Before joining Deshpande I was in Mysore for doing MNPM course, the program aims to prepare students for top LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT roles in Nonprofit organization. During my Master’s Degree I involved in organizing a workshop on personality Development.

I had worked under the “Youth for development Program” as part of the Earn while Learn Program and did my apprenticeship to work under training program for youths as a training coordinator and organized a session on personality development for them.

Apart from this I had been involved in conducting a health awareness camp for self help groups.

I have also attended a spiritual session handled by ISHA FOUNATION, Visit to voluntary organization related to the survey and Field work on the Work related diseases of MCC workers.

The Deshpande foundation develops partnerships with innovative leaders with a new idea, product or service that can potentially benefit million of people and change entire industries.

Entrepreneurship: the Deshpande foundation have come to believe in the powerful role that the entrepreneur can play to change and improve the society for that, Deshpande is giving entrepreneurship training to the younger’s

Growth: the Deshpande Foundation focuses time, energy and resource on helping the best ideas, researchers, entrepreneurs and organizations to achieve their vision.

I could not speak English before joining Deshpande Foundation program, because I am from Kannada medium. After joining here, I learnt many things in English, now I am able to speak in English, I have not only learnt the way of speak in English and also learnt many things like presenting about topic in English, analyzing capacity, writing skills, grammar and case studies.

How, I improved my English about that, I am discussing with Madam.

Computer:

I was not familiar with computer before joining Dsehpande Foundation. After joining here, I learnt basic knowledge of computer such as online operations, Microsoft office, and power point presentation and also I learnt how to write exams in computer.

Motivation is very important element in child education; in order to gain attention from students one must increase their inner happiness.  Motivation will decrease the dropout rate, and improve the students’ interest in learning. So, motivation is necessary for children to take on leadership roles in school or society.

Deshpande fellow Mallamma Budhihal completed a project in Hubli focused on motivating students in Shivappanna Jogaloru Government School.  Another Deshpande fellow, Drishya, also participated. Her programme started at 9:30am August 15^th. In that school, Mallamma talked about student performance, and motivated the students to study better and overcome both academic and family problems.

After finishing the program, the school principal told Mallamma that he enjoyed her speech. The school officials said that whenever they need the fellows to return, they will call us to teach the students. It is also a good opportunity for the fellows to gain experience with leadership activities.

Followers:

I went as a follower in leadership activities of Drishya and Sucheta without any preparation

In Deshpande Fellowship Program, I improved myself within 45 days with of help of faculty. Really it is plus point in my life.

Self Help Group

I went to Self Help group, I talk with them regarding their activities and how self help group in MYRADA in Mysore. I came to know that after talking with them, they having some problems for that, they ask me salutation. I told to file RTI, I collected information for them, I prepared format and I took Rs 10 and I took one member of the self help group because they need to learn that.

• What is difference between profit, revenue? Revenue (sometimes called sales) refers to all the money a company makes while doing its business be it producing goods or delivering services. Some other sources of funds including investment gains are also referred to as revenue which is reflected as part of its “gross income.”

Profit is the amount of money that the company has left over, if any, after it’ pays off all costs of doing business which includes raw materials, taxes, interest on loans, other routine expenses, remuneration to its staff, etc.. Profit is also referred to as “Net income”

• Profit is the income over expenditure but revenue the money which you get from your investment without dedication of any penny for tax and other expenditure.

·Revenue - gross income
.Profit - net income 

Followers

I went as followers in leadership activities. In these activities, I was follower in Drishya’s and Sushimitha’s activities. I learnt as leader and follower, how to maintain 15 to 20 people. I learnt this skill in Deshpande Foundation.

Above mentioned in table shows that details about numbers of products sold,

Leanings

• I improved my convincing capacity
• I improved my impressing capacity to others
• I improved my communication skills

Methodology

• Through showing Photos, I convince the people
• I told to them, for this dress material and saris no need Istry, like that I impressed
• After using these saris, it is dirty also you not able identify.

It is helpful to improve our communication. It is helpful to our curare and future also.

Entrepreneurial activities are really leading our life.

INTRODUCTION

This report is a part of the two day village study program. Each student was required to perform a village study; I collected information in B. Holicutti Kalgatgi Taluk and Dharwad District.

Mallamma , Prithi, and Thippesh , we left at 7 o’clock am and reached the village at 11 o’ clock am.

OBJECTIVE OF THE STUD

To understand the village people’s agricultural practices, daily living circumstances, and socioeconomic situation.

LIMITATION

Due to time limitations, we only spent two days in that village.

We only studied the circumstances of the B. Hulicatti people.

METHODOLOGY OF DATA COLLECTION

I. Interview method

In order to collect information about the village, we interviewed villagers and asked them various questions about their lives.

II. Observation method

In this study, we observed the farmers’ vocational practices and other activities.

III. Method of PRA tools

In the village, we collected information by using Venn diagrams, matrices, timeline diagrams, and layouts.

• Venn diagram:

Through the Venn diagram, we collected information about organizations which are working well in that community.

• Matrix

Through matrices, we collected information about the farmers’ resources such as tractors and bandis.

• Timeline Diagram

Through the timeline diagram, we collected information about the health of the villagers. They have many health problems.

RESULTS

I. Location

B. Hulikatte is a small and wonderful village which includes around 820 people, and consists of 120 households. It is located 30 km away from Hubli, and 16 km away from Kalagatagi Taluk.

II. History

This village has an interesting story. It got its name for the following reason: 200 years ago, there was a thief named Babunayaka. He made people afraid of him, and he stole and snatched things from people. He was a big torture to the people and to the police. One day, people decided to kill him. That’s why the government gave the people 200 acres of land and named the village “Bullanayakana Hulikatte.”

III. Communities

• Lingayaths understood
• Marathas
• Dhobi
• Harijan
• Talawar

IV. Demographics

• Population : 820( male 443 and female 337)
• No. of families : Around 120
• Number of Children : 92 (0-5 years) and
• Handicapped people : 04( 02 male and 02 female)
• Literacy : 35% among people up to 58 years.
• Temples : 03
• Government higher primary school : 01( 1-8^th standard)
• Government Nursery: 01
• SHG’s : 22 (BAIF-03, SDM-12,Sthri shakti SHG-03, Chatrapathi youths SHG-01 and others-03)
• Night school :01
• Gram Panchayath : G.Hulikatte (4km)
• Medical Shop : No
• Big Water Tank : 01
• Common public toilet : No
• Primary health center : No
• Veterinary hospital : No

FINDINGS

• All farmers are interested in agriculture work
• Villagers are more cooperative
• They having unity
• They are not giving more preference to Education because they do not have bus facility to go school after 8^th studied.
• Educated people also after finished their education they coming back to agriculture
• They not having toilet facility in that village
• They do not have Bus facility
• They do not have Hospital and Panchaythi

PERSONAL LEARNINGS

I improved my communication skills.

It is not easy to communicate with village people, because they speak differently. We need to pay more attention in order to successfully communicate with them.

I gained valuable village experience.

For this study, we only visited one village in Dharwad District, but it was still helpful to me. During this period, I learned about the language, lifestyle, and cooperative attitude of the rural population.

I gained report-writing skills

All of our work is conveyed in our final report. Certain methodology has to be followed. I learnt that when we prepare reports, we also gain more computer knowledge.
CONCLUSION

The village study gave me an unexpected learning experience, and many pleasant surprises. I learnt so much during my fieldwork. Now, I know how people live in villages. They face challenging situations every day, such as walking without shoes and spending long hours in the sun, both of which would be very difficult for most people.

The Deshpande fellows, Thippesh and Mallamma both studying on “The Expenditure of each farmer on pathogen control those who have above 5 acres of land” in Hulikatte village. Because when they went first time to Hulikatte village for their village study module they found some crop diseases on farmers land and their management of these pathogens while they had interaction with the villagers. During the second village stay they visited 24 houses and met head of the household in each houses for gathering the information based on their objectives of statement.

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

• To understand the major diseases affecting on crops in Hulikatte geographical area
• To study the expenditure on pathogens control
• To know the control measures on pathogens.

HYPOTHESIS OF THE STUDY

• Farmers are highly concentrative on the prevention of pathogen for the economical survival rather than changing the crops.

EXPLANATION OF THE TOPIC

In Hulikatte village, many farmers grow crops in their land like sugarcane, cotton, paddy, maize, soya been, jawar and turdal. This village has black soil, which yields a lot of cotton, paddy and sugarcane. However, there some crops are affected by disease. Farmers invested a lot of time and hard work in the fields, but the crop yield is less than it should be. Due to this reason, their profit is reducing every season. That’s why some farmers are losing these commercial crops and they are now growing other crops. However, this does not generate enough income to fulfill their family’s needs. So this study is mainly focusing to understand the expenditure of each farmer on pathogen control those who have above 5 acres of land.

The Hulikatte village is having 820 population and 140 families. 90% of the families are related to agricultural occupation. 45% of the farmers’ own above 5 acres of land. Usually farmers have been using pesticides and fertilizers for controlling the pathogens. But cost of these materials is very high. During the pathogens period farmers’ lost their crops and their money, which they invest for control measures. Even though the government and other agro agencies are not taking any initiation for controlling these diseases. So this studies shown that the understandings of each farmer’s contribution on control their crop pathogens.

METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION

The following methodologies were used by the fellows during the village study module.

1. 1. Questionnaire:

Questionnaire is set of questions. This questionnaire is helping us to collect information regarding particular topic/subject. The each farmer’s were asked by the fellows, which consisted below mentioned questionnaire. This questionnaire was consists of personal information and other questions.

• Name of House hold and members
• Age and sex
• Marital status
• Literacy status
• Relationship with household
• Occupation
• Total land holding
• Name of the crops
• Land used
• Name of the pathogens
• Name of the fertilizers and quantity and amount in spent
• Name of the pesticides and quantity and amount in spent
• Total expenditure.
• Please describe us the varieties of crops you grow.

• What are the types of seeds, fertilizers and pesticides you use for your crops? Please provide the retail prices of those.

• What are your primary and secondary sources of irrigation?
• Which crop diseases have farmers in the Hulikatte area faced during the last five years? Which diseases are predicted for the 2009-2010 seasons?

• Please provide details about the amount of time and money spent on various tasks such as sowing, weeding, harvesting, and marketing for cotton and sugar cane over the last five years.
• What is the maximum profit you get from these crops and does it satisfy you?

• What are the measures you take to prevent crop disease, and what other methods will you use to improve crop cultivation?
• Are any attempts being made by the local government to prevent the spread of crop disease before harvest?

2. Survey method:

When the Fellows were stayed in the village, they used survey methodology for their research. They took 24 families for doing survey. In this method, the fellow visited different houses in the different streets of the village. Through this survey they collected particular information regarding the Expenditure of each farmer on pathogen control those who have above 5 acres of land”. This survey is helped them to build primary relationship.
3. Interview method:

An interview is a conversation between two or more people (the interviewer and the interviewee) where questions are asked by the interviewer to. Fellows used this methodology in village study for collect information regarding their subject.

4. Observation method:

This is a method of data collection in which the situation of interest is watched and the relevant facts, actions and behaviors are recorded. Fellows used this methodology to collect more information about the Expenditure of each farmer on pathogen control those who have above 5 acres of land”. It helped us to understand more aspects in the village and during the research also it gave more knowledge about village.

*The following table shown that the details of Crops, Diseases and cost of the controlling measures:

FINDINGS (Results)

• Many of the farmers are not interested in using pesticides on their crops because cost of the pesticides is very high and as well as lack of availability of quality pesticides is also the main reason.
• Farmers believe that the fertilizers also play a major role to prevent the diseseas on crops that’s why they use more fertilizers and also farmers preserved traditionally attitude towards pathogens(God gift diseases)

• Farmers are losing these commercial crops and they are now growing other crops. However, this does not generate enough income to fulfill their family’s needs.

• Lack of water in dry land also creates some crop pathogens even having the bore well also.

• Lack of crop rotation and space between the plants row also the main reason for improving the pathogen.

• Lack of labors also impacts on pathogens because cost of the laboring is high.

• Due to heavy raining also crops are affecting in pathogens and lost their growing stage.

LEARNINGS

During our village study we gained following valuable village experience.

• We learnt about pathogen in agriculture and interest of the farmers on pathogens.
• In B. Hulikatte, for this study we only visited one village in Dharwad District, but it was still helpful to us. During this period, we learnt about the language, lifestyle, and cooperative attitude by the villagers.
• We were able adjust with the environment and practices of the village.

UNLEARNINGS

Before entering the village we had a some preconceived opinion about pathogens that the many diseases affecting only by insects not an other reasons. So really there are many reasons are existed in that village like heavy raining, traditional methods, uniformity in crops etc.

SUGGESTION

1. Changing the Crop rotation.
2. For away from traditional method.
3. Adopt modern cultivation methods and technology.
4. Importance of Home produced manure and organic manure.
5. Subsidy on fertilizers and pesticides should be available to the farmers.

CONCLUSION

The control of plant diseases and plant pathogens is of great significance in agriculture. There is great incentive to discover biologically active natural products from higher plants that are better than synthetic agrochemicals and are much safer, from a health and environmental point-of-view. The development of natural products such as herbicides, fungicides, and their role in biological control of plant diseases, indicates a reduction in environmental and health hazards. Required techniques offer a real future in solving several problems, for instance biological control of plant pests.

A Project Report On “Floriculture”

Introduction

Floriculture is growing and marketing flowers and plants; it includes nurturing of flowering and ornamental plants for sale or for use as raw materials in perfume and pharmaceutical industry.

The floral industry today has grown too much larger proportions and offers a wide scope for growth and profits. Floriculture is a colorful career which offers good growth prospects and opportunity to explore new path.

Study group decided to gain knowledge on “floriculture “as sub-sector analysis; identification of livelihood opportunities and understanding economic system in which livelihoods operate.

Group members were Nivedita, Suma, Mallamma and Umesh. Group divided in to 2 sub groups; one for village study and another for industrial study. Group started study on 20th of November at morning 8.30 and went to Raynal village. There they knew that people don’t grow flowers; they went to Devargudihal.

Group interviewed 20 formers and collected information as well as saw the method which they are using in floriculture. Farmers grow rose more than other flowers like Giladi and Chintamani.

History

25 years back villager’s main crop was paddy and maize. They took debt to maintain the crop and land. But natural calamities became hurdle for their crops; they did not get satisfactory price for the crops. They were not able to repay the debt amount. At that time from district agricultural department, farmers searched out new crop which give yield for whole year and which crop can grow up in every calamity. Villagers adopted floriculture with hope to develop their economic condition and come out from dept. Ancestors gave importance to rose (local breed) because it gives yield whole year and   next to Geladi and Chintamani( seasonal crops). The farmers have been using the same technology as their ancestors did for growing rose.
The difference is that these farmers are growing different breed which was not used by their ancestors.

Study on Floriculture:

Sampling

Group selected 25 farmers who were floriculturists and took information about their livelihood opportunities in floriculture. These farmers went to Dharmpur district, Tamilnadu to learn about floriculture and came back with the training from experts.They illustrated their interest on nurturing flower to agricultural department; and the  district agricultural department gave one year training to these farmers. Farmers bought sapling from Tamilnadu which cost
Rs. 12 each and they did sapling for half of the agricultural land they owned. For floriculture irrigation is essential; in Devargudihal 120 farmers are having bore well who have adopted floriculture.

Methodology

Farmers ploughed and cleaned the land and they bought sapling from Tamilnadu and Bangalore and did plantation. Farmers use 10 tractors of fertilizers and they are using Rs.2000 pesticides weekly. Farmers adopted organic fertilizers like cow dung compost and they are using less chemical in farming which helps to increase soil fertility. Daily they are getting 400 to 500 flowers and their market place is Durgadabail. Farmers get buts from plants after 45 days from plantation and they will get flower after 60 days. Ancestor used traditional local breed but know farmers are using new breed   and giving importance to red roses.

In Devargudihal village 125 farmers are floriculturist on 300 families. Farmers work starts at 5.30 on morning   and they will take the flower to market at 7 am. For buds farmers will get high price in market.

Vulnerable Context

Debt

Low Price

Natural calamities.

Diseases

No irrigation

One farmer is giving employment opportunity to 4 people in several stages like production and marketing. Devargudihal is small village but also famous for flower because of farmer’s dedication in work. Villagers are utilizing resources like water, land human resource and knowledge. And also they are getting 40Rs per sapling from government.
In Devargudihal, they have good transportation facility for the products and also they are getting labors.  They are paying Rs. 120 for male and Rs. 50 for female labor.

Villagers also growing Paddy, Maze, Sapota and Mango; some of the villagers also having small business like tea shop and animal husbandry.

Objectives of the Intervention

• To overcome poverty
• To go for annual plants that give income whole year
• to generate employment
• To increase standard of living
• To reduce the risk

Methodology of data collection

Questionnaire method:

We prepared the questionnaire regarding our topic, through that we collected information about floriculture from the farmers of the Devargudihal

Interview method:

Interview method was adopted. We collected primary data, for the purpose of the study. The primary study consisted in conducting interviews with farmers, district agricultural department, agents, of selecting areas in Devargudihal. We collected data through open ended and close ended questions.

Observation method:

In this study, the observation method was also used. The ideas of the farmer their skills, articulation, their activities were collected.

Marketing

Floriculture is one such form of agriculture which has a huge market demand because of ornamental plants. Rose is an ornamental plant is grown at a very large scale in Devargudihal village. Approximately 123 farmers grow rose in this village. There are 70 small farmers and 55 medium and large scale farmers. Small farmers have formed “farmers group” and they take the responsibility of collecting roses from small farmers and selling in the market. Other farmers take their yield to the market directly. The market place is Durgadbail at Hubli.

It is a picturesque view at Durgadbail in the early morning hours. Loads of rose flowers are brought into the market by means of personal transport by the farmers. Everywhere one can find red rose sold. The cost of each basket carrying 300 roses is Rs. 400/-. In general the cost per 100 flowers varies from Rs.140-200/- during the festival seasons and marriage seasons. The flowers spend only three hours at the market and go back to their village. When the demand is less than the cost of 100 roses ranges between Rs. 30/- to 60/-. Also the cost varies daily. There are eight wholesalers and small shop owners, – big shop owners. These retailers then sell the roses to the consumers at a rate of Rs. 3 – Rs. 4 depending upon the demand. The wholesaler sends the roses to the far off places like Kumta, and other states like Maharashtra, and Goa. The roses can be stored for 3 days by proper storage. The traders use paper for storage and transport to it other place. Every actor in the chain has his portion of profit and then the value is added at each chain. Every retailer sells to around Rs. 350 – 500 customers per day. At a large view there are about 5000 people dependent and leading their lives by this industry. The sale of rose per day is 40000 – 60000/-

Fund

The farmers who grow rose get the financial support from the Government banks and SHGs. The Government has various schemes for small farmers and large farmers. This scheme provides farmers with cash and fertilizers and pesticides. The main criteria for getting benefits from this schemes depends upon various criteria and the following is the procedure of the same

• Application with photo from farmers
• Officers field visit
• Nursery Bill
• RTC
• Irrigation or Borewell proof from Gram Panchyat
• Bond Paper
• Hand Map

Once these criteria are fulfilled the Horticulture Department then grants subsidies for the farmers.

Objectives of the Intervention

• To overcome poverty
• To go for annual plants that give income whole year
• to generate employment
• To increase standard of living
• To reduce the risk

Methodology of data collection

Questionnaire method:

We prepared the questionnaire regarding our topic, through that we collected information about floriculture from the farmers of the Devargudihal

Interview method:

Interview method was adopted. We collected primary data, for the purpose of the study. The primary study consisted in conducting interviews with farmers, district agricultural department, agents, of selecting areas in Devargudihal. We collected data through open ended and close ended questions.

Observation method:

In this study, the observation method was also used. The ideas of the farmer their skills, articulation, their activities were collected.

Marketing

Floriculture is one such form of agriculture which has a huge market demand because of ornamental plants. Rose is an ornamental plant is grown at a very large scale in Devargudihal village. Approximately 123 farmers grow rose in this village. There are 70 small farmers and 55 medium and large scale farmers. Small farmers have formed “farmers group” and they take the responsibility of collecting roses from small farmers and selling in the market. Other farmers take their yield to the market directly. The market place is Durgadbail at Hubli.

It is a picturesque view at Durgadbail in the early morning hours. Loads of rose flowers are brought into the market by means of personal transport by the farmers. Everywhere one can find red rose sold. The cost of each basket carrying 300 roses is Rs. 400/-. In general the cost per 100 flowers varies from Rs.140-200/- during the festival seasons and marriage seasons. The flowers spend only three hours at the market and go back to their village. When the demand is less than the cost of 100 roses ranges between Rs. 30/- to 60/-. Also the cost varies daily. There are eight wholesalers and small shop owners, – big shop owners. These retailers then sell the roses to the consumers at a rate of Rs. 3 – Rs. 4 depending upon the demand. The wholesaler sends the roses to the far off places like Kumta, and other states like Maharashtra, and Goa. The roses can be stored for 3 days by proper storage. The traders use paper for storage and transport to it other place. Every actor in the chain has his portion of profit and then the value is added at each chain. Every retailer sells to around Rs. 350 – 500 customers per day. At a large view there are about 5000 people dependent and leading their lives by this industry. The sale of rose per day is 40000 – 60000/-

Fund

The farmers who grow rose get the financial support from the Government banks and SHGs. The Government has various schemes for small farmers and large farmers. This scheme provides farmers with cash and fertilizers and pesticides. The main criteria for getting benefits from this schemes depends upon various criteria and the following is the procedure of the same

• Application with photo from farmers
• Officers field visit
• Nursery Bill
• RTC
• Irrigation or Borewell proof from Gram Panchyat
• Bond Paper
• Hand Map

Once these criteria are fulfilled the Horticulture Department then grants subsidies for the farmers.

Subsidy for Small Farmers

Subsidy for Other Farmers

Also we learnt that Devargudihal tops Dharwad district in Rose production and had maximum records of loans. The SHGs in the village are very efficient and working at their best. The farmers can easily get loan Rs. 50,000/- from the SHGs.

Learning’s

• We learnt about floriculture.
• We learnt there is huge demand for ornamental plants.
• It requires hard labors and reaps huge profit.
• We learnt how farmers market their yield.
• We came to know that how many are involved in this sub-sector.

Unlearning

• We thought that there were wholesalers for marketing rose but after the subsector analysis we found out that there were no wholesalers.
• The group believed that there was value addition to the product in the market chain but we found out that there was no value addition done.
• We believed that there was no subsidy for growing roses but the farmers are getting subsidy from the government.

Challenges

• Getting proper information from the farmers.
• Getting people involved and interacting with them during their work hours was challenging.

Lists of Famers

Conclusion

The sub-sector analysis of floriculture gave us a good insight into the culture of ornamental plants like rose. Cultivation of rose as a livelihood option surely benefits farmers by reducing risk, dependency on market rates for agriculture commodities and ensures them more financial security. There is a huge demand for rose as it is a daily need for people like religious, social and cultural purposes. This makes rose cultivation a good livelihood option as it fetches income on daily basis.  Thus the study shows that farmers can practice rose cultivation as a risk mitigation strategy.

This module deals with the finding out of information about problems,need and scope of growth of a village using some techniques.

PRA means that we should involve people in that village in this project in a bottom up approach, this requires good communication, skills and good attitude.

The techniques in PRA can be used in any situation, urban or rural with both literate and illiterate people.

I learnt about PRA, in short time through social mapping, seasonal diagram and thus collecting the whole Data about village. I also learnt how to interact with the villagers.

LIVELIHOOD

The livelihood and subsector analysis module was thought by Mr. A. R. Athani.

The livelihood approach is a way of thinking by the people about their objectives. This module is helpful in finding out the scope and profits for development of a specific livelihood. There is great importance of sustainable livelihood because there is a large extent of unemployment and underemployment in our country. In this study,I did my subsector analysis study on Floriculture.This module helped me to understand the Livelihood and what is the  profit generated through this activity and what is the scope for scaling up. In this module I also learnt how to write livelihood framework analysis.

IRANNA HOMBALEMATH

He talked about Entrepreneurs and himself also. When he started the business, he faced so many problems and failures but he did not stop his work, because he knows his strength, and he is confident of himself. So he got successes. I understood through this module that  patience is very important for entrepreneurs.

RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT, 2005.

This Act Provides a legal framework of citizens’ democratic right to access to information under the control of public authorities and it promotes transparency and accountability in the functioning of every public authority.

In this module I understood how to file Right to information Act against a  problem in the society that should be solved by the government. The benefit of RTI is that people has the power to ask questions if they see any kind of corruption or mismanagement from the part of public authority.

Guerrilla Marketing

Guerilla marketing is an unconventional way of performing marketing activities intended to get maximum results from minimal resources.

5K CHALLENGE

It was a challenge for all, our training manager gave Rs 5000 for fellows in groups, we need to get profit more than Rs1000, within one week we did this activity. In these activities, we sold tea powder, saris and chips.

AGRICULTURE

I understood about agriculture through this module. This module was taught by the staff of AME organization. They taught us what are the main crops and the cropping methods adopted by the farmers.

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION

The effective communication was taught my Mrs. Neelam. This module teaches important skills for our self improvement. For delivering a good presentation everyone should have good Listening, eye contact and the right body language.

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

The social entrepreneurship is very important module for fellows. This module was taught by Mr. Naveen Jha, Director of Deshpande foundation. This module dealt with what are the qualities is needed for an entrepreneur and the difference between entrepreneur and social entrepreneur.

MOVE

In move module, they taught us about MOVE then we went for market analysis. It helped me to understand the situation of market concerned to a particular product. I also understood the importance of good communication skills to marketers. I did my move marketing through selling Banana.

Through this module I came to know the marketing techniques and strategies. And now I have confidence to do business.

MICRO FINANCE

This module was taught by Vijay Kulkarni. It dealt with how micro finance was important for people, who started, where it was started, and how it is helpful for self employment, after that through group discussion I understood all those things in the class.

LOGICAL FRAME WORK

In this module I learnt that, how to use logical frame work in preparing a project.

This module was taught by Ms. Prakash Butt. In this LFA, it is a tool for planning, organizing and implementing the projects.

GENDER

Gender means a division between classes or kinds for example the common gender implies the differences between men and women but not necessitating reference to sex. This module was dealt by Ms. Neelam.

EMT

This module was taught by Ms. Reeta Sengupta. It is very important to understand our selves. She gave some notes to read and also she showed some picture after seeing, she told us to make stories and introduction and also she conducted some games. She was able to find out our potential to become social entrepreneurs.

We have schedule to visit NGOs in our module. We visited “Balbalaga srujan sheel shiksana” this organization was established in 1996 by Dr. Sanjeev Kulkarni. This organization main aim is to provide quality Education to children so it was started only with 3 children, after that number of students is increased year to year. Currently 300 students are studying in the school. It is having eco friendly atmosphere.

NGO visits like this are helpful to us for understanding the nature of work.

AKSHAYA PATRA

All fellows went to visit Akshaya Patra. The Akshaya Patra was established in the year 2000. It was started with 1500 children. In the year 2003, the foundation gained the support of the Government. On the 5^th of September, to understand the nature of work and it is good experience for all.

The project manager of the program Mr. Yagneshwar Das briefly explained about how it provided food to schools and how it managing work. This organization main is to proved food. They have the vision that no child will be deprived of education because of Hunger.

AGASTYA

The fellows visited to Agastya Science Lab on 6^th of September at 9 o’ clock. Agastya International Foundation was set up in 1999.

The organization’s main goal is to reach 50 million of children and 5 million teachers before 2015. The Agasya organization is more focusing on practical knowledge rather than theoretical teachings. People from the organization carry science experiments in the van and schools to show the other students. Through this they provide information for students.

BHAGEERATH

The NGO Bhageerath was established in the year of 1999. It is also a nonprofit organization. It is mainly focusing on water, waste management and sanitation.

The goal of the organization is to implement sustainable methods for water sanitation and waste management.

The projects of Bhageerath are mainly focused on water, health, and hygiene. Deshpande Foundation is providing funding and guidance to Bhageerath.

All fellows visited NGOs. After that we got different kind of knowledge and learnings about nonprofit organization.