completed· Livelihoods

Towards realization of paddy processing factory in order to process yearly 600 tons paddy from members

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 9679 members in December 2018. Out of total members about 8.000 are rice farmers. The livelihood of members largely depends upon the income of paddy. The investment from member farmers together with the support of government grant made possible to establish the rice processing plant by DSFACL. DSFACL has a big business of saving and credit however agri-business is another major business. Agriterra can add value in their envisioned plan of running the rice factory to add value to the member farmersrsquo; paddy by processing and marketing and branding of rice. This year (2019) Agriterra will collaborate with DSFACL focusing more on development and execution of rice processing business. At the end of 2019 DSFACL will start to source the paddy from the member farmers and will process 600-ton paddy at the end of the season this year.