Section - XI - The Land Area and Output calculations

Nutritional Requirements per Household (HH):

According to the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) the normative cereals requirement per capita per person is 157 Kilograms. Considering that a HH has on an average 5 members, the total needed for the HH would be approx. 800 Kgs of cereals. The maximum that the HH gets from the present PDS is around 300 Kgs of Cereals and on top of it this is irregular and most of the times of bad quality, hence the rest of more than half has to be bought from the open market paying for the differential between the producer price and open market price. Correspondingly the quantity for the pulses is 23 Kgs per person per capita with no pulses provided in the PDS at present. Hence a group of 20 resource poor HH and the 5 farmer HH would need an output of 20T foodgrains and corresponding quantity of pulses.

The Land and Output Calculations:

Total Area considered is 10 Ha or 25 Acres and the total number of women would be 20

a) 6Ha – Kharif for food grains

b) 3 Ha – Rabi ( or from protective irrigation) for Pulses / Green Manure / fodder

c) In a good monsoon year the output would be from 12Ha. ( 6+3 in Kharif and 3Ha in Rabi) but in a bad or sub-optimal monsoon year it would only be 9 ha. (6 Ha in Monsoon and 3 Ha in Rabi because protective irrigation has to be provided for the Monsoon areas)

d) 0.2 Ha ( or ½ an acre) for the intensive vegetable cultivation land to the women

e) 0.8 Ha (or 2 acres) on a Sharma type model (Section - VI) where the women offer their services to the farmers for producing 40T of Vegetables or correspondingly pulses. This means 4 women (2 women per acre) can render their services

In addition to the above we need

f) 1.2 Ha ( 6 Gunthas X 20 Women = 120 Gunthas which is 3 acres or 1.2 Ha ) for the growing of the perennial fruit trees whose produce entitlement would be for these 20 women. To the extent possible this could come from Common Lands (Panchayat Lands)

g) Also we would need 15 Ha for the Bio energy, Bio-fuel and Bio mass production. But since this is a huge area it would be done in phases with the First phase having Min. 5 Ha land. More details in the Sections that follow

The Output Calculations:

a) Output in the Chemical farming would be max. of 8 quintals / acre (800Kg) of foodgrains which is 2.2T/ ha so for 6ha it would be 13.2T / ha. We are assuring output for the farmer of 20T / 6ha.

b) With Renke type of input it is 5T/ ha which would mean an output of 30T/ 6 ha, but Renke method would be difficult to be replicated for larger areas as mentioned earlier