 Just another busy day at the local fish market in Kedrupada, Odisha. But today is different. Today we can see how families benefit when traditional livelihood practices are integrated and smart but simple ways. These simple solutions are reshaping lives and rejuvenating a local practice that is bringing back local fish from local farmers to the local markets. Integrating fish farming with other activities is now increasing incomes for the local fish farmers and with it enhancing their confidence. Many farmers have been practicing inland fish farming but using methods that were old and outdated. The many idle ponds in the area show that the community did not have the know-how to prepare the ponds for modern pissy culture. As a result, their produce was dismal. An NGO called Gram Uthan with the support from the umbrella program for natural resource management or UPNRM took up the challenge. With the implementation of this project, we have been able to inspire the farmers and sensitize the government departments to adopt this innovative model. The innovation in the model is to integrate fish farming with duckery, dairy and vegetable cultivation. Duck droppings stimulate the growth of protein rich microflora and fauna in the water. These microorganisms are in turn the favorite food for the fish. The ducks, when they swim, play and chase, help bring more oxygen into the pond for the fish to breed. Their eggs and meat fetch good prices. The dikes of ponds and their adjoining areas are used for raising fruit-bearing trees like banana and papaya and for growing vegetables. The pond gives both water for irrigating the crops and silt, a high-quality manure to help them grow. A total number of hundred fish farmers are benefiting today from the project. I am the same. I am a farmer, farmer, fish farmer, farmer. I can feed and feed the animals. Continued scientific interventions have led to better productivity. In the Gram Uthan, with the support of the umbrella program, we have been able to provide a lot of resources and resources to the farmers. To start with, the project with Nabad's loan renovates existing ponds and prepares them for integrated fish farming. Secondly, the farmers receive training and capacity building. And thirdly, they are given good quality feed and vegetable seeds. As a result, in ponds where people used to scrape together no more than 500 to 800 kilogram of fish per hectare, farmers now delight in their abundant harvests of up to 3000 kilograms. Success of the practitioners of this model is bringing other non-self-help groove farmers into the field. And Gram Uthan is always ready to show them the way. Using local raw materials and labour, integrated fish farming is turning out to be a much preferred alternative livelihood option. With all these mutually beneficial, smart interventions, it goes without saying that the process is also sustainable and environment friendly. Now, for the villagers of Kenrupada, water in their ponds reflects promising opportunities and a bright, secure future.