting CPI
NBPGR: Lead Consortium
  1. Dr. I.S. Bisht : CoPI
  2. Dr. S. K. Malik : CoPI
  3. Dr. J. C. Rana : CoPI
  4. Dr. N. K. Dwivedi : CoPI
  5. Dr. S. K. Yadav : CoPI
  6. Dr. Archna Singh : RA
  7. Sh. Firoz Ahmad : RA
  8. Dr. Pancha Ram : SRF
  9. Mr. R. Jairam : SRF
Consortium Partners
NBAGR, Karnal
  1. Dr. Anand Jain : CoPI
  2. Mr. Subhash : Technical
  3. Dr. Navneet Kaur : RA
NBFGR, Lucknow
  1. Dr. K. K. Lal : CoPI
  2. Dr. P.Punia : CoPI
CSKHPKV, Palampur
  1. Dr. Alok Sharma : CoPI
  2. Dr. J. K. Sharma : CoPI
  3. Dr. T. R. Sharma : CoPI
  4. Dr Shivani Katoch : CoPI
MPUAT, Udaipur
  1. Dr. S. R. Maloo : CoPI
  2. Dr. V. P. Saini : CoPI
  3. Dr. S. P. Tailor : CoPI
  4. Dr. Arvind Verma : CoPI
  5. Dr. F. L. Sharma : CoPI
  6. Dr. Shashi Jain : CoPI
  7. Dr. Siddhartha Hisyan :
  8. Mr. B. L. Dangi : SRF
  9. Mr. Amit Purohit : SRF
  10. Mr. Taresh : SRF
ANGRAU, Adilabad
  1. Dr. P. Ramesh
APSBDB, Hyderabad
  1. Dr. R. Hampaiah : CoPI, APSBDB, Hyderabad
  2. Dr. S. N. Jadhav : CoPI, APSBDB, Hyderabad
  3. Mr. G. Shalui : SRF, APSBDB, Hyderabad
Seva Mandir, Udaipur
  1. Mr. S. Tiwari
  2. Mr. N. Ameta
Consortium Advisory Committee (4-CAC meeting) of NAIP sub-project “Harmonizing biodiversity conservation and agricultural intensification through integration of plant, animal and fish genetic resources for livelihood security in fragile ecosystems”

Proceedings of the Fourth Meeting of CAC, NAIP-Component-3 Held on 13.9.2011 at NBPGR, New Delhi.

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The fourth meeting of CAC of the NAIP sub-project on “Harmonizing biodiversity conservation and agricultural intensification through integration of plant, animal and fish genetic resources for livelihood security in fragile ecosystems” was organized on 13.9.2011 at NBPGR. The following CAC members were present:
  1. Dr. R.S. Rana : Chairman
  2. Dr. A.P. Srivastava : Member
  3. Dr. B.P. Singh : Member
  4. Dr. B.D. Sharma : Member
  5. Ms. Anita Sharma : Member
  6. Sh. Sunda Ram : Member
  7. Dr. K.C. Bansal : Member & Consortium Leader
  8. Dr. I.S. Bisht : Member Secretary & CPI
Three CAC members, Mr. D.S. Murthy, Dr. K.E. Prasada Rao and Dr. Y. K. Gupta, could not participate.

The Director, NBPGR and Consortium Leader (CL) of the above stated NAIP sub-project welcomed the Chairman and members of the CAC, and other project participants (Annexure-I). He highlighted the relevance of such flagship projects in global climate change era wherein the role of agrobiodiversity is seen as an important component of mitigation and adaptation strategy for sustaining agricultural production in the face of threat posed by possible climate change..

The Chairman, Dr. R.S. Rana, in his opening remarks, explained the role of the CAC and reiterated the importance of the project pointing out the complexities and challenges of implementing it in its true spirit. In particular, he emphasized that interventions regarding the on-farm conservation and management of genetic resources to be undertaken with a participatory approach at all stages of the process and attaining the target of 1000 farmer beneficiaries in each of the three districts. The weaker sections of communities and landless families should invariably be included in all relevant technological interventions like processing, packaging, marketing and fisheries related interventions. Since developing the local level seed network will play an important role in availability of good quality seeds while enhancing the food and livelihood security in these districts, the target farmers need to be provided with improved seed bins to store their upgraded seed material during the season. He suggested that a critical overview of the progress of the project’s implementation was required during the next meeting of the CAC to serve as a kind of midterm review and course correction where required
Dr. A.P. Srivastava, the National Coordinator of NAIP Component-3 (SRLS) emphasized that the project has to be operated in true spirit of a consortium. Individual consortia should complement each other and some tangible results were expected at this stage. Sustainability of technological interventions needs to be ensured. The impact assessment of various “add-value” and marketing interventions needed to be critically analyzed so that replicable results could be up-scaled and disseminated to other areas as well. He also emphasized on bringing out some quality publications under the project, including some success stories.

Dr. S.K. Pareek, the former CPI of the project and special invitee in the meeting, thanked the project partners for all the good work done so far in the project and impressed upon their sincere efforts for the success of the project in all possible manners.

The CPI of the project, Dr. I.S. Bisht, made a brief presentation about the progress of the project so far. Areas needing focused attention were highlighted and need of mid-term corrections expressed so that issues of food self-sufficiency as well as local resource conservation could be duly addressed in identified villages/village clusters. The presentation was interactive and comments/considered views of Chairman, CAC and other participants were duly received and deliberated.

The presentations on the overall progress of the project by the CPI was followed by presentations of individual consortium partners viz. NBPGR Regional Stations, Shimla, Jodhpur and Hyderabad; NBAGR, Karnal; NBFGR, Lucknow; MPUAT, Udaipur & its NGO associate Seva Mandir; CSK-HPKV, Palampur; ANGRAU, Adilabad, and APSBDB, Hyderabad. District-wise presentations were made, separate presentations for each components, plant, animal and fish (copy of programme attached).

The general baseline survey is now complete for all the three districts. The farm families in all villages/village clusters for various “add-value” interventions have been identified and planned interventions on plant, animal and fish components have been undertaken as envisaged in the project document. The impact assessment and sustainability of these interventions, however, are yet to be validated.

The following recommendations have emerged based on discussions held subsequent to presentations made by the project partners:
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  1. The baseline survey data, collected from each target district, needs to be compiled, tabulated and printed to serve as the reference material for monitoring purpose. The information may be developed in electronic format and made available to the Chairman and all the members of the RAC enabling them to track the progress of different activities.
    [Attention: Member Secretary]
  2. Village level entrepreneurs need to be identified and used as resource for farm and survey work. These social entrepreneurs are also expected to offer creative solutions to various operational problems while undertaking the add-value interventions at farm household level.
    [Attention: Nodal Scientists at the 3 sites]
  3. Strict transparency in selection of farmer participants should be observed and representation from weaker sections of the community including landless families from the village should be ensured. Baseline information before taking any intervention is necessary to assess its impact and periodic monitoring at a later stage, if any.
    [Attention: All the Consortium Partners]
  4. Developing Plant Biodiversity Registers (PBR) needs to be taken up on priority. Dr. S.N. Jadav, Member Secretary, APSBDB & the Consortium Partner for Adilabad district has been requested to help finalize PBR formats for use by all project partners. Hiring consultant to develop PBR format also can be explored.
    [Attention: Member Secretary]
  5. PBR initiatives should be linked with establishment of community gene banks. Community genebanks may provide a way for farmers to store valuable germplasm in a community based ex situ setting. This approach may enhance benefits when integrated with, for example, a seed exchange network, helping to improve farmers’ control over their genetic material. PBRs, on the other hand, not only keep track of households who manage local resources at community level but affirm the value of indigenous knowledge of these resources and encourage their continued use and conservation. IPR issues, if any, should also be duly addressed.
    [Attention: All the Consortium Partners]
  6. BMCs in each district also need to be formed in line with initiatives taken by Adilabad district and Dr. Jadav was requested to guide other partners form BMCs in respective districts.
    [Attention: All the Consortium Partners]
  7. Revisiting the approved work-plan was emphasized to quantify each activity and action. Similarly, the impact in terms of income and employment generation, etc. also needs to be clearly projected for each community intervention.
    [Attention: Member Secretary]
  8. For fisheries interventions, farmers traditionally involved in fish farming should be involved.
    [Attention: Nodal scientists, NBFGR]
  9. As quality publications including research papers, technical bulletins, success stories, etc. are considered important performance indicators, the aspect needs enhanced attention. Each district should have a compilation on unique bioresources of plant, animal and fish components with good quality photographs. Even video documentation of unique bio-resources is desirable.
    [Attention: All the Consortium Partners]
  10. Uniform reporting system should be followed. A format needs to be developed to quantify targets, and targets achieved and deficit, if any, in achieving the same may be clearly reported. Hardcore quantitative data should be presented in while reporting progress in future.
    [Attention: Member Secretary]
  11. All care should be taken for proper record keeping and transparency observed in all community level interventions.
    [Attention: All the Consortium Partners]
  12. Marketing interventions require enhanced efforts. Development of local farmer cooperatives and modalities for sale of value-added product to nearby and distant markets needs to be worked out. Hiring consultant to develop such marketing models also needs to be explored.
    [Attention: All the Consortium Partners]
  13. On-site visits, where feasible, may be organized for the Chairman and Members of CAC to some selected locations, in linkage with on-going project activities, enabling them to monitor the progress and offer corrective measures, where required.
    [Attention: Member Secretary]
  14. Proposals for additional budgetary requirements, where needed, may be submitted with full justification for consideration of the Chairman, CAC. Such proposals should clearly indicate the present status requiring the proposed intervention, duly quantified in terms of its impact, and the expected outcome. The expected beneficiaries of the proposed intervention also need to be quantified.
    [Attention: All Consortium Partners & Member Secretary]
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair.
(I.S. Bisht)
(K.C.Bansal)
CPI
(R.S. Rana)
Consortium Leader
Chairman, CAC.

4th CAC Meeting

NAIP Sub-project “Harmonizing biodiversity conservation and agricultural intensification through integration of plant, animal and fish genetic resources for livelihood security in fragile ecosystems”
PROGRAMME Date: 13th September 2011 Venue: Dr. B.P. Pal Auditorium, NBPGR, New Delhi
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  1. 9:30 - 10:00 Registration
  2. 10:00 -10:10 Welcome address by Director, NBPGR & CL
  3. 10:10 -10:20 Remarks by Chairman, CAC
  4. 10:20 -10:30 Remarks by NC, Comp-3, PIU, NAIP
  5. 10:30 -10:40 Remarks by Dr. S.K. Pareek, Ex-CPI (Special Invitee)
  6. 10:40- 11:00 Presentation by CPI
  7. 11:00 -11:15 Tea
District-wise presentations (Progress, future workplan, constraints, etc.)
Chamba
  1. 11:15 – 13:15
  2. NBPGR Shimla
  3. NBAGR, Karnal
  4. NBFGR, Lucknow
  5. CSK-HPKV, Palampur (Plant, animal and fish component, separately)
  6. 13:15- 14:00 Lunch
Udaipur
  1. 14:00-15:30 NBPGR, Jodhpur
  2. NBAGR, Karnal
  3. NBFGR, Lucknow
  4. MPUAT, Udaipur (Plant, animal and fish component, separately)
  5. Seva Mandir, Udaipur
  6. 15:30-15:45 Tea
Adilabad
  1. 15:45- 17:15
  2. NBPGR, Hyderabad
  3. NBAGR, Karnal
  4. NBFGR, Lucknow
  5. ANGRAU, Hyderabad (Plant component)
  6. APSBDB, Hyderabad (Animal and fish component)
  7. 17:15-17:30 Remarks by Members, CAC
  8. 17:30-17:45 Concluding remarks by Chairman, CAC
  9. 17:45-18:00 Vote of thanks
List of Participants
CAC Members
  1. Dr. R.S. Rana : Chairman
  2. Dr. A.P. Srivastava : Member
  3. Dr. B.P. Singh : Member
  4. Dr. B.D. Sharma : Member
  5. Ms. Anita Sharma : Member
  6. Sh. Sunda Ram : Member
  7. Dr. K.C. Bansal : Member & Consortium Leader
  8. Dr. I.S. Bisht : Member & CPI
NBPGR: Lead Consortium
  1. Dr. S.K. Malik
  2. Dr. S.R. Pandravada
  3. Dr. N.K.Dwivedi
  4. Dr. J.C. Rana
  5. Dr. R.K. Tyagi
  6. Dr. M. Dutta
  7. Dr. Veena Gupta
  8. Dr. Anjali Kak
  9. Dr. S.K. Yadav
  10. Dr. Sushil Pandey
  11. Sh. P.B. Singh
  12. Dr. Archna Singh
  13. Mr. Firoz Ahmad
Consortium Partners

NBAGR, Karnal
  1. Dr. B.K. Joshi, Director
  2. Dr. Anand Jain
  3. Dr. P.K.Vij
  4. Dr. Raja
NBFGR, Lucknow
  1. Dr. K.K. lal
CSK-HPKV, Palampur
  1. Dr. J.K. Sharma
  2. Dr. Alok Sharma
  3. Dr. R.C. Chauhan
  4. Dr. Pradeep Sharma
MPUAT, Udaipur
  1. Dr. S.P. Tailor
  2. Dr. Arvind Verma
  3. Dr. V.P. Saini
  4. Dr. Fateh Lal Sharma
NGRAU, Adilabad
  1. Dr. P. Ramesh
APSBDB, Hyderabad
  1. Dr. S.N. Jadav
  2. Dr. G. Shailu
Seva Mandir, Udaipur
  1. Mr. S. Tiwari
  2. Mr. N. Ameeta
Recommendation/ approval of CAC for minor modifications in budgetary provisions of different centers under NAIP sub-project entitled, "Harmonizing biodiversity conservation and agricultural intensification through integration of plant, animal and fish genetic resources for livelihood security in fragile ecosystems" Under Component 3 (SRLS) Project Code: 30036 GEF funded.
F
S.No Item Justification Recommendation of CAC
1.
The CSKHPKV, Palampur and MPUAT, Udaipur each (Rs. 65,000/-) and ANGRAU, Hyderabad (Rs. 70,000/-) were sanctioned during 2009-2010 for organizing the brain storming session and interaction meetings with stakeholders in Chamba, Udaipur and Adilabad districts respectively.
Since the project was started with launch workshop (March 20-21, 2010) and 1st release of funds to all centres was made in January- February, 2010. There was practically no time to organize the Brain storming sessions and interaction meetings in each district during 2009-10. These brainstorming sessions and interaction meetings were prerequisite to initiate the project work and same has been organized only after Launch Workshop during 2010-11. Therefore, funds for this activity may be allowed from operational funds of 2010-11.
The CAC approved the re-appropriation of the budget of Rs.65,000/- to each CSKHPKV, Palampur and MPUAT, Udaipur and Rs. 70,000/- to ANGRAU, Hyderabad for organizing brain storming session and interaction meeting with stakeholders in Chamba, Udaipur and Adilabad districts respectively from the operational money from the sanctioned budget for 2010-11 under the project.
2.
The NBAGR, Karnal (Rs. 2.00 Lakh), CSKHPKV, Palampur, MPUAT, Udaipur (Rs. 0.80 Lakh each), APSBDB, Hyderabad (Rs. 0.60 Lakh) has been sanctioned during 2009-10 under operational head for procurement of superior animal germplasm.
There was practically no time during 2009-10 to procure the superior germplasm due to late release of funds under the project. Under this situation, these centres may please be allowed to procure the required animal germplasm from operational budget for the year 2010-11.
The CAC approved the re-appropriation of the budget for NBAGR, Karnal (Rs. 2.00 Lakh), CSKHPKV, Palampur, MPUAT, Udaipur (Rs. 0.80 Lakh each), APSBDB, Hyderabad (Rs. 0.60 Lakh) for procurement of superior animal germplasm from the operational money from the sanctioned budget for 2010-11 under the project.
3.
Permission to purchase Mini Rice Mill out of money allocated for establishing Community Seed Bank. Required to be installed in Jandrog Panchayat of Bhatiyat block adopted for intervention under the biodiversity project in Chamba district (CSKHPKV, Palampur).
In the Jandrog panchayat in Bhatiyat block Red rice is the major intervention. At present the old type iron roller mill which causes lot of breakage of the rice is in use. For value addition in rice crop at this location a rubber roller Mini Rice mill is urgently required to reduce breakage of rice and for value addition. No additional money is required for the purpose. The expenditure of Rs. 1.5 lakh will be met out of the funds allotted for purchase of machinery for establishing a Community Seed Bank.
The CAC approved the re-appropriation of the budget for CSKHPKV, Palampur (Rs.1.5 lakh-), for procurement of rice sheller from the equipment head from the sanctioned budget under the project.
4.
Permission to buy two video cameras instead of one. Rs 50,000 has been allocated for the purchase of one video camera.(CSKHPKV, Palampur).
Efforts to buy one Video camera of about Rs 50000 with accessories/software have failed three times. The prices of Video Camera have gone down and in the same amount 2 video cameras can be purchased which will give liberty for recording activities of at least two components (agriculture/ animal sciences/fisheries) which have different operational areas simultaneously
Not Approved
5.
Purchase of one refrigerator (approximate Cost: Rs, 25,000/-) for smooth operation of health coverage to the animals of adopted villages & to migratory flocks: through Animal Health camps. Medicines and vaccines need to be kept ready in stock and maintained under cold chain (CSKHPKV, Palampur).
Since there is no refrigerator/ cold storing facility in the department. Spot-purchasing of these inputs is not possible before each visit and stocks need to be kept ready for providing need-based health coverage to adopted livestock/ migratory flocks during sudden disease out-breaks. Permission required for purchase of one refrigerator(approximate Cost: Rs, 25,000/-) for smooth operation of health coverage activities from operational funds of the CSKHPKV, Palampur under the project
The CAC approved the re-appropriation of the budget for CSKHPKV, Palampur (Rs.25,000/-), for procurement of one refrigerator from the operational money from the sanctioned budget for 2010-11 under the project
6.
Organization of Trainings at village-cluster level, Biodiversity Fairs, Milk yield competitions / Healthy cow -Sheep, Goat competitions/, Healthy heifer /bull/calf competitions in each Block/ village cluster for promotion of competitiveness and awareness amongst livestock farmers a 'Camping Kit' costing about Rs. 1.25 lakh including folding tents and seating arrangement for the trainees and trainers, wherein these activities can be smoothly conducted in the face of hostile weather conditions (CSKHPKV, Palampur).
Facilities for holding trainings, health camps, in a central approachable place for holding trainings / meetings / shows / competitions in the village/ from nearby areas, are not available in these isolated village clusters. To ensure involvement of members of all castes, creeds, and farmers from different socio- political ideologies and inclinations, it is important to conduct these health camps and trainings in a central and 'neutral' place. The selected village-clusters are very distantly located from the CSK HPKV, Palampur, from where we have to carry health-inputs, medicines, training materials etc. Inclement and unpredictable weather conditions: rainy and winter seasons, frequent road blocks /land slides etc. Hence we need a 'Camping Kit' including folding tents and seating arrangement for the trainees and trainers, wherein these activities can be smoothly conducted in the face of hostile weather conditions
The CAC recommended the additional allocation of Rs 1.25 lakh out of the over all sanctioned budget for CSKHPKV, Palampur under the project.
7.
Value addition to livestock products and providing Market Linkages (CSKHPKV, Palampur).
Lack of deep freezer (-20C) facility, wherein, the processed products (Khoya, Shree-khand etc.) can be hygienically stored till /before marketing. This is due the short shelf life, perish ability and quality deterioration of these products & the raw materials.Additional provision of Rs. 40,000/- required for purchase of one central level facility for pooling and storage of the raw material and processed products for before preparation and for marketing
Not Approved
8.
Distribution of superior germplasm for genetic upgrading (CSKHPKV, Palampur).
AI facility with semen of local breeds is not available in any of the village-clusters in Chamba district. Though State Govt. has started efforts in this direction, but it may take a few years to be operational. Hence, we need to provide superior germplasm for natural service (cow bull, buffalo bull, ram, buck); one for each cluster village/block. Our own first hand field indicates that approximate costs of local breed germplasm in the local unorganized market is as below : Cow bull (3): @Rs. 12000/- Buffalo bull (1): @ Rs. 20,000/- Gaddi Ram (3+3): @ 7000/- Gaddi Buck (3+3): @Rs. 7000/- Total costs : Rs. 140,000/- + Insurance Costs (Rs 10,000/- Net amount Rs. 150,000/- Amount allocated: Rs. 80,000/- 0nly Additional fund allocation of Rs. 70,000/- is required in order to ensure logistic inputs for breed up-grading.
The CAC considered this issue. Since the CAC has already approved the item No 2 which take cares this part also. Hence it may be dropped.
9.
Distribution of superior germplasm for genetic upgrading (CSKHPKV, Palampur).Conversion of RA in SRF for MPUAT, Udaipur.
One RA and two SRFs have been sanctioned for MPUAT Udaipur. Since University has a policy not to appoint RA therefore University has appointed 3 SRFs. The position of one sanctioned RA may be converted in SRF
The CAC recommended the conversion of the post of RA to SRF for MPUAT, Udaipur.
10.
Provision for additional fund for ornamental fish cages. (MPUAT, Udaipur).
As per the technical programme of NAIP (Fish component), the culture of ornamental fish has to be promoted in selected villages for their livelihood security. However, there is no financial provision for the resource generation for ornamental fish. MPUAT, Udaipur. During 2009-10 one set of cage was designed and fabricated for trial scale study using misc. Budget. The results of the study are very fruitful for improving income of the rural youth. Hence, it is proposed that a sum of Rs 4.0 lakh for cages construction and Rs 1.0 lakh for ornamental fish seed and feed be provided for further enhancing the activity at commercial level.
The CAC recommended the additional fund of Rs.5.0 lakh (Rs 4.0 lakh for cages construction and Rs 1.0 lakh for ornamental fish seed and feed) out of the over all sanctioned budget for MPUAT, Udaipur under the project
11.
Additional requirement of Rs. 20.5 lakh for procurement of superior animal germplasm (MPUAT, Udaipur).
The university has provided the revised cost of Rs. 20.5 lakh for the superior animal germplasm to be procured for four years under the project
The CAC reviewed the proposal and decided that such additional cost proposals will be decided in next CAC meeting with the consent of NBAGR
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