Initiatives

Farmers Program

“To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”- Mahatama Gandhi

Farmers Program

“To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”- Mahatama Gandhi

Farmers Program

“To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”- Mahatama Gandhi

Leveraging Global Best Practises

Initiatives for Farmers

India being an agricultural country, it’s time we adopt climate – smart agriculture (CSA)

Farmers are the single largest occupational cluster in India and South Asia, and most of them have participated in region’s development at best at less-than-average level. Lack of access to latest knowhow and technology, inability to leverage policy and market disconnect have been some of the prominent reasons amongst many. Agriculture, on account of being the largest employer of women and people below poverty line across gender lines, is at the cross-section of many developmental challenges and needs an integrated approach to trigger sustainable change. At SSF, we work towards building a critical mass of marginal farmers, train them in contemporary technologies by setting up CoEs (Centre of Excellence), disrupt the supply chain by integrating them with Mandi / corporate buyers and make them aware of cost & environmentally efficient methods of energy and water usage.

Impact Made

90000 +

Farmers

Estimated to benefit from deployment of cutting-edge technologies in the farming sector across pre-harvest & post-harvest supply-chain.

First Value-Added MSME incubation of India

Set up first Tribal Value-added MSME incubation to support tribal’s mostly Agri-related micro & small ventures helping them with marketing/ branding, technology adoption & market

First Industry-aligned 3rd Party AgriTech CoE in India

Farming needs new imagination and tools. Our initiative envisages to build Industry aligned Agritech CoE to aggregate Know-how, Provide Micro-training and make farmer networks

What we do

Empowerment

We empower farmers by training them in technologies for cost efficiency, informational access & market linkage for better price discovery.

Like SSF’s FPO-hub to promote government’s progressive agri initiatives and facilitate the outcomes. Also, usage of cutting-edge tech e.g. IoT, Drone & AI/ML in farming is another focus area

Policy Sensitization

We make them aware of government policies & facilitate them with documentation & institutional linkage on how to avail benefits of subsidies & bank loans.

How we do it

SSF participates in the consortiums building tech-enabled solution like Electric Vehicle mounted rural services e.g Imaging-supported farm data gathering, IoT-led soil testing, Aggregation etc

Partnership with Agri Universities , Chamber of Commerce, Industry Bodies and other similar groups enhances our solution delivery focus to the farmer community.

SSF aggregates tools and resources to enable changes at the farmers end. they include advisory/ FPO collective information and training in market reach – out.