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Red Cross / Tsunami Project
Red Cross land Rehabilitation Project:
 Annadana was awarded the above project to design and monitor technically a large scale land rehabilitation project for the benefit of small scale farmers affected by the devastating Tsunami of December 2004. Implemented by the Indian Trust “ Children of the World- India “,funded by the prestigious French Red Cross. It is using Annadana techniques of soil rehabilitation and soil fertility management system as much as Annadana principals of sustainable, high yielding system of cultivation.
This project conducted by 17 local Indian technicians ( agronomists, enthomologist, social workers, nutritionist, community organizers, field coordinators) and Annadana project director as the technical advisor, has been responsible for rehabilitating 500 acres of rice field owned by small scale and marginal farmers. 550 farmers and their families together with land less labourers, in total 3500 beneficiaries gained in 3 years of the project inputs like paddy seeds, compost, bio fertilizers, bio pesticides, organics cakes, organic growth promoters as much as cash for work program for spraying, hand weeding, composting, green manuring and participatory planning, training and capacity building on organic techniques of cultivation for paddy.
This project is monitored also by the Indian Council of Medical Research ( ICAR) through the Vector Control Center of Pondicherry studying the incidence of water transmissible diseases in organically managed paddy field versus conventional field.
After 2 years of project implementation about 1000 tons of village made enriched compost was distributed, 15 tons of paddy seeds, 100, 000 litres of organic growth promoters and immunity boosters and thousands of labour work days subsidized through the cash for work programs.
Record growth
Farmers yield increased by 45% after two years. Prior, 15 bags of paddy were harvested per acre but under the expert guidance of Annadana, the average harvest jumped to 23 bags per acre with some farmers harvesting 27 bags and the record being 34 bags per one acre of paddy cultivation using System of Rice Intensification ( SRI).
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