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Livelihood Development International
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COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
The purpose of this project is to increase uniform agriculture productivity and to support and educate clients. The farms will be close to banks of the Nile River. The farms will employ and teach women, youth, and the marginalized to produce food for local markets, and household consumption and export. The sale of the farm produce will generate revenue, moneys that can be utilized to support other projects as need arises.
ON FARM ENTERPRISES
The cooperatives which will be made up of rural farmers will have access to better education in good agriculture methodologies and technologies, thus resulting in higher yields on their individual home farms and therefore increased income that could lift rural residents out of poverty.
These individual owned farms will engage in :
cultivation of crops
product procession i.e. maize (corn) and soya milled into corn flour and soya flour, and which in turn can be used to produce vegetable oil. The residue from the mill will be used for animal feed.
livestock farming/animal husbandry/poultry
food for training - where the client is trained in utilizing their land to produce
nutritious foods for subsistence and sale, if there is an excess.
COOPERATIVE PARTNERS
Working with partners, such as the World Food Program, the produces will be marketed to other areas of the region where there is famine and food insecurity. Other places where our produce of grain, flour, and oil could be utilized are hospitals, schools, universities, public institutions and non-governmental organizations involved in relief and humanitarian supply.
An important dimension of the cooperatives will involve networking with industries in the packing of farm produce, thus adding value to their products. This will also create additional employment opportunities for people who will be engaged in our agro-industrial operations.
Phases of Development
legalizing the COOP
staff/client training
on farm training
marketing
development of juice extraction from fruit
CONCLUSION
The cooperative will provide a livelihood for individual family units and more specifically to women who till the land. It will provide them with a training and means of living which will give them dignity, respect and hope.
For further information contact: info@LivelihoodDevelopmentAfrica.org