The collective procurement and marketing of agriculture, horticulture and Non Timber Forest Produce (NTFP) by establishing Procurement Centers through VOs of IKP is being promoted in the project mainly to eliminate unfair trade practices, to enhance the incomes, to provide remunerative prices and to increase bargaining power of small and marginal farmers, and also to generate profits for the community organizations through creating a win-win situation among all the stake holders.

Objectives:

• To enable the rural poor to obtain the best price for their forest produce and Agricultural Commodities.
• To minimize the cost of inputs to the rural poor farmers.
• To create Marketing facility at their door steps.
• To provide assistance and build awareness to CBOs (VO/MS) to develop micro enterprises by adding value and trading to agriculture, horticulture and NTFP commodities.
• To provide training, information on markets and facilitating links to the private sector.

Table showing the year wise marketing interventions of VOs since inception are detailed below.

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