Linking Farmers to Business and enhancing livelihoods and Women Wing Establishment 1. To further organize farmers into Commodity Interest Groups (CIGs)
2. To strengthen and expand marketing linkages including contract farming
3. To strengthen existing partnerships and alliances with both private and public institutions

Women Wing 

4. Strengthening the existing and building Women self-managed institutions 
5. Capacity Building of women groups  and creation of Social Forum  
6. The Livelihood activities for the women groups  

Women Wing Project

-To initiate and strengthen self managed Women’s wing both at the state level and at the field level with the strengthening of the groups formed and higher federations established at village, mandal and district levels
 
-To take up livelihood initiatives both with the project funding and accessing external support from banks etc for the self help women groups.

- To capacitate women of the women groups on social issues and livelihood areas.
 
Broad Impact indicators: 

-Empowerment of rural poor enhanced largely through groups; functioning well in relation to their social, economic, and political objectives 
-Household income of the women increased; sources of income diversified 
 
-The strengthening/formation of self-managed Women’s wing based on affinity with Farmers federations and networks are important expected outcomes of the project

FFA Main activity
1. To further organize farmers into Commodity Interest Groups (CIGs)
2. To strengthen and expand marketing linkages including contract farming
3. To strengthen existing partnerships and alliances with both private and public institutions

- Associate with state government and work for flood relief activity in terms of getting right price; marketing the discolored rice; achieving the input subsidy etc; 

- The cooperation with ATMA and KVK are being continued and fresh MOUs were made in October 2010 for this financial year.  The pre and harvesting techniques will remain the focus of the dissemination. 

- To continue to form / convert around 4500 farmers into Commodity Interest Groups (CIGs) into the CIGs of paddy, sugarcane, vegetables, oil seeds, cotton, chillies, horticulture, pulses, livestock, and aquaculture in the existing 10 operational districts in AP.

-To take up Dairy activity in a big way in three districts where the women project is in operation.

-With the CIGs of FFA ; the marketing activity will be continued not only with the existing crops but make attempts to take up some more new crops in new areas and make new partnerships with Industry
- strengthening of existing marketing linkages and scout for new partnerships to benefit farmers with both public and private institutions.
-continue with  facilitation of vegetable procurement with MORE and Reliance Fresh
-continue with the oriental tobacco buyback facility with ITC
-continue Mango procurement along with Coca Cola
-take up Chilli and turmeric marketing through MCX & NCDEX trading platforms this was thought of last year but could not be done.  
-promote value addition by linking farmers with processing industries and encourage contract farming 

Women Wing Project
The project has three basic components: 
 
1.	Strengthening the existing and building Women self-managed institutions 
This component includes the strengthening of women groups formed in the first year and also the strengthening of the higher federations formed in the first yea at village, mandal (block)  and district levels in the 3 identified districts; The new groups will be formed based on the evolution. 
  
2.	Capacity Building of women groups  and creation of Social Forum  
To strengthen the social forums formed at the village levels as Village Organisations in terms of creation in the operational centers and capacity building efforts to women groups and federations in terms of augmenting leadership capability; focus on empowerment; awareness on social and health issues etc.
 
3.	The Livelihood activities 
 The Income-generation and livelihood improvement activities will be taken up as provided in the annexure  
 
The Project Implementation
The activities will be implemented broadly through a State level Women’s wing which will be provided with key functional staff at the State Project Management Unit  
 
The target area and population: 
The project area in the third year will be enhanced further not in the same breadth of 9 mandals again but to a limited extent as the more the area, new coordinators are required.
 
As such, the 18 mandals at the second year of the project will not be adding another nine mandals but only on a case to case basis. In the identified mandals the rural women involved in agriculture especially belonging to scheduled caste; scheduled tribes; unskilled marginal farm women etc will be given preference in livelihood activities. The capacity building efforts will be directed towards all women of the area.

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