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Maru Laxmi Farmer Producer Organization
Introduction: - Maru Laxmi Farmer Producer Organization started in a corporation with women farmers in Barmer. In Maru Laxmi Farmer Producer Organization there are 400 women farmers are associated. The main goal of Maru Laxmi Farmer Producer Organization is Sustainable Agriculture and identify the role of women in sustainable agriculture and growing GDP of our country India. Maru Laxmi Farmer Producer Organization will generate employment for women in agriculture as well as other agriculture sectors and micro and small size businesses on on-farm. Maru Laxmi Farmer Producer Organization is following “Make in India” & “vocal for Local” initiative of Indian government and Maru Laxmi Farmer Producer Organization want to give a new identity to women by laying the foundation of small and cottage industries.
Under “Make in India” and “Vocal for Local” policy, more and more women will be provided employment and assistance will be provided by Maru Laxmi Farmer Producer Organization for setting-up new small-scale industries so that women can get employment opportunities in every village.
Women comprise 33% of the agricultural labor force and 48% of the self-employed farmers in India. With growing urban migration by men, the agriculture sectors being managed by women. Women contribute to agriculture through multiple roles as cultivators, entrepreneurs and labors.
Agriculture one of the largest contributors to India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and a driving force for country’s economic development relies heavily on women employing the largest number of women in India.
Women’s continued role in agriculture is well marked, well realized, however it is often underestimated close to 75% of the full-time workers on Indian farms are women.
In Rural India, the percentage of women who depends on agriculture for their livelihood is as high as 84%. India’s livestock sector which is the world’s largest livestock production system over 70% livestock work is done by women. Women’s participation rate in the agriculture sector is about 47% in Tea, Plantation around 47%, in Cotton cultivation 45%, growing oil seeds and 39% in vegetables production & in Cumin around 65%.
Despite their large presence and their contribution, women farmers often are not equipped with what they need to succeed in farming. Women have less access to inputs (Seeds, fertilizer, labor, & finance), Critical services (training, insurance) and organized markets when compared to their male counterparts.
- Maru Laxmi Farmer Producer Organization is based on sustainable agriculture which will focus on long term farming and conservation of nature.
- Maru Laxmi Farmer Producer Organization will on how to enhance productivity through efficiency, cost effective, sustainable resources, use and realize higher returns through better liquidity and market linkages.
- To provide effective capacity building to Maru Laxmi Farmer Producer Organization, to develop agriculture entrepreneurship skills to become economically viable and self-sustaining.
- Maru Laxmi Farmer Producer Organization will target in next 5 years less input cost, higher production, food processing, value addition, market linkages, credit linkages, and use of new technologies in agriculture sector.
- Maru Laxmi Farmer Producer Organization will provide trainings, education services (business skills, health generals), and welfare services.
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