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Inter-cropping under the MGNREGA convergence scheme is providing livelihoods and improving health in Jharkhand -Manoj Choudhary

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Birsa Harit Gram Yojana, launched in 2020 as a rural employment scheme, in convergence with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, is providing double benefits to farmers who are cultivating their fallow lands and also earning wages.

Barabanki (East Singhbhum), Jharkhand: For a large part of the year, 51-year-old Laxmi Narayan Singh's three acre plot of land used to remain fallow. He and his 46-year-old wife Savita Singh from Barabanki village in East Singhbhum district barely managed to grow one crop of paddy a year. 

However, for the past one year, their lives are transformed. The couple is not only cultivating a variety of crops all through the year but also earning wages out of working on their own fields. All due to the Jharkhand government's Birsa Harit Gram Yojana, which was launched in 2020 as a rural employment scheme, in convergence with the central government's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). Under the state scheme, fallow land is being afforested and farmers are provided fruit bearing trees to earn additionally from their farmlands. 

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