Help 1000 farmers start a community business
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Summary
The creation of a cooperative dal (lentil) processing business to be owned by local farmers. This market-based intervention stands to improve incomes 50+% for over 1,000 tribal families.
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Seva Mandir (SM) works with aboriginal people in Southern Rajasthan. Dals (lentils) are grown extensively in this area and sold in raw form, but socially marginalized farmers are systematically exploited by wealthy intermediaries such as upper caste traders and large corporations. As a result, farmers ultimately receive less than 1/3 of the retail price for processed dals. Almost all beneficiaries of this project live in extreme poverty (<$1 / day).
Activities
By processing dals locally, impoverished farmers will receive more equitable returns for their hard work. This is a viable business proposition and thus self-sustaining once the mill is set up.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $410
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $5,590
Total Funding Goal: $6,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Your donation will immediately enable a highly impoverished community to get fair returns for their hard work. In a larger sense, you are helping to empower a disadvantaged community of aboriginal people to dream bigger than they ever have before.
Project Message
Progress in rural India will be limited until new industry comes forth for the benefit of farming communities.
- Arun Gupta, America India Foundation Fellow
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Neelima Khetan,
Chief Executive
Seva Mandir
Dr. Mohan Sinha Mehta Marg, Old Fatehpura
Udaipur, Rajasthan 313004
India
+91 294 2450960
Email:
Project Sponsor
Manish Bapna
Organization
Learn more about Seva Mandir and the project team.
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When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on July 15, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 22, 2008.
Latest Update from the Field
Recent update - the Mill program
By Mr. Shailendra Tiwari - In Charge Natural Resource Development Program, July 15, 2008 05:20 PM
Presently land transfer from the Panchayat to the Group is under process. Also efforts are being made to get electricity connection in the village so that the mill infrastructure when ready, can be electrified. Seva Mandir team is also planning for a common meeting of all the villages where a discussion can be held regarding the contribution that can be raised from the different villages for the construction of the mill infrastructure.
Near Future Plans and activities: 1. Land transfer from panchayat. 2. Building infrastructure. 3. Machinery installation. 4. Power connection.
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