For those who want a bit more information about SMART and what it does more specifically I have tried to summarise its operations below.
The SMART initiative is committed to discover, live and communicate what is needed to ensure the long-term sustainability of the district’s communities and global living system through appropriate agricultural resource technologies utilization.This covers the following:
• To train community groups in sustainable intensive agricultural methods
• Establish demo plots on effective methods of soil conservation and soil fertility management
• Train farmers in small business management and skills on collective marketing for their produce
• Encourage crop diversity to meet both food security and income needs
• Introduce and promote locally high yielding dry land drought resistant crop
The training also covers group dynamics where farmer groups are taught about team work and participation; value addition - examples include making chapatis out of millet and wheat flour, chapatis from pumpkin and wheat flour, and making candles from bee keeping; micro finance - basic skills of managing funds which will provide a platform for any future micro finance obtained.
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