The Farmers Adaptation Cluster was visualised as a facilitator to provide farmers the opportunities, tools, technologies and linkages to carry out climate resilient and resource efficient agriculture. It is proposed that these practices will make farmers less susceptible and vulnerable to climatic and other disturbances. The Farmers Adaptation Cluster is being institutionalised in the form of farmers’ federation. It is a non-political forum of farmers set-up with the aim of providing agriculture-related information and technology to farmers through sourcing information or providing an opportunity to share experiences for enhancing the quantum and reliability of returns of crop yields. This process also empowers them to handle and sustain external and/or unforeseen challenges, which may affect their potentials of growth. The cluster although at its nascent stage has shown potential to adopt and expand the outreach of different Climate Resilient and Resource Efficient agricultural practices.

When farm mechanisation became popular in the country, it meant, generally, the use of tractors in different agricultural operations. This activity was reflected in the instantaneous outcome in terms of increased cultivated area, increased productivity and ultimately higher overall production in accordance with the objectives of The Green Revolution. Later, after other impacts were also considered like higher costs of cultivation, migration of labour to nearby cities and higher carbon emissions, some experts associated these with the enhanced use of tractors. However, it is now impossible to think of agriculture at an appropriate scale without using tractors or tractor-drawn farm implements. The actual issue is to use these resources judiciously so the benefits may be harnessed without or minimal negative effects.

During The Green Revolution, farm mechanisation became the tool of using the land and other resources efficiently and thus helped to improve overall production. Nevertheless, small landholdings, as was the case with most of the farmers in rural India, made the use of tractors not suitable or not possible - considering the landholdings and investments required. This raised the requirement for manual labour. The Farmers Adaptation Cluster identified the need of the appropriate farm machinery equipment and tools that could be used effectively and efficiently – i.e. by using less manual or tractor power.

Different equipment like seed drills, ridgers, levelers, bakhar (a portable water pump), cycle hoe, groundnut decorticator for women, hand ridger for women have been identified and procured for supporting the farmers at large scale. The system of use of the equipment has been set-up by the Farmers Adaptation Cluster considering the costs - benefits analysis for the average farmer. The Farmers Adaptation Cluster has also set-up ownership policies for different implements based on investments and source of investments. An interesting factor in this process is that procurement has been done not only on big equipment, but small equipment and tools. These would benefit not only the big, small and marginal farmers, but also the women engaged in unskilled/semi skilled labour for reduction in drudgery.