Enhancing Food and Nutritional Security and Improved Livelihoods through Intensification of Rice-fallow System with Pulse Crop in South Asia (Bangladesh, India and Nepal)

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Duration: 

Saturday, October 1, 2016 to Sunday, June 30, 2019

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Direct HH Coverage: 

400

Project Location: 

9 Villages in Sirha district

Target Group: 

Smallholder Farmers

Budget: 

$18,532

Objective: 

1. Intensification of rice fallows with lentil and other legumes
2. Enhance lentil productivity and income of farmers
3. Improve household nutrition through increased intake of pulses in their diets
4. Enhance food and nutritional security and improve livelihoods of smallholder farmers

Outputs: 

1. Establishment of 300 Cluster demonstrations
2. Establishment of 2 VBSEs
3. Capacity building of 450 farming households

Major Activities: 

1. Cluster demonstrations of improved technology package of lentil
2. Capacity building
3. Establishment of village based seed enterprise (VBSE)

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