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| Instill economic stability & security in the
livelihood patterns of small & marginal farmers of India and the landless
poor involved in allied agricultural activities by enhancing their access to
appropriate and affordable technologies, market related information and
linkages, expert advice and risk coverage options through knowledge delivery
mechanisms operational at all levels till the village level institutions in the
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| Our Mission |
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| Creation of a national and international network of
rural development, agribusiness and civil society professionals involved in all
aspects of agriculture and rural development.
Facilitating creation of agribusiness clinics and enabling a
sustainable delivery of products and services to the farming community.
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| Key Long Term Objectives |
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To create a forum of experts who will be able to provide technical and market
information services to the farming community, private and public sector
organizations involved in the food and agricultural sector.
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To identify motivated agricultural graduates and provide training and project
services to enable creation and sustainable working of agribusiness clinics.
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To enroll a large number of professionals working actively in the sector and
enable them with information and consulting services to add value to their
enterprise.
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To source information on technology and markets and provide it to the farmers
through agribusiness clinics.
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To expand the usage of ICT by participants in the agricultural sector
particularly the small and marginal farmers.
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To promote and consider measures for the promotion and advancement of the
trade, export, sale and consumption of agricultural and allied products
manufactured in rural India.
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To build new linkages for marketing of agriculture produce by helping
disintermediation of trade channels to benefit farmers.
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Developing online/offline information dissemination channels to reach the
target groups.
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To conduct studies and action research projects on post harvest technologies
and marketing of agriculture produce
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| Short Term Milestones |
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Create a city/ center wise network of functional experts. These
experts will be classified according to their domain specialization, eg.,
horticulture, vermiculture, pathology, entomology, etc. We estimate the
population of experts to be of the order of 5,000 and we target to have at
least 25% on our panel within 2 years.
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Enroll at least 150,000 Agribusiness professionals as associates
within 5 years. The professionals can be unemployed graduates, progressive
farmers, manufacturers, service providers, buyers and customers of agricultural
products and services.
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Help set up and manage agribusiness clinics by providing
training, course content, know-how and managerial inputs. This will also
include helping entrepreneurs to arrange finance and launch services.
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Provide consulting and educational services to the participants.
The participants will be able to use the forum to submit their Request for
Proposals (RFPs) and the panel of experts will then respond with specific
proposals. ISAP will act as the facilitator that will bring the service users
and service providers together.
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Enter into strategic alliances with information service
providers to source market information.
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