Pioneering New Approaches to Rural Agri-Entrepreneurship Skills Development in Jharkhand, India

Jharkhand has a large proportion of marginal and small landholders (84 percent), who mainly practice rain-fed, single-crop subsistence farming, cultivating a low-yielding variety of paddy. A vast majority of these rural producers are unable to tran...

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Main Authors:	Kumar, Vineet, Behera, Tapas Ranjan, Bihari, Bipin
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	SKILLS DEVELOPMENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION COMMUNITY SERVICE PROVIDER
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/766081591191054487/Pioneering-New-Approaches-to-Rural-Agri-Entrepreneurship-Skills-Development-in-Jharkhand-India http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34715

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spelling	okr-10986-347152021-09-10T09:02:31Z Pioneering New Approaches to Rural Agri-Entrepreneurship Skills Development in Jharkhand, India Kumar, Vineet Behera, Tapas Ranjan Bihari, Bipin SKILLS DEVELOPMENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION COMMUNITY SERVICE PROVIDER Jharkhand has a large proportion of marginal and small landholders (84 percent), who mainly practice rain-fed, single-crop subsistence farming, cultivating a low-yielding variety of paddy. A vast majority of these rural producers are unable to transition to high-value commodities. The average landholding per farmer is 1.17 hectares. Of the 3.43 million hectares of cultivable land, only 2.23 million hectares (65 percent) is being farmed leaving nearly 35 percent of cultivable land fallow. Small livestock rearing and fish farming in catchment farm ponds, tanks and reservoirs could be important potential sources of livelihood for these rural households. Collection and sale of non-timber forest produce (NTFP) contributes substantially to incomes of forest dwellers and inhabitants of hamlets surrounding forest areas, who are mostly disadvantaged and landless communities belonging to particularly vulnerable tribal groups. This note explains the skilling and rural agri-entrepreneurship approach, process design, learnings, and the way forward of the JOHAR skilling initiative. 2020-11-02T20:56:55Z 2020-11-02T20:56:55Z 2020-03 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/766081591191054487/Pioneering-New-Approaches-to-Rural-Agri-Entrepreneurship-Skills-Development-in-Jharkhand-India http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34715 English South Asia Agriculture and Rural Growth Discussion Note Series;No. 14 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research South Asia India
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description	Jharkhand has a large proportion of marginal and small landholders (84 percent), who mainly practice rain-fed, single-crop subsistence farming, cultivating a low-yielding variety of paddy. A vast majority of these rural producers are unable to transition to high-value commodities. The average landholding per farmer is 1.17 hectares. Of the 3.43 million hectares of cultivable land, only 2.23 million hectares (65 percent) is being farmed leaving nearly 35 percent of cultivable land fallow. Small livestock rearing and fish farming in catchment farm ponds, tanks and reservoirs could be important potential sources of livelihood for these rural households. Collection and sale of non-timber forest produce (NTFP) contributes substantially to incomes of forest dwellers and inhabitants of hamlets surrounding forest areas, who are mostly disadvantaged and landless communities belonging to particularly vulnerable tribal groups. This note explains the skilling and rural agri-entrepreneurship approach, process design, learnings, and the way forward of the JOHAR skilling initiative.
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author	Kumar, Vineet Behera, Tapas Ranjan Bihari, Bipin
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title	Pioneering New Approaches to Rural Agri-Entrepreneurship Skills Development in Jharkhand, India
title_short	Pioneering New Approaches to Rural Agri-Entrepreneurship Skills Development in Jharkhand, India
title_full	Pioneering New Approaches to Rural Agri-Entrepreneurship Skills Development in Jharkhand, India
title_fullStr	Pioneering New Approaches to Rural Agri-Entrepreneurship Skills Development in Jharkhand, India
title_full_unstemmed	Pioneering New Approaches to Rural Agri-Entrepreneurship Skills Development in Jharkhand, India
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publishDate	2020
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/766081591191054487/Pioneering-New-Approaches-to-Rural-Agri-Entrepreneurship-Skills-Development-in-Jharkhand-India http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34715
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Pioneering New Approaches to Rural Agri-Entrepreneurship Skills Development in Jharkhand, India

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