Abstract
Profitable marketing of agricultural produce remains one of the biggest challenges faced by small and marginal farmers in India. Literature on smallholder farmers in India shows there are significant losses to farmer income due to limited access to markets, lack of price information and unfair local trading practices. Additionally, there are barriers related to access to credit, poor agricultural infrastructure and lack of technical know-how, which compound the livelihood challenges that confront small and marginal farmers.
Farmer producer organisations hold the potential to address some of these issues by leveraging the benefits of aggregation; however, successful examples remain few and far between. It is with this backdrop that JEEViKA, a poverty alleviation initiative in rural Bihar under the National Rural Livelihood Mission, implemented the Women’s Advancement in Rural Development and Agriculture (WARDA) programme to strengthen the livelihoods of small and marginal women farmers through the revival of farmer producer companies (FPCs) in the state.
Farmer producer organisations hold the potential to address some of these issues by leveraging the benefits of aggregation; however, successful examples remain few and far between. It is with this backdrop that JEEViKA, a poverty alleviation initiative in rural Bihar under the National Rural Livelihood Mission, implemented the Women’s Advancement in Rural Development and Agriculture (WARDA) programme to strengthen the livelihoods of small and marginal women farmers through the revival of farmer producer companies (FPCs) in the state.
| Original language | English |
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| Type | Evaluation |
| Number of pages | 69 |
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| State | Published - Jul 2020 |
| Externally published | Yes |
