- 100% insurance coverage
- Rebuild the extension network
- Adopt biotech on large very large scale, technology like Bt Brinjal, RRF cotton etc
- Draw up national food guarantee act
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Problems that plague key sectors and prevent us from achieving our full potential and their solution
AGRICULTURE
Friday, October 31, 2008
MICROFINANCING, AN EFFECTIVE TOOL FOR FIGHTING POVERTY
The percentage of the world population living on less than $1 a day fell from 40% to 21% during the decade spanning 1980-90. In China, the GDP per inhabitant has increased fivefold since 1981 and the percentage of people living in a state of extreme poverty has declined from 64 to 17%.
In the next ten years, the total number of inhabitants of the globe living on less than a dollar a day will drop from 1.3 billion to 913 million.
In spite of these seemingly encouraging figures, in sub-Saharian Africa, the number of people living in extreme poverty keeps on growing and is expected to reach 400 million in 2015. If the current trend persists, 40 years from now more than half of the world’s population, or approximately 4 billion individuals, will have to survive on less than two dollars a day.
The loans to the 66.6 million microfinance clients who are among the poorest of the poor have a direct repercussion on a total of 333 million people, or the equivalent of the populations of the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Norway combined.
The UN declaration of an International Year of Microcredit in 2005 as part of the Millennium Development Project for reducing poverty worldwide was a strong indication of the importance of the sector’s actions and impact.
It has been proven that microcredit has a positive impact on the level of profits, investments and access to macroeconomic markets. On the level of households, microcredit has a positive impact on consumer spending. And on the individual level, microcredit has resulted in greater regard for spouses and children.(Study conducted by PlaNet Finance in Morocco in 2004)
Microfinance institutions are in permanent contact with their clients and have the means to facilitate the distribution of services that enhance the value of microfinance by associating them with the promotion of good practices in matters of health, education and the environment.
In the next ten years, the total number of inhabitants of the globe living on less than a dollar a day will drop from 1.3 billion to 913 million.
In spite of these seemingly encouraging figures, in sub-Saharian Africa, the number of people living in extreme poverty keeps on growing and is expected to reach 400 million in 2015. If the current trend persists, 40 years from now more than half of the world’s population, or approximately 4 billion individuals, will have to survive on less than two dollars a day.
The loans to the 66.6 million microfinance clients who are among the poorest of the poor have a direct repercussion on a total of 333 million people, or the equivalent of the populations of the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Norway combined.
The UN declaration of an International Year of Microcredit in 2005 as part of the Millennium Development Project for reducing poverty worldwide was a strong indication of the importance of the sector’s actions and impact.
It has been proven that microcredit has a positive impact on the level of profits, investments and access to macroeconomic markets. On the level of households, microcredit has a positive impact on consumer spending. And on the individual level, microcredit has resulted in greater regard for spouses and children.(Study conducted by PlaNet Finance in Morocco in 2004)
Microfinance institutions are in permanent contact with their clients and have the means to facilitate the distribution of services that enhance the value of microfinance by associating them with the promotion of good practices in matters of health, education and the environment.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Win-win in PPP
Striking a win-win situation is a key to make public-private partnership work. This requires practitioners to :
Clearly spell out the roles and responsibilities and address the interest of the parties involved along with their explicit commitments towards a common goals.
understood different incentives that derive the public and the private sectors: private sectors has a profit motive for adding value and growing its customer base, which needs to be reconciled with the public sector's interest of reaching large numbers of the intended beneficiaries. both can be combined to form a common vision
Understand the roles of the parties and their core competence on one hand, the public sector generates a lot of useful information and on the other, the private sector could create a sustainable deliver mechanism by creating and developing the market for information and related services. For example, in Bangladesh, the agencies under the ministry of Agriculture such as Department of Agriculture Marketing (DAM) or Agriculture information Services (AIS) have the latest information and are mandated to provide them to the wider public. they could partner with the privately owned tele-centres and enrich the database and the private sector can expand its service offer. (Public information, private channels of delivery)
Ensure sustainability through a long-term commitment from public sector to the provision of quality public sector to invest, share and manage potential risks.
Ripesh kumar
MSc ICT ARD
e-Haat Bazaar, Nepal
An example of Business-to-Business (B2B) e-Commerce, the Nepali e-Haat Bazaar (www.b2b.com.np) is a joint initiative of the Rural Urban Partnership Programme (RUPP) of Ministry of Local Development and UNDP, High Level Commission for Information Technology of Government of Nepal and the Agro Enterprises Centre (AEC) and the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FNCCI), an apex body of Nepali private sector. e-Haat Bazaar is a portal which promotes market linkages and Nepali growers and producers to explore opportunities within and beyond Nepal. the initiative is linked to www.agripricenepal.com, a website which provides daily agriculture price information to farmers, traders and the wider business community. Agripricenepal.com is an initiative of RUPP, AEC and FNCCI and is coordinated with the Market Development Division (MDD) of Department of Agriculture of Government of Nepal's Ministry of Agricultur and Cooperatives.
The portal Provides market prices and relevant information from 11 major markets from around the country and more than 100 agriculture produces are profiled. Information on this initiative is limited, but some lesson published on the RUPP websites include: the initiative that gave positive exposure to local entrepreneurs and municipalities and village dvelopment committees to the potential of ICTs; digitally supported B2B business models that can customized to suit small and micro-Entrepreneurs, capacity gap of local institution and the novelty of the e-Business as a concept result in slow uptake of the initiative.
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
NEWS related to ICT intervention in Agriculture and rural development
This section is meant for publishing news and views related to ICT intervention in agriculture and rural development in India and world wide. please send more and more comment on this blog to make it successful. Student of MSc ICT ARD are especially invited for this forum
life line India project running in bundlekhand area by TARAhaat with collaboration with One World South Asia(OWSA) , British Telecoms and ISAP providing solution to needy farmers regarding farm related query. Mr Abhishek Ranjan a student pursuing MSc ICT ARD DA-IICT is doing research work on its development and growth of lifeline India projectfrom
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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