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What is
Community Managed Sustainable
Agriculture ? Sustainable Agriculture is a concept
Community Managed
of making agriculture economically viable and ecologically
sustainable
Major Components
Locally suitable production systems and local resource based
production practices which help in managing natural resources like
water and soil
Improving energy efficiency
Community Managed learning and Extension systems though
Community based organisations like SHGs (women or men),
Cooperatives (producer and consumer) etc
Mobilising public support from large government programs like
RKVY
Engaging with local markets
Community Managed Sustainable Agriculture
Policy support Human
Resource
Media
Resource
Development Centre
Support to
promote Farmers institutions
sustainable
models
Cooperatives:
Regulation
Strengthening
production Production
and
Local Locally Natural
restriction Farmers’ resources adopted Resource
on Vedika: for knowledge and natural cropping Manageme
unsustaina entitlements processes systems nt
ble
practices
Stress pest/
enhance beneficials
Reducing pest numbers
Other practices to
reduce crop stress
2004
2006
NPM Scaling up in Andhra
Pradesh
Worked with SERP in promoting Non pesticidal
Management designed the system and
provided handholding support for 4 years
2004-05 started with 225 acres in one dist
and reached 7 lakh acres in 2007-08 in 18
dist. today the prog covers 20 lakh acres in 18
dist
National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture is
now designed based on this model
World Bank says this is a good tool for poverty
eradication 2009
Institutionalization
Consortium on
Community Managed Sustainable
Agriculture
Executive
committee
State SERP State Level CSA
level Secretariat
Implementation and financial Technical
management Support
District Zilla Samakhya District Rural District
level (District Development committee
Federation of poor Agency of NGOs
women’s SHGs) (Coordination)
DPM-NPM NGOs
Mandal Mandal Mahila
Samakya
level (Federation of
Mandal NPM sub-
committee Cluster
Women coordinator
SHGs) (for 5 villages)
Village Grama Sangham Producer Village
(Village Organisation of collectives Resource Village
level women SHGs) Centres activist
pilot
CSA handholding support
NGOs technical support at field level
urce: Study by CRIDA in WWF project on Sustainable Cotton production, Warangal, 2007
Economics of NPM v/s conventional
Paddy in Kurnool dist (2005-06)
T. Nandakumar
Dr. V L Chopra, Secretary Agriculture
Member Planning Commission GOI
Healthy Food.Ecology.Livelihoods
USP:
Efficient Organic production system (reduced costs and better yields)
Healthy foods, Speciality foods (pound rice, colored rice, millet mix etc)
Affordable prices (5-10 % over regular market prices)
Helping farmers and environment (60 % of consumer price to producers)
Robust Quality Management System
What is Sahaja Aharam?
An F2C initiative to create a meeting ground for nature-friendly
consumers and farmers
blend the values of traditional bazaars with ecological concerns
to build a new supply chain on Farmer to Consumer (F2C) model
which helps
Increasing farmers’ income
by realising better prices for their produce, locally grown by adopting ecological farming
practices
More employment opportunities by value addition and selling processed produce .
consumers in getting access to healthy and diverse food
By establishing a Participatory Food Quality Assurance System and a
Fair Trade Model
By direct retailing to consumers (bulk/individual consumers)
partnerships
Sahaja Aharam Cooperatives
Producer Cooperatives
1 Warangal Yenabavi Organic Farmers’ Mutually Yenabavi, CROPS,
Aided Cooperative Society Ltd Lingalaganapur Jangoan
2 Swayamkrushi Organic Farmers’ Parvathagiri MARI,
Mutually Aided Cooperative Society Warangal
Ltd
2 Nalgonda Bommalaramaram Organic Farmers Chowdaripalli, PEACE,
Mutually Aided Cooperative Society Bommalaramara Nalgonda
Ltd m
3 Ananthpur Kadiri Swasakthi Organic Farmers and Kadiri REDS, Kadiri
Forest Producers Mutually Aided
Cooperative Society Ltd
4 Guntur Abyudaya Sustainable Agriculture Koyavaripalem, Rakshana,
Farmers Mutually Aided Cooperative Pattipadu Chirala
Trift and Marketing Society Limited
5 KhammamPunukula Organic Farmers Mutually Punukula, SECURE,
Aided Cooperative Society Ltd Palvoncha Palvoncha
6 Mahaboob Nallamalla Agriculture Products Venkatagiri, CONARE,
nagar Marketing Mutually Aided CooperativeBalmoor Achampet
Organic Store
Processing units
Farmer Group A Seed market
Producer Co-op-1
Farmer Group B Producer Co-op-2
Farmer Group C
Other farmers and
farmers groups
Sahaja Aharam
Market place
Cooperative Federation
Direct to
•Capacity building
resellers
•Institutional building Direct to Home
Whole sale to•Investment support Consumer Co-op
traders •Brand building
•Healthy food Mobile Store
•Qualtiy Management
Bulk buyers •Affordable Price
•Fair Trade
• Max share to farmers Organic Store
Yet to estiblish
Sahaja Aharam Cooperative Federation
•Organising Cooperatives, Capacity building, Strategy planning
•Production, Marketing and investment support
•MIS of seasonal availability of products, Product and Market Research
•Organising Food Quality Management system and Fair Trade system
(based on PGS)
•Creates a market space for farmers and Producer cooperatives to sell
their products in bulk to traders and retailers
Producer Cooperatives Consumer Cooperatives
•Support member farmers to have
sustainable production •For directly reaching out to
• Seasonal plans to ensure consumers
diversity, staggered production •To create a consumer base who
•Provide Marketing Support to can support sustainable
member Farmers production and adapt
• Develops business plans sustainable consumption model
• Quality Management through •Contribute capital
PGS • Membership fee Rs. 100
•Establishing and managing • Share capital Rs. 5000
processing units • Deposits @ low interest (about
•Warehouse support 4 %)
•Increasing bargaining power with • Monthly purchase of atleast Rs.
buyers 500
Farmers cooperatives
Currently two cooperatives are into functional business (50 farmers
each)
Bommalaram Coorative, Chowdaripalli, Nalgonda dist
Enabavi Cooperative, Enabavi, Warangal dist
Running two shops
Bhongir
Jangoan
Abyudaya Cooperative, Guntur is selling Chillies for last two years to buyers
from Mumbai
Status
Currently only doing collective planning for production
Elections are due in two cooperatives
Business plans are underway
Strengths: all cooperatives have large production of NPM (pesticide free)
and Organically grown food products
Cotton processing unit (ginning, micro spinning, dyeing, weaving) at
Punukula
Primary processed foods
Grains: Rice, Millets like korra, sajja, jonna, ragi
Dal: Split dal of redgram, greengram, whole and split of blackgram etc
Groundnut beans
Fruits
Vegetables
Secondary processed
(processed to cook)
Atta and Suji from cereals and millets
Cold Pressed Oil
Jaggery
Tertiary processing
(processed and preserved-Ready to eat)
Pickles
Pappads/fryams
Fruit juices
Purees of tomato, tamarind
Onion/garlic paste
Masala powders
Main Products
Guntur: Rice and Chillies (pesticide free dry chillies and powder)
Warangal: Pulses, chillies, oilseeds, Rice (Pound rice, colored rices)
Nalgonda: Vegetables, rice, millets (millet mix)
Mahaboobnagar: pulses, honey (cold processed)
Ananthpur: millets, groundnut (cold pressed oil)
Khammam: rice, chillies, pulses, cotton (seed to cloth)
Producer
ividual farmers maintains PGS records Cooperativ
operations and costs involved maintained plotwise
What is Guaranteed ?
•Ecofriendly in production (NPM/Organic)
•Healthier for consumption (no residues, better processing)
•Fair price and Fair share for farmers’ in consumer’s price
Key learning:
1.Advantages of having Coop by members are yet to be realized
2.Co.op need to improve their marketing functions
3.Range of products and availability over time is required
4.Ownership of cooperative haven’t felt by members.
Punukula,
the first pesticides-free
village
Yenabavi -Organic Villag
• Entire village (55 farmers’ 228 acres) organic for
last five years
• Most of the inputs internalised into farming
• Land Productivity increased, crop yields
maintained
• In SRI paddy 44 bags were also recorded
• Recently awarded Krishi Gaurav Award by Baba
Ramdev’s Patanjali Trust for their role in
promoting organic farming
• More than 30 thousand farmers visited the
village in last three years
Contacts
Organisational Website http://www.csa-india.org