INSTITUTIONALIZING FARMING COMMUNITY THROUGH MUTUALLY AIDED CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES

 

Institutional credit is one of the major supporting factors for the farming community. Farmer collective will be another factor for rising of their voices as well as for information sharing. Keeping in view of the above, RASS has promoted 5 such collectives in all the respective watersheds registered under MACS act of 1995 to serve the objectives of –

  • Promoting collectives of farmers and landless.
  • Providing financial services and discipline among the farmers.
  • Strengthening the farmer’s organization.
  • Promoting farmer’s collectives including training and capacity building.

 

Started in the year 2015, the initiate is to benefit 2135 farmer families in 59 habitations in Chinnagottigallu, Pulicherla and PilerMandals of Chittoor District in Andhra Pradesh.



ANDHRA PRADESH DROUGHT MITIGATION PROJECT (APDMP)

 The project is aimed to prepare the farming community to mitigate the risks of drought.  The program is being implemented by RASS in 12 mandals of Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh covering around 36 gram panchayats for five years from Dec., 2017. 

The project has been supported by International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) through NABARD and certain government schemes are envisaged for financial and technical support. 

The project has three core components to prepare the community to the risks of drought and these are:

 

Component-1: Climate resilient production systems with 3 subsets

  • Improved crop production system
  • Improved livestock production systems
  • Strengthened farmer organizations

 

Component-2: Drought proofing through NRM & Water governance with 3 subsets

  • Water Governance
  • Water monitoring and conservation
  • Regeneration of common property resources and lands



Component-3: Management and Lessons Learning

Collective efforts of Dept, of Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry, MNREGS, Revenue, IKP, Panchayat Raj, Irrigation, Micro irrigation and other departments are envisaged and requesting fullest support for the project and to the farming community.