Project duration: 1 Year
Project's focus area: Community Initiative, socially-minded business, Livelihoods, Empowerment
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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
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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. |
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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. |
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Progress in rural India will be limited until new industry comes forth for the benefit of farming communities.
- Arun Gupta, America India Foundation Fellow
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Priyanka Singh,
Executive Director
Seva Mandir
Dr. Mohan Sinha Mehta Marg, Old Fatehpura
Udaipur, Rajasthan 313004
India
+91 294 2450960
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