Profit for Poor Farmers
Support poor farmers in India
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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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Dals (Lentils) are extensively grown by farmers in tribal areas of Udaipur. Socially marginalized and poor farmers sell their produce directly in raw form, which passes through a series of intermediaries, including several layers of traders, processing mills and wholesalers/retailers. Farmers, in this commodity-chain, are systematically exploited due to asymmetries in information and other inefficiencies. The farmers ultimately receive less than 1/3 of prevailing retail price of processed dals
Activities
Getting the farmer-group registerd into an organization, train them for processing, acquire land, build infrastructure, install machinery & market their finished dal. With this poor farmers will receive more equitable returns for their hard work.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $1,025
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $15,975
Total Funding Goal: $17,000
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
Setting up a dal-mill allows farmers to engage in value addition & more profits. Later more than 1000 families will participate in the venture to see a 15-50% increase in their incomes. It’ll also impact on their better health & nutrition levels.
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
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Project Sponsor
Organization
Seva Mandir
Seva Mandir Marg Old Fatehpura
Udaipur,
Rajasthan
313004
India
+91-294-2450960
http://www.sevamandir.org
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Where this Project is Located
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India
and can also be found under 
Economic Development.
For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 22, 2008
Latest Update from the Field
In Charge Reporting and Communications
By World Bank - Development Marketplace - Ms. Deepti Ameta, August 17, 2009 03:51 PM
Greetings from Seva Mandir!
Dear Friends,
Thank you for your continuing support to our programs. I am writing to share with you a bit of news.
Seva Mandir has recently won a Development Marketplace Grant Competition, organized by the Word Bank. The competition was exclusively for grassroots initiatives in South Asia to address the problem of undernutrition.
The Seva Mandir's project on 'Addressing Iron Deficiency Anemia in Rural Rajasthan through Iron Fortification of Flour at Village Level' was one of the 21 projects that won the competition in Development Marketplace.
We are all very excited at this achievement. If you have any queries on this project then please do write to me.
We are very happy to share this news with you. Thank you for all your support and contributions. We really appreciate it.
With warm regards,
Deepti
deepti@sevamandir.org
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