Success Stories of Our Farmers.

Success Stories

Title: A Graduate Youth turns Entrepreneur through Livestock and poultry Rearing

               Namika Khanklary, aged 32, like most other educated fellow youth after graduation was.  searching for government job. In the meantime, she has to bear all the household expenditure including study expenditure for her younger brother. She was almost lost hope for her life and planning for work in city for some contractual works. Under routine PRA and village survey under project ARYA, she was enrolled, trained up, and informed about the different KVK activities, scope for different agricultural activities, and critical input support. After a thorough household survey, it was clear that farming activities were mostly traditional practices without much farm output and benefit out of it.The Beltola, Langhi under Samelangso block is a tribal populated area, demand for meat and egg has always very high in terms of increasing population. The egg productivity of local poultry is only 60-70 eggs per annum. On the other hand, local pig varieties could attain only 55-65 Kg body weight in a marketable age of 10 months. Overall, this market potential of the locality could yet to trap through proper scientific intervention. Being an enthusiastic youth, Ms Khalkary has always had a dream for self-employment through hardworking and wanted to be role model for his community and locality. Considering her keen interest on farming, she was initially enrolled and supported skill training programme on different aspect scientific poultry farming such improved poultry varieties such as Kamrupa, Vanaraja, Rainbow Rooster, layer birds, quail farming along with marketing opportunities. With strong determination and interest towards different livestock farming activities she was supported with dual purpose Rainbow Rooster Day old chicks, support for deep litter housing, health care support along with timely advisories, handholding support.As prudent, traditional livestock and poultry rearer, she fully dedicated herself to the successful rearing of Rainbow Rooster birds with a hope to earn greater income for their family and to become role models for the fellow farm families in the village. Day by day their flock used to grow in size of individual birds. Over the initial few days of rearing problems arose concerning the health of the birds which led to causality of few of the birds (8% mortality of birds). However, the problems were overcome through the intervention of the Animal Scientist of the KVK as and when necessary, with top priority. During the first year of rearing the improved poultry species she earned a net amount of Rs 38692.00 (Rupees Thirty-eight thousand six hundred ninety-two) by selling 7128 nos of eggs along with other male culled birds during first crop by spending a period of 2-3 hours a day.Following successful establishment of the unit she expanded her enterprise towards other poultry enterprises such as quail birds and duck farming from her initial earnings. With the expanded enterprises she could be able to earn an amount of Rs 89000/year by selling live birds,fertile eggs, and table eggs @ Rs 10/egg and Rs 8/egg respectively. Seeing the success in poultry enterprise and keen interest in expansion of farming activities of Namika Khaklary established one piggery unit with initial stock capacity of 1 Boar and 5 Sow maintaining Hampshire and Yorkshire pig.With continuous monitoring and supervision along with technical guidance from KVK, Karbi Anglong could able to established a breeding unit for piglet production and meet demand
in the area. She further expanded her unit and became more actively involved in farming activities. From the piggery unit, within a period of 13 months from the first crop, she could
obtain 38 nos of good quality piglets of Yorkshire, Hampshire along with crossbred piglets. The locality has a very high market demand of piglets and able to be sold @ Rs 4500-5000 per piglet,
adding to an additional income of Rs 182,400.00 (Rupees One Lakh eighty-two thousand four hundred) only). Further, with strong self-determination towards self-employment N. Khaklary
was supported with locally made hatching machine from KVK support with hatching capacity of 70-90 eggs. This intervention further helps in boost up the entrepreneurial mind set and thereby
helping in self-sufficient of poultry inputs in terms of quality chicks to her farm as well as attracting fellow farmers towards poultry as well as livestock farming for self-employment. The
success of the entrepreneurial journey of Ms. Namika Khaklary has not only motivated fellow educated and uneducated farmers for self-employment but also helps with nutritional support to
the household. At present, she is earning an annual income of Rs 3,28,624.00 (Three lakh twenty-eight thousand six hundred twenty-four) only.Seeing her success in entrepreneurial unit on pig and poultry farming, many unemployed youths are motivated and came forward and approached KVK for scientific and knowledge support for multiplication of entrepreneurial unit. Recognition: Being a highly active, sincere, skilled youth she has been appointed and is presently working under the ASRLMS as Pashu Sakhi and providing a helping hand to fellow farmers and villagers towards self-employment.Future plan: Future plan: She wants to be a role model for unemployed youth through adoption of modern agriculture farming practices in the district. 

        Mr. Leo Fernandez (37), from Diphu, Karbi Anglong district was a traditional livestock and poultry rearer in the locality. He dropped his formal education after 10+2 and helping his family for day-to-day income generation activities and family support. Being an active and hardworking person, he always looking for new and innovative techniques of farm and farming techniques. In the meantime, he was dealing with household sausage preparation for domestic consumption. 

       As routine visit to farmers field he was interacted and talked about new opportunities on modern farming activities including scope of meat processing. As per project provision, he was enrolled under ARYA project for capacity building training and development of support entrepreneurial unit. Initially, he was support for establishment of dual-purpose poultry unit. And this was the time his life took a U-turn and got changed completely. Initially, he was provided 100 chicks besides handholding support. Fed them and within 50-60 days, he earned an amount of ₹16500.00/- by selling culled 40 male birds. He then again bought 50 more chicks of his own and started rearing them. By this time, he gained some experience and accordingly he sold some of the male chickens to bear the feed and maintenance costs of his unit. He kept on increasing flock size and earned an income of ₹18000.00/- per batch. Earlier, he started with a single breed which was Rainbow rooster but later on he scaled up his farm and started rearing Turkey, Quail, Vanaraja in his farm.

            With his innovative and curative mind, he also succeeded in making a low-cost hatchery unit consisting of a thermostat, a bulb and a fish packaging thermocol box. The cost in making this hatchery unit was within ₹2000.00. He then started hatching eggs and very soon was successful in obtaining the market of chicks selling in Diphu and nearby areas as well. In his hatchery, he used to hatch eggs of poultry birds like Rainbow rooster, Turkey, Quail etc. and could earned a monthly income of ₹25,000 by selling all his products (Chicken, table and fertile eggs including chicks) round the year. For his innovations and hardwork, he also received the Best farmer award during the Kisan Mela conducted by KVK, Karbi Anglong on 26th Feb 2019.

         Mr. Fernandez continued his journey from traditional farming to commercial venture with various farming units. As time flies, he dreamt of establishing a meat processing unit. Encouraged by the  prospects in meat processing, the entrepreneur was also provided capacity building skill training on Meat processing and value addition with joint efforts from KVK, Karbi Anglong and National Meat Research Institute (NMRI), Hyderabad. He was supported with various farm machinery like meat mincer, meat slicer, Bone and meat cutter, Vacuum packaging machine, deep freezer for meat storage along with cookery utensils. The youth established a firm “Leo’s Sausage” with FSSAI and could obtained trading license for scaling up his business.

The establishment of meat processing units has proven to be a game-changer for the youth in the area.

Presently, he is producing various meat and meat products and marketing in the district as well as adjoining district and state like Nagaland and Meghalaya earning a good amount of money. Presently, he is producing various traditional meat products such as

 

            sausages of pork and chicken, Ham, Bacon, Meat Ball, Smoked Pork, Pork chips, Chinese wine sausage etc. grabbing excellent market opportunities for self-employment. Presently, from meat processing alone he is earning an annual income of ₹8, 25,600.00 besides proving employment to 4 persons round the year.     

YOUTH SELF EMPLOYED THROUGH LAYER POULTRY FARMING

 

Background profile

Layer poultry farming, which focuses on the production of eggs through the rearing of hens, has become a promising sector in Assam in recent years. With the increasing demand for eggs in the local and regional markets, layer poultry farming offers a sustainable and profitable opportunity for those looking to engage in agricultural ventures.

Mr. Udayan Bora is a graduated youth from Behloguri village under Howraghat Development block in Karbi Anglong district. After graduation he decided to assist his family affairs from income generation to various agriculture activities. In due course of time, he found crop cultivation to be a non-profitable venture and started a new high profitable income generating venture. Being an enthusiastic and diligent youth of the village, he started searching through various online and offline media.  In due  course of time the youth realized the market potential of eggs and meat in the area but due to lack of scientific knowledge and capital he could not think of poultry farming in business mode.

Interventions:  

  1. Capacity building

Although it was realized egg production is a profitable venture but due to lack of scientific knowledge production and management right from selection of breeds and variety, feeding, health care etc. he could not start the enterprise. The youth was provided with 3 days capacity building skill training on Layer farming and management with different aspect of poultry farming from selection chicks, brooding, housing, health care to marketing strategies.

  1. Establishment of farm entreprise

Further, he was also provided critical input support such as chicks, feed and other health care support for establishment of the layer unit under ICAR funded ARYA project. Before enrolling as beneficiary, he was thoroughly detailed about the project provision and support. The youth showed keen interest in establishing poultry farms.       

Accordingly, the youth was initially supported by DoC, feed stuff, and health care to start the entreprise. A poultry shed was contributed by the beneficiary farmer to carry out the different management operations in the farm.  

Layer farming in the area was very new to them. They never heard of different kinds of poultry farming activities. The impact of the training programme helped him to adopt new poultry management technology as well as nearby fellow farmers and villages to adopt and acquire knowledge for further expansion. After success and income from the unit, the unit was expanded to a capacity of 600 dual-purpose poultry layer poultry variety BV 380: 150 birds.

Socio-economic impacts of the programme

  • The skill training helped in acquiring new skills and knowledge of modern poultry farming in a scientific manner. The youth was guided from site selection to establishment of scientific housing and feeding practices. The youth was highly motivated by encouraging results and various handholding interventions like vaccination against Ranikhet disease.

Output

The successful layer poultry farming for the first time in the area was very encouraging and proved to be a source of inspiration to the youth and the fellow farmers. The poultry starts laying in a period of 145 days. The colour of eggshell was brown, which resembled the local egg and resulted in good market demand and able to sale their egg at par with local of Rs. 8-10 per egg. During the first batch of rearing, he could produce 24700 eggs and earned an amount of Rs. 1,23,500.00 with minimal time investment.

Gradually, he expanded the farm and approached banks for further expansion of his farm and was able to get credit support of Rs. 12.0 L from State Bank of India. With continuous technical and advisor support from KVK he expanded the scale of production.

The firm commitment of Mr. UdayaN Bora towards modern poultry farming has proved to source of inspiration and testament to many fellow farmers in the locality and the district.

Influence of other youth/farmers  

The dedication and proficiency of Mr. Udayan Bora in Layer poultry farming has made him a role model for his friends and farmers in the locality. Seeing his success many fellow friends inspired to pursue poultry farming as source of income generation. Further, now he is actively sharing his knowledge and expertise among fellow farmers in his community for establishment of modern poultry farming practices.

Summary of Impact analysis:

 

Impact factor Before intervention After KVK interventions
 Name of enterprise Traditional paddy cultivation, vegetable cultivation. ·    Layer bird farming under deep litter system poultry breed BV380.
Size of enterprises Household poultry farming with indigenous poultry (30-40 birds) ·    BV 380: 100 birds

·    Concentrate feed

·    Health care support
Yield/Value of output Live birds: 30-40 birds weigh 50-75 Kg/Year ·   Egg produced from Layer birds: 24700

·   Sell of Manure/Farm Waste
Cost of Production/unit Rs. 5000-8000.00 Rs. 343330.00
Gross income year-1) Rs. 20000-30000.00 Rs. 2,19,830.00
Net income Rs. Rs. 1,23,500.00
Marketing Rs.15000-22000.00 The farm products were sold in the local market in the area of Bokolia Rajapathar, Phuloni, supply to Diphu Town.

 

 

 

Recognition and awards

            Layer poultry farming has proven to be a life-changing venture for many youths in the district, offering them a path to self-employment and economic prosperity. With the right training, resources, and support, young entrepreneurs are not only improving their own lives but also contributing to the local economy and food security. Seeing the success of the youth he was awarded with the District Best Poultry Farmers Award, 2025 during the Regional Livestock and Poultry Show held at Guwahati organized jointly by AH & Veterinary Department and ALPCO, Assam during 10th-12th January, 2025 at Khanapara, Guwahati.  

 

        

 

 
Background profile

Mr. Jirjar Hanse of Rupsing Hanse village, Karbi Anglong an unemployed youth is involved in traditional farming. He cultivated pine apple in traditional way with little profit and also reared local poultry and pigs in a small scale where the productivity and profit was very less. He could not start commercial farming due to lack of knowledge as well as financial weakness.

Journey in timeline-challenges, opportunities, offered by KVK and others, credits

 

The village Rupsing Hanse was selected as adopted village and for doubling farmers’ income by 2022 where different activities under various projects were undertaken in the village. Mr. Jirjar Hanse along with other youths and farmers of the village, received trainings on entrepreneurship development, scientific and commercial farming of piggery and poultry, commercial cultivation of fruits and vegetables, mushroom cultivation and also on commercial fishery during the period 2017-2019. Mr. Jirjar Hanse was selected for establishing poultry based farming enterprise i.e. dual purpose poultry breed ‘Vanaraja’ farming during 2017-18 under the provision of the project ARYA. The improved dual purpose poultry breed Vanaraja was unheard to him till implementation of the project.

 

Vanaraja was gladly accepted by Jirjar Hanse and initially he was provided with housing support, day old chicks (200 numbers) along with feed, vaccines and medicines. Being prudent in poultry rearing by nature, he fully dedicated to the successful rearing of the new breed with a hope to earn greater income for his family.

With the initiative of KVK, Mr. Hanse and other youths and farmers of the village were linked with Langpi Dehangi Rural Bank, Diphu to avail loan as and when required. They had formed four Joint Liability Groups consisting of 28 farmers and received rupees 13.5 lakhs as loan for commercial agricultural enterprises. Jirjar Hanse started a piggery unit with five no. of pigs and pine apple cultivation in an area of 2.5 bighas of land.

 

Mr. Hanse earned net income of Rs. 27,000 from first batch of rearing poultry through selling live birds @ Rs. 200/kg in only 3-4 months. He increased capacity of the rearing house and bought 300 chicks newly in 2018 and earned Rs 35000. He continued the rearing of vanaraja one after another batch of 300 chicks and earning Rs 30000-36000 per batch. Thus he earns about Rs 60000 to 72000 per year from poultry.

He started his piggery unit with five nos. of pig and after one year he earned Rs. 54000 by selling two adult pigs and piglets. With this money he increased the size of his unit to accommodate ten pigs and rest of the profit was spent on repayment of the loan. Presently, he is earning Rs 40000-50000 per year from piggery.

 

Mr. Hanse, from his pineapple cultivation of 2.5 bigha earned Rs 10000 by selling 1.0 q during 2019-20 (first year of production).

Mr. Hanse at present is producing fish and earned Rs. 75000.00 from his fishery unit during 2019-20.

Special strengths traits/advantages innovations/attributed to his success

 

His hard working nature, educational level and his interest to be self employed through agriculture are reasons of his success.

Impact in his life

Mr. Hanse is earning an amount of Rs. 185000-200000 annually.

Lesson for others

Inspired by the success of Mr. Hanse some rural youths of his village started rearing of Vanaraja, commercial pig farming and commercial pine apple cultivation.

 
Commercial vegetable production: A life changing venture for today’s youth
Background profile

Shri Ranjit Das is an inhabitant of Rongkhelan, Diphu located at a distance of 3 km from the KVK, Karbi Anglong. The family has leased in 1.6 hectares of land from a Karbi landlord for sustaining their livelihood. Ranjit’s father Mr. Pijush Das is a farmer doing agriculture in the piece of land where he cultivated only rice and little bit of vegetables in the homestead. The farm produce had been shared with the landlord who took away a considerable fraction of his income as a part of the lease agreement and not much were left for meeting the family’s petty demands. Ranjit although was a mediocre student and passed his HS Examination (10+2) in the Arts stream but could not pursue his education further because of financial support which his father was unable to afford. Ranjit’s father who was gradually finding field works more tiring due to his advancing age and therefore, wanted Ranjit to extend his help so that they can look for diversification of agricultural activities and afford a better living. Thus, Ranjit was left with no option other than participating in field activities with his father. However, being a young blood Ranjit started disliking the activities of agriculture and started looking for a job even if it is lowly paid, and was absorbed by the proprietor of a pharmacy as a salesman for a meagre salary of Rs. 1000.00 per month. As time progressed, his burden started increasing day by day. He was put into a dilemma whether to continue with the low paid job or to choose his father’s profession or look for other venture. After spending few idle days on father’s income he proposed to try his luck as a grocer. His father denied his proposal and asked him to help in field activities until an alternative could be arranged. Not having any alternative Ranjit reluctantly agreed to go with his father and both started with new zeal and dedicated on rice farming.

Journey in timeline-challenges, opportunities, offered by KVK and others, credits

 

Ranjit’s father Mr. Pijush Das although understood his son but was undone as opening up a business of respect needs a considerable investment. Not finding any way out for to settling down his son Mr. Das brought Ranjit to KVK, Karbi Anglong in 2011 with a hope that institution might be able to pacify the restlessness in the young man and strikes his root deep in agriculture and allied business. The KVK scientists persuaded Ranjit to go with his father’s profession and diversify his farm enterprise and include vegetable in the system at a commercial level to his capacity so that they could earn higher income. Both father and son realised the importance of vegetable cultivation for extra income as well as to meet the family’s dietary requirements. After a few days of the duos visit, staff of the KVK accompanied by the Programme Coordinator set out on a diagnostic visit to the village of Mr. Pijush Das. During the course of the visit the KVK team made a special visit to Mr. Das’s household. During discussion on his plan to become a business man and establishment of his shop he seemed trying to evade the matter but the programme coordinator started asking his activities in the farm and his contribution towards the family farm. The father expressed his satisfaction on gradual change in attitude of his son on farm activities. The KVK team enquired on the selling price of various items to the whole seller at Diphu market. The KVK staff was astonished that the vegetable vendors in Diphu town market situated a distance of about 2 km from his farm are making a profit of Rs. 10 to 15 a kg on various vegetable items. Learning about the facts KVK team boldly suggested the boy to start vegetable vending at the street corner to his village and meet the vegetable needs of the two thousand odd population of the locality at a lower price. However, they had to wait for another year to gather confidence in vegetable vending as a means of livelihood. During the Rabi season of year 2012 Mr. Ranjit guided by the KVK, Karbi Anglong, started cultivation of winter vegetables mainly Broccoli, Knolkhol, Cauliflower, Brinjal etc., at a larger scale. Looking into his crop health and the produce quality the Programme Coordinator of the Kendra persuaded Mr. Ranjit to participate in the vegetable competition in the North East Agricultural Fair 2012 a joint venture of Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat and Department of Agriculture, Assam held at Khanapara. In that competition the exhibits of Ranjit Das were able to snatch first prize in Brinjal, Knolkhol and second position in Broccoli. Following year he extended his vegetable area so that he could have enough surplus from his farm and gather the produce of his fellow farmers to support his vegetable shop as proposed. Meanwhile, his father looked for a suitable place and arranged for a space on rental and they started selling vegetables. Gradually Ranjit changed himself to a dedicated farmer cum businessman and is now earning a good living from vegetable farming round the year.

Special strengths traits/advantages innovations/attributed to his success

The success of Ranjit Das is the result of the efforts made by the KVK to provide an environment which urged Ranjit Das for self motivation. The technical guidance offered by KVK, profits he earned and most especially the prizes he snatched in the horticultural competition built up his confidence and was self motivated.

Impact in his life

The annual income of Mr. Ranjit Das is now Rs 300000-400000 per year. He got married in 2016 and living a pleasurable life with his children.

Lesson for others

Dream and plan with one’s own existing resources, build up confidence by gathering technical knowledge, execute plan with hard and smart work.

 
Mushroom cultivation: A profitable enterprise for tribal farmers in Karbi Anglong
Background
Name : Mr. Ali Marak alias Md. Abdul Hasmat
Village : Tinglijan under Bokajan subdivision of Karbi Anglong district
Education : Under matric
Socio-economic background : Daily wage earner and farming

 

Mr. Ali Marak alias Md. Abdul Hasmat was born in Goalpara, an underprivileged village of Nalbari district of Assam. Like many other children from his neighborhood, he had to face the inadequacy in fulfilling the childhood dreams of petty requirements. His poor parents to their ability, tried to provide the boy the minimum requirements for his schooling to pursue his studies beyond primary level and the boy was admitted in the nearby Jagara High School. Mr. Marak took his studies seriously and while devoting to his studies did not forget to help his poor parents in household chores during his spare time. This helped him to learn lessons seriously in the school and train himself to perform the essential works of a day to day life in a rural environment.

Journey timeline-

At a very tender age Mr. Marak left his studies and village in search of possible avenues to earn a better livelihood. He headed for Diphu in Karbi Anglong and initially engaged himself as a daily wage earner. Later he decided to move to the place where he resides now, the Tinglijan village under Bokajan subdivision of Karbi Anglong district. In his new place he managed to acquire about 26 bighas of farm land suitable for rice cultivation. Since then he had been concentrating in his farm and expanded his rice cultivation area up to 80 bighas in subsequent, the additional area acquired is on lease. But, Mr. Marak was still in search of a better source of earning to meet the increasing needs of his family.

 

He grew interest to try his luck in mushroom cultivation on an experimental basis and gathered necessary information from KVK Karbi Anglong. He managed to purchase the required spawn and started with 250 beds of mushroom under the technical guidance of KVK Karbi Anglong. Unfortunately, due to some faulty practices the first batch of his beds became contaminated and the crop was a complete failure. He immediately informed his situation to the KVK Karbi Anglong scientists about the development. After diagnosing the problem the concerned scientist suggested to thoroughly sterilize the bedding materials before bed making. He was also encouraged to continue with his mushroom cultivation as there is good market opportunity nearby Sarihajan market from where vendors from Dimapur, Nagaland procures mushrooms and other vegetables to cater the demand of food savvy tribals inhabiting in the city. Confiding to the suggestion and practical demonstration in second round of training by KVK Karbi Anglong, Mr. Marak got into mushroom cultivation with a new zeal. He purchased the required spawn from the Department of Agriculture, Karbi Anglong and raised his second batch of Mushroom successfully and marketed with ease to the vendors from Dimapur. One batch of the crop producing 500 kg mushroom fetched Marak Rs. 37000.00 in cash which become a huge thrust to excel in mushroom cultivation. The constant monitoring and strong technical backstopping from KVK, Karbi Anglong immensely helped him to continue with the enterprise.

Special strengths/traits attributed to his success
  • Abundant availability of cheap substrate materials
  • There is a huge market opportunity in neighboring state specially Nagaland
  • Minimal transportation cost involvement during marketing as distance to market is less
  • Never give up and problem solving attitude of the farmer
Impact in his life

During the growing season of mushroom, Mr. Marak earns around Rs. 35000 to 40000.00 as a subsidiary income from his Small (150 bed cap.) mushroom farm. Perceiving the employability potential of mushroom farming Mr. Marak engages his eldest son-in law Mr. Son Rongphar in the Mushroom unit which he has built newly with thatched roof with more plinth area.

Lessons for fellow farmers and KVK and other agencies
  • Mushroom cultivation is a potential avenue to improve farm income by many fold
  • Mushroom cultivation could serve as a tool for self-employment
  • Sound technical knowledge of the cultivation practices is key to success
  • Problem solving attitude is also an another trait required for a farmer to make any enterprise successful
  • Pre assessment of market opportunity is important for long run of mushroom cultivation
Any other points deemed relevant for the success

Mr. Marak has great observation skills in identification of potential commercial enterprise based on his resource availability which helped him a lot in selection of a profitable agriculture enterprise like mushroom cultivation. Besides, his keen interest to gather information from legitimate agencies also became a boon for his success.

 
Organic Ginger cultivation brings prosperity to Youths in Karbi Anglong
Background profile

Mr. Rajesh Rongpi of Kania Enghi village, Karbi Anglong, an unemployed youth is involved in traditional farming. He cultivated ginger in traditional way with little profit and also reared local poultry and pigs in a small scale where the productivity and profit was very less. He could not start commercial farming due to lack of knowledge as well as financial weakness.

Journey in timeline- starting point-turning point-end point (success point), challenges confronted , opportunities, offered by KVK and others, credits

Mr. Rajesh Rongpi was selected as a participant farmer under the project “Biotechnology Led Organic Farming in the North Eastern Region: technology assessment, refinement and demonstration for high value crops” in the year 2013. He received training under the provisions of the aforesaid project on organic cultivation of Ginger and Turmeric. He proved himself as a successful youth farmer during the project period. Although the project was completed in 2014, Rajesh continued to remain a farmer under the guidance of KVK, Karbi Anglong with his crops mainly ginger cultivation. To attain his goals he subsequently started organic cultivation of ginger and turmeric on his own, covering an area of 3 bigha land under the guidance and close monitoring of KVK, Karbi Anglong. He could harvest a bumper crop in that year. With the result his confidence grew up and he could persuade his fellow youths of his native village Kania Enghi Gaon to take up cultivation in larger area devoted to ginger growing as marketing of the produce was promoted by KVK, Karbi Anglong. Later on he could organize his fellow youths to form the ‘Ginger Growers Association’, Lumding Road with a total membership of 30. He is open to invite new members to his association if some youths are found willing to join him. He under the banner of his Ginger Growers Association established himself as a successful ginger supplier both for consumption and as planting material. More recently he has targeted marketing of ginger as a planting material rather than as a spice for human consumption. In his production plan of planting material he is advised continually by the personnels of KVK, Karbi Anglong. Being established as a producer and supplier of ginger planting material the KVKs, mainly from Assam are purchasing his materials for demonstration and other purposes in the state. Now Rajesh with his larger income has fully devoted himself to agriculture as a livelihood option and is planning to go further with processing of his produce under the banner of Ginger Growers Association, Lumding Road where he is offering his service as the President of the Association besides his involvement as a field worker in the production plan.

Special strengths traits/advantages innovations/, attributed to his success

Strong determination and readiness to accept valuable advices relating to his growth is key factors of his success. Moreover, the right decision to choose ginger and turmeric planting material production is another reason of his success as there is huge market for seed and planting materials in Assam.

Impact in his life (income, resource growth etc) and other around

Mr. Rajesh Rongpi is earning Rs. 200000-300000 per year from ginger production and marketing which is 85% of his livelihood. Besides, he dares to dream a big processing unit of ginger and turmeric under the banner of Ginger Grower Association.