19 dec 2011 - thanjavur hub meet
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Presentation on Business ModelsTRANSCRIPT
Business ModelsBusiness Models
@ Thanjavur Hub Meet@ Thanjavur Hub Meet
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Agenda
• Short Term Focus – 6 months
- Studies- Case documentation- Demand generation/ assessment
• Long Term Focus – CSISA IIBusiness models – pilotsFact sheets
CSISA: 2019 60,00,000 farmer households (FH)
Staff Districts Villages Villages > 2,000 FH
Total FH
Karnataka Possibilities ? 30 29,406 131 82,84,383
Present 2 4 ~ 1000
Possibilities ? 32 15,400 168 67,25,882
Tamil Nadu Present 3 4 ~ 1000
Present >> Possibilities
Source: Census 2001Farmer ~ Household
>> Partnerships:
- wo/men, money, material, multiplication, defining Adoption as per Digital Green SOP- adoption in entirety or stage by stage, variation, competing technologies, interests
Present >> Possibilities• What do we look for in partnerships –
integrity sustainable scale time given/ autonomy interestValue addition - less resource use/ higher resource generation
• One example:Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP) >> JEEVIKA (Bihar)Raidu DV, IAS (Rtd), SPA(NPM), MDA, HyderabadIntegrity – high, pride of association, image consciousSustainable – good initial funding, Community Based SHG >> SHG federations Scale – 1.2 million farmers, train their agri staffTime given – to set this as inclusive performance indicatorInterest – immediate, in trials, dissemination demo, video, committee, directive
PossibilitiesPost Harvest (losses 20 – 25% across India)
1. Grain drying > Sun drying (fact sheet), shade drying2. Moisture measurement > moisture meter USD $553. Grain and seed storage > super bag (fact sheet), cocoons
Cocoons – business model in Kenya (implemented since last season): a. Centre run by business organizationb. Business buys crop seed (also grains used as seed) @ market price at harvest timec. Business dries and stores crop for the next few months – incurs costd. At sowing time, sells back to farmers at harvest cost plus storage cost < seed cost
4. Flat bed dryer > storage and commercial sale
COCOONS - 1 Ton – 10,000 Tons
1 Ton
10 Ton – in usage since 10+ years
Agenda
• Short Term Focus – 6 months
- Studies –- Case documentation- Demand assessment
• Long Term Focus – CSISA II- Business models – pilots
- Fact sheets – business and post harvest
Study on Post Harvest practices Case documentation of GangaKaveri Seeds
Flat Bed DryerStudy of Mechanical TransplantersStudy/ Trng module for Service Providers
Study being done in Bihar
THANKS
Tom Lumpkin, DG CIMMYT
3rd CSISA Hub Managers Meet