An innovative initiative “Mera Gaon Mera Gaurav” has been planned to promote the direct interface of scientists with the farmers to hasten the lab to land process.  The objective of this scheme is to provide farmers with required information, knowledge and advisories on regular basis by adopting villages. The participation of small and marginal farmers in Indian agriculture is very important. Small farmers put forth their desire on various forums to have timely information on investment in agriculture, loans, availability of other basic amenities, market rates, extension activities and facilities provided by different agencies, new research findings and technologies, etc. Presently, various agencies are working in agriculture and farmers are keen to know about the services provided by them. The technologies developed and refined by Research Institutes, Agricultural Universities, private and other organisations are accepted and adopted to various extent by farming community. Therefore, the awareness among farmers about the organisations and their programmes need to be created on regular basis. To be called “Mera Gaon – Mera Gaurav” (My Village – My Pride), the programme seeks to imbibe a sense of ownership among the agricultural scientists of the country. The plantation drive in the MGMG villages was carried out by Scientists of ICAR-CAFRI Jhansi in the selected MGMG villages. The scientists also interacted and created awareness about Agroforestry among the farmers. The list of cluster (5) and villages (16) are as below:

1. Hastinapur cluster (3 villages- Hastinapur, Karari, Rund Karari) Jhansi, U.P.
2. Domagor cluster (3 villages-Domagor, Dhikoli, Nayakhers) Jhansi, U.P.
3. Ganeshgarh cluster (3 villages- Ganeshgarh, Devgarh, Ramgarh) Jhansi, U.P.
4. Parasai cluster (3 villages- Parasai, Chhatpur, Bachhauni) Jhansi, U.P.
5. Garhkundar cluster (4 villages- Garhkundar, Dabar, Sakuli, Shivrampur) Niwari. M.P.