Proforma-II GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

Project Concept Form for New Initiative

1. Local Cost Foreign -Exp. Upto Jun 11 -Allocation for 2011 -12 Local Foreign Rev Total 11.200 11.200 -TF Beyond 2011-12 27.692

Cap --

38.892

2. Title of the Proposed Project.

Polymer Structured Cost Effective Walk-in Tunnels for Off -season vegetable production in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The world population is increasing rapidly. Cultivable area is decreasing day by day. Productivity of land has become stable. So we need a technology which gives more production per unit area. The population of the province crossed figure of 24 million this year which was at 5.500 million on independence. Annual growth rate varies from 2.33 to 3% per annum. Agriculture land is being squeezed due to its conversion from agricultural to commercial lands. Productive units are being converted in to commercial plazas. Food insecurity is ahead like a monster to swallow the needs of the inhabitants. Thats why it felt necessary to propose the said project. A project namely Off Season Vegetable

3. Proponent Information

Production through Walk-in Tunnels in Ten vegetable growing Districts of NWFP was approved under an umbrella project viz Agri-business development and diversification project. The aim and objective of the project was to build high roof tunnels in the farmers land with a ratio of 30:70 percent cost sharing (30% of the farmer share and 70%project share). High roof tunnel with a structure of GP pipe was a high cost project as one tunnel with the specifications mentioned in that project was at a cost of Rs. 1,00,000 to 1,25,000 per tunnel and there were 8~10 tunnels per acre.

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If cost of one acre land to be covered with commercial based, high roof tunnels, calculated, it came to Rs. 8,00,000.00 to Rs. 10,00,000.00 per acre which definitely was beyond the financial approach of a poor farmer. It was keenly observed that the small land holding farmer even could not bear 30% share of the tunnel in that project. On a survey and meeting with a number of companies involved in construction of walk-in tunnel technology and experience sharing with the farmers using tunnel technology, it revealed that use of polymer structured tunnels are not only cost effective and with in the financial capacity of an average farmer but is also easy to move any where. The cost of a 14 tunnels in an acre sizing 200x12x6 comes to Rs. 1,50,000~1,75,000. The proposed project is designed as a medium size off-season vegetable farming unit, spreading over a land area of 11 acres. Off-season vegetables, such as, tomatoes, cucumber, brinjal, hot pepper, sweet peppers and watermelon can be cultivated viably using low cost tunnel technology. However for our convenience we have restricted our study for only the crop of Capsicum. The land can be utilized for green farming during the idle period to maintain the fertility of soil. Apart from green farming, the land can also be utilized for growing season al vegetables like potato, carrot, onion, garlic and cabbage etc., in the idle period, but this may affect the fertility of the land, resulting in reduction of yield of off-season vegetables. Therefore it is recommended that only off-season vegetables should be grown on the proposed land, with a

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well chalked out sowing pattern. The estimated yield potential of the farm varies according to the selected type of vegetable. Green farming is done to maintain the fertility of the land with the help of any legume crop. When the crop is matured it is then incorporated in soil with the help of a Rotavator.  What is Green House technology?
1. Green house technology provides a controlled and favourable environment for the crops to grow and yield high in all the seasons. 2. Saves crops from cold in winter, from heat in summer and from rain in monsoon. 3. Environment can be changed according to the need of the crop.

4. Goals & Objectives set to be achieved.

OVERALL OBJECTIVES

The need to protect crops against the unfavourable environmental conditions led to the development of protected cultivation practices. Plant growth is limited in certain climatic conditions either all through out the year or during part of the year because of adverse climatic conditions. The use of Walk-in Plastic Tunnel (W.P.T) is one such technology, which is being used for raising seedlings and commercial vegetable crop production in many countries. The winter season is of short duration, failure to raise nursery in time causes delay in transplanting and thereby poor growth and low productivity of winter crops.

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The project will include the following main objectives leading to diversify the agribusiness resultantly improvement in socio economic conditions of the hard living farming community and to boost the productivity fetching higher prices using WPT.  Introduction of off season vegetables and demonstration of the polymer tunnels will be provided to farmers in the site selected by the agriculture extension department which will provide a breakthrough in popularizing the technology and the socio economic benefit to farmers and also to earn the foreign exchange by exporting the off season vegetables.  The technology provided will be a support to farmers to adopt it effectively and get the income from the land.  Establishment of a link/ channel of all the stake holders so the farmers problems will be minimized.  Efforts will be made to train farmers in controlling the insect pest attacks on off season vegetables grown in Walk in Plastic Tunnels.  .
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

 To construct 70 polymer structured walk-in tunnels in each year. The tunnels would be constructed on 210 acres having 14 Nos. tunnels / acre or 2940 tunnels during project period.

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5. Rational for ADP Funding.

An amount of Rs. 38.892 million is required to be funded from ADP source. Detail of costs involved are annexed with the paper. For 12 Vegetable growing districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

6. Geographical Coverage (For whole province or specific district/tehsil) 7. Is Project aligned with CDS? 8. Nearest place where similar facility is available.

Yes. As mentioned above a project viz Off season vegetable production through walk-in plastic tunnel in 10 vegetable growing districts was launched under an umbrella project namely Agribusiness Development and Diversification Project which was funded by Federal Government was launched for a period of 3 years (2006 07 to 2008-09). As funds could not be got released during its 1 st year due to some technical problems, the project got its start in the next year i.e. 200708. Now the project has completed its phase. The tunnels constructed under the said project was GP pipe structured with a high cost which was beyond the affordability of a common grower. Secondly the physical target of the project was construction of 180 tunnels which covered 22~24 acres so the beneficiaries remained very low in number and the purpose of dissemination of technology and its demonstration for adoption by a common people could not be achieved in full. The Polymer structured tunnels are not only economical yet its adoption and accessibility would be greater than the tunnel of GP pipe already constructed. Secondly a renown company Engro Polymer & Chemicals Limited having suffic exprience and technical support in the field will assist the project and will provide training facilities through its staff free of cost.

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9. Financial Phasing

Financial Facing of the project is as under:

Financial Requirements (Rs.) 2nd year 3rd year Total Cost (15% (15% increase over increase the 1st year) over the 2nd year)

S.No.

District

Area to be Per Acre Cost brought of Walk-in 1st Year under Polymer Polymer Tunnel (14 tunnel (in Tunnels/Acre) Acres)

Rs. 1 Swat 2 Charsadda 3 Mardan 4 Peshawar 5 Chitral 6 Malakand 7 Mansehra 8 Kohat 9 Nowshera 10 D.I.Khan 11 Dir Lower 12 Haripur Total : 12 8 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 70

160,000 1,920,000 1,280,000 960,000 960,000 800,000 800,000 800,000 800,000 800,000 800,000 640,000 640,000 11,200,000 2,208,000 1,472,000 1,104,000 1,104,000 920,000 920,000 920,000 920,000 920,000 920,000 736,000 736,000 12,880,000 2,539,200 1,692,800 1,269,600 1,269,600 1,058,000 1,058,000 1,058,000 1,058,000 1,058,000 1,058,000 846,400 846,400 14,812,000 6,667,200 4,444,800 3,333,600 3,333,600 2,778,000 2,778,000 2,778,000 2,778,000 2,778,000 2,778,000 2,222,400 2,222,400 38,892,000

Note: Component wise detail of expenditure is annexed as Annexure 1, 2 & 3. 10. Benefits (Types & Number) An area of about 210 Acres will be covered under the project. The project will focus small land holding in particular and average grower in general. The benefacaries of the project would get 1. So 2900 growers will receive benefit under the project. It means about 2900 farm families will have package assistance under the project (about 17640 persons in three years).

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11. Expected out put (Qualitative & Quantative).

With the help of this project the farming community will fetch better income and it will change socio economic conditions of the hard living farming community/flood victims of the project. Top

12. Priority (indicate Top, Normal, or Low)

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Annexure A Area under Rabi & Kharif Vegetables (2009 -10)

S.No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Swat Charsadda Mardan Peshawar Chitral Malakand Mansehra Kohat Nowshera D.I.Khan Dir Lower Haripur Swabi Bunir Dir Upper Bannu Tank Shangla Hangu Lakki Marwat Abbotabad Kohistan Battagram Karak Total : District Area under Vegetable (Hect.) Kharif Rabi Total %age 10,752 6,393 2,874 3,907 899 1,171 1,987 2,955 2,560 1,490 1,712 1,772 665 1,203 796 899 687 588 378 121 156 166 104 25 44,260 8,189 2,056 3,165 1,050 3,222 2,918 1,626 544 857 1,853 875 376 1,315 588 561 378 366 289 42 242 153 99 32 30,796 18,941 8,449 6,039 4,957 4,121 4,089 3,613 3,499 3,417 3,343 2,587 2,148 1,980 1,791 1,357 1,277 1,053 877 420 363 309 265 104 57 75,056 25.2% 11.3% 8.0% 6.6% 5.5% 5.4% 4.8% 4.7% 4.6% 4.5% 3.4% 2.9% 2.6% 2.4% 1.8% 1.7% 1.4% 1.2% 0.6% 0.5% 0.4% 0.4% 0.1% 0.1% 100.0%

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Annexure B

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Land Use Statistics 2009-10

District Total Total Net Current Total Area sown Uncultivated Culturable Forest Not Reported Cultivated Sown fallow Cropped more thaan Area Waste Available Area Area Area once (9+10+11) for (4+5) (4+7) cultivation 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 126661 79000 76686 2314 81718 5032 47661 19570 105 27986 98641 73441 63596 9845 94647 31051 25200 6174 0 19026 169470 52528 25776 26752 49737 23961 116942 47129 9120 60693 162085 112835 84246 28589 130625 46379 49250 3006 7934 38310 148689 87046 70761 16285 96873 26112 61643 26630 26505 8508 295070 71213 20414 50799 44418 24004 223857 33000 7270 183587 132258 27300 12250 15050 22220 9970 104958 12284 9880 82794 265215 75646 34956 40690 34987 31 189569 14032 8349 167188 439423 80747 67910 12837 94743 26833 358676 17702 332252 8722 92997 24173 19916 4257 27819 7903 68824 26748 37983 4093 178401 47288 30450 16838 30860 410 131113 20500 54593 56020 186182 68390 66240 2150 83843 17603 117792 13725 72075 31992 758116 36749 26636 10113 28487 1851 721367 117249 216699 387419 52134 45681 35665 10016 55112 19447 6453 1023 4405 1025 506528 95904 95904 0 149201 53297 410624 86217 136705 187702 172431 55412 49284 6128 96068 46784 117019 5550 40983 70486 137434 35543 27606 7937 55212 27606 101891 49359 39848 12684 142638 44526 37600 6926 53330 15730 98112 3485 91987 2640 126500 41134 29308 11826 44823 15515 85366 2489 82297 580 98671 22552 19280 3272 23450 4170 76119 3884 41949 30286 730575 246802 94709 152093 108471 13762 483773 346454 3909 133410 165599 12165 7658 4507 7956 298 153434 100869 45411 7154 118958 74196 22196 52000 32482 10286 44762 15688 160 28914 314973 116900 38161 78739 39020 859 198073 85920 0 112153 5619649 1627171 1057208 569963 1486102 428894 3992478 1058687 1270419 1663372

1 Peshawar Charsadda Nowshera Mardan Swabi Kohat Hangu Kaarak Mansehra Battagram Abbottabad Haripur Kohistan Malakand Swat Bunir Shangla Dir Lower Dir Upper Chitral D.I.Khan Tank Bannu Lakki Marwat Total :

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Annexure F 3 Years Cost Summary

Financial Requirements (Rs.)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Swat Charsadda Mardan Peshawar Chitral Malakand Mansehra Kohat Nowshera D. .Khan Dir Lower Haripur Total :

12 8 6 6 5 5 Rs. 5 5 5 5 4 4 70 160,000

1, 20,000 1,280,000 960,000 960,000 800,000 800,000 800,000 800,000 800,000 800,000 640,000 640,000 11,200,000

2,208,000 1, 72,000 1,104,000 1,104,000 920,000 920,000 920,000 920,000 920,000 920,000 736,000 736,000 12,880,000

2,539,200 1,692,800 1,269,600 1,269,600 1,058,000 1,058,000 1,058,000 1,058,000 1,058,000 1,058,000 846,400 846,400 14,812,000

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S.No.

District

 

rea to be Per Acre Cost brought o Walk-in under Polymer Polymer 1st Tunnel (14 tunnel (in Tunnels/Acre) Acres)

3rd year (15% 15% increase increase over over t e t e 1st year) 2nd year)

Total Cost

6,667,200 4,444,800 3,333,600 3,333,600 2,778,000 2,778,000 2,778,000 2,778,000 2,778,000 2,778,000 2,222,400 2,222,400 38,892,000