BAIF-NAIP

Consortium Partners: Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri Maharashtra Animal & Fishery Sciences University, Nagpur Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune Dr. Hedgewar Seva Samiti, Nandurbar

Operational Area

Clusters
» Samsherpur
» Devthan

DEVTHAN

Deothan is located around 15 kms from Akola block headquarter. Cluster office is located at Deothan. Baseline survey was conducted in 9 villages of Deothan cluster namely Deothan, Takali, Surgaon (kh), Pimpalgaon – Nipani, Gardani, Tambhol, and Hivargaon - Ambre and Dongargaon.

Social composition

Rain fall for 2007-08 mm	508
Villages surveyed	9
Total families surveyed	253
BPL families	121
Literacy	72% for men, 62% for women
Average family size	6
Sex ratio	895
Occupation	Agriculture
Average land holding	3 Acres

Livestock:

Cows	Buffalo	Bullocks	He- Buffalo	Total large ruminants	Goats/ Sheep	Pigs	Poultry	Total Livestock
236	17	150	2	405	276	0	30	711

• 56% families hold large animals
• 12% hold only small animals
• 32% families do not keep animals
• Average livestock holding per family is 3.
• Substantial number of cross bred cows exists.

Agriculture:
• Irrigation: 68% of the total land in this cluster is under irrigation and remaining 32% of it is rain fed. • All the farmers have adopted using chemical fertilizers and make use of minimum 50 KGs of fertilizers
   per acre. Two of them use more than 100 KGs per acre. People use only urea.
• However only 4% of the farmers have followed the practice of getting their soil tested. May be,
   lack of awareness of its need or difficulties in accessing the facility.
• Though other trends prevailing in the area indicate about higher level of innovativeness, majority of
   the farmers are still carrying on their tillage operations with the use of bullock power and use of
   tractor for this purpose is nearly non-existent. This point may be further studied.

Average crop yields:

Crop	Irrigated acres	Production	Yield Q/A	Non - irrigated Acres	Production	Yield Q/A	Price/Q
Bajra	540.00	4163.00	7.71	205.00	706.00	3.44	1002.00
Tomatoes	4.00	182.00	45.50	-	-	-	1700.00
Onion	165.00	9307.00	56.41	8.00	150.00	18.75	-
Wheat	300.00	3588.00	11.96	58.00	303.00	5.22	1141.00
Maize	13.40	206.00	15.37	0.00	0.00	0.00	880.00
Gram	15.10	69.00	4.57	0.00	0.00	0.00	1812.00

Input cost for agriculture:

Inputs	Bajra	Tomatoes	Maize	Wheat	Gram
Seed (KG/A)	1.80	0.20	25.60	31.00	20.00
Amount	755.00	1366.00	789.00	1100.00	1150.00
Fertilizer (KG/A)	97.00	100.00	92.00	163.00	75.00
Amount	426.00	300.00	681.00	1148.00	2250.00
Medicines (Lt/A)	0.00	0.50	0.00	-	-
Amount	0.00	500.00	0.00	926.00	696.00
Total	1181.00	2166.00	1470.00	3174.00	4096.000