Success Stories

Vaccination of animals (Animal husbandry)

There is a misconception about vaccinating animals among tribals. They fear that it will reduce productivity of animal or they fall sick. In Dhule district, Animal husbandry dept trained high school children about vaccination & its benefits. They also corrected misunderstanding. Once students are convinced with the help of these school children from 7 schools, Govt. veterinary doctors could vaccinate 6449 (cows, buffalo and goats) in 15days. Children talked to villagers, explained them, some of them got trained to administer vaccine under supervision of doctors.

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Drip Irrigation (Agriculture technology)

Farmer in Brahmanwel village gave order to school to install drip irrigation system in his farm. Students completed it as part of their project work. Farmer got services at low cost and students get hands on training. Like drip irrigation, schools also provides service of sprinklers, mulching, vermi composting etc. to farmers.

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Fertilizer

In July 2011, 9th class students from Tandulwadi village learn new agriculture techniques from ‘Farmers Diary’ published by agricultural university. They created a demonstration plot of Zendu flowers. They prepared the land, carry out seeds treatment. They prepared seedlings in nursery for 21days. They used bio fertilizers and planted plants by leaving proper distance between the crops. Based on the soil testing, they decided quantity of fertilizers. They planted the plants by estimating flowering time will come during festival seasons. No wonder they got bumper crop!

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Nursery Technique

IBT schools in Nandurbar district learned to grow plants in nursery. Against the order from local NGO, they prepared 9020 plants in June, 2011. They even took out rally in the village to create awareness about environmental issues and carry out plantation drive. Many students adopted 1-2 plants. After seeing success of school nursery, farmer Mr.Jagannath Gaikwad from Tisangi took help of school instructors and made nursery on his own farm.

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Agriculture tools

Small farmers normally do not buy agricultural tools like Knapsack pump for spraying pesticide. 13 farmers from Chaddwel village took knapsack pump from IBT dept on rent of Rs.20/- ($0.5)per day. Repairing of agricultural tools or get the tools made as per own design is always done by students. Students from Mangli village sold 35 tree guards. Nagaj school sold 5 poultry cages as per the design.

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Watershed development

Students at Gawadewadi constructed a small dam by doing dumpy table and plane table survey. They contributed their labor to construct it. Survey sites for watershed development are part of IBT curriculum.

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Sanitation

Construction of soak pit to stop breeding of mosquitoes is regular activity in IBT schools. Every year hundreds of soak pits are made by students for e.g Botoni school made 10 soak pit this year. They also breed Gappi fish which eat mosquito’s eggs. Construction of low cost toilets, toilets with less water can all demonstrated and used in school. Testing potability of water, soil testing, blood group and hemoglobin test are carried out in school laboratory. Last year, Hingangaon school found out 2 wells out of 4 in the village is not good for drinking water. They informed Village council head about their result to take action.

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Food preservation

Schools try to make different food items using local agriculture produce. Jams, Jelly, cake, Biscuits, local snacks, chikki etc are common in IBT schools. Snacks on annual day, school functions etc is responsibility of school. This also helps in standardization of some local snacks. Some of the instructors run their enterprises once they get confidence.

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ICT for development

IBT School with internet access provides ‘Agricultural information service’ to farmer using website www.aaqua.org. They post the question on the website and get the advice from experts in agricultural science center. 18 schools also subscribed to weather forecast on SMS. Students are given responsibility to write it on village and school notice board for benefit of all farmers.

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