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Farmers Empowerment - from Field to Market

Kaushlendra

IFPRI – CSISA

19 May 2014

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Changing dynamics of Agriculture in Bihar and Eastern UP

• Ageing of farmers

• Role of Women – from helping hand to decision making

• Decreasing size of farms

• Increasing Role of technology, skills and knowledge

• Low cost of communication

• Outsourcing of farming/ production processes/ activities • Irrigation, weeding, harvesting

• Climate Change

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Our innovation/ interventions

• Capturing values ( marketing) • Supply chain streamlining, product branding, AC cool cart , Trainings and handholding

• Promotion of production technologies for small farmers • Polyhouses, mulching, hybrid seeds, IPM , Demo plots

• Farmers institution formation – FPCs

• Entrepreneurship model within FPC model• Each Director represent atleast 100 farmers • Incentives on transactions • Micro-enterprise – especially for organic inputs

• ABC ( Agribusiness centers)• One stop shop• Input • Output • Advisory

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Socio-economic Impacts

• More than 5000 farmers member of FPCs

• New technology adoption – communication, seeds, farming methods, processes

• Farmers income increased by 25 to 40%

• Shift towards reduced usage of inorganic chemicals

• No product or equipment sale (cost impact) to farmers

• Inclusive & transparent strategic partnerships with producer and suppliers & buyers

• Traceability/ Tagging used to enhance pride and associated onus for product.

• Participation in business model encouraged across sexes.

• Organisational benefits to disorganised farmers

• Evidencing collaboration across a traditionally feudal farm & rural community.

• Scalability that fetches growth, partnership & hope to agricultural society.

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Partnership Developed, Challenges & Recommendations

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• IFFCO

• Surya Shree

• KVKs

• ICAR

• KGPL

• Naamdhari

• Sungro

• Bioseed

• Shri ram seeds

• HDFC

Finance (Long term & short

term Investment &

insurance)

Seed

Crop nutrient, crop

protection, crop advisory, Machineries

Marketing -No formal markets -Finance & micro-finance for marketing activities ??-Suitability of technologies (economics vs user requirement )

-Govt. policy(Land leasing)

-Bank ( term loan & crop credit) – cost of availing it

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Suggestions

• Simplification of input licensing process

• Government should relook at lowest price bidding model

• Fund/Finance for marketing and entrepreneurship development

• Skill development of rural youth for providing services like implements/ equipment servicing, advisory, soil testing etc.

• Redesigning of Input companies distribution model – because of FPCs

• Focus on women• Communication, technologies, processes, policies, research

• Land leasing policy of the state

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Opportunities with us

• Reach to aggregated market• More than 5000 farmers • Low cost of transaction

• 4 farmers institutions

• Experience in technology promotion and adoption, Value chain creation/ establishment

• Agri inputs, Machineries / implements , output marketing through ABC / FPC

• Skill development and knowledge enhancement

• Technology promotions – Demonstration on farmers plot and training to communities for accelerated adoption

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Thank You

Contact no: 7765991209