Coop society creates steady source of income for over 11,000 farmers
The ability of the collective of tribals in Paderu Agency area in initiating and maintaining a sustainable commercial cultivation of coffee has earned it the recognition from its peers and a number of funding agencies. The latest being the Citibank Community Enterprise of the Year Award.
The Small and Marginal Tribal Farmers Mutually Aided Cooperative Society of Paderu (SAMTFMACS), formed in 2007 as a coffee processing and marketing enterprise, has successfully changed the socio-economic and geographic landscape of the region by creating a steady source of income to its members apart from greening the forests. The efforts have resulted in decreased involvement of money lenders and middlemen, thus improving the livelihood of the tribal communities who depend upon growing coffee as a primary source of income. Currently, more than 11,000 farmers are part of the cooperative, in addition 35 local tribal youth are employed full time in the cooperative and many illiterate women get wage employment at the cooperative’s coffee processing unit. […]
Currently the cooperative has diversified into agri-forestry with a focus on reviving the eco-system. Under this programme – Hariyali –the community has planted the 2 millionth sapling recently.
The best part is the community is following up on the plantation and taking care to nurture the sapling till it grows into a full-fledged tree. In case any plant withers away it is replaced by another one and its growth monitored, chief sustainability officer of Naandi Foundation, working with the tribals in this project, David Hogg said. Mr David Hogg and the Naandi Foundation leveraged their networks to get the Livelihoods Group to fund the entire project. […]
Source: “Citibank award for Paderu tribal coffee collective” by G. S. SUBRAHMANYAM, The Hindu, VISAKHAPATNAM, January 29, 2013
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