Pioneering New Approaches to Rural Agri-Entrepreneurship Skills Development in Jharkhand, India
Jharkhand has a large proportion of marginal and small landholders (84 percent), who mainly practice rain-fed, single-crop subsistence farming, cultivating a low-yielding variety of paddy. A vast majority of these rural producers are unable to tran...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/766081591191054487/Pioneering-New-Approaches-to-Rural-Agri-Entrepreneurship-Skills-Development-in-Jharkhand-India http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34715 |
| Summary: | Jharkhand has a large proportion of
marginal and small landholders (84 percent), who mainly
practice rain-fed, single-crop subsistence farming,
cultivating a low-yielding variety of paddy. A vast majority
of these rural producers are unable to transition to
high-value commodities. The average landholding per farmer
is 1.17 hectares. Of the 3.43 million hectares of cultivable
land, only 2.23 million hectares (65 percent) is being
farmed leaving nearly 35 percent of cultivable land fallow.
Small livestock rearing and fish farming in catchment farm
ponds, tanks and reservoirs could be important potential
sources of livelihood for these rural households. Collection
and sale of non-timber forest produce (NTFP) contributes
substantially to incomes of forest dwellers and inhabitants
of hamlets surrounding forest areas, who are mostly
disadvantaged and landless communities belonging to
particularly vulnerable tribal groups. This note explains
the skilling and rural agri-entrepreneurship approach,
process design, learnings, and the way forward of the JOHAR
skilling initiative. |
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