Agriculture Farmer Collectives

Farmer Collectives

We mobilise farmers into farmer’s collectives, so they can tackle common problems collectively - increasing productivity, reducing the cost of cultivation, collectively marketing their produce and enhancing their overall profitability.

Forming & Strengthening Farmer Groups

We mobilise farmers into groups so that they can learn and grow together.

Promoting Farmer Producer Organisations

We organise farmers and guide them in establishing their own Farmer Producer Organisation.

Board of Director Support & Capacity Building

We build the capacity of FPO Directors and members to strengthen and ensure the long term sustainability of the Farmer Organisations.

Business Development & Market Linkages

We capacitate the FPO members to understand the market dynamics and business skills so they can develop business plans for FPO, we also facilitate forward and backward market linkages so that FPOs can sustain in market and generate better profits for their members.

Access to Farm Machinery via Customer Hiring Centre

We support FPOs and farmer groups in establishing their own Custom Hiring Centre so that member farmers can access the improved farm machinery at affordable prices.

MACRO IMPACT

17

FPOs

7867

farmers as FPO members

900

women members

1800lakh

turnover

IMPACT STORIES

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Women Farmers Collectively Sell Cotton

To break the reliance on money lenders, the Jandu Devi SHG (with the help of Ambuja Cement Foundation) made a strategy and presented it to the Maharashtra State Livelihood Mission - to enter the cotton trade. In the first year, these largely inexperienced and illiterate, yet business savvy women sold 464.72 quintal of cotton – pocketing a profit of INR 1.13 lakh.

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Somnath Farmer Producer Company – Kodinar, Gujarat

Balubhai, a 10th generation farmer, is helping to lead an enterprising group of BCI Farmers who founded their own organisation in 2013, the Somnath Farmer Producer Organisation, putting themselves at the forefront of continuously improving their members' performance.

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Dhanvantri Farmer Producer Company – Una Gujarat

The young farmers of Una block in Gujarat, are on a mission. They have united in their effort to turn their farming enterprises around, creating maximum opportunities for the members and enhance profits, by forming the Dhanvantri Farmer Producer Company.

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