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Project Development Objective
PDO Statement
16. The Project Development Objective is to intensify and diversify agricultural production, and
enhance climate resilience16 in selected districts of Odisha.
PDO Level Indicators
17. Proposed PDO level indicators include: (i) increase in productivity of selected agricultural
commodities supported by the project (percent); (ii) increase in productivity of water use at tank level
(percent); (iii) share of non-paddy products in total production in project areas (percent); (iv) farmers
adopting improved agricultural technology (number); and (v) share of target beneficiaries with rating
“Satisfied” or above on process and impact of project interventions (percent).
B. Project Components
Component 1: Climate-Smart Intensification and Diversification of Production (US$74.6 million)
18. The objective of this component is to intensify production, strengthen farmers’ capacity to adapt to
climate change stresses affecting crop and aquaculture production, and diversify production, especially in
Rabi in response to effective market demand. A key legacy of the green revolution in India has been the
tendency to conflate intensification/resilience building with irrigation. Consequently, many programs in
support of intensification/resilience building almost invariably focus on irrigated systems often at the
expense of rainfed areas. OIIPCRA pursues a different approach, with support under this component
proposed to target farmers both inside and outside the irrigation tanks command areas. In this case, the
tank command areas will be the nuclei from which project support then expands into adjoining rainfed
areas which will be delimited by relevant administrative boundaries (e.g. villages or blocks), depending on
local context. Under this component, support will be organized around three subcomponents:
Subcomponent 1.1: Support to Improved Productivity and Climate Resilience (US$32.1 million)
19. Funding under this subcomponent will support farmer adoption of CSA technologies and practices
to increase productivity, improve resilience to climate shocks and reduce GHG emissions, as a co-benefit.
For the most part, a wide range of frontier CSA technologies and practices already exist within India’s
agricultural innovation system (see compendium at http://www.nicraicar.in/nicrarevised/images/publications/Tbu_CSA_Book.pdf) and incentives for their adoption, especially
inputs support through myriad government interventions, abound. However, among others, weaknesses
in extension services provision17
, delivery mechanisms for inputs - especially high yielding resilient seed18
,
and produce marketing, constrain widespread farmer adoption of these technologies. As a result, less
than 40 percent of farmers in Odisha have access to information and training on frontier production |
