Scheduled Tribe Component

Scheduled Tribe Component

Under Scheduled Tribal Component (STC), in rabi season 2023-24, FLDs were taken up on 134 ha of land benefitting 373 farmers. An average yield gain of 18.2 % (6.7% in Kalyani to 42.0% in Chhindwara) was observed. During spring 2024, FLDs were conducted on 18 ha area and benefited 42 farmers. An average yield gain of 9.6 % was observed. During kharif 2024, 234.8 ha FLDs were conducted and benefitted 686 farmers. An average yield gain of 26.8 % was recorded over farmers’ practices which varied from 8.3% in Kalyani 91.2% in Ranchi.

Under the STC, 44 farmers' training/field day/awareness programmes were conducted in different parts of the country on various aspects of scientific maize cultivation, benefiting 2328 tribal farmers which include 480 women farmers. More than 2024 households also benefitted from the input distributions.