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10 - 14 February 2014
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Indian farmer Om Prakash Shukul began planting trees on his farm after following an awareness programme on agroforestry in his community. He was more than happy to talk about his fruit tree-planting activities during an interview:
“I earn from the crop yields as well as by selling mangoes. I am very happy with the results,” he says in the below video.
Om Prakash hopes to earn an income from the mangoes for the next few years, and has in addition planted guava as a security, should his crops fail. By diversifying his farm and adopting this 'climate-smart' intervention, he feels better prepared to cope with erratic weather events and the challenges from the changing climate. And he is also earning an income along the way.
Growing mangoes has really impacted his life in a positive way, he explained during the making of the video.
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The Climate-Smart Village scheme initiated by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)will work well in bihar and states where land prices are low and land mafia is not very active.In Haryana
this well intentioned scheme by the CGIR will never take off. There is no place for agroforestry (except on government papers) in this state and our future generation will pay heavy price for the ignorence of the current generation.
Apart from growing Mango or any other fruit tree, I think farmers should learn to sell themselves. My neighbour has made $20 per tree from direct selling. He would have got $5 if he would have leased to middleman.