Agriculture is the backbone of Northeast India, but it needs improvement in productivity and efficiency to bring sustainability to the sector. Some of the reasons behind this are inappropriate agriculture practices, lack of knowledge and a relevant support system. Farmers from Kolaghat village under Hezamara R.D Block in Tripura were always interested to form a group to access knowledge and technology, promote greater value addition to agricultural

Residing in a small mud house, Shikha Biswas and her eight family members depended on paddy cultivation and daily labour for their survival. The family belongs to an SC community residing in Orgram village of Bardhaman district in West Bengal. Left with only 0.5 bigha (0.62 acre) of homestand land, the family took 3 bigha (1.86 acre) land from a big farmer for paddy cultivation on lease.  Shikha and her family’s life took a turn with the intervention

Digital document management helps to collect data in real-time and permanently documents information that can be accessed later or re-purposed into another format. This is particularly cost-effective, has a wider reach and is useful for a State level programme like Ezhuvom Iyakkam - Tamil Nadu State level Cancer Care Campaign wherein 27 Diocesan partners are actively implementing multifarious activities. The 3 days capacity building programme for

On April 22nd, 2022, Surokhit Shaishav, Promoting safe childhood in West Bengal organized a one-day capacity building session on ‘The National Child Labour Project - key strategies and the role of state child protection commission and civil society for the program team at Kolkata.  “Each child is important, unique and has potential for good transformation. No child is a criminal by birth,” were the opening remarks by Mr Santosh V Shinde,

In the recently concluded Safeguarding Training, held in Delhi on the 19th and 20th April 2022 for the five Regional Fora of Central India, Fr. Paul the Executive Director, of Caritas India, in his opening remarks emphasized the need to understand the concept and essence of Safeguarding, processes and nuances.  He encouraged Regional Fora to develop a safeguarding Policy and clearly defined plan for putting the policy into practice. He reiterated

The U3 cluster project supported by MISEREOR is in its third phase of implementation and the PMU will focus on influencing and inspiring in every aspect of its implementation. This program aims at fostering and securing self-sustaining climate resilient-cum-adaptive agriculture and livelihoods through community-owned processes in the state of West Bengal, Karnataka and Telangana in India. The third phase will be implemented in 16 Districts 50 Panchayats,

Around 86% of farmers in Assam belong to the small and marginal landholders. Most of these farmers are engaged in subsistence farming which hardly fulfils their family needs. Moreover, farming is a seasonal activity that leaves them without work or earnings for the rest of the season. Pisciculture or fish farming is a successful concept that was promoted to provide an alternative to small farmers who are scrambling to eke out a living from their

With the Covid-19 crisis impacting the rabi season, Caritas India is gearing up for the upcoming Kharif season with better planning. Food and nutrition security program ‘Sanjivani’ has organized three days of program review cum training on 19,20 & 21, April 2022 at Indore for the partners and staff to materialize better planning for the Kharif crop season. Presiding over the meeting, Nirmal Minj, State Program Associate, Gujarat stated that