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Impact work in Ilam
Hill district of Koshi Province known for tea cultivation and cardamom.
Ilam District · Koshi Province
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Upscaling packaged tea export sales
The goals of this project are as belowExport of 720 kgs. of packaged tea to the NetherlandsIncrease in profit of cooperative by 1 million Maximize the average production of product from its current average of 107 kgs to 200 kgs. Increase in leave intake from its current intake of 41.758 kg to 48.000 kgSales of at least 80% made tea
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Capacity Building of Tea Farmers’ Organizations and Technology Delivery
Project background Nepal has a long history of Tea cultivation, initiated with the establishment of Ilam Tea Estate in the Hills of Ilam District in 1863 and Soktim Tea Estate. Tea is widely cultivated in the eastern hilly regions. Major tea producing districts are Jhapa, Ilam, Panchthar, Dhankuta and Terathum. Tea is one of the main cash crops in the hilly districts in Mechi zone contributing to rural and national economics and to alleviating poverty through income and employment generation. Orthodox tea, which is produced at altitudes between 3000 - 7000 ft are famous for its aroma, bright liquor and subtle, slight fruity flavor, which are mostly sought attributes by the consumers of overseas countries. Orthodox Tea is a high value, flavor intensive perennial crop with a potential for generating foreign exchange, reducing rural poverty, promoting economic growth and improving ecology and environment. The total land area under orthodox tea plantation is around 14,000 hectares; this industry consists of more than 35 tea states, around 18,000 small orthodox tea farmers and about 17 tea-processing factories (source: HOTPA). Currently Nepal is producing more than 1.7 million kg of Orthodox tea of which small farmers' contribution amounts to 67.8% (Baseline GTZ, 1997). 2.2 million kg of Orthodox tea is produced in a year 2010(source: HOTPA, 2010). Now Farmer's contribution is more than 85% in production and more than 95% is being exported. More than 90% of orthodox tea is exported to India and overseas countries and the rest is partially used for consumption and partially for blending purpose in black tea to impart good flavor. There are 14 mini processing factories operated by individual tea farmers and cooperatives which produce very nominal quantity but in the future its scope of operation will be increased due to interest of all cooperatives to establish such small factory so that they can produce tea by themselves without depending on factory. Due to the growing demand of Organic tea in the international market there is a realization of converting factories and garden of individual farmers into organic by certifying in a group and there are 3 factories and 7 groups already certified by NASA. As the international certification is expensive Code of Conduct for tea produced in Nepal is envisioned in a year 2003, which is owned by Himalayan Orthodox Tea Procedures’ Association (HOTPA) and jointly implemented by HOTPA and TEASEC with support from Tea Alliance, which regulates the production, processing and marketing of tea in Nepal with due consideration for ecological, social and economic dimensions. CoC implementation is at the primitive stage especially at the tea farmer’s level and need more promotion, education, and ultimately economic benefit to them. Now more farmers are attracted towards CoC tea due to the reason that the Internal Control System adopted in CoC has helped the farmers to also get Organic certification within very less time frame. Rationale In the previous phase program intervention with support from Agriterra and SNV, TEASEC has facilitate in establishing 49 cooperatives with 2,859 members and provided them with the services to build their capacity to manage their business. They were provided trainings on cooperative management and accounting. Business plans of all 48 cooperatives have been prepared. Now there are four district level cooperative federations in all program districts and Central Tea Cooperative Federation (CTCF) which is an umbrella organisation representing four district cooperative federations and is recently established. All cooperatives are now actively operating with regular savings and credit from their members, they are maintaining four ledger accounting system and few cooperatives have involved in selling green leaf to the factory with regular collection from their members. Cooperative federation in the district is now supporting cooperatives in delivering services with support by TEASEC Social Mobilizers. 15 cooperatives have submitted proposal to the Commercial Agricultural Alliance (CAA), a project implemented by the World Bank and 7 have received funds which has been utilized to invest in developing infrastructure in the tea sector. There are 1,200 tea farmers who are still not associated with the cooperatives or farmer’s groups. So the number of cooperatives is likely to increase in the future. These tea farmer’s will be further counselled and provided with services from the TEASEC. Very few female members (2%) are in the cooperatives and in the decision making positions. District cooperative federations do not have sufficient human resources to work in a full time basis. Social Mobilizers will thus be stained at District Federation office to maintain database of tea sector and by 2013 they will be permanently stationed there. There are existing 15 mini processing units which operate in areas where there is difficulty in transporting green leaf to the big tea factory. There are many such remote places where tea is grown in scattered pocket areas and so need to expand with more mini processing factories in the future. There is a growing demand and every tea farmer’s choice to certify their tea garden into organic certification. For certifying with organic it requires minimum of 3 years after complying with ICS. But Himilayan Sangrila has certified with organic by NASA within 2 years along with 2 cooperatives and 1 farmer’s group as a sub licensee. This has been possible due to the reason that they were previously certified with CoC and complying ICS. This means CoC standard is a stepping stone towards organic certification. Similarly, this trend is going to continue as Gorkha factory which is already complying CoC is going for certifying with Organic along with Eco and Sundarpani cooperatives. Monitoring of regular tea sector indicators is another aspect which is completely missing. TEASEC will have to take a lead in facilitating to regularly keeping the database of all major tea indicators as there is now a permanent reporting structure from individual farmers to Central Tea Cooperative Federation. Capacity of Social Mobilizers will be enhanced to keep tracking of information. The key points are summarized below to justify the need of program: - Government of Nepal, Ministry of Agriculture, and Cooperative has published “organic guideline” for certification of organic agriculture products. - HOTPA, an association of tea factory has a vision of converting all orthodox tea garden of Nepal into organic by the year 2012. Tea being exportable product to EU, Japan and those countries has regulation and pesticides band. - Major buyers from German (Mr. Thomas Holz) and America have already requested to provide them organic tea due to the reason that if any consignment is detected with pesticides than the whole industry may be collapsed. - Almost all chemical fertilizer used in Nepal is imported from India and other third country. Going into organic will stop importing fertilizer and save from losing foreign exchange. - In neighboring country India at Darjeeling are already in the process of converting their tea garden into organic. Darjeeling tea is looked as a competitor. - Organic market of orthodox tea is increasing in the positive trend. - European buyers are demanding tea that complies with the CSR standard and CoC covers those aspects of standard. - Approximately 95 % of orthodox tea is exported to Europe, Japan, America and India that reveals that market of organic orthodox tea is increasing in the positive trend. - Farmer cooperatives and its federations are instrumental to lobby and advocacy with the government and other donors that will ultimately increase bargaining power of the smallholder farmers. - 14 mini processing has already been established by the Individual farmers and cooperatives and this will continue to grow in the future. TEASEC will provide necessary services to
Stichting Agriterra
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capacity building of tea farmers organisations
CTCF is a new client for Agriterra. This recently established organization is working in close coordination with TEASEC (same office) but both organizations have their own objectives. Agriterra decided at the end of 2011 to stop the cooperation with TEASEC and start supporting CTCF, being a truly membership base organization. The main objective of CTCF is lobby and advocacy, followed by organisational strengthening service provision to its member Cooperatives. Cooperative movement is positively supported by the government of Nepal, but there is a lack of financial and training support. CTCF will further build the management/ entrepreneurial capacities of primary tea cooperatives and support through effective lobby and advocacy for conducive policies and access to subisdies/loans of the government / other donors. Maintaining in a systematic way the tea database and membership database will further support/strengthen their lobby and advocacy as they can show facts. The lobby and advocacy should contribute to some concrete results such as access to subisdies and loans; agreement to change the national tea policy in favour of small holders; establishing a branch office of National Cooperative bank in Ilam etc. The PGPP training will support CTCF to prepare good policy propositions and do effective lobby. Organisational strengthening of CTCF as well as district and primary level coops, will result in increased membership (56 -> 65 primary cooperatives); better functioning coops with higher sales of green leaves; primary coops will get access to government loans and subsidies to build collection centres; vermin-compost units and mini processing units. null The main objective of CTCF is lobby and advocacy, followed by organisational strengthening service provision to its member Cooperatives. The project has 3 main objectives 1. Capacity building of Central Tea Cooperative Federation(CTCF), District Cooperative Federations and groups or Cooperatives on lobby and advocacy 2. Entrepreneurship and marketing support targeting especially for young tea farmers 3. To establish effective supervision and monitoring system in tea sector for regular dissemination of information.
Stichting Agriterra
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grassroot entrepreneurship and capacity building of cooperatives and CTCF
CTCF is a client of Agriterra since 2012. Initially supported by the team advocacy, but realising the contribution towards the results of the team grass root entrepreneurship, it was decided to make CTCF a client of the team grass root entrpreneurship from 2013 onwards. The vision of CTCF is towards economic development through tea cooperative promotion and building the capacity of the memebrs of the cooperatives. CTCF works on a central level to improve the situation of the cooperatives. At the grassroots level, CTCF conducts various trainings programmes and provided continously coaching and support through its facilitators to the primary cooperatives and its members. CTCF has currently 66 member tea cooperatives from Ilam, Panchthar, Dhankuta, Therathum, Jhapa, Udayapur, Bhojpur and Lalitpur districts including four district cooperative federations, with more than 3,972 tea farmers associated through their cooperatives. The tea farmers as members of cooperatives are gradually increasing and the number of cooperatives is expected to be more than 72, with more than 4,300 farmers as members, by the end of 2013. Update at the beginning of 2014: CTCF has currently 73 member tea cooperatives from Ilam, Panchthar, Dhankuta, Therathum, Jhapa, Udayapur, Bhojpur and Lalitpur districts including five district cooperative federations, with more than 4699 tea farmers associated through their cooperatives. The tea farmers as members of cooperatives are gradually increasing and the number of cooperatives is expected to be grow gradually. Overall goal is to contribute in sustained rural poverty reduction of smallholder tea farmers of Eastern districts of Nepal by increasing their income, and equally empower small farmer based organisations to provide better technical and management services. Objectives: Key objectives of the project: 1. Capacity building Entrepreneurship skills development and marketing support services to the tea entrepreneurs 2. Support tea cooperatives and farmers for Access to Finance and capacity building support services on financials 3. Lobby and advocacy on various tea issues (favourable tea policy, celebration of 16th National Tea Day , organic inputs, certification, collateral free loan etc.) 4. To establish effective supervision and monitoring system in tea sub sector for regular dissemination of information. Objectives for 2014 are more or less same as in 2013, but slightly more focused: 1. Capacity building of tea cooperatives and farmers in their institutional building, resource mobilization, business planning etc. 2. Enhance entrepreneurship and business skills of STPUs operated by cooperatives. 3. Lobby and advocacy works on various tea related issues faced by the tea farmers. 4. Regular monitoring and supervision support to all tea stakeholders. Expected results: 1. Minimum of ten (10) cooperatives will be able to start Mini Tea Processing (MTP) units after receiving technical inputs, entrepreneurship trainings and other business support services including marketing. 2. MTP units will produce and sell 9.000 kg quality tea in the competitive markets. 3. 3 Cooperatives and individual tea farmers will be able to avail minimum 10 million loan amount easily at minimum interest rates. 4. 12 cooperatives will prepare business plan and start to business activities like saving credit, nurseling, tea planting, green leaf tea collection etc. 5. 7 cooperatives will review their business plan and prepare further plan. 6. Organic inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides will be made available to the tea farmers with organic tea garden at subsidized rates. 7. Financial monitoring system (PEARL, Software, etc.,) will be set-up in 9 cooperatives 8. FACT concept will be widely disseminated to a larger number of cooperatives and will internalize in their regular system. 9. 6 new cooperatives will take memebrship of CTCF 10. 10 young/weak coopertiaves willreceive coop leadership and management training Period: From January 2013 until December 2013, but the project will in case of smooth implementation be extended for the year 2014, Activities and logframe are only for 2013. in the logframe, long term objectives are mentioned which can only be achieved in multiple years. Total Budget: Nrs. 6,142,100 Expected results 2014: a. 50% of cooperatives will be able to generate resources on their own and sustain in a long run. b. 30% of STPUs will be capable to produce quality tea as per the tea standard and managed to sell in the competitive market. c. There will be improvements in quality of green leaves produced by tea farmers. 5% of the tea farmers will adopt IPM or organic tea farming technology. d. Government and other stakeholders will be positive towards tea sector and there will be more investments to promote this sector. Some level changes will be visibly seen in 3 key areas. e. Updated database on key tea indicators (production, sales, exports, number of farmers/cooperatives, etc.) Coverage and target beneficiary: Program will be implemented mainly in nine districts: Ilam, Panchthar, Dhankuta, Therathum, Lalitpur, and Bojpur targeting 5 district federations, 72 tea cooperatives, and about 4,500 tea farmers. This year, services will be extended in additional two districts (Lalitpur, Bojpur, Udayapur, Sankuwasava, Jhapa). In Lalitpur district, there are 8 tea cooperatives, District Tea Cooperative Federation (DTCF), and more than 225 members. Similarly, in Bojpur, Sankuwasava, Udayapur and Jhapa districts there are 7 cooperatives and more than 325 tea farmers. Overall goal is to contribute in sustained rural poverty reduction of smallholder tea farmers of Eastern districts of Nepal by increasing their income, and equally empower small farmer based organisations to provide better technical and management services. Objectives: Key objectives of the project: 1. Entrepreneurship skills development and marketing support services to the tea entrepreneurs 2. Support tea cooperatives and farmers for Access to Finance and capacity building support services on financials 3. Lobby and advocacy on various tea issues (favourable tea policy, celebration of 16th National Tea Day , organic inputs, certification, collateral free loan etc.,) 4. Advisory services on cooperative management and administration, and seeking experts from Agripool for support in developing marketing strategies for the members 5. To establish effective supervision and monitoring system in tea sub sector for regular dissemination of information.
Stichting Agriterra
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Realizing packaged tea export to the Netherlands
The 2017 action plan is focussing on realization of the first shipment and total export of around 1000 kg packaged tea. The direct export to the Netherlands should become an example for other cooperatives in the country. Agriterra will provide training and capacity building on strengthening the cooperative and its business activities. The program will provide a practical learning trajectory on exporting tea for all stakeholders involved. This can bring significant development to the farmers and the region as the activities can be duplicated in the future.
Stichting Agriterra
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Train 10 Midwives To Save More Lives in Ilam Nepal
This project will provide 10 days of training to 10 midwives in Nepal. They will be taught safe birthing techniques and early identification of problems. This will enable them to save mothers' lives. Worldwide Healing Hands is partnering with Himalayan Healthcare to bring midwives from throughout the region to Ilam for this training. The Worldwide Healing Hands mission team is made up of all volunteers: doctors, nurses, and a certified nurse/midwife.
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