Orissa State Volunteers and Social Workers Association

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Area Of Work

Agriculture

OSVSWA works across three collaborative sustainable agriculture projects in Odisha:

  1. Comprehensive Rice Fallow Management Program (CRFMP)
  2. Intensive Agriculture Program (IAP): Including Revival and Sustainable Intensification of Forgotten Crop Diversification Programme Kharif2023 – 2024
  3. Odisha Integrated Irrigation Project for Climate Resilient Agriculture (OIIPCRA)

Coverage: Angul, Gajapati, Sundargarh, Khordha, Sambalpur, Jharsiguda, Ganjam, Balalsore, Mayurbhanj

Objectives:

  • Exploitation of residual soil moisture,
  • Increasing cropping intensity by targeting crop demonstration during Rabi 2023-24 and in successive years,
  • To upscale cultivation of Pulses and Oilseeds in Rice fallow area,
  • Production of more food with less water,
  • Restoration of soil health by increasing the soil biomass and organic carbon
  • content,
  • Establishment of Community Managed Seed System,
  • Improving the livelihood of farmers through enhancement of income and
  • nutritional security.

Objectives:

  • Utilizing the fallow lands efficiently to increase productivity and sustainability in the region.
  • Development and Promotion of Drought Tolerant High Yielding varieties to secure food and
  • nutrition
  • To Enhance Farmer’s income through Improved Pulse production and technologies.

Objectives:

  • Enhance technical, agri-business, and institutional capacities of farmers collectives on residual moisture and crop-climate scenarios.
  • Conduct participatory evaluation of pulses varieties to identify resilient and preferred varieties.
  • Estimate annual demand for quality seeds and production inputs, assisting in business plan preparation.
  • Provide training and exposure visits on seed production and technology handling.
  • Document best practices and socio-economic knowledge.

Districts: Keonjhar, Bargarh, and Kalahandi

Implementors:

Department of Water Resources (DoWR)

Department of Agriculture and Farmers’ Empowerment (DA&FE)

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)

OSVSWA (Research organization)

Environmental Risk

Project SAFER (Securing Agriculture from Environmental Risks) is working on implementing a bottom-up approach to reduce the vulnerability of rural communities that rely on farming as their main livelihood activity. Putting the communities’ voices in the centre of the project, SAFER woks with the people of rural Odisha, to identify their challenges in the face of Climate Change and implement their preferred solutions to ensure sustainable community-based development that addresses key issues to create a brighter future it the most remote areas of Odisha

Action for Youth

OSVSWA empowers youth and implementsyouth in action programmes. Recently our European Solidarity Corps (ESC) volunteers have worked with school students in the district of Konark in areas of climate change and menstrual health.

Disaster Relief

When a disaster strikes in Odisha, OSVSWA works collaboratively with state- and national-level partners to provide relief to those in need.In the aftermath of the 2023 Coromandel Train Accident in the district of Balasore, OSVSWA provided relief to XXX survivors and their families through the provision of….

Snakebites

OSVSWAhas focused on research and public engagement activities related to preventing snakebite deaths since 2020through the Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN) India Hub. On 19 September 2023, the ADN India Hub launched the Case Station for Avoidable Snakebite Deaths (CaSA) enterprise in the district of Ganjam. Since then, the ADN India Hub has facilitated outreach work with high-risk groups (children, women, farmers, and herders).

Environmental Risk

OSVSWA is working in the field of menstrual health management through a 4-part workshop with adolescent girls. In the early stages of project development, it was important to focus on self-empowerment, in order to create a base from which to start working on menstrual strength. In a second phase, complement this first phase with the implementation of a menstrual pad making group, to create livelihoods for tribal women through sustainable menstrual health management.

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