These visitors are (Not all) badly maintaining the place by throwing plastics bags, cups and bottles every where. It is hard to find a place to sit and enjoy the beauty of the nature. In this regard, we the Orrange team members are constantly visiting the place and involved in creating awareness among the visitors.

I strongly believe that if people do take active participation, this project will be a successful and sustainable one.

Visit to Red Ribbon Express, Dharwad

Report Prepared by M N Bhat

Date of Village Visit: From 25, 26 & 27 August 2008

Background: Bogenagarkoppa is a small village having population of about 2500. Most of the villagers involved in agriculture and other allied activities like growing fruits, milk production etc.

Objectives: The objective of the study is to understand past & present production, measures taken up to increase the production and various problems involved in milk production.

As per the 07-08 censuses, there are 267 cows, 208 buffaloes and 200 goats in the village. Below is the table showing milk production in 07-08 & 08-9(till august 08).

Apart from this, there are 3 individual sellers who collect the milk from the villagers and directly sell in Hubble city. The individual sellers, on an average, collect 45 to 50 liters of milk per day. Five years back the same sellers were selling milk about 90 to 100 liters per day. 

There are 40 members selling milk to KMF dairy. The distribution of milk selling by the members is as follows.

Problems:

The major problems faced by the villagers in increasing the milk production are;

1)      The village dairy is not encouraging to increase the milk production. Quarrel by the staff who is not interested in it. Hindi used by them is very less. Traditional fodder like grass, Bili Jola & soya bean hottu are used. Fodder is not supplied by dairy. It was just 59 bags supplied last year.

2)      There is a decrease in the no. of cows & buffaloes during the last 5 years. This is because of the alternative employment opportunities provided by the other sectors.

a)      No. of tractors increased

b)      Some villagers going to Varur & Hubli for factory work.

c)       No. of cowboys decreased.

3)       During a particular time, the dairy is collecting milk. Sometimes the buffalo milks late in the morning or evening. If so it happens, where to sell the milk is the problem for them.

4)      During emergencies, access to individual sellers for money is very easy. They also offer more price than the dairy.

Note: Individual sellers are not encouraging to increase milk production; they are interested in profits.

Availability of Services:

The health care center is situated 4 km away from this village. As per the data provided by the local doctor, the artificial insemination is done for about 260 livestock. They encouraged for Khilar breed which is suitable for the local environment. Generally the local people prefer HF, Jersey, SR & GR.

A report on Kamplikoppa Village

Date of Village Visit: 21, 22 & 23 July, 2008                          Report by: Mr. M N Bhat

Objective:

The objectives of the study are to understand the problems, their needs and the area for the development of the village through the involvement of the local people. This is achieved through the various techniques and tools like triangulation and maps etc.

Methodology:

I have interviewed the villagers and documented the information. The following are the tools used for gathering information about the village.

A)     Village mapping & demographic details:

B)      Resource Listing:

C)      Distance & Location of service providing offices:

D)     Accessibility  to different services through Venn diagram:

E)      Inflow & outflow of village resources:

A)     Village mapping is drawn and land marks like school, community hall, water tank and dairy etc. Important information about the demography of the village is collected and is as follows.

a)

b) Big farmers: 3

c) Agricultural laborers: 35 families

d) Temples: 1

e) Government High school: 1

f) Primary School: 1

g) Anganawadi: 1

h) Total Sanghs: 12

i) Government/Private Hospital: No

j) Drinking water source: Bore well

k) Dairy: 1

l) Literates: Males- 400 & Females-300

m) Medical Shop: No

n) No. of buses into the village: 8 per day

o) Motels: 5

B) Listing of resources has been done with the help of focused group discussion.

C)  I have also listed the service providing offices with the help of villagers and Venn diagram is drawn accordingly.

Different services accessible to villagers are represented by the Venn diagram below.

During the discussion it is found out that the villagers are facing the below mentioned problems. They are;

Health:

Though there are more than 1000 villagers in this village, there is no government/private hospital. For any health related problems, villagers have to go to Hubli. The tablets are distributed in the general shop for minor diseases. The same is true for the live stocks also.

Education:

The second major problem faced by the villagers is that the quality of the education is completely deteriorated. There are 129 students, among them 56 are girls. Akshaya Patra is providing mid day meal to this school children to discourage the dropout rate. There are only 4 teachers in this school and unable to teach students properly. There is also no playing ground, materials and class rooms for sitting etc.

Access to safe drinking water:

The biggest problem that the villagers are having is to accessibility to drinking water. They are getting water from the neighbor village which is 4 kms away. They have to collect the water for drinking & domestic purposes from a single point.

Other Problems:

The village is 22 kms away from Hubli and there are 8 buses coming morning through evening. The bus price is on higher side which is not affordable to the villagers. Their opinion is of that the services of city buses will help to save some money.

Village Development Plan

The village development plan has been made by considering the needs of the villagers. This plan will concentrate only one aspect that will help to a greater extent.

Water Problem:

The village is facing acute shortage of water for home and agricultural purposes. They are getting water from Kuradikere which is 2 kms away. By the next two years, if the same situation continues they may not get water even for drinking. Depth of each bore well varies from 200 feet to 400 feet. The neighbor village will also face the same problem. Because of shortage of water milk production has been decreasing at a faster rate. This will reduce the income of the farmers who are dependent of live stock. Adding to this the rainfall is also not even and adequate. There are 6 lakes and are of no use.

The following is the plan to overcome the water problem.

 There are 6 ruined lakes surrounded by this village. The approximate area of these lakes is about 25 acres of land. These lakes are dry even in rainy season.

Rain water can be saved by desilting these lakes. 

Outcomes:

As a result of this, around 250 acres of dry land can be watered by bore wells.

It will also help farmers to go double cropping.

Reduce water wastage.

Food production will increase.

Grass can be grown in uncultivated and barren land.

Increase in live stock.

Milk selling can be increased.

Under ground water level will considerably increase.

Can save time, electricity and labor.

Supportive seasonality Map

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