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Major Assignments

 
Some of the important projects and assignments undertaken and successfully accomplished by ISAP during the last three years are given below:
 
Evaluation and Impact Assessment
 
• District Level Monitoring and Impact Assessment of Rural Development Programmes under Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of India, New Delhi.
• Monitoring & Evaluation of Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) under Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of India, New Delhi.
• Independent evaluation of Women Beneficiaries financed by Rashtriya Mahila Kosh, New Delhi.
• Online Weekly Price Monitoring System of Herbal & Medicinal Plants for National Medicinal Plant Board, Govt. of India, New Delhi.
 
Rural Development
 
• Integrated Natural Resource Management & Poverty Reduction Project in Haryana funded by Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), New Delhi.
• Identification of technology related need gaps pertaining to agricultural sector amongst the Bhils in Banswara and Dungarpur districts of south Rajasthan funded by Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi.
• Promotion of Organic farming for food grain, vegetable, medicinal and aromatic crops in the Bundi district of Rajasthan funded by Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi.
• Query Redress Service to address farmer’s problems in agriculture and allied activities in association with One World South Asia (OWSA) in HP, MP and UP.
• ICT for Rural Development through Unlimited Potential Programme of Microsoft by establishing 183 Community Technology Learning Centres (CTLCs) in 16 districts of Maharashtra.
• Sustainability of Upper Kolab Irrigation Project and Upper Indravati Irrigation Project in Orissa funded by Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), New Delhi.
 
Market Linkage
 
• National/International Conferences on specific agriculture commodities.
• Buyer seller meets (7) on agriculture and allied products in general and Apple, Banana, Dairy, Honey, Herbal Medicinal plants, Temperate Fruits and Nuts in particular.
• Networking of members, market linkage, programs and database information to farmers funded by Ford Foundation.
 
Training and Entrepreneurship Development
 
• Entrepreneurship Development for unem ployed Agriculture and Allied sector graduates in 9 States (more than 728 agri graduates trained) for establishing Agri-clinic and Agri-business under MANAGE programme.
• Training of 1 man (Kisan Mitra) and 1 women (Kisan Didi) from each blocks (more than 80,000) of Madhya Pradesh on basic aspects of scientific agriculture and low cost innovative agriculture technologies under MP State Agriculture Marketing Board, Bhopal.
• Farmer Awareness Campaign in 12 states including North East (Assam), Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan and Kerala.
• Training of professionals on operations and market dynamics of commodity derivatives.
 
Cluster/Market Mapping for Agriculture/Horticulture Products
 
• Identification of potential clusters (horticulture crops) for establishing Modern Terminal Market and Mega Food Park in state of Bihar and Maharashtra in collaboration with GAPL, New Delhi.
• Market Mapping and Market Information Services for Organic Medicinal and Herbal Plants funded by Society for Promotion of Wasteland Development, New Delhi.
• Market Mapping and Micro-credit mechanism in Rengali Irrigation Project, Orissa funded by Japan Bank for international Cooperation (JBIC), New Delhi
 
Agri-business development
 
• Designing backward linkages and training need assessment for the agribusiness infrastructure development project in Bihar and Maharashtra.
 



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