"The vision of lab to land initiative is to demonstrate full achievement of the objectives of all schemes of rural sector (agriculture , watershed , environment, income generation, employment, infrastructure, health, education , sanitation ,drinking water, electrification , etc) to ensure sustainable and inclusive development of rural areas"

The objective of the initiative is to build a collaborative knowledge and innovative community and demonstrate full achievement of objectives of all schemes of rural sector. The Lab to Land Initiative envisages a comprehensive Information-Education-Communication and training strategy for disseminating information on various development programmes and thereby enabling the people to know their rights and entitlements which ultimately leads to the effectiveness of the programme.

AMR APARD has embarked on Lab to Land Initiative under the banner KEYCAP which stands for Knowledgeable and Empowered Community is the Key to the Community Development in Andhra Pradesh.

Two Mandals namely Manchal Madal in Rangareddy District and Parvathagiri Mandal in Warangal District have been selected for implementation of this KEYCAP initiative. In order to commence the programme, APARD had decided to implement the KEYCAP Lab to Land Initiative in one village on pilot basis to finalize the  strategy for scaling up the experiment.

APARD has chosen Cheeded Gram Panchayat in Rangareddi District for Piloting the KEYCAP initiative keeping in view of its, physiographic location, size, effectiveness of the local leadership etc.,. Cheeded Grampanchayat is basically characterized by an agrarian economy with a population of 939 as per 2001 census. Majority of the population belongs to Backward Classes and Scheduled Castes. Of the 1250 Ac total land 700 Ac is being cultivated under rain fed agriculture and 200 Ac is cultivated under open wells. Around 250 Ac land in the village limits falls under forest area and is interspersed by small hillocks. Paddy, Jowar, Castor, Red Gram are the main crops grown in the village. Ground water is fluoride affected.