Lac based agri-entrepreneurship development model of district sitapur in Uttar Pradesh

Lac based agri- entrepreneurship development is an attempt to bring both human and material resources together to capacitate farmers and farm women of the district- Sitapur (U.P.). The present work was undertaken in two phases. First phase involved stimulation and technology backstopping by conducting appropriate training to the selected rural youth and farmwomen on nursery production of traditional and new lac host plant-Flemengia semilata and development of various value added products of Lac. In second phase, trained participants were hand holded to start their own enterprise by forming their self help groups. Constant follow up, backward-forward linkages and support was provided to new entrepreneurs. Currently, additional income is being started flowing into the rural families through sell of nursery plant, lac based value added products and raw lac. Intercropping of Lac host plant as border crop and inter crop with various vegetables ensured additional economic returns to the farmers of the district-Sitapur.