Time/date: Friday, Oct 29, 2021, 7am PDT / 7:30pm IST
Agenda:
Time allocation | Item |
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15 min | Taking stock - brief presentation on the progress and status of the project Plans for next quarter including content creation and dissemination of advisories Update on partnership with JEEViKA Update on funding/donor |
35 min | Introduction to the baseline framework and the data we are capturing from the field, discussions and action agenda Expected inputs from partners/outcome of the discussion
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10 min | Way forward and timelines till March 2021 |
Attendees:
DG: Krish, Rikin, Ashu, Ashok, Falguni, Ronali, Gelsey
EDF: Richie
CSISA consortium: Balwinder and Sonam (CYMMYT), Andy McDonald (Cornell)
Notes:
Update on funding: Last night (Oct 28) we received formal approval/notification from the donor, Sequoia Climate Fund. We expect a grant agreement shortly.
Update on partnership: A week ago we received a formal letter of support from JEEViKA.
Update on progress on the ground:
Ashok presented data summary and details collected (paddy land, urea used, green naturing practices, etc.). Link to presentation.
CSA practices followed currently by farmers: (1) water management (drying after transplanting), (2) green manuring/green gram, (3) application of jeevamrutha/ghanajeevamruta (but not used at large scale) and (4) aware of varietals (long/short term varieties)
CSISA MIP for wheat (Rabi 2021): early sowing, zero tillage variety promotion, irrigation mgmt, N optimization
DG has video resources available, but some other ones need to be made (short duration varieties, N optimization, water management, zero tillage)
Next steps: Kharif data collection (Nov/Dec), training to scale to 1600 farmers (Nov-March), and emission estimates for the initial 250 farmers (Jan)
Provide JEEViKA clarity on: proposed activities/advisories, digitization of VRP register, stats of GG estimation, and focus on CSA MRV on GHG emission co-benefits.