Livelihood

Why Livelihoods?

87% of India’s farmers have less than 5 acres of land and are compelled to practice subsistence farming due to degraded natural resources and uncertain weather. Lack of reliable income has leads to poverty and sorrowful migration effecting the community’s well being.

By offering workable alternatives, it is necessary to lessen the overdependence on traditional agriculture. Diversifying the economy away from agriculture and into other agro-based livelihoods, rural businesses, and non-farm industries is crucial for rural India’s economic growth as well as for the country’s overall economy.

Our Interventions

MSKPP is empowering rural communities by educating them and building their capacity to adopt various livelihood alternatives. MSKPP aims to diversify the sources of people’s income and help them manage agriculture.

Our Impact

1100

New enterprises with focus on livelihood

25%

Increase in non-farm incomes

73

Livelihood training

50%

Decline in distress migration

Program Highlights

Dairy cooperative in 7 villages with marketing linkage with state cooperativec

Organic Farming , Vermi Compost, Pesticide

Small enterprises based on forest produce.

Building Capacities of villagers

IMPACT STORY

All the members of the family jointly work in preparing the bamboo items and are a family occupation for them. you can drink a cup of tea served in bamboo mug by sitting in a bamboo chair. Bamboo has become a part of their life.

Tribal making bamboo product

Tribal people are solely dependent on the bamboo industry. They have engaged themselves in making baskets, bags, containers, brooms, supadas, mats, boxes, and other
kitchenware,furniture useful items of household use.

Bamboo is under control of forest department. The poor tribal people somehow manage to access the bamboo to earn livelihood.
They get a meagre sum by selling these bamboo products to local market or money lender or contracter but the market value is more than 2-5 times.

Sakhi Credit cooperative understood the practise and began providing skill training for marketing and crop production and entrepreneurship. Now their income has doubled and life has become happy.