Agricultural activities
Presentation
Iramma
Rudrappa Patil, 60 years old, is an old client of Chaitanya, living in the
village of Pattihal.
Her family counts 11 members: 5 small kids and all 6 other members involved in
those agricultural activities. As the client’s family is focussing on many
activities onto a single land, they are shifting from old to advanced
agricultural technologies. They are also involved in dairy farming, small
poultry farming, etc.
70% of the
village is focussing on traditional agriculture, while 2 families do poultry
farming, 3 families dairy farming, and 2 families (them included) are engaged
in modern agriculture. Agriculture has been the main activity nearly for 100 years and other
activities started those last 10 years. The two
sons are thinking about using more technologies for agricultural activities in
the future and also improving poultry and dairy farming activities.
Production steps
They are
producing biogas from the dung of their cows. To do so, they mixt it with water
and channel it into fermentation pits. It is a useful way of having free
sustainable power all year round. Here is a picture summarizing the whole process:
Economics of the activity
The costs vary from one crop to another and the different activities. Soybean,
Maize and Cotton are produced 4 months per year while the Sugar Cane activity
takes place all year long.
Here is a chart describing the costs and profits:
Here is a chart describing the costs and profits:
Yearly
profit then is of 268 000 rupees thanks to the agricultural activities.
They took
two loans from Chaitanya, in 2011 and 2012. The first one was for agricultural
purpose while the second one was to purchase ox.
The profit of this activity is around 16500 per month, with the main season
being from March to May.
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