Groundnut

Crisis Management

To overcome the financial crisis of the groundnut growers provision of credit facilities through financial institutions to undertake complete package of practices for groundnut cultivation. Extending the facility of issuing 'Kissan credit system' to the groundnut growers as followed in banana.
Application of insufficient quantities organic manure to build organic content of soil thereby to sustain the soil health.
Application of recommended dose of any one of the following organic manures viz., FYM, enriched FYM, compost, bio-compost, pressmud, composted coirpith, vermi-compost, sugarcane trash compost, etc. may be followed for each crop in rotation based on their availability. In case of non-availability of the above sources, raise green manure like sunnhemp and daincha and incorporate in situ. Incorporation of green leaf manure and recycling of crop residues may also be followed to sustain the soil health.
To avoid non-availability of quality seeds of improved varieties, seed village concept is to be adopted to maintain the seed linkage.
High cost of inputs leads to non-adoption of optimum dose to the groundnut crop.Recommended dosage of inputs per unit area is not available as such in the market, which leads to non- adoption of recommended technology.
The packets should be manufactured and supplied based on per unit area recommendation.
Limited usage of herbicides in groundnut production.
Creating awareness through training programme and conviction building demonstration for large scale adoption.
Non-availability of nutrient components like borax and ammonium sulphate at the village levels does not permit the groundnut growers for large scale adoption of nutrient spray.
Making available of nutrient solution in ready-made packets will pave the way for easy and large scale adoption of recommended technology.
Interrupted power supply particularly during critical stages in summer groundnut reduces the crop yield considerably.Assured power supply may help to solve the problem.
Other management practices such as mulching, different land configuration technique, sprinkler irrigation may also help to reduce the detrimental effects of moisture stress.
Use of anti-transpirants like kaolin, KCl may help to overcome the ill effects of drought.
Non-availability of IPM components particularly NPV, pheromone traps, Trichoderma, Pseudomonas and plant products.
Private entrepreneurs should be encouraged to set up production units at each block level.
Non-availability of sufficient number of sprayers in working condition at village level. Creating awareness about repair and maintenance of spraying equipment for effective usage.
Scarcity in the availability of farm labour during important field operations and high wage rate. Use of labour saving implements like groundnut decorticator, TNAU improved seed drill, weeders, harvester, thresher and drier. These implements can be maintained as community input at panchayat level.
Conventional method of storage deteriorates the seed quality especially the viability, which leads to poor germination in the field.Improved storage structures should be made available at village levels at least as community input.
Wide fluctuation in marketing price. Procurement policy should protect the farmers to get assured price for their produce as in sugarcane.

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Services Overview

The key services offered by Ikisan are:

System study, design and development of IT enabled solutions and services for the agri sector.

Execution of rural IT enabled projects on BOT/BOOT/Turnkey basis.

Development, Customization and Deployment of Ikisan's IPR protected software applications.

Providing support services and best management practices for augmenting the marketing development efforts of the groups agricultural input companies (NFCL and NACL).

Development and Dissemination of best practice and information though a unique multi lingual knowledge website for the agri sector.

Some of the key customers/partners that benefit significantly from our work include are Electronics Corporation of India Ltd, State Agricultural Marketing Boards, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Tamilnadu, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Motorola Mobility (GOOGLE) etc.

As highlighted earlier Ikisan provides significant support to the market development and marketing efforts of NFCL and NACL by providing best practices and information across the agricultural input value chain - weather, soil, seeds, fertilizers, water, pesticides, output prices etc. that have enabled the companies to develop deep customer relationships and in turn enable them to grow above market growth rates. Recently example in fertilizers includes the development of Customized Fertilizer Grades (for NFCL across India that are crop and location specific have not only reduced the current consumption of fertilizers of farmers but have significantly enhanced crop yields and farmer incomes) that are expected to add significant revenues to the company.

Currently, agriculture value chain is driven by technical expertise. However, there is a lack of adequate Management knowledge and skills amongst the professionals. Therefore, Ikisan and XLRI, Jamshedpur have jointly developed an Agri Business Management Program for Agri-professionals and students. Ikisan provides the domain expertise while XLRI provides pedagogy. This program is a combination of virtual learning and campus based module at XLRI, Jamshedpur. This program has been highly appreciated.

Intellectual Property Rights for many software applications such as Field Manager, Vyapar, Mandi, Quick Solutions Systems, Management Time Table, Agri Information System and Agrecommerz belong to Ikisan. A significant recent development in this area is the introduction of Weather Based Crop Insurance. This entails setting up of Automatic Weather Stations, which provide dynamic village-level data essential for settlement of weather based insurance claims.