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- Local NGOs should be used to the greatest extent possible to organise small-scale farmers into self-help
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parties. Farmers must appreciate the risks the buyer faces and understand the implication of those risks for themselves. Extension workers can help farmers and buyers identify the risks to both sides, clarify who bears the risk and find ways of limiting them. 114 Entrepreneurship in farming Entrepreneurial success is greatly improved when strong partnerships and networking relations are forged with other value chain players Local NGOs should be used to the greatest extent possible to organise small-scale farmers into self-help groups and producer organisations. SUPPoRTINg PaRTNERSHIPS aND NETWoRKINg In the changing agricultural environment, farmers need reliable and economical supplies of raw materials, production inputs and equipment and must ensure they have sufficient products of appropriate quality to capture better markets. Often they cannot easily do these things on their own. Group purchasing and collective marketing are examples of farmers working together to gain advantages not available to individuals. Partnerships and networks can be developed among farmers and with other role-players in the value chain. These role- players can help farmers access information on markets, government policies and technologies, enter outside markets, and obtain training, extension, credit and marketing services. Success in market-oriented farming improves greatly when farmers have strong partnerships with and linkages among role-players in the value chain. Many farmers will need help developing partnerships and networks. These linkages or “networks” might be temporary to achieve a short-term objective, such as marketing the current season’s crop. They might be more permanent to achieve longer-term goals such as ensuring improved access to extension services. To help form networks, extension workers can draw on experienced farmers with the time and ability to organise the schemes to take the initiative. This will reinforce entrepreneurial capacity by ensuring that the farmers own the cooperative action and that capacity to sustain is built among the participating farmers. This can be further reinforced with training and mentoring entrepreneurial capacity, partnerships and networking by extension workers, private service providers and farmer (producer) organisations. Extension support for developing entrepreneurial capacity 115 Local NGOs should be used to the greatest extent possible in organising small-scale farmers into self-help groups and producer organisations. NGOs can work with extension services to provide additional technical and management skills. This is a good form of networking. Entrepreneurial farmers use networks to help deal with a number of difficult aspects of developing their farm businesses. They use them to accurately identify, target and implement interventions. They use them to improve understanding of the role-players along the value chain, how they work, how the whole chain operates, and the roles of different players in the market. They use networking to build the trust needed to work together to grow and stabilise their farm businesses. There are some very practical ways extension workers can promote and sustain coordination, collaboration and networking among farmers and other members of value chains to share the responsibilities and risks. • Encourage frequent communication among potential and existing partners to stay abreast of the partners’ changing views regarding objectives and expected benefits. • Encourage frequent meetings and information exchanges including inter-group exchange visits, meetings, workshops, joint training and local radio. • Organise special workshops and field trips to maintain interests and collaboration. • Encourage the formation of partnerships or joint ventures in initiatives such as sharing machinery and farm investments including the following: Joint ventures which can be set up between farmers, cooperatives and agribusiness companies anywhere along the value chain including the input, production, grading and processing, and marketing stages. Extension workers have a role to promote coordination collaboration and networking by encouraging communication and information sharing organizing wworkshops and field trips and encouraging the formation of Download 1.19 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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