Stichting Agriterra

<p>Strengthening JCCU in providing sustainable services to its members.</p>

<p>CTCF has two main objectives; sustainable services for members and effective lobby and advocacy for better representation and access to funds. This is clearly formulated in the stategic plan 2015-2018 of CTCF. It is expected that in the coming 2-3 years CTCF will be able to fully cover its own overhead costs; provide quality services as a service provider to third parties (and generate an income from this) able to attract government support (either fianncially or services) for its members and provide facilitating services to member cooperatives in the field of marketing of tea.</p>

The Dumarwana Small Farmer Agriculture Cooperative Limited (DSFACL) is located at the central region of Nepal, in Bara district. In 1997 the cooperative was registered with 454 members and grown to 9.572 members in April 2017. Out of total members, about 8.000 are rice farmers. The livelihood of members largely depends upon the income of paddy. There is demand from members to invest in a rice processing plant and market rice on behalf of the members. DSFACL already purchased the land and constructed a building for the rice processing plant. DSFACL is currently exploring options to finance the investment. DSFACL could gain regular source of income from agri-business other than financial services. During the company assessment in April 2017, it was realized that Agriterra can add value in their envisioned plan of running rice processing plant which gives more marketing opportunities and better prices for all their members. The cooperative should focus on organizational development and development of rice processing business. This is expected to results in the realization of the paddy processing factory and a yearly processed volume of 15.000 ton paddy by end of 2019. The project plan focused on the business, finance, and organisational of the cooperative. DSFACL will take lead and Agriterra will support in implementing the action plan.Business development: conducting a workshop about the new business plan with representatives of the five service centres, government and financial institutions. Thereby DSAFCL will get to know about possibilities and commitment of the stakeholders and members. The overall goal is the sustainable establishment and growth of cooperatives’ businesses in the Quang Nam around the Green Annamites area; leading to profitable and solvent farmer-led business.

Agriterra and CTCF have been cooperating on different fields since 2012. From its inception in 2010, CTCF has developed into a cooperation with 99 member coops (representing 6000 tea farmers) with a combined market share of 25% in the orthodox tea in Nepal. CTCF has become a strong and well known federation both internally as well as in the field of lobby and advocacy and service provision to its members. The cooperation between Agriterra and CTCF in 2017 had an evaluative character. Since many new tea processing factory has been estalbished ,CTCF realized that marketing is one of the major challange of cooperative and it is high demand by members. Most of the tea produced has been in the hand of middleman paying low price to the farmers, the farmers are not getting fair share of price. To tackle with this condition it was realized by CTCF to develop market so as to minimize the monopoly of the middleman. null 1. Attain optimal operational efficiency for MCCMCU to break-even 2. Professionalize further the governance and financial management to support the goal to break-evening 3. Deepen the marketing knowledge within MCCMCU to be able compete for the global export market. 4. Re-align the strategic objectives of MCCMCU for the next three years for them to be able to deliver value to its members.