Soybean Mission Program

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SOYBEAN PROMOTION PROGRAM

Implementing partner: Nirdhan

(contact for Nirdhan: 9851096192, 01-4102969, Krishna Pd. Tiwari, PO at Kathmandu, Nepal)

Technical and financial partners: Nirdhan Uthhan bank Limited (NUBL), Nimbus,

Nirdhan

Project duration: March 2014December, 2014 (10 months)

Project Budget (NRs.): 14,84,100 (AgBDS income: 1,48,200, Actual expense: 13,35,900)

Budget requested from Nimbus: NRs. 6,67,950

Background of information

Soybean (Glycine maxL. Merr.) is highly nutritional protein supplement and is used in the form

of cooking oil or snacks items, animal feed as well as in the form of soya sauce, soya milk, etc.

in recent years; deoiled soya cake has been used as a major component of livestock and poultry

feed, a very lucrative value adding byproduct after oil extraction. The protein content in soybean

has been found up to 43% of its dry weight. A few years ago, soybean production had a

tremendous trend of increase in area of production (increased by 10 folds from 17 million tones

in1950 to 179 million tones in 2002). It has been observed that the trend of increase in

production and productivity to meet the market demand was not continued after that period

except in 2011. After 2011, total grain soybean production in Nepal has been decreased,

however, in many parts of Nepal (far western hills, mid western hills, central terai, central hills),

farmers are still producing the crop as an important intercrop with maize mainly in hills and as a

bund crop between rice fields in plain areas. The crop still keeps itself as one of the important

legume crops of Nepal, where it is grown covering 29,282 ha area with annual production of

28,270 tones (FAO-stat, 2013). The yield potential of soybean in mid hills of Nepal is 4.5 t/ha

(NARC 2002), while average national yield is only 0.96 t/ha (FAO 2013). Some of the important

factors affecting soybean production in Nepal are the effectiveness of native bradyrhizobia

existing in the soil, crop management in response to intercrop and sole cropping system, seed

inoculation with rhyzobium for effective nodulation (major is the bradyrhizobiawhich may notalways be sufficient and efficient for providing adequate nitrogen to the growing soybean under

existing conditions). The others are irrigation and nutrient management, adoption of descent

varieties, weak marketing channels, lack of technical knowhow and economics of soybean

production at farmers' level.


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Objectives:

Nirdhan and Nimbus has agreed to work for promoting the sub sector which will contribute for

industrial agriculture with the missionary commodity promotion activities. The major objectives

of the missionary intervention will be:

Organize and Capacitate the farmers/producer groups on cash crop cultivation Increase the area of production and productivity of soybean in piloted districts Increase the maize based intercropping; reduce production risks through crop

diversification

Prepare the tri-party platform for effective agro- production and marketing Contribute for sustainable agriculture business development service (AgBDS)

Execution methodology

Nirdhan will take lead in executing the AgBDS for soybean promotion mission with the help of

Nimbus, and ensure the following activities:

1. Selection of the area/district in coordination with the partner organization (most probablyBara and Dadeldhura district)

2. Producer group initiation3. Orientation on fee based (nominal fees) AgBDS services and advantages to join AgBDS4. Trainings on improved technologies of soybean production (sole soybean, maize and

pigeon pea based intercropping, rice bund farming)

- The trainings and orientation to farmers will encourage them to adopt better varietiessuch as Pooja and PK416 of soybean and new hybrids of maize considering the

location/farm condition and purpose of consumer/agro-industries.

5. Visits, guides and technical backstopping on good and safe agriculture practices(GAP/SAP) focused on soybean

6. Capacitating farmers on improved methods of market based production (encouragingmachinery harvesting, weeding, and packaging based on market demand)

7. Distribution and supports on seed inoculums, rhizobium/bradyrhyzobia, and bio-pesticides

8. Printing and distribution of pamphlets, leaflets and other information sheets to farmersfor effective extension of modern agro-practices and marketing

9. Collection of grains (soybean and maize) and facilitation to the marketing


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Output

The pilot program targets at least 250 farmer/families from both of the districts (1 from mid hill

and 1 from terai area) and will promote farmers capacity and processes for enhancing soybean

cultivation. The major quantitative achievement will be as follows:

- Uniting 250 farming families (150 HHs in hills and 100 HHs in terai area)- Ensuring at least 150 ha of soybean and maize based (either sole soybean or intercrop

with maize) area of production that will be able to produce at least 170 tons of

soybean grain and 300 tons of maize in first year/season.

- Collection of grains (soybean and maize) from the vicinity area (neighbors of theclients) will be at least 30 tons of soybean and 40 tons of maize so that the total

collection and marketing will be:

Soybean200 t

Maize340 t

- AgBDS service (other than soybean mission part) will promote dairy, goat, pig, andpoultry farming. Livestock and poultry keeping farmers will be arranged to have

package of technical as well as access services by which they will buy livestock feed

and medicines. Within the piloting community, at least 20 semi-commercial livestock

farms will be the market of Nimbus products.

- Increase the income of farmers at least by 10 percent- The piloting will introduce AgBDS to the small scale farmers and be able to

contribute to AgBDS on becoming a viable enterprise.

Time frame:

The piloting period: March to December, 2014 (10 months)

Cost/Budget: (NPR. 6.67, 950.00 requested to Nimbus)

A. Expenses (NRs.)SN Activity/Budget Heads Unit Rate Amount Time Total

1 Project Management cost 999600

1.1 Senior Management: flat share month 7500 12 1 90000

1.2 Human resource (JT/JTAs) month 15000 13 4 780000

1.3 Field office utility-direct cost 129600

1.3.1 Communication and Stationery branch 700 4 12 336001.3.2 Travel, repair and maintainance month 2000 4 12 96000

1.4 Equipments and other 0

1.4.2 Cycles piece 2 1 0

2 Program Cost 484500

2.1 Technical supervisors- JTs/JTAs month 4 1 0

2.3 Trainings (need based - crops and livestock) 336000


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2.3.1 Crop production management event 8000 4 1 32000

2.3.2 Livestock production management event 8000 4 1 32000

2.4 Supports 136000

2.4.1 Tools for GAPs on crop production branch 6000 4 2 48000

2.4.2 Dairy supports branch 6000 4 2 48000

2.4.3 Prevention and cure for animal health branch 5000 4 2 40000

2.5 Awareness/ IEC Materials leaflets 25 500 1 12500

Total cost 1484100

B. Income (NRs.)

SN Service charges Unit Unit rate Amount Times Total

1 Training charges client 150 18 8 21600

2 Regular tech. advice charges client 150 144 1 21600

3 Farm visit/observation charges visit 100 1050 1 105000

Total income 148200

Surplus/Loss (NRs.) -1335900

Requested to Nimbus (NRs.): 50 % of loss amount 667950

(Remaining half of the budget will be contributed by Nirdhan and other partners, Nirdhan will search

for the part)

Thank you!

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