Farmers as Owners provides inspiration for the future of Dutch Int’l CooperationFollowing a request from the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Director of FFT, as one of the initiators of “Farmers as Owners” (jointly with Mr. LP Semwal) has published a paper on their ideas for a more sound, inclusive development agenda of the Ministry. FFT’s contribution is based on their experience in India, where various successful, healthy agribusinesses were set-up as a joint venture between entrepreneurs and local farmer. Farmers effectively become equal business partners. No paternalistic form of aid, but a sound economic partnership between investors and (farmer-owned) companies, supported by experience entrepreneurs. We sincere believe that this kind of support can quickly lift backward rural areas out of poverty and set in motion a self-sustaining development of the region concerned. Read our contribution on: http://includeplatform.net/contribution/advancing-local-development-meso-credit-farmer-private-ltds-economic-chain-development/

Facilitating the partners to join the consortium for setting more value chains in rural India

Setting up a controlled atmosphere cold storage in Himalayas

Organising farmers to become equal business partner in Apple value chain companies

FFT Himalayn fresh operating a CA storage of Uttrakhand Apples.

Organising small farmers to be the part of value addition joint venture companies. See at:www.farmersasowners.com

This joint venture for control atmoshphere apple storage started under our social venturing in Indian Himalayas project

Audit of companies and banks.