SYSTEM DESIGN
Parali ki kahani
Designing for good health and well being
ROLE
CONTEXT
TEAM
Research & design
This project was done an a competition entry for Cumulus green 2024, the brief asked us to design a system, service or product to cater to issues related to SDG 3 goal by The United Nations.
Tejal Sharan & Arunabh Chaudhary
Burning between crop cycles is a pervasive problem across northern India, which has a significant environmental impact and a heavy human cost. The challenge is to tackle this problem through design solutions helping both farmers and residents affected by it.
By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination.
Objective
Approach
Starting with
Target 3.9
How might we?
Problem statement
Brainstorming
Secondary Design
Ecosystem mapping
Primary Research
Solution spaces
Possible solutions
Interventions
Story boarding
Problem Identification
Ideation
Information architecture
Prototype
Benefits & future scope
Research
Design
BRAINSTORMING
Digging deeper
Causes & effects of pollution
Farmers & Parali
Current programs & initiatives
Frustrations of the farmers (Pain Points)
Stepping forward
Distilled insights
Problem spaces
Problem statement
SECONDARY RESEARCH
SECONDARY RESEARCH
BOOKS & ARTICLES
Around 85% of the farmlands in Pujab grow wheat and rice, and is required to rotate the crop after harvesting the crops of the previous season.
The first reason for such preference for rice and wheat is the level of profits. The second important reason for preferring the wheat-rice combination is the stability and predictability of the incomes they offer.
According to farmers the stubble needs to be removed before the next harvest and burning is the fastest and cheapest way to get rid of this crop residue.
The farmers agree the devastating health effects of this on their own people but due to lack of time and affordance they resort to burning even if there are safer and sustainable alternatives.
In order to address the source of these problems leading to air pollution that causes respiratory health issues, we made an interevention in the existing system of crop residue management >>
The farmer of Punjab find it difficult to manage crop residue (parali) due to lack of availability, access and affordance of residue management machineries.The farmer communities have not realised the alternate potential and value of the residue that they produce and end up burning it that causes massive air pollution in and around Punjab.
Crop Residue/Stubble/Parali management
Rent a Happy Seeder
ACCESS TO CROP RESIDUE MACHINERY
Buying happy seeder through government provided subsidy among a group of 20-30 small farmers for renting would make the stubble management process easier.
The happy seeder machine’s availability can be traced through an app called “Krishi Rentals”, which simplifies the process of booking the machine for use, checking the time and resources required for a certain farm size as well as provides drivers or helpers for operation of the happy seeder machine if required.
Paper making units
UNDERSTANDING THE VALUE OF STUBBLE
Crop stubble is a primary raw material for making hand made papers by many companies abroad, it is an easy and organic process which can be carried out at home as well.
The left over mulch from happy seeder can be utilised to be made into pulp and then into hand made paper at these farmer’s in house paper making units.
Future scope
Having a solution to stubble management not only helps the environment but also the farming community. By realising the true value of the residue and having easy access to stubble management the farmers can use these resources into profiting from it financially and expanding it into larger scale models creating opportunities for the females and youth of the community.
Made with love and framer in Mumbai, India.
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