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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh PalDr. K. K. Tripathy is an officer of Indian Economic Service (IES), 1999 batch, and is currently the Economic Adviser, Ministry of Cooperation, Government of India. His previous assignment was in the capacity of Director of Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management (VAMNICOM), a premiere national institute located in Pune. He has received a PhD from the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi on ‘Micro Finance in Rural India.’ Prior to joining IES, Dr. Tripathy served as an officer of a State Administrative Service in the state of OdishRead More...
Dr. K. K. Tripathy is an officer of Indian Economic Service (IES), 1999 batch, and is currently the Economic Adviser, Ministry of Cooperation, Government of India. His previous assignment was in the capacity of Director of Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management (VAMNICOM), a premiere national institute located in Pune. He has received a PhD from the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi on ‘Micro Finance in Rural India.’ Prior to joining IES, Dr. Tripathy served as an officer of a State Administrative Service in the state of Odisha where his exposure to grass-root level development and later his tenure in Ministry of Rural Development, GOI, fostered in him the interest to work on rural development. He, in his twenty-two long years of government service, has discharged functions as Director/Joint Director/Deputy Director in the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Rural Development, Planning Commission United Nations Development Programme and Ministry of Food Processing Industries. He has published articles in journals and edited books on self-employment activities, micro-finance and latest development issues in India and has presented papers at various state, national and international seminars.
Dr. Sagar Kisan Wadkar is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Management Education, Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management (VAMNICOM), Pune. Before this, he was associated with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He has more than eight years of experience in teaching, training, research and consultancy. He has guided fourteen MSc students’ researches on various topics of agriculture and rural development. He graduated in ‘Agriculture’ from Dr. P.D.K.V. Akola University, post-graduation in ‘Agricultural Extension & Communication’ from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand and has a doctorate in ‘Agricultural Extension Education’ from ICAR—National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana. He has secured the ICAR-NET in ‘Agricultural Extension’ and received the UGC NET+JRF in ‘Adult Education/Continuing Education.’ Dr. Wadkar has published more than twenty research articles and presented more than twelve research papers in the International and National Journals. He has delivered over twenty-five lectures in the training and capacity building programmes organised by a premier national institutions like NCUI, ICAR institutions, MANAGE, Extension Education Institutes (EEIs), State Agricultural Universities (SAUs), etc. His area of interest includes agribusiness, entrepreneurship, social capital formation, livelihood analysis, supply and value-chain analysis, social enterprise management like cooperatives, self-help groups, farmer producers’ organisation and monitoring and evaluation.
Ms. Anshu Singh is an Assistant Professor in Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management (VAMNICOM), Pune, which is a premiere national institute under the aegis of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India. An academician with over ten years of experience in the field of management education and research, she has pursued her Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from Institute of Management studies at Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, and her Bachelors in Statistics (Hons) also from BHU, Varanasi. She has pursued her PhD in the area of Financial Inclusion from Savitribai Phule Pune University and is UGC NET qualified. As a researcher she has explored various areas in the social science domains spanning across diverse thematic areas like financial inclusion, agricultural credit, financial literacy, banking, banking technology, gender empowerment and self-help groups, managing collectives, micro entrepreneurship, credit cooperatives financial management for community-based organizations and behavioural economics. She has handled several trainings and capacity building initiatives in the field of financial inclusion, financial literacy and agricultural credit for diverse set of target groups including cooperative banks, credit cooperatives, microfinance institutions, women collectives, self-help groups, etc.
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Indian agriculture is heavily dependent upon small and marginal farmers referred to as smallholders. They face numerous difficulties in livelihood development and find it difficult to access markets and resources. Accumulated experience and research show that aggregation or collectivisation of producers in institutional arrangements, such as Cooperatives, Self-Help Groups, Farmers Association and Farmer Producers Companies, can enhance their income generating
Indian agriculture is heavily dependent upon small and marginal farmers referred to as smallholders. They face numerous difficulties in livelihood development and find it difficult to access markets and resources. Accumulated experience and research show that aggregation or collectivisation of producers in institutional arrangements, such as Cooperatives, Self-Help Groups, Farmers Association and Farmer Producers Companies, can enhance their income generating ability. It gives them a platform to voice their concerns where they can exercise greater control over resources, have better access to markets and technology, negotiate better prices and reduce the transaction costs. This book discusses the journey of eleven such producers’ collectives from ten states of India. The case studies are drawn from various regions and markets of India. They dovetail the success and the interventions of these enterprises, focusing on key strategies on how such models improve the lives and livelihoods in rural areas of India, particularly farmers and women. These cases are unique business models with a social conscience. In the final chapter, this book provides key challenges of producers’ collectives and presents a strategy for making them competitive and sustainable. The authors assert that the success of producers’ collectives depends largely on the way it is governed and managed. The book provides the necessary ‘theory-cum-practice’ based academic inputs and learnings to training institutions and field practitioners involved in agriculture and rural development, besides spreading awareness among other key stakeholders by adding to the body of knowledge on the work and achievements of producers’ collectives.
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