06ii-4686 Co-operative dairy processing by women small holder producers
| budget |
€ 147.266,51 |
status |
finished |
| start date |
01-01-2008 |
date end |
31-12-2008 |
| location |
Nizamabad District, Andhra Pradesh |
country |
india |
| financer |
Agriterra |
| executor |
Indur Intideepam Mutually Aided Thrift & Credit Cooperatives Federation Ltd. |
intervention level |
local |
| Programmes |
| work area 17: Processing of agricultural products | IFAP 03: Enhance capacity of farmers' organisations | |
| description |
IIMF has successfully brought together 2500 women running a small milk supply chain for the past two years, entirely self financed (INR 4.5 million). This has instantly enhanced a 40 percent return to the milk producers that was a leak in the value chain. This value addition to their tiny (...more...) |
| description |
IIMF has successfully brought together 2500 women running a small milk supply chain for the past two years, entirely self financed (INR 4.5 million). This has instantly enhanced a 40 percent return to the milk producers that was a leak in the value chain. This value addition to their tiny milk surplus is encouraging women to enhance production for higher returns. In this background a women milk producer’s company started evolving as sustainable membership based interface with external markets.
This proposal is to organize 40,000 rural women milk producers to form 550 village level producer institutions into a legal entity under the (producer) companies act, to create infrastructure in the form of establishing 22 bulk milk cooling facilities to procure, chill and market quality liquid bulk milk to earn additional incomes with transparent, technologically advanced, professionally managed and producer centric systems.
The NGO GRAM Abhyudaya Mandali has promoted the CBO. The CBO is now a direct expanding organization diversifying to bring in more development inclusion, under the lead role of women, to begin with dairying. The role transformation made GRAM a back end supporter of the CBO. GRAM is supporting IIMF’s dairy initiative.
India is a lead country in the world milk production primarily contributed by the millions of small holder producers at the receiving end. Organizing milk producers to build a strong supply chain first will give them the experience of enhanced returns to further motivate scale for enhanced incomes. This requires an appropriate combination of scale, technology and professional support. It also requires an ambiance of mutual appreciation and enduring partnership between producers and professionals to gain sustained entry into market driven competitive business. To make this happen GRAM has conceptualized DESI dairy as a renewal strategy. The new law allows village level primary milk producer institutions as building blocs form their own producer company. The organized women with self help backbone in IIMF holds the promise to deal this task, as they have already demonstrated in their ongoing dairy pilot.
Institution Building (IB) Plan aims at strengthening and expanding the producer company at three levels :
1.Milk Producer Institutions (MPIs) or Pala Sanghams in vernacular
2.Bulk Milk Cooler Unit (BMCU) pooling milk from 25 villages with middle level governance
3.Producer Company at the apex with 22 BMCUs catering 550 villages
Capacity Building (CB) Plan aims at
1.Capacitating the primary milk producers and their governing structures at village, cluster and apex levels
2.Capacitating the staff to deliver towards efficient and profitable dairy supply chain
Objectives:
I To organize village level milk producer institutions (MPIs) to streamline milk marketing
II To promote the ongoing dairy initiative into an independent business entity of women milk Producers Company
III To enhance milk productivity through facilitation of extension services and backward linkages
IV To establish a technologically superior and transparent system of milk collection and payments
V To facilitate integration of IIMF’s credit package with dairy requirements
VI To capacitate the governing structures at all levels of the producer company
Main activities entails:
Details of activities , expected results can be found in the logframe.
The grant proposal for Agriterra (...less...) |
| results & observations |
Five new Bulk Milk Coolers (BMCU) were established and all were operational at the end of 2008. A total of 148 milk producer institutions were established covering 175 villages. The milk produces institutions are serving 9000 milk producers. A total of 4.496 women have paid admission fee and 3.189 have (...more...) |
| final results & observations |
Five new Bulk Milk Coolers (BMCU) were established and all were operational at the end of 2008. A total of 148 milk producer institutions were established covering 175 villages. The milk produces institutions are serving 9000 milk producers. A total of 4.496 women have paid admission fee and 3.189 have subscribed to share capital in 2008. Milk procurement has increased with 50% from 2.170.176 litres in 2007 to 3.252.989 litres in 2008. The daily milk procurement is about 15.000 litres at the end of 2008.
Staffing: the recruitment of qualified staff had a slow start but at the end of the year all positions have been filled with qualified staff. The number of women staff is limited at the higher level as it is difficult to find educated and qualified women for the higher level positions. During a 3 days gender workshop with dairy Working Group and IIMF board it was decided to prepare a gender sensitive job analysis for new recruitments in 2009.
Capacity building programme: The main objective is to enhance milk productivity through facilitation of extension services and backward linkages. The following trainings took place: farmers orientation programme, farmers induction programme, training on governance; consumer orientation to school kids; training and exposure to board and directors; Community dairy Workers received a technical training; BMCU
management training; palamitra trainings;
The registration of the Producer Company is going a bit slow for several reasons. It has been decided that the producer company will have the mandate for aggregation, processing and marketing of milk. As most of the 10 (to be) directors of the producers company do not have a birth certificate registration is not a fact yet, but it is expected that in 2009 this will materialize. The constitution of the Producers Company is ongoing.
Results:
Five Bulk Milk Coolers were established and are operational (total BMCU is 7 now). Membership of IIMF increased from 3000 to 4496 (49% increase). Milk procurement increased with 50% compared to last year and milk producers receive 14% enhanced returns. A new dairy office was established with functional independency being governed by the Dairy Working Group. The Dairy Working Group consists of 14 persons, including 3 CEO of IIMF, GRAM and Dairy. The registration of the Dairy Producer Company could not take place
In the mean time, GRAM/IIMF has secured grant support from Sir Dorabji TATA Trust for dairy productivity enhancement. It is expected that milk production per animal will gradually increase due to improved veterinary services at the doorstep of 450 villages.
Outreach (all at local level):
3386 persons of which 2562 are women. Members paying admission fee are 4496 (all women).
Opinion of Projects officer
It has been worthwhile to invest in this project as this is a good example of rural women empowerment through economic activities. The collaboration between Oikocredit, Rabobank Foundation and Agriterra has been quite effective and complementary. It took more time than anticipated to establish the milk bulk coolers and to recruit qualified staff and therefore, the milk production and total enrolled women milk producers is quite less than anticipated. The challenge for 2009 is to enhance milk production per animal and to attract many new members to further increase the milk production in order to make more efficient use of BMCUs. IIMF has adjusted its planning for 2009 to a more realistic level. GRAM/IIMF have managed to secure grants for 2009 from Agriterra, Rabobank Foundation and Sir Dorabji TATA Trust to further strengthen women milk producer increasing the productivity en enhancing their income.
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| specialisms |
| Agricultural extension | Gender | Market and chain development | Processing of agricultural products | |
PROPOSAL
| Agri-agency | Own contribution executor | Other parties | Total requested budget |
|---|
| Agriterra | IIMF | | |
| € 0,00 + € 0,00 | € 0,00 | € 0,00 | € 62.500,00 |
Indur Intideepam Mutually Aided Thrift & Credit Cooperative Societies Federation Ltd (IIMF) is a self governed and managed CBO of 43.000 rural women with self help finance its backbone. IIMF works in Nizamabad and Adilabad districts of Andhra Pradesh state, India.
IIMF is an Apex organization of 15 Women Farmers Mutually Aided Cooperative Societies (MACS) in Nizamabad district, Andhra Pradesh. IIMF has become totally autonomous from April 2006. The 43.000 women members from 550 villages are mostly dalits (untouchables or castless women who have the lowest social status in India). IIMF promotes the self help approach and promotes livelihood improvement through self help finance. IIMF has promoted the Intideepam Mahila Dairy Producer Company with 1850 women milk producers. The dairy is procuring milk from 30 villages and processing it in a modern way, producing quality milk. GRAM, an NGO supporting MACS/IIMF, is partially meeting the dairy staff costs to help them to sustain during the gestation period. IIMF is requesting financial support from Agriterra in order to contribute with capacity building, staff costs and technical inputs. According to the plan, the Dairy Company will expand its capacity and thus its project staff from 31 persons in 2007 to 82 persons in 2009. The objective is that the Producers Company is self reliant after 3 years time. At the same time, they are in the proces of requesting a dairy infrastucture loan from partnering banks locally (through OIKOCREDIT and Agriprofocus), in order to expand the dairy business. They try to obtain a loan of about 1.570.000 Euros. A business plan has been prepared at the beginning of 2006.
This ambitious project will result in having milk producer organizations in 550 villages, processing 132.000 liters milk per day, covering about 50.000 women who will benefit from an enhanced income. The proposal covers a time span of 3 years. The initial request for financial support from Agriterra is about 500.000 Euro. However, its is not specified if this whole amount is requested to Agriterra or if for example GRAM is contributing with staff salaries. |
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