07ff-4960 - Matching farmers and Agri Business in Andhra Pradesh
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