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RURAL LIVELIHOOD STRATEGIES

Naranpur Express

Team: humLenge

Team Members:

Vimal Braj kumar (P36086)

Abhinav Kumar (P36092)

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Learning:

Naranpur express has taught us what all factors influences the decision of the farmer. Some of

the factor were under control of the farmer. It acquainted us with the various factors

responsible for a cautious decision making problem. We were able to understand the livelihood

of the farmer with the help of simulation. We also learn how to allocate resources that ourreturns are maximized. The effect of government policy on famers.

We were given a family of five, 1 full labor units and 1 half labor units along with the following

NWS Statement:

Assets Unit price

at opening

No of Units

at opening

Opening

Value

Unit price at

closing

No of

Unit at

closing

Closing

Value

Land 5000 1 5000 5250 3 15750

Bullock 1000 0 0 1050 1 1050

Cow Inmilk 900 3 2700 945 3 2835

Cow Dry 500 3 1500 525 0 0

Well 12000 0 0 12600 0 0

Irrigation Hour 0 0 0 0 0 0

Fertilizer 2 0 0 2 0 0

Pesticides 5 0 0 5 0 0

Maize 2 0 0 2 700 1400

Maize Hyv

Seeds

5 0 0 5 0 0

Maize Straw 1 0 0 1 4800 4800

Cotton 6 0 0 6 500 3000

Cotton Seeds 6 0 0 6 10 60

Cotton Hyv

Seeds

12 0 0 12 10 120

Ghee 40 0 0 42 0 0

Milk 0 0 0 0 360 0

Cash in Hand 0 1000 0 0 2422 0

loan Taken from

Bank

0 0 0 0 0 -54488

Total 10200 -23051

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Vulnerability:

1. Farmers are highly vulnerable to monsoons and pest attacks.

2. Poor farmers with huge loans fall into debt traps.

3. The farmers cope by taking huge loans at high interest rates which puts them at risk

again. They resort to selling assets when they have no alternatives left. They have to bedepend on government schemes like NREGA to generate livelihood asa last resort.

Improvements Required in game:

1. There were bugs in software we were unable to submit our sowing for 2ndYear due to

clock mismatch from the hosting server and client machine.

2.

Chat interface from where we search player can be change as its hard to read due to

small text.

3.

Some modification can be given how in game alerts are displayed.