A farmer scorecard has been designed with the initial purpose as stated below:
i) Indicate to the farmer her performance compared against aggregate values of other fellow farmers in her village against indicators such as adopting agriculture practices/inputs.
ii) Triangulating farmer’s data and sharing meaningful and actionable insights for her. For example sharing the impact on her crop yield by the use of different seed varieties, application of different types of fertilizer based on the peer farmer data collected in the process.
iii) Validate the information shared by the farmer through the village resource person during the data collection exercise. Farmer will have an opportunity to get her data corrected
Scorecard aims to provide
Quick and broad level view of how she has been investing and engaging in her farming activities
Benchmarking her indicators against similar farmers from her village would give her a good comparative view which possibly she did not have earlier at that scale
Reflection on the indicators she could think of improving upon
Expected behaviours to be impacted
Increasing awareness of activities that farmers in her village are performing
Increasing her appetite to take risk to try new activities/practices as she has authenticate, real time data to back her decisions
Increasing her confidence levels in the activities where she is performing above the benchmark values for her village
Motivating her to improve indicators which are below benchmark levels with ready actionable steps shared
Motivating her to share her data more responsibly with greater accuracy
Version 1 : Scorecard currently captures
Farmer name
Farmer phone number
Farmer’s location
Name of the crop
Land size under which the crop is cultivated
Yield of crop per Unit of land
Farmer’s Yield(in Kg)
Average yield for the village(in Kg)
Seed Variety
Farmer’s Variety Name + % of farmers in the village using the same variety
Popular Variety Name + % of farmers in the village using the same variety
Chemical fertilizer applied per Unit of Land
Farmers application of different fertilizers with name and quantity
Average quantity of same fertilizer applied by farmers in the village
Bio-fertilizer applied - quantity
Sample image of scorecard layout tested on the ground with 5 VRPs
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VRP Feedback:
Scorecard layout was shared with 5 VRPs to understand their comprehension of the data points. Feedback had been collected from 4 VRPs at the time of writing this note:
3 out of the 4 VRPs had no issue in understanding the data
1 VRP needed assistance, post which she understood
Liked the comparison of yield values
VRPs shared some farmers would be able to understand the data shown in the scorecard and some might need assistance in understanding
VRPs suggested that the scorecard could be tested with farmers in the current form and data points modified based on feedback received from them