THE INITIATIVE

• Sustainable development models for North East India

THE BENEFICIARIES

• Tribals of Sagalee,bPapum Pare district,bArunachal Pradesh

THE CHALLENGE

• Undulating land unsuitable for growing food grains
• Traditional farming methods, meagre incomes and unmotivated farmers
• Absence of access to processing facilities for crops such as pineapples and oranges

THE SOLUTION

• NABARD sanctioned a project which supported on-farm activities
• 500 tribal families took up orchard development with orange as the main crop and pineapple as the intercrop
• Soil conservation was encouraged in the form of contour cultivation of legume plants
• Stress laid on water conservation and backyard poultry

THE IMPACT

• The success of these farmers has motivated others to scale up cultivation of oranges and pineapples
• Farmers have organised themselves into an FPO to benefit from the scale of production