Livelihood Enhancement

Arpan works across three segments for the economic empowerment of rural communities: farm-based livelihoods (agriculture, horticulture, dairy, goatry, poultry), non-farm-based skill building for youth and women, and value-chain development through backward and forward market linkages.

• Reached 6, 00,000+ farming families with regenerative, climate-resilient agriculture practices – Hi-Tech Agriculture, precision farming, vertical/trellis farming and micro-irrigation.
• Developed Horticulture WADI orchards (Agro-Horti-Forestry Model )  with 6,000+ farmers, resulting in  raising per-acre annual income from 80,000/- to 2,00,000/-.
• Promoted high-value crop diversification such as strawberry cultivation, delivering returns of up to 150% through local and mandi market linkages.
• Conducted animal health camps and breed improvement covering 1 lakh+ animals, and supported dairy development for 15,000+ families.
• Promoted goat rearing for 4,500+ families in tribal and desert districts, and scientific backyard poultry for 5,000+ vulnerable households.
• Established Rajasthan's first community-managed veterinary pathology lab for large ruminants, offering mineral analysis, complete blood count, mastitis, brucellosis and parasite testing.
• Delivered skill development training to 70,000+ rural youth and women in masonry, plumbing, electrician work, tailoring, retail and hospitality, and supported micro-enterprises such as milk chilling units, cattle feed units and kirana stores.
• Facilitated market linkages through 10 Farmer Producer Organizations/ federations and 1500+ Self Help Groups, extending sustainable market access to 1, 00,000+ stakeholders.
• Enhancing agriculture productivity & Market linkage , Water use efficiency and gender inclusion for 429 Water Users’ Association and women’s wings across 137 JICA-Supported Rajasthan Water Sector Livelihood Improvement Project (RWSLIP) Sub-projects, covering over 1 million farmer’s Family across 2000+ Villages of 29 Districts of Rajasthan.