MilkIT Project ProgressAlmora 27-28/11/2012Notes – day 1 India – Questions 1

• What is the contrast between selected clusters?– Main is milk marketing

• How many mid-clusters? How do IPs work?– Each block one dairy IP and 2 feed IP

• What is SHG? What they do?– Self-help groups: mostly for savings, mainly women; in this area

also involved in marketing activities: dairy, poultry, agri-products etc

• What is KVK– Krishi Vikas Kendra (Agri knowledge centre):

Central Government-funded extension centres for demo of agri and livestock practices (one for each district in India)

MilkIT Project ProgressAlmora 27-28/11/2012Notes – day 1

• What is the role of private actors in dairy marketing?– Very few shop-keepers, sweet stalls– Private companies are selling milk from other states into Uttarakhand

• How do agricultural information centres work?– State owned– Help farmers for seeds/cropping

• DDB-Note: we have to learn the success and failure the reasons and analysis, but how to capture this is important?– Case studies– Generalisation could be difficult

• Can we get indications of innovations from the government level also, apart from NGO activities like CHIRAG?

• Key actors for certain activities can be identified• We have to capture the policy level actors / influencing actors• Village bodies (panchayat presidents, block councillors) should also be considered • Are loosing sight of farmers? Focus on actors?

– Its different in India - reach more farmers through the actors• How shall we document/ share Net-Map results?

India – questions 2