One good harvest proves a farmer. A hundred and thirty-seven plots in one season start to prove a practice.
The 2025 programme record tracks changes across the whole cycle: seed selection, land preparation, soil and nutrient management, crop care, harvesting and post-harvest handling.
The farmers were linked by training and peer exchange, so what happened on one plot could travel to the next before the next planting. Combined net income across the group was recorded at ₹46,17,245, averaging ₹34,202 per participating farmer.
A spice crop gave these households another income stream alongside staples and vegetables - on land that was already theirs, in a season that was already committed.
The farmers were not receiving advice. They were generating the evidence: testing practices, reporting what happened, and producing the field-level record the programme itself learnt from.
DEHAT convened the technical learning and kept the documentation. The farmers made the production decisions and carried both the agronomic and the market risk.
What happened on one plot could travel to the next before the next planting.
Peer Exchange, at Scale
The cost per farmer is training and a place to compare notes. The output is a spice income on land that was already in use, and a dataset that makes the next hundred farmers faster.