AGRICULTURE ADVANCEMENT OR FACILITATE AGRICULTURE & RELATED SERVICES

• Agriculture sector plays a very important role in both economic development and Nation building. India is globally in the forefront of development of agriculture. However, more than 86% of farmers in the country are small and marginal. There is a need to facilitate our farmers with access to improved technology, credit, better input and more markets to incentivize them to produce better quality commodity.

• For this, Aggregation of small, marginal and landless farmers into FPOs will help enhance economic strength & market linkages of farmers for enhancing their income.

• A Farmers Producer Organization (FPO) is a government registered collective entity formed by farmers to improve their bargaining power and enhance their economic outcomes.

• Our Role is:

1. To provide a comfortable life to small and marginal farmers by promoting agri-business by private sector and institutional market linkages to ensure the empowerment of all farmers in the country.

2. To educate the farmers and to get them acquainted with technology as well as to the markets through linkages with private, corporate or cooperative sectors for their growth and empowerment.

• Implementation:

1. Promotion, Marketing and Branding

2. Development and Empowerment of Farmers

3. For Planning and strategies formulation for growth of farmers

4. Education and Training of Farmers

5. Infrastructural development and Setups

6. Warehousing cold storage, seed processing units, common facility centers, Export oriented units etc.

• Field of Expertise:

• Crop husbandry, Agro Marketing, Agro processing, Social Mobilization, Information Technology & Management information system ALSO WORKED AS A CBBO CONSULTANT

• Benefits:

1. Ensure better income to farmers by means of collective bargaining under one organization

2. To avail benefit of economies of scale

3. To avail benefit of backward and forward linkages

4. To participate and strengthen voice in policy formulation

5. To improve access to rights and entitlements

6. To avail benefit to manage natural resources more optimally.

7. To avail enhanced benefit of finance, cost reduction, branding and promotion.

• Why D&D Enterprise?

1. We have completed several projects across various states in India. Our presence Across various states in India has helped us to serve many small and marginal farmer. We have derived vast experience and deeper knowledge of geography, problem faced by farmer and their social and economic life style.

2. We communicate with the farmers in simple and easily understable language for better communication with them.

3. We are constantly striving for the development & Mobilization of farmers.

4. Enhancing produce and wealth of farmer by use of information technology thus creating value addition in their business.