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2021-07-21 | |
发布年 | 2021 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 国际 |
领域 | 资源环境 |
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Dutika Pujari, Hemanti Pujari, Pramila Gopal, and Dharani Gopal are farmers that have something in common: they all endeavored to improve their well-being, social, economic, and health status. Today, they are proud shareholders of the Adarsh Dharmagarh Women Farmers Services Producer Company Ltd (ADWFSPCL) in Kalahandi District in Odisha.
Until recently, women farmers in the area were struggling to meet their needs and sustain their livelihoods. To become food secure, farmers need timely access to affordable quality seed of preferred varieties. They depended on village mandies (wholesale markets) and moneylenders for loans to buy seed.
ADWFSPCL is a women-led and managed Farmer Producer Company (FPC), aiming to work with 3,000 women farmers in Kalahandi.
The FPC procures and sells agricultural inputs such as seed, fertilizers, and bio-pesticides to its members at lower than prevailing market prices. Thanks to the FPC, Ms. Dutika Pujari, who used to mortgage her jewelry to buy seeds, now has a much better alternative to the local mandies. Changing the seed market It is not only the lives of the women farmers that are changing. The FPC is also changing the nature of the seed market.
All member farmers now also enjoy the benefit of credit facility for buying fertilizers from FPC. The farmers need to repay the principal amount within six months of crop harvest. However, an interest rate of 18% has to be paid annually. This is 7-8% lower than what local moneylenders charged the women.
“Registering with FPC, the members are planning to cultivate paddy in both the kharif and rabi seasons,” said Aparajita, one of the FPC directors. “They have widely adopted line transplantation. They have now learned to preserve seeds with the correct moisture content and the method to use healthy seeds at sowing by dipping the seed lots in salt solution and removing the floating seeds.” And future leaders “Our women farmers have developed leadership qualities, the impact of which can be seen in the next two to three years,” said Ms. Patel. “They are now capable of analyzing the performance and assessing the profitability and suitability of enterprises and make decisions and plans on their own. They are now aware that year-round crop cultivation is possible and that it could improve their livelihoods”.
The women farmers also expressed the need for more training on machinery usage, seed-specific and pest-specific management techniques, pesticide use, water and drainage management, drought-resistant cropping, and rabi crop cultivation. They also require technical and input support for crops other than paddy, particularly vegetables. “Farmers, even after being trained in machine transplantation, still use manual transplanting as they do not have support from either the agriculture department or banks to procure mechanical transplanters,” Assistant Agriculture Officer Hemananda Majhi said. “In 2021, the FPC plans to procure some machines and set up a Custom Hiring Center.” The FPC has ushered in a new era of farming practices with tangible socio-economic benefits, especially for the women farmers. This became the wind beneath their wings that has enabled them to soar! ![]() This blog is part of the GFAR Partners in Action series, celebrating the achievements of our diverse network of partners who are working together to shape a new, sustainable future for agriculture and food. Each month we will be showcasing stories related to a key theme in agri-food research and innovation. The theme for July is ‘Farmers at the center of innovation’. Join the conversation in the comments below or share this article on social media using #GFARinAction. |
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来源平台 | Global Forum on Agricultural Research |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/333396 |
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