Business ModelsBusiness Models

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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