07ff-4960 Matching farmers and Agri Business in Andhra Pradesh
| budget |
€ 237.981,92 |
status |
finished |
| start date |
01-01-2007 |
date end |
31-12-2007 |
| location |
Hyderabad |
country |
india |
| financer |
Agriterra |
| executor |
Federation of Farmers Associations Andrah Pradesh |
intervention level |
sub-national |
| Programmes |
| IFAP 03: Enhance capacity of farmers' organisations | work area 11: Market & Chain Development | |
| description |
The specific objectives are:
-Institutional strengthening and structuring of Farm fed AP as an independent farmers organization
- Securing an appropriate policy frame work
- Enhancement of productivity and competitiveness of agricultural sector
- To enhance the economic conditions of mango farmers of Chittoor district by promoting best practices of mango production and (...more...) |
| description |
The specific objectives are:
-Institutional strengthening and structuring of Farm fed AP as an independent farmers organization
- Securing an appropriate policy frame work
- Enhancement of productivity and competitiveness of agricultural sector
- To enhance the economic conditions of mango farmers of Chittoor district by promoting best practices of mango production and moving them forward in the value chain of mango through establishing appropriate peoples’ institutions
- Increasing their share in consumers money, particularly from the provision of market linkages export of mango fruit and development of domestic market
The expected results are:
- The creation of a platform enables the farmers to bring their problems to the core and fight for favourable policies from the government
- Awareness on seed , foundation , breeding etc will help farmers to know about the right kind of seed needed.
- Farmers obtain on time and in time information regarding the Rabi and Khariff crops
- Farmers rally around a commodity and enable to have specific fight commodity wise
- Mobilizing 10,000 farmers of the remaining 18000 farmers in the project area from 10 clusters which would be federated into MACS societies.
- Training on best practices of mango production.
- Better access to inputs through linkages to private and public organizations.
Expected Results
- Reducing/eliminating the constraints in accessing the credit for mango production
- Collective marketing mango and mango products
- Efforts for the establishing of a mango processing unit owned by MACSs would be speeded up.
- Improving the yield of mango through promotion of best practices (...less...) |
| results & observations |
The aim of the Federation of Farmers Associations Andhra Pradesh was to further strengthen FFA-AP in being an independent farmers organisation; improved agricultural production and better economic conditions for farmers.
It has taken up initiatives in developing the farmers into knowledge workers through capacity building efforts and helping them with income (...more...) |
| final results & observations |
The aim of the Federation of Farmers Associations Andhra Pradesh was to further strengthen FFA-AP in being an independent farmers organisation; improved agricultural production and better economic conditions for farmers.
It has taken up initiatives in developing the farmers into knowledge workers through capacity building efforts and helping them with income generating activities.
FFA-AP has realised many of the planned activities. Women are now seen as integral part of the target group of FFA-AP and specific activities have been designed,. This includes the establishment of 150 vermi-compost units for women and a separate project for women (project 4961). In the 14 districts where FFA-AP is active, an institutional base for farming communities was established being transparent and accountable to the farmers. With Coca Cola a effective partnership was established on mangos, and with some public organisations and agricultural technical institutions partnerships were established. Lobbying and advocacy at state and national level has resulted into a bonus payment for paddy crop and a better price for mango. Farmers have been trained on various agricultural techniques in order to increase their knowledge level.
Membership registration database developed and actual membership numbers are provided: 1550 farmers associations are member, representing 64.212 farmers of which 8.432 women (13%).
Some of the main constraints FFA-AP faced, was the political atmosphere at local level, but FFA-AP is able to overcome this issue and the coordinators gradually gain trust of the farmers.
Women participation is still low but with the enhanced attention for gender issues in FFA-AP, more attention is being paid to the needs of women. This takes time as women are shy and less literate compared to men. A separate project was launched specifically for women (project 4961).
It has been worthwhile to invest in this project. FFA-AP is a true farmers organisation and works hard to improve the livelihood of farmers by lobbying and advocacy, training and awareness programmes on agricultural as well as organisational topics. FFA-AP is willing to focus more on the improvement of the position of rural women within FFA-AP. The beginning has been made this year, and in the future gender equality within the organisation and better outreach to women will be high on the agenda.
In the coming years FFA-AP will focus on improving its monitoring and reporting system as quantitative data (i.e. registration of participants) are lacking and the report provides very general information. FFA-AP will work on a strategic plan in order to have a longer term vision that will support them in achieving their longer term planned goals and ambitions.
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| specialisms |
| Market and chain development | |
PROPOSAL
| Agri-agency | Own contribution executor | Other parties | Total requested budget |
|---|
| Agriterra | FFAAP | | |
| € 0,00 + € 0,00 | € 0,00 | € 0,00 | € 169.849,00 |
The Farmers Federation has received advice and financial support from Agriterra since 2004. FFA-AP has formulated a new project proposal for 2007.
This proposal is a combination of 'Matching farmers and Agri Business' and 'Farmer's Forward Movement in Mango Value Chain'.
The overall objectives are:
1. To work for the development of agriculture sectors competitiveness and to enable increase its share in the national economy .
2. To make the Indian Farmer a knowledge worker and making his livelihood a lot more profitable through enabling congenial atmosphere of agriculture policies through lobbying and advocacy.
3. To create a platform for farmers through mobilizing them into viable groups and providing them necessary trainings in terms of HRD, best practices of cultivation, provision of marketing facilities, linking them with national and international institutions. |
GOALS
