Six-year Livelihood Development project funded under Tribal Development Fund (TDF) by NABARD will benefit as many as 200 families of 15 villages in Chokpot Block, South Garo Hills.
The project Integrated Tribal Development Programme (ITDP-V) is being implemented by Garo Hills-based NGO BAKDIl with an objective to involve women in the development process and their empowerment and make effective utilization of available land, water and manpower resources of selected tribal families through a participatory approach.
The project supports 200 beneficiary households having at least one acre of cultivable fallow land and residing in 15 villages under the Chokpot Block of South Garo Hills.
Each of the 200 households will be provided with 30 saplings of coconut (Assam Tall variety) and 50 saplings of oranges (Budded Khasi Mandarin variety) as base crops. The project also provides 1000 suckers of pineapples (Queen) as intercrop and 100 cuttings of drumsticks tree as a border crop.
These four crops will be incorporated into a land of one acre each. Prior to the plantation, the project will also organize training in each village on spacing using the A-frame method of farming.
The project will be implemented for a period of 6 years during which the plantation will start bearing fruit, after which the beneficiary households are expected to make their orchard (wadi) part of their livelihood which will provide them sustainable income through the sale of the produces both fresh and value-added.
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