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TAMIL NADU MANGO GROWERS FEDERATION: A STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS

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Title TAMIL NADU MANGO GROWERS FEDERATION: A STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS
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Creator SAKTHI PARTHIBAN.R
 
Contributor Manjeet Singh Nain
 
Subject Farmers’ Institutions, Mango Growers Association, TAMAFED, Extension Services
 
Description T-8706
Poverty is largely a rural phenomenon. The majority of the rural poor
comprise small and marginal farmers or farm labourers who are disadvantaged in
several ways. Developing farmers’ institutions should therefore be an important
element of a poverty reduction strategy. With the growing commercialization of
agriculture and increasing dominance of supply chains small farmers in India face
both an opportunity for access to valuable markets and the risk that they will be
excluded from them. For farmers to meet this challenge they will have to upgrade
their practices in growing, harvesting, packaging, storing and transporting their
produce. In 2004, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) & Michigan State
University (MSU) jointly embarked on a partnership under USAID’s Higher
Education for Development (HED) program to promote greater awareness and
capacity for assisting small farmers to link to high value horticultural supply chains.
Thrust was given to form associations at district level, finally to represent the state
through forming federation for individual crop. Accordingly, an apex body called
“Tamil Nadu Mango Growers Federation” (TAMAFED) was formed on February
21st 2006, to deal with all issues regarding mango production and marketing. The
various services provided by TAMAFED included: Arrangement for buyer and seller
meet, arrangement for sale and display of mango in fairs and mela, negotiating with
buyers for better price, fixing of prices for mangoes and dissemination of timely
market information.
 
Date 2016-09-06T17:04:47Z
2016-09-06T17:04:47Z
2012
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/75743
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher IARI, DIVISION OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION