APDMP(ANDHRA PRADESH DROUGHT MITIGATION PROJECT)
Implementation area: Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh
Aranya Agricultural Alternatives is a Lead Facilitating Agency (LFA) for the Government of AndhraPradesh ‘Andhra Pradesh Drought Mitigation Project’ (APDMP). The southern part of AP is one of the most climate-vulnerable regions in India, exacerbated by limited irrigation: low surface water availability and over-exploited groundwater resources – borewell drillings often fail to strike water and/or borewells are running dry. Soils are generally thin with low soil fertility and low water holding capacity; however, farmers lack access to, and information on, drought-adapted technologies. 80% of farmers are marginal or smallholder farmers, predominantly growing rainfed oilseeds, pulses and cotton as cash crops. Typically, this generates a third of income – necessitating farmers to rely on public safety net programmes and/or seasonal migration to low paid jobs.
What Aranya Agricultural Alternatives does:
- Aranya Agricultura Alternatives is the LFA for 4 Facilitating Agencies, 12 Farmer Produce
Organisations (FPOs) across 36 gram panchayats (villages), covering 5025 farmers – 1696 female farmers and 3329 male farmers – with 1640 poorest of poor families identified. - Empowering farmersthrough FPO – participatory action – our collective vision is to remove market access hurdles andstrengthen production, productivity and profitability, so farmers can achieve right values of produce.
- Women as AGENTS OF CHANGE is our cornerstone philosophy