Strengthening tribal farm, value-chain, climate, and enterprise livelihoods across central India
Madhya Pradesh is centrally located with forests, fertile plains, rivers, biodiversity, agriculture, livestock, and a significant tribal population in eastern and southern districts.
Udyogini works across Dewas, Anuppur, Dindori, and Mandla through value-chain development, livelihood capacity building, climate resilience, and enterprise support.
Presence
Districts
Blocks
Focus
A Malwa Plateau district with fertile black cotton soil, soybean, wheat, gram, maize, road connectivity, and water-conservation priorities.
Blocks
Sonkatch
An agricultural block with fertile black soil, irrigated and rain-fed farming, livestock, and productivity-focused livelihood work.
Dewas
A mixed urban-rural block where agriculture, industry, transport, and market connectivity support trade and farm livelihoods.
An eastern Madhya Pradesh district with forests, hills, river valleys, tribal communities, agriculture, forestry, livestock, and mining-linked livelihoods.
Blocks
Kotma
A block with forested and agricultural landscapes, rural settlements, mining activity, paddy, maize, pulses, livestock, and forest produce.
A predominantly tribal district with dense forests, rolling hills, river systems, agriculture, livestock, minor forest produce, and rich biodiversity.
Blocks
Amarpur
A rural forested block with tribal households, paddy, maize, small millets, forest resources, livestock, nutrition, and empowerment priorities.
Bajag
A forested hill block with scattered tribal villages, rain-fed agriculture, paddy, maize, pulses, forest produce, and livestock.
Karanjia
A hilly forest-rich block where agriculture, forest produce, livestock, biodiversity, and community-based programmes shape local work.
A forested, tribal district in the Narmada landscape where agriculture, forestry, livestock, eco-tourism, and natural resource management are important.
Blocks
Mawai
A forested tribal block with hilly villages, rain-fed paddy, maize, pulses, forest produce, livestock, education, health, and nutrition needs.
Narayanganj
A block of agricultural plains and forest areas with paddy, horticulture, livestock, fertile land, water resources, and farmer capacity building.
Niwas
A rural forested block with a large tribal population, agriculture, livestock, forest produce, biodiversity, and sustainable community development.
Disease-free potato and garlic cultivation, oilseed, millet, wheat, and pulse production systems with aggregation and processing.
Input-cost reduction, IPM/INM, livestock, backyard poultry, mushroom, and vegetable cultivation for rural tribal women farmers.
Solar fencing and sustainable water approaches for crop protection, water savings, and climate-resilient production.
Individual support, agri-product enterprises, agri-machinery enterprises, input enterprises, shade nets, solar dryers, mills, and testing units.
Niwas, Mawai, Narayanganj, Karanjia, and Kotma blocks
Improved production systems for disease-free potato and garlic, high-quality oilseed, millet, wheat, and pulse cultivation.
Mandla, Dindori, Anuppur, and Dewas districts
IPM/INM, backyard poultry, mushroom, and vegetable interventions to reduce input costs and add income streams.
Dewas, Sonkatch, Niwas, Mawai, Narayanganj, Amarpur, and Kotma
Solar fencing, sustainable water approaches, individual enterprises, agri-product enterprises, agri-machinery enterprises, and input enterprises.
1,222
Tribal families covered in value-chain work
1,000+
Acres impacted
188
Farmers supported with solar fencing
51
Individual enterprises supported
Madhya Pradesh combines production-system improvement, climate resilience, input-cost reduction, and women-led enterprise support across tribal districts and blocks.
