Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 51 recognised his farm an appointed him as farm teacher in 2013. With his keen interest, dedication and eagerness to learn and help from ATMA brought a significant change in his farm. Now with an annual investment of around Rs. 40,000 – 50,000 for different horticulture operations, he gets an income of around Rs. 50,000 from oranges, Rs. 50,000 from betelnut, Rs. 70,000 from betalvine and Rs. 10,000 from banana thus fetching him a net profit of around Rs. 1, 40,000 annually. . According to him the income generated annually is not upto the mark because of bad road conditions which hampers him from collecting and distributing his produce to the markets for sale, however he is contended and feels proud to say that
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 52 he is feeding his community and family not only at the cheapest possible rate but also nutritious and organic. His integrated farm consists of the following components:- Orange - 4000 trees(half bearing fruits) Banana -more than 300 plants(harvesting annually) Mango -more than 200 trees(yet to bear fruits) Litchi -25 trees(yet to bear fruits) Pomegranate -10 trees(yet to bear fruits) Apple -5 trees(yet to bear fruit) Betelnut -1203(half bearing nuts) Cardamom -more than 2000 plants(yet to bear capsule)
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 53 Betalvine - more than 1000 vine(harvesting annually) Vermicompost(1 unit) Some of his innovative practices are as follows:- When the leave of oranges fades, looks dull and sickly, he recommends mixing a handful of common salt (Nacl) in 16 liters of water and spraying it. Before planting, the pit should be dug a month ahead and let the sun solarize it. If a tree doesn’t grow and neither dies but remains dwarf, then loosen the soil surface around the tree with a crow bar or a spade without damaging the roots. He did not have any knowledge of pruning and training in orange trees, however he learned through
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 54 his own experiences that such operations helps to bear more fruit. After witnessing his achievement and the impact he brought about in the farming community within his village and also in neighbouring village Mr SHETNYEI PHOM was awarded the “Best Innovative Farmers Award” in the year 2014 by ATMA longleng. After 13 years of dedication and hard work and now aged 79, MR.SHETNYEI PHOM is a proud old man and has become an inspiration to all the farmers in Longleng district.
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 55 EDUCATED UNEMPLOYED TO SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEUR Mr Tiatemsu, a thirty six year old graduate from Akumen village of Japukong range was very disappointed with his life as like most of the youth of the state he too could not get a stable and secured job. Giving up all his hope of finding a suitable government job he returned to his native village with a vision to start farming on his ancestral land and earn a name of his own. In consultation with his family
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 56 members he started vegetable farming on 2 Hectare land where he grew both summer and winter vegetables rotated with wet rice cultivation. The initial years of farming were quite challenging for him as he had to incur a lot of expenditure on labour in clearing the thick jungles. However, not giving up hope on himself he continued his farming with hard work and dedication. The fruits of his labour finally paid off when he was able to produce vegetables not just for self- consumption but was also able to sell it to his villagers. With his continuous hard work he has
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 57 managed to increase his vegetables production and is now able to supply his vegetables to whole sellers in Assam. Also, at the end of the year the harvested paddy is sold which fetches him a good return. In addition to the above, he also rears poultry in his farm which are sold to the village when it attains a marketable weight. With all his hard work he is now able to earn a net income of Rs. 2 lakhs from all this activities in a year. His enthusiasm for farming doesn’t just end up with generation of income as his zeal to learn more could be seen in him never missing the opportunity to attend various
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 58 programmes and trainings organized by Agri. and Allied Departments in order to excel and improve his farm. Mr.Tiatemsu is now a well-established and contend entrepreneur satisfied with his life. However, he himself been in the shoe of unemployment in the past he could not stop but think of helping other. This though and concern has motivated him to plan to start tea cultivation so as to enable him to not only earn more income but employ local youths.
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 59 FISH FOR LIVING FROM LONGLENG ImnatoshiLongkumer from Longkong village was no GROWERS different from other persons in his village engaged in ZHADIMA traditional jhum cultivation struggling to meet his daily needs until he took up fish farming. Today he is one of the successful progressive farmer who has created a niche for himself and is a source of inspiration to others.
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 60 His Farm, located at his Village is just 28 kms away from Mokokchung Town, the district headquarter. Unlike his peers he took the risk of giving up jhum cultivation and undertook fish farming. Today, he is a contend man being a proud owner of well-maintained fish ponds spread in an area of three hectares in his farm of about eight hectares.
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 61 He explains that he opted for fishery as he observed that most of the fish available in the market was imported and hence he wanted to meet that demand through locally produced fish. He rears Rohu, Mrigal, Catla, Grass carp etc. in his fishery and sells it in the local market thereby earning about Rs. 2, 00,000 annually at present. With the success in his fishery, now he has started a piggery unit, a poultry unit and fruit orchard in his vast farm in order to earn more income thereby giving him an additional 1, 00,000 making his net income 2, 80,000. Mr.Imnatoshi. Longkumer is indeed an inspiration for the people of Mokokchung and Longkong Village in particular and the state in general to be self-employed instead of depending on
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 62 Government jobs alone which are hard to come by these days. He has set a challenge to other that if he can, then they too can prosper for which they need to show an unwavering resolve and the will to toil and moil. The next time when we visit the fish market we hope that we find them flooded with local fish caught from the fish ponds and not imported from other states.
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 63 HONEY FOR LIVING FROM LONGLENG Beekeeping is a technology that is simple, easily GROWERS accessible and affordable, especially in rural areas. ZHADIMA Unlike other livelihood activities it does not consume time but yields good profits within a year. Since time immemorial traditional bee has been raised in wooden and log hives, though honey hunting in the wild was also practiced among
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 64 the local farmers. Honey has played, and continues to play, an important role in nutrition and medicine; it is used for treating coughs, wound healing and as an ingredient in many herbal remedies. Bendangmeren (42 years), hailing from Chubayimkum village was a matriculate with no proper employment and engaged in carpentry and masonry to earn his living. During free time he collected honey from nearby forest areas and sell it in the market with
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 65 a good price. With the knowledge and skill that he has gained about honeybees through regular hunting of honey in the wild, he started beekeeping activity with 4 boxes in the year 2006 with the traditional beehive boxes such as simple wooden boxes and hollow logs. In the later part of 2007, seeing his interest and hard work Nagaland Beekeeping and Honey Mission (NBHM) selected him as one of the beneficiaries to receive bee keeping training whereby the basic scientific knowledge and skill on various management aspects of beekeeping, harvesting of honey, post-harvest management and
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 66 marketing of honey was imparted and then provided him with bee boxes, honey extractors equipment etc. After this, with the knowledge and skill that he has acquired he dedicated himself to beekeeping on a full time basis and expanded his beekeeping from 4 boxes to 24 boxes of common bees and 3 hives of stingless bees. He now harvests his bees twice a year during Dec/Jan and June/July yielding on an average an annual honey production of 80-90 litres which is sold at a rate of Rs.400/litre for common honey and Rs.800/litre for medicinal honey produced from stingless bees. An annual income of Rs.35000 to 40000/- is generated through the sale of pure honey as well as from the medicinal honey. He is now a well know entrepreneur within the district as well as
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 67 adjoining areas for sale of high quality honey which is marketed not only in Mokokchung but Dimapur as well. He is still keen on expanding and improvement his apiary and continues to hunt for bees to rear in his apiary with labour and enthusiasm. Seeing this, ATMA Ongpangkong North has provided him with seed money of Rs.10, 000/-. to achieve his goal of expansion as his works are reflected in the attitude of others who, after seeing his success is inspired and are venturing into beekeeping though small taking into account the huge demand for honey within the state and the activity being an economically and sustainable one.
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 68 INTEGRATED FARMING SYSTEM FROM LONGLENG GROWERS Mr.Temjentemsu Walling a graduate from Yimchalu ZHADIMA under Sungratsu village, 18km away from Mokokchung was finding it hard to sustain his fishery ponds which were his only source of income.
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 69 However, taking this task of sustaining his fishery pond as a challenge Mr.Temjen planned to make the best out of it by improvising it through integrated farming as he thought that “a farmer will never incur loss in integrated farming”. He started it all by dividing his 5 acres Farm land for different purposes; 2 acres for fishery and remaining 3 acres for orchard. He introduced high quality hybrid horticulture crops in his 3 acres by planting saplings of 500 oranges, 300 mangoes, 450 litchi and 200 pomegranates procured
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 70 from the horticulture Department of Mokokchung and in the 2 acre land he has 2 fishery pond where both varieties of IMC (Indian Major Carps) and exotic carps are reared. Mr.Temjen earned a gross income of Rs 5, 19,600 from his integrated farming system adopting Fish and orchard. In his Integrated Farming System, the highest income is from fishery where 3 quintals of fish are harvested twice a year and sold in the local market and sometimes even in the village itself at Rs 180 per kg. With the income from sale of fish he has been able to employ 1 worker on full time basis to look after his orchards and fishery with a monthly salary of Rs 3,500/-. He has also been able to buy fish feed necessary to achieve good growth of fish,
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 71 fertilizers for orchards and necessities to support his family. Apart from this, he has taken his enterprise to a different level from the month of August 2014 by allowed angling in his fish pond for villagers as well as people from outside the village with a charge of Rs100/rod which has also generated extra income. Mr.Temjen is very thankful to God and happy for the prosperity of his farm as his farm is not only earning profit but have also overcoming the loss suffered in the initial years. Farmers of nearby villages have been inspired by his success and are replicating his farming practices while seeking help and advice from him to which he is keen to help, in fact, he wants to impart training on quality fish seed production to interested farmers seeking his help. Having a first-
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 72 hand experience on integrated farming he says that apart from monetary gain, integrated farming offers satisfaction, guaranteed returns and peace of mind that neither a government job nor a single enterprise can offer and hence wants young and upcoming entrepreneurs to take up integrated farming along with hard work.
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 73 THE ALL-ROUND ARMEN SHG FROM LONGLENG GROWERS The year 2011 marked the beginning of a new chapter for a group 10 farmers from AonokpuYimsen village ZHADIMA under Longchem Block when came together to form Armen Self Help Group in order to sustain and help each other increase their income through agricultural activities. They starting their dream with a half yearly collection of Rs 200 per member to start tapioca farm in an area of about 1 Hectare which through their collective effort yielded them an income of Rs 25,000
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 74 in the first year. Seeing the hard work of the group and the potentiality of being a member in of their S.H.G, 5 more members joined in, in the subsequent year. Consequently, in the following years, the group has ventured into mixed farming involving piggery and tapioca in order to have an assured return. The leaves of the tapioca plants are used to feed the pigs, which on maturity are sold to local buyers while its faeces
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 75 are used as manures for tapioca; whereas, tapioca are used to make cakes and other value additions. Apart from the above activities, the group knowing the demand as well as to make the best use of their available time in order to increase their income also makes pickles, jack fruit finger chips and biscuits which are easily sold within the village, neighbouring Assam and sometimes even in Dimapur. The group also owns rubber nursery since 2012 where rubber stumps are sold and currently have nearly 1500 rubber stumps for sell. They have also started planting Rubber trees and hope to generate income and employment to local youths in
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 76 the coming years. The group also creates additional income by providing catering services whenever the need arises. Today the group is well established and organised with meetings being conducted regularly and annual audits done at the end of every year with various projects and programmes planned out well in advance for the coming year. With their continuous hard work, trust and motivation among the members, the group in the year 2014 generated an income of Rs 3, 20,000/- from all the activities.
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 77 THE SILK WOMEN FROM Mokokchung Village FROM LONGLENG GROWERS Sericulture being an agro based industry provides a ZHADIMA unique combination of both on-farm and off-farm activities. In rural and semi urban areas, a large number of women folk are engaged in various activities related from soil to silk. As it said, “Silk for the women, by the women” sericulture and women do connect with each other in several ways providing gainful employment opportunity.
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 78 For this 10 females who were struggling to meet their ends meet, it all started in the year 2010 when they got together to form Esalok Self Help Group in Mokokchung village with the support of Sericulture department. The members had no knowledge about sericulture and its value addition, however, they were keen on taking up this activity as they found it compatible to their gender of weaving. The members were trained on silkworm rearing, reeling and weaving by the sericulture department who also provided
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 79 them with motorized spinning machines and reeling machine along with a financial assistant of Rs.10000/- as seed money. Apart from the departmental assistant, their group members also started their fund raise by contributing Rs.100/member/year as a membership fees and maintained a saving bank account in Nagaland State Co-operative Bank. In order to run their unit, the group members regularly cultivate tapioca crop in an area of about 2-3 acres for silkworm rearing. The trained members are actively participating in their assigned routine task from rearing to reeling to spinning, weaving, tailoring and finally to various silk products. They generate their group income by selling their beautifully weaved products such as shawls, coats, kurtas, neckties,
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 80 pouches and bags, foot wears and flowers etc. with a price range of Rs.350/- to Rs.2000/-. In addition to the yarn products, the group also prepares pickle out of the left over pupae and sells it in the nearby local market thereby making full use of the resources. On an average the group income per month ranges approximately from Rs.7000 to 10,000/- Moreover the group also participated in various state and national exhibition and expo during which they sell their products apart from their active participation in various competition organized by the district during farmers mela. Their hard work, dedication and excellence in their field have earned them recognition in the district, state and national level. They are also
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 81 nominated for best block farmers’ group this year i.e. 2015 In the near future, Esalok Self Help Group plans to extend their activities from a production unit to a full- fledged training unit for the unemployed youth and women folk’s in order to generate employm ent and uplift the status of the women in society. Their success and recognition is a pride not only to them but to the people of the state too bringing laurels to the state at the national level.
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 82 LOKIVIPU SHG - ALL ABOUT NUTS”FROM LONGLENG GROWERS Far from Kohima between Tseminyu and Wokha leads a narrow road to a serene village where the ZHADIMA hardworking village folks produce large sized groundnut in abundance. A trace of its early cultivation is not known nevertheless Ghokimivillage boast of its success in groundnut cultivation among the villages under Zunheboto district. Smti.TokuliSwu, a widow and mother to a lone son decided to grow groundnuts back in 2008 on her small plot of land after seeing the success of other women SHG’s in her village. She started cultivating
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 83 groundnut in an area of about 0.25 ha back then earning her a modest income. She along with an enthusiastic group of women formed a self-help group under the name “LOKIVIPU” in the year 2011.The SHG cultivates about 20 kgs of groundnut from the previous year’s harvest and alone produces about 80- 90 tins of groundnut yearly selling at Rs. 500 per tin.
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 84 The variety cultivated in the village is of interest due to its large sized pea. The marketing of produce in the past was not much hassle however due to its location and irregular plying of taxi, marketing of produce through roadside sells has declined. Nevertheless due to its high demand from the buyers both within and neighboring districts the area under groundnut cultivation is increasing year after year. It was in the year 2013 ATMA Ghathashi Block under Zunheboto district intervened by organizing training on the different package and practices of groundnut in the village. During the Interaction between resource persons and the farmers
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 85 on their expertise in groundnut cultivation, she got motivated and decided to increase groundnut cultivation area along with her group members. Seeing the enthusiasm displayed by her and the SHG in action, during the month of June 2014 ATMA Ghathashi Block intervened again and decided to open a farm school in the village and appointed her as a farm school teacher. A onetime grant for maintenance was disbursed to her and the SHG. Again in June 2015 monetary incentive for the farm school was disbursed to them. Since then, there has been no looking back for the group as they
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 86 continue to sell groundnut produce in tandem with other crops seasonally. The Lokivipu SHG now boasts of having a group saving of Rs. 80,000 in the saving.After seeing the success of the group, majority of the household in the village has followed their footstep and increased the area of ground nut cultivation to enhance their family income.
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 87 PROGRESSIVE FISH FARMER NUTS”FROM LONGLENG GROWERS Shri.Toviho N Chophy a progressive farmer who ZHADIMA started his life as a primary teacher during early 70’s. Born and raised from Vishepu Village under Zunheboto District, located South of Satakha sub division, he had formal education till Class X. During early eighties out of pure passion since his village is blessed with perennial source of water he dug a fishery pond of 30 × 15 ft. dimension where he reared common carp. Initially the farm was not very successful due to his lack of technical knowledge yet
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 88 he was adamant to give up and thus he further continued farming, learning through Trials and Errors. After his voluntary retirement from government job, he decided to devote full time to fish farming. He constructed another fish pond for the same. The produce from the farm was sold in open market to neighbouring villages and town viz., Kivikhu, Xuivi, etc. while the fingerlings were sold @ Rs 2/fingerling which became his sole source of livelihood. Through the coming years, he put all his efforts in the farm, but
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 89 the overall efficiency was less and his financial position was hard. This, as he recalls, was attributed to lack of financial constraint for investment and support. He attended training on fisheries held at Calcutta in 1998 after which his farming capacity both his skill and economic condition improved to some extent. His first contact with ATMA was in 2011 when training was conducted at his village. There he got the platform to share his problems and hardship by interacting with the officials. By that time he already had 4 fishery ponds. The officials visited his fish farm and recognizing the immense potential, decided to open a Farm school under supervision of ATMA. Eager to learn more, He started attending the training and
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 90 demonstration conducted by ATMA and allied department in the district as well as in the state level. He also got an opportunity to go for an ATMA’s exposure tour to different places of India through which he learnt many new scientific techniques viz. manuring, liming, parameters of water, stocking pond management etc. He further added another pond in 2014. The total farm area now stands at 120 × 40 Sq. ft. in his 2 acre land, rearing varieties of common carp, silver carp, grass carp, rohu, etc. The official revisited his farm in 2014 and gave him further financial assistance. He now earns Rs. 60,000 - 80,000 by selling fingerlings and Rs. 80,000 - 1, 00,000 by selling fish totalling to an annual income of about Rs. 1, 80,000. He was also appointed as a farm teacher of the Farm
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 91 School, entrusted with disseminating his knowledge and experience to other farmers. He expressed his gratitude to ATMA for their timely intervention and support and for believing in his passion. He encourages others farmers to take up fish farming in a sustainable way to enhance their income. He also envisions that such initiatives could contribute to eradication of unemployment problem.
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 92 STRUGGLING FARMER BECOMES SUCCESSFUL ENTERPRENEUR NUTS”FROM LONGLENG GROWERS North East India is the native place of many citrus ZHADIMA species. It is of particular interest because of its high content of vitamin C and refreshing juice. Of the various types of citrus fruits grown in India, orange is of great commercial importance. The benefits of taking up citrus farming are its ability to grow well in wide range of soils. The sub-tropical climate of North East India is best suited for citrus growth and development.
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 93 Taking the advantages of the ambient weather and soil conditions of Zunheboto region, Shri. Hew oto Yept hoo fNat ha Old Village, under Zunheboto block took up orange farming as his passion and also to meet the needs of his family. Despite his busy schedule and responsibilities, he makes time and extra effort to look after his farm and see to it that it is flourishing. It was
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 94 in the year 2008 he cleared a part of his land to plant 2000 orange plants in an area of about 2.5 hectares.it was a hard time during the initial years yet with a zeal to achieve and to make a niche for himself, has make this man to stand against all odds. Recognizing his hard work and his keen interest in orange cultivation, ATMA Zunheboto Block intervened and opened an orange farm school in the year 2014 and appointed him as the farm school teacher. With the proper technical guidance from ATMA he has expanded his farm size to about 4 hectares adding another 1000 orange plants.Within a few span of years,his farm has undergone a tremendous changeby applying of scientific technologies viz. planting method, spacing, INM, IPM etc. he learnt during the trainings and his
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 95 keen interest for adoption of latest technologies for commercial cultivation of OrangesThe production of oranges in the initial years i.e. fourth year was 10 to 15 fruits per tree which give him gross incomes of Rs. 90,000 and his net income was Rs. 60,000. However he believes that his income will increase many folds with time when all the 3000 well-maintained orange trees will mature and bear fruits. He is also looking forward to make use of his orchard for inter-cropping with other winter crops as intercropping is advisable during the first three years in order to gain additional incomeThe factors behind the success are his patience, shear hard work and keen to learn and adopt new things has enabled him to bear a fruit of success. He serves as a model farmer in his village by
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 96 showcasing the technologies that he learnt from his trainings and his experiences from his farm. His income from orange farming is sufficient to sustain his
Success Stories-ATMA Nagaland 97 family’s needs. He is a great influence to his constituents and has proved that “hard work and sacrifice coupled with trainings can make a person realize their dreams” THE END
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