The target group will be households belonging to Scheduled Castes and Tribes , landless labourers, women, small and marginal farmers.

PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

• Bringing convergence of ongoing government-sponsored programmes and linking them with the project and partnering symbiotically with NGOs and private sector to develop viable subprojects

• Involving NGOs as key service providers for the implementation of programmes based on end-to-end approach

• Four major components: partnership building and capacity development, pro-poor market linkages and sustainable agriculture, women empowerment and resilience building and project management

• Poor-private sector partnership to address the problems of marketing agricultural produce

• Central role to the women SHGs to social and financial counselling of the distressed households

• Introducing contract farming for organic cotton and other crops

• Close monitoring and implementation of supervision support.