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The Visionaries
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SUSTAINABILITY
HCL
Grant
Recipient
Environment,
2022
Scarcity of water, soil erosion, and tough terrain mark the areas in western West Bengal where
this Project is based. Due to low agricultural productivity, chemical fertilizers and pesticides
are used, making the land even less viable. Subsistence farming and deforestation are rampant.
e Project seeks to create a sustainable ecology development prototype to establish an
alternative agricultural system that focuses on restorative and regenerative principles and
practices like rainwater harvesting, increasing vegetative cover, reforesting etc., to address
poverty and food insecurity. rough skilling women farmers and aligning stakeholders like
government, banks, PRI and corporates to community-led development, the Project is set to be
long lasting and sustainable.
PRADAN
• 6,500 women farmers from 617 SHGs sensitized on environmental
issues, integrated natural resource management (INRM) and climate
resilient agricultural practices
• 11 Bio Resource Centres initiated by women entrepreneurs to supply
bio fertilizers and pesticides to each cluster
• 7,000 women farmers are trained technically on regenerative crop
cultivation practices, 6,793 have adopted the same
• Demonstration of 249 water conservation & irrigation structures and
12 solar based lifting devices and replication of these with funds from
government departments across the entire Jangle Mohal region
HCLTech Grant Project:
Restoring Eco-System by Promoting Nature Sensitive
Endeavour – RESPONSE