Hindustan ePaper - Article

Hindustan ePaper - Article

Farmer Service Center- BDT Agriculture Programme

At present, Bihar Development Trust is piloting a farmer service center for which funds have been raised on loan. We plan to open the Center at Daudnagar, Aurangabad which is 25 km off the GT Road. The members will be small farmers owning less than one acre of land and sharecropper who do the farming for absentee landlords. The concept is aggregation of produce and gain economies of scale for better market linkage. Farmers will be organized in producers groups. We will provide following services to the farmers.
a. Fertilizers
b. Vermicompost
c. Pesticides
d. Good quality seeds
e. Training on systematic rice intensification and systematic wheat intensification technology
f. Price discovery with help of internet
g. MCX display terminal
h. Purchase guarantee of produce
i. Seed farming
j. Loan facilitation services from Banks/Microfinance
k. Crop Insurance facilities
l. Marketing of Produce
We will seek licenses from government authorities to provide above mentioned services and products to the farmers. We are negotiating with 5-6 reputed Agri- business companies for sale of the products. We plan to pilot one center in this year and scale up to 10 centers in next 2-3 years. In next 10 years, company plans to open 500 agriculture service centers, one in each block of Bihar.