Use case Description (Community Nursery)

Introduction :

The Use case is piloted with Saharapada FPO in Keonjhar district . the FPO was incorporated in 10th November ,2020. The FPO is functional in 38 villages and has currently 550 registered members with them. The FPO is in to various businesses like Soilless sapling , Stitching of Petticoats and other cloth materials , production of Some of the household items like Phenyl , Liquid Soap etc. Out of all the business activities , Soilless sapling business is one of the most demanding and profitable business for the FPO . The FPO is currently engaged with 1500 farmers( including members and non members ) for the Sapling business and has a turnover of 5 lakhs from the same.

Proposed Pilot : Community Nursery

Background:

The FPO is involved in the soilless sapling business since March, 2022 in traditional approach , without proper poly house structure . Nursery is spread over 27 villages depending on the indent received from the PGs by the farmers. Nursery is given to the identified families who have access to Land and Water and have experience in nursery raising. AHO and Krushiksathi ( volunteer for the Agri department) provide technical support to the individual families who is raising the nursery .

With the increasing demand for soilless saplings ,the FPO is not able to fulfill the demand of the saplings currently due to unavailability of proper space, technology & Capital. Due to the increased demand and profitability , the FPO has decided to have a proper technologically advanced poly house which can cater unto 3000 farmers covering 25 villages . The establishment of community Nursey will help the farmers to grow nutrients reach vegetable in an affordable cost .

DG Support :

A grant to demonstrate and establish the poly house , deliver value to members and serve as training wheels which can then unlock more commercial capital .

FPO deploys grant capital and delivers increased income and co-benefits to members. Also builds a track record that can be used to unlock additional financing from government subsidy programs and commercial lenders in the later stage.

Anticipated Benefits of the Nursery :

Benefits to the farmers :

Availability of quality seedlings in time and affordable price.
Availability of nutrients reach vegetables.
The soilless saplings are less prone to pest and diseases ( Risk of crop damage reduces )
increase in the income generation ( 40000/farmer in Kharif )
opportunity to connect with institutional buyers .

Benefits to the FPO :

Relationship with the shareholders and non - shareholders increases ( Increase in the number of share holder leads to increase in share capital )
Internal Data Sharing will increase governance and trust among the shareholders.
Partnership with Govt & non-Govt Organization ( By sharing the required Data Back )
250000 profit to the FPO in a season ( Increases turnover )
Increase in turnover will help FPO to access Capital from Banking & Non-Banking Sectors .

Gender Transformative :

The FPO is a complete women based FPO . The women BODs & and the members are actively involved in the day to day activity of the nursery starting from Procurement of seeds , raising the nursey bed & Marketing of the saplings . The women members are collecting and recording the demand and other information in the registers . The use of application for collecting the data in KDE or storing the information in soft format will make there work easier and will increase there access to the data. The women working in the nursery or involved in the data collection will receive wages , which in turn transforms their livelihoods.

Climate Smart :

The saplings can be grown in partial of fully controlled environment which increases the yield by 5-10 % and increases the land fertility with time . The saplings are less prone to pest and diseases which decreases the use of chemical fertilizer and pesticides . This also increases the availability of nutrient rich vegetables.

Data opportunity : (Benefits from service providers)

The FPO is currently collecting the indent from the PG meetings through CRPs in register . The collation of the total demand & variety is getting difficult for the members for which they are not able to reach directly to the Seed companies (Ex - Namdhari seeds) . The KDE application will help in collecting the indent and sharing this data with the seed providers will increase the bargaining power of the FPO . The FPO will get a discount of at least 10% on the seeds , which will eventually decrease the coast of production and increase the profit of the FPO.
With the help of the Member farmer information ( Name, location , crop , land details) & FPO information's ( Total shareholders, Capital available, Area of operation , Turn over ) , they will have access to the different schemes of Horticulture and Agriculture departments . This information will also help them in applying for Capital with Banking & Non- Banking Organizations.
The FPO is not able to anticipate the expected output quantity and quality from the farmers , for which they are not able to tie up with different Institutional buyer ( Ex - Reliance ) or Big Local traders in the Market.
With the proper information about the variety of the saplings used by the farmers, providing different information regarding package of practices and pest management will be easier. The technical assistance received from the department ( Horticulture ) can be sent to the farmers in time .

Total Budget :

Total cost - 1,749,168.00 INR ( Rs 14,38,168 by DG ) FPO contribution : Rs 3,11,000.00 INR

Budget for Poly House Nursery for FPO

Sl no	Particulars	Unit	Rate	Amount	Source
1	Entry point Activities for establishment of Poly House
1.1	Land Levelling (7hrs)	7	2000	14000	DG
1.2	Electric Wire (Lump Sum)	LS	15000	15000	DG
1.3	Water delivery pipes (150 mtrs)	150	100	15000	DG
1.4	Nursery Input Materials (Lump Sum)	LS	35000	35000	DG
1.5	Misc. Expenses (Lump Sum)	LS	6000	6000	DG
	Sub Total Entry Point Activities			85000
2	Nursery Establishment expenses
2.1	Construction of poly house of 480 sqm . (includes overhead micro irrigation of 1000 lit water tank and minimum 1 hp mono block pump set)	1	1059168	1059168	DG
2.2	Seeds (10gm seeds@Rs. 500/10gm from which we will get 1000 seedlings. As a result 200000 seedlings we require 200 pacs) (200pkts X Rs. 500 = 100000)	1	100000	100000	DG
2.3	Water lifting for operation @ Rs 500/ month for 12 months			6,000	FPO
2.4	Land lease cost ( @Rs 1000/year for 10 years			10,000	FPO
2.5	Electricity charges @ Rs 750/month for 12 months .			9,000	FPO
2.6	Pump set			8,000	FPO
2.7	Watch & Ward(@3000/month for 12 months			36,000	FPO
2.8	Labour cost (10 Man days per month @ Rs 300 per day for 10 months )			36,000	FPO
2.9	Bore well ( Convergence with govt. )			200,000	FPO
2.10	Unforeseen Expenditure			6,000	FPO
	Sub Total Nursery Establishment expenses			1470168
3	Training
3.1	Training and capacity building (Lump sum)	LS	50000	50,000	DG
	Sub Total Training			50,000
4	Operational Cost
4.1	Data officer (2 data officers @ 9000/month for 8 months )	9000	16	144000	DG
	Sub Total Operational Cost			144000
	Grand Total			1,749,168

PLAN :

S.No	Milestone	Time line	Implementation Plan
1	Project Finalization	May 15th	A workshop was conducted with 7 FPOs to identify the investment ideas . Out of all the ideas , community nurser was selected to start with ,as it has a community based impact which is visible in next 6 month (one season).
2	Project Plan & Budget preparation	June 1-10	DG along with CYSD and FPO has prepared a project plan and budget for the same. The initial budget was prepared by the BOD members during the workshop. After discussing with vendors and other stake holders the Final budget was prepared.
3	Vendor selection	June 10-15	The list of government approved Vendors was provided by CYSD. A visit was planned to Directorate of horticulture and received few quotation from them . These nurseries were visited and finally one of them was selected as per the procurement policy of DG.
4	Poly house set up	July 5-10	The ERP is processed and contract was given to the vendor. The construction materials were supervised by DG. The initial entry point activities will be supervised by FPO.
5	Poly house Operation	July - sept	For the Poly house operation , the FPO has appointed 2 persons . 1 for day operation and other for night guard purpose. The wages for the same will be paid by the FPO .
6	Funding disbursed	July 5-10	Thee investment is planned in the collaboration approach between DG, CYSD & FPO. The collaboration draft is to be approved by the Board ,which will be used for other DFN pilots as well. 50% of the initial amount will be given to the vendor prior the setup.
7	Demand collection (seedling)	July1-15	The demand collection will be done by the data officer appointed by DG . An agreement of scope of work will be signed between DG and Data officer in the presence of FPO .
8	Data collection ( Nursery )	July -15-Aug 30	There was different set of conversations with Data consumers , on the basis of which the data points will be finalized. An application will be finalized for data collection and data sharing with the FPO, FPO members & other service providers.
9	First Sapling Sales	Aug-15	The sapling selling will be monitored by the FPO. As the saplings will be sold to the FPO members , so there is no much need of marketing facility.
10	Training ( convergence with Horticulture Dept)	Aug-15-30	The trainings on the nursery ( process, package of practices & pest management ) will be delivered by the Hort dept .
11	Impact (Vegetables produced from poly house sampling)	Oct-30	The impact assessment sheet and research points are being prepared by Sanjeev & Tetyana .

FPO Contribution Details: @ashok @Amrita Das (Unlicensed) @Ronali Pradhan (Unlicensed) @Ashu Sikri (Unlicensed)

S.No	Particulars	Rate (INR)	Unit (month/unit)	Amount (INR)	Remarks

S.No	Particulars	Rate (INR)	Unit (month/unit)	Amount (INR)	Remarks
1	Water lifting charges @ Rs. 500/month for 12 months	500	12	6000	The FPO has rented a well from a near by place which will provide water required for the nursery. The amount will be paid to the owner by the FPO.
2	Land lease cost @Rs. 1000/year for 10 years	1000	10	10,000	Plot of land where proposed enclosed nursery will be setup. The FPO has bore the amount as a cost of lease agreement between government and FPO.
3	Electricity charges @ Rs. 750/month	750	12	9000	FPO is planning to get the electricity connection from the department which will cost around Rs 40000. As the process will take time the FPO has arranged the electricity from the near by place to whom the FPO will be paying the bills as per the usage. This connection will be used for the operation of the water sprinkler.Water will be lifted to tank using a water pump.
4	Water lifting using a pump	8000	1	8000	To be installed near a well to lift the water to the overhead tank
5	Watch & ward @Rs. 3000/month	3000	12	36000	Two persons will be appointed to watch and guard the nursery day and night. FPO will be paying the wages. An amount Rs 2000 will be paid to the day watcher, similarly a wage of Rs1000 to the night watcher.
6	Labour Cost (10 mandays per month @Rs.300 per mandays for 10 months)	3000	12	36000	10 human resources are required for sowing the seeds in the tray in a month, weeding of the nursery and other operational activities.
7	Unforeseen Expenditure	6000	1	6000	Records/stationary items for book keeping and other cost.
	Total			102000


**	One Bore Well (Convergence)	200000	1	200000	A bore well is required to provide adequate water supply for irrigation of the seedlings. The FPO has applied for the borewell facility under a government scheme.

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