improving the production and access to market  in  a collective way SPPQT (Serikat Paguyuban Petani Qaryah Thayyibah) affiliates farmers from 13 districts in Central Java Province. 

SPPQT in the last 12 year has worked on developing political and social infrastructure in the form of farmers groups at the village and community level in the Central Java Province. In the next two years SPPQT will move to agricultural and economic development. The main problems to solve are too weak access to inputs and land, low production, post-harvest problems and difficulties to access to the market.  

30% of the farmers have less that than 2000m2, and are called landless farmers or poor farmers. This also holds true for farmers who live in the border of the forest,  and who strive to increase their access to land. The inputs for agriculture are more expensive for the farmers, and SPPQT has found a way to solve the lack of access to inputs by transforming  the farmers from conventional producers to organic producers and also work in a more sustainable way. 

This project will increase the skills and capacities of the farmers to produce organically, it will also put attention to added value of the products. According to SPPQT it is a lack of creativity of the farmers to get out of the poverty circle, and implementing  this way of producing and adding value to their products and find a new market channels is necessary to increase their incomes. 

Also the access to market is expected to improve.  Currently some farmers get credits from “pengijon”/creditor and they are forced to sell their produce to pengijon to pay debt.  Other farmers are selling their products in the local market  and suffer uncertainty about the price.  To match the demand with the supply and find new supply channels collectively is the objective of the project. SPPQT has an experience of 6 year in organizing the commercialization through the substation of peasant organizations (GTP),  equivalent to a primary cooperative managed by the community organizations. 

There exist 37 GTP that according to SPPQT did not make any progress, they need to be strengthened. Also,   new GTP are planned to be established in other communities, as well as secondary cooperatives at regional level (STAP/GTK).

SPPQT will carry out a 2 years project with the objective of increasing the welfare of the farmers by strengthening farmers organizations at village level and by improving the production, and access to market, in  a collective way.

Some of the results to achieve are :
1.	Awareness of farmers rights and the importance to be organized;
2.	To strengthen the farmers organisations at village level and farmers groups at sub village level;
3.	To increase the access to land for those farmers around the forest;
4.	To establish business units for farmer  laborers; 
5.	To establish input (seeds, organic fertilizer and pesticide)  services within the cooperatives at village level;
6.	To increase the organic rice production in wetlands and organic horticulture production on dry land;
7.	To organize the commercialization of organic rice and vegetables through the primary cooperatives (GTP) and secondary cooperative (STAP/GTK)
8.	To strengthen the existent and new primary cooperatives (GTP) and  the regional secondary cooperatives.

 The project area  will be in 16 regions of Central Java (14 regions in 2013 and 16 regions in 2014) 264 farmers groups (141 farmers groups in 2013 and  132 in 2014)  involving actively in the project  6.882 farmers ( 1631 women). In 2013 3682 farmers and 3200 farmers in 2014. 

This project has the same line of previous projects in which the farmers were insert into the farmers groups, strengthening their capacities in production and access  to market.  SPPQT has its own way of organizing farmers around production, access to inputs and access to market.  The organization structure from the bottom up is as follows: farmers groups, association, within the association a specialized structure responsible for the business activities (GAP) and at regional level a collective marketing initiative (STAP) similar to a multipurpose cooperative. 

The way of working is the way that the team grassroots entrepreneurship is promoting. 

The targets for the two year project are:

1.	264 groups will be strengthened (141 in 2013 and 132 in 2014)
2.	200 groups are functioning effectively
3.	210 groups have access to inputs ( 60 in 2013)
4.	42 primary cooperatives and 3 secondary cooperatives will be strengthened ( in 2013 14 new and 14 existent primary coop) 
5.	14 groups start business activities by adding value to products
6.	24 groups are increasing the surface for producing organic rice (30 ha ) and vegetables (30 ha) 

The total budget for the two years project is EUR 236,466. For the year 2013 the total budget amounts to Eur 116075 , around 70.000  EUR will be the contribution of Agriterra and Eur 46.075 will come from SPPQT and other partners.

to increase the welfare of farmers by  strenthen farmers organisations at village level, improving and increase the production and marketing collectively.