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Various types and capacity of LED lamps capable of charging by Solar PV panels
and Pedal Power generators are developed by VA and technology know how has
been transferred to BOPEEI Pvt Ltd., a Pune based social venture (www.bopeei.
in) for scaling up and large scale dissemination. However, VA has been engaged
simultaneously in its efforts to deliver technology at grassroots level by building
capacities and conducting skill training for tribal youth in Solar LED lamp assembly
and repair; and for installation and assembly of Solar street lights.
Technology Adoption and Outreach Solar and Pedal power LED lamp technology
has been disseminated in tribal areas of Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh State by
adopting concept of “learning while doing”. In this endeavor, 372 rural youth were
trained in a year in assembly and marketing of Solar LED lamps as ‘Village level
Entrepreneurs’ (VLEs). Besides, 18400 units of LED lamps have been provided by
VLEs to tribal households that evidently indicates their effective role to source and
use technology led employment opportunity as well as providing lighting service in
remote rural areas. In such an effort, 11 tribal villages have been converted into Solar
Gram with 100% households adopting solar LED lamps. For such initiatives towards
social inclusion, Vigyan Ashram got recognition as Development Marketplace Award
for scaling up the efforts in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.
Case Study IV: Domestic level Solar Egg Incubator
Technology Product Details Poultry farming is well-adopted and profitable business in rural India. Apart from bigger scale contractual poultry farming, backyard
poultry farming is still regularly practiced in rural areas. One main issues faced by
the small farmer is the sourcing of chicks in small amounts (few hundred and thousands) for running poultry independently. Though, commercial hatcheries available
in the markets are of huge capacities and requires generator backup for continue
power (heating) supply. Recognizing this need of the marginal farmer “Domestic
Egg incubator cum hatcher” has been developed by VA having potential livelihood option in rural areas with a capacity of 100–1000 Egg per batch (Box 3). This
cost-effective technology product maintains temperature in the incubator using solar
water heater heat transfer technique or by using LPG/electricity in non-sunny days.
The technology is commercialized after successful field trials in 2014–15, and the
organization is conducting regular trainings for farmers/SHG members for disseminating this technology. Business model has also been developed for this technology
with 9 months return on investment (ROI) of Rs. 80,000.
Technology Adoption and Outreach Analysis of this product under field has evidently indicated that it has been designed by considering needs of rural community
with innovative features like less energy consumption—Can be used with lead acid
based invertor system to handle grid power failure up to 10 h. So far this technology
is adopted by 10+ farmers/SHG’s serving 500+ individual small farmers (customers)
and at institutional level by Krishi Vigyan Kendra–Baramati, Mahatma Phule Krishi
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Various types and capacity of LED lamps capable of charging by Solar PV panels
and Pedal Power generators are developed by VA and technology know how has
been transferred to BOPEEI Pvt Ltd., a Pune based social venture (www.bopeei.
in) for scaling up and large scale dissemination. However, VA has been engaged
simultaneously in its efforts to deliver technology at grassroots level by building
capacities and conducting skill training for tribal youth in Solar LED lamp assembly
and repair; and for installation and assembly of Solar street lights.
Technology Adoption and Outreach Solar and Pedal power LED lamp technology
has been disseminated in tribal areas of Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh State by
adopting concept of “learning while doing”. In this endeavor, 372 rural youth were
trained in a year in assembly and marketing of Solar LED lamps as ‘Village level
Entrepreneurs’ (VLEs). Besides, 18400 units of LED lamps have been provided by
VLEs to tribal households that evidently indicates their effective role to source and
use technology led employment opportunity as well as providing lighting service in
remote rural areas. In such an effort, 11 tribal villages have been converted into Solar
Gram with 100% households adopting solar LED lamps. For such initiatives towards
social inclusion, Vigyan Ashram got recognition as Development Marketplace Award
for scaling up the efforts in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.
Case Study IV: Domestic level Solar Egg Incubator
Technology Product Details Poultry farming is well-adopted and profitable business in rural India. Apart from bigger scale contractual poultry farming, backyard
poultry farming is still regularly practiced in rural areas. One main issues faced by
the small farmer is the sourcing of chicks in small amounts (few hundred and thousands) for running poultry independently. Though, commercial hatcheries available
in the markets are of huge capacities and requires generator backup for continue
power (heating) supply. Recognizing this need of the marginal farmer “Domestic
Egg incubator cum hatcher” has been developed by VA having potential livelihood option in rural areas with a capacity of 100–1000 Egg per batch (Box 3). This
cost-effective technology product maintains temperature in the incubator using solar
water heater heat transfer technique or by using LPG/electricity in non-sunny days.
The technology is commercialized after successful field trials in 2014–15, and the
organization is conducting regular trainings for farmers/SHG members for disseminating this technology. Business model has also been developed for this technology
with 9 months return on investment (ROI) of Rs. 80,000.
Technology Adoption and Outreach Analysis of this product under field has evidently indicated that it has been designed by considering needs of rural community
with innovative features like less energy consumption—Can be used with lead acid
based invertor system to handle grid power failure up to 10 h. So far this technology
is adopted by 10+ farmers/SHG’s serving 500+ individual small farmers (customers)
and at institutional level by Krishi Vigyan Kendra–Baramati, Mahatma Phule Krishi