Accelerating Value Chain Benefits for improved Income for farmers and Nutrition for Consumers

There is a considerable scope for improving the current agricultural practices in Anantapuramu District with specific reference to main crops like groundnut, millets, and legumes. Farmers are willing to adopt new cultivation practices and cropping technologies. Further merely enhancing yield might not address the issues related to incomes, unless the farmers get a better price. Farmers can increase incomes only by engaging in the value chain of the crop through processing and marketing. This project provides better crop practices, establish primary and secondary processing unit in the villages which will be handled by the farmers organizations. Project also aims to link their produce to the retail and last mile markets which can capture a better price for the processed products and ultimately benefit the farmers.