success stories

Dielhoulie Terhase a service provider and a farmer from alsoma Village who owns a WTRC land area of 3 Ha in Thuthe area in alsoma Village availed a Power tiller of 12 Hp under SMAM (2018-19). Due to lack of manpower and high cost of labour charge, he gave up the idea of growing rice in that particular area. But after the intervention of farm machinery-power filler, he was encouraged to cultivate rice again. He hires 25-30 people annually for ploughing the field @450/person which became very costly for him to manage.

S.Toji a small scale marginal farmer hailing from Rurur-B village (shamator block) under Shamator sub division has been cultivating the TRC paddy for more than seven (7) years. The SMAM scheme which was implemented under the central scheme for the farmers has benefitted him in many ways. Before this scheme he has faced a lot of problems towards the management of farms or their fields for works.

The intervention of SMAM Scheme on Mr. Boto Sumi's farming life has enormously changed the way

I am Asenla Zeliang hail from Jalukie B village, Jalukie block, Jalukie Sub Division. I am a beneficiary of brush cutter. I use my brush cutter for cutting grasses in my garden and roadside. I have a paddy field and jhum field, where lots of manpower is required for clearing jungle especially in field boundaries. Also the field bunds and field boundaries in lowland paddy field needs to be kept weed free. Weeds serve as host for insect-pest and diseases as well as a hideout for rodents.