"Educampo" is a project which will contribute to the development of 50 low income farmers and their families in Mexico by providing them with mentoring and technical training
Corn is Mexico´s most important crop employing 45% of Mexican farmers. However the country is not self sufficient and imports 35% of its demand. There are over 600,000 low income farmers who can increase their productivity and thus, their family income. The project will work in Chiapas, the poorest state in the country, to improve production practices by providing technical assistance, farm inputs financing; commercialization; and human and social development for grower´s organization.
Full time technical assistance, mentoring, financing, guaranteed product marketing for the whole productive cycle; and an educational program to strengthen links of solidarity and participation; and group development to solve scale limitation
The project will allow 50 farmers to remain working in Mexico and not migrate to the US by increasing their families´ income while providing them with technical abilities and knowledge to augment their yields and develop team work abilities.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
