Empower Women Farmers in India

Dear Friends,

NalaBachatSamiti, the community of 86 tribal farmers that started as a collective action against middleman exploitation of their agricultural produce, is now in the 6^th year of its inception. From a small group of farmers who united to save themselves from middleman exploitation, the group now discusses business terms like profit, annual turnover and break even sales. In this edition, I shall give a glimpse of some of the new initiatives taken by NalaBachatSamiti. The procurement of raw tuar (lentil) started from the beginning of January. The target of procurement in this year was 30MT. To achieve this huge target, the members of NalaBachatSamiti opened 6 new procurement centers in Kotra block and the members took turns to man them tirelessly for the entire 3 months of procurement. This year SevaMandir provided NalaBachatSamiti with a digital moisture meter and trained the members on the usage of the same. NalaBachatSamiti procured each lot of tuar from the farmers after calculating moisture and asked owner of any lot whose moisture content was more than 15% to dry the same and deliver it to the dal mill. As a result NalaBachatSamiti was able to save 5% of overall cost which it lost every year due to moisture content in pulses. To process this huge quantity of raw tuar the members of NalaBachatSamiti took turns and ensured that the dal mill keeps spinning round the clock. The members of NalaBachatSamiti has also searched for and found new clients for dal and its by-products.

Thank you

Regards

Atul Lekhra

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