Facilitating Market Linkages

Transforming rural economies: facilitating market linkages

Supporting market linkages for farmers through a variety of ways, one intensive and significant approach of KENDRIYA VIKAS NIGAM Foundation has been to nurture and strengthen over 100 Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs). Many of these have started providing mentoring support to other FPOs in their districts, creating a cascading effect. FPOs provided with market linkages, helped other FPOs establish and run Minimum Support Price (MSP) procurement centres and access agricultural inputs providing overall training and capacity building.

Committed towards creating a battery of rural women leaders who then lead and support their communities to solve some of the most complex challenges of our times, KENDRIYA VIKAS NIGAM Foundation works extensively with Women Self Help Groups (W-SHGs). They are supported to identify diverse, sustainable and scalable livelihood opportunities at every step from skill trainings, linking them to various government schemes, to making them market ready or bringing them closer to financial inclusion. KENDRIYA VIKAS NIGAM Foundation is thereby creating a network of grassroots women leaders who can help transform the world around them. This in-turn ensures increased women participation in rural economy and ownership of livelihood assets. Many women & W-SHGs have turned micro-entrepreneurs and have embarked on their self-entrepreneurial journeys through this mentorship.