Budhmu, Ranchi, Jharkhand
Natural Farming and Agripreneur Development
Establishing community-based natural farming demonstration centres and building a cadre of micro agripreneurs to drive climate-smart agriculture adoption in Jharkhand.
Attribute
Details
📍 Location
Budhmu, Ranchi, Jharkhand
🏛 Funder
NABARD
👥 Beneficiaries
200
📅 Duration
Apr 2024 to Mar 2027
🌱 Focus Area
Climate-Resilient Agriculture
B2V is establishing five Maatee centres in Budhmu block as the physical anchors of this programme. Each centre is paired with a demonstration farm where natural farming practices are showcased at a working scale, giving surrounding farming communities direct, observable evidence of what chemical-free cultivation looks like in their own agro-climatic conditions. Technical support is delivered directly to farmers in the field rather than through classroom-only training, reducing the gap between learning and application.
A defining feature of this programme is the creation of five micro agripreneurs, community members trained and supported to become local champions and service providers for natural and climate-smart farming. Rather than relying on external extension workers, this model builds a permanent local resource base that can sustain and expand adoption beyond the programme period.
This programme runs through March 2027 and is currently in active implementation. The five-centre, five-agripreneur structure creates a distributed delivery model capable of reaching 200 beneficiary households across the block without centralised dependency. The demonstration farm component is particularly significant in a context where farmer scepticism about natural farming yields remains a key adoption barrier; visible, locally grounded evidence is more persuasive than any training material.
The NABARD partnership for this programme runs in parallel with B2V's NABARD-funded Watershed Development programme in Angul, Odisha, signalling that NABARD has confidence in B2V as a multi-geography, multi-programme implementation partner. Taken together, these two programmes represent B2V's most significant active government-funded portfolio.
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