IFAD BOOKLET

collective marketing through federations in Uttarkashi

One of the main achievement of project this year was collective marketing of agricultural crops through federations. The farmers of Saptarshi Swayatt Sahakarita in District Uttarkashi have been growing pea in large quantities but they were not getting the desired benefits of their crop whereas middlemen were taking undue advantage of their produce. In order to mitigate their marketing and other problems, ULIPH took an initiative in Gadoli-Gangtari Cluster of Saptrishi Swayatt Sahkarita in 2010. Approximately 300 pea producers from the project area and approximately 100 producers from outside the project area were associated with this initiative and the capacity building of all the pea farmers was done. ULIPH personnel helped them formulate ways and means for good cultivation. ULIPH also helped the federation set up five collection center in and around their cluster. Now weighing machines have also been installed in 2 aggregation centres: Pujeli and Gangtari. Following the installation of these weighing machines in the collection centers, federation members now find it very easy to weigh their produce and pack it in gunny bags. Negotiation were done with the Aartis at Dehradun and Chandigarh for marketing support. The entire produce is brought to Dehradun Mandi regularly at the rate of Rs 12 to 15/Kg. Interestingly the federation members receive the payment of their sale the same evening which was not the case earlier. Transparent MIS has been maintained for payment of Producers. According to federation members they have dispatched some eleven pea laden trucks to Niranjanpur Mandi till now. They are very happy that now they are the masters of their own destiny and mediators have no role to play in this whole affair.

THANK U

THANK YOU FOR ALL

Better late than never

The team who is highly enthusiastic and very eager to learn new technologies on Knowledge Management. The team comprises of:

1. Ms. Aparna Rane is working as a Deputy Manager on Documentation and KM for the TEJASWINI in Maharashtra for the last one month
2. Mr. Sanjeev Persai is working as a Manager, Communications for the TEJASWINI in Madhya Pradesh, for the last two years.
3. Mr. Adrian Marbaniang is working as the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer for the NERCORMP in Meghayala for the last six years.

OTMAhead (Orissa, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra ahead)

Team 2 is named as OTMAhead (Orissa, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra ahead) which consisted of Mr. Chenthil Kumar from, PTSLP, Mr. Dilipsing Bayas from CAIM Maharashtra and Mr. Dipti Ranjan, OTELP, Orissa .
Mr. Chenthil Kumar look after the day to day montoring and evaluation activities at pmu level, and develop monthly periodical formats to review DIO staffs.
Mr. Dilip looks after knowledge management practices at pmu level and develops various reports for the stake holders.
Mr.Diptiranjan takes care of Capacity Building part of the Project positined at PSU,Bhubaneswar.

Who are we?

About the team:

The team comprises of professionals from three IFAD projects namely, NERCORMP, OTELP & MLIPH attending the KS Curriculum Workshop. The members of the team are Dimple, Kenneth & Pravanjan.

Welcome participants to the KS Curriculum Workshop 2010