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Business Opportunities in Agriculture: 150 Field Interviews (Book)


Business Opportunities in Agriculture: 150 Field Interviews (Book)

kristina

New Member
MY contact information is for now my email address which is the follow: amaltheiasgarden@gmail.com i would be happy to be more specific about my campaign and to answrer any other questions you may have.
Thank you in advance
Christina Papapostolou
 

Business Opportunities in Agriculture: 150 Field Interviews (Book)

rajani21

New Member
Hi Everyone,

I would like to inform you all that, same as Abhinav Club of farmers, yet another group of farmers in Kerala have formed Pineapple Farmer's Association.
They unite and strengthen the pineapple farmers and create awareness about pineapple farming, marketing and other related subjects.

Please feel free to post your questions, suggestions on this.

Regards,
Rajani
 

Business Opportunities in Agriculture: 150 Field Interviews (Book)

adi123

New Member
Hi Everyone,

I would like to inform you all that, same as Abhinav Club of farmers, yet another group of farmers in Kerala have formed Pineapple Farmer's Association.
They unite and strengthen the pineapple farmers and create awareness about pineapple farming, marketing and other related subjects.

Please feel free to post your questions, suggestions on this.

Regards,
Rajani
HI,

I belong to MP and want to become a member of farmers group. Please send me information on suneel_soni2003@rediffmail.com or contact me on 9958997704.

Regards,

Sunil
 

Business Opportunities in Agriculture: 150 Field Interviews (Book)

rajani21

New Member
HI,

I belong to MP and want to become a member of farmers group. Please send me information on suneel_soni2003@rediffmail.com or contact me on 9958997704.

Regards,

Sunil
Hi Mr.Sunil,

Following is the procedure to join the Abhinav's farmers club

If anybody wants to join the club we give the training after which we start their project. The membership charges are Rs.1000. According to the market we start growing process.

The benefits to a new member are we help in low cost production by organic farming and assist him in supplying the products directly to the consumers.

We help them to avail govt subsidy, loans and on production cost he wiill get 30% profit.

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As told by Mr.Bodke,

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Regards,
Rajani
 

Business Opportunities in Agriculture: 150 Field Interviews (Book)

editorialteam

New Member
Hi Everyone,

I would like to inform you all that, same as Abhinav Club of farmers, yet another group of farmers in Kerala have formed Pineapple Farmer's Association.
They unite and strengthen the pineapple farmers and create awareness about pineapple farming, marketing and other related subjects.

Please feel free to post your questions, suggestions on this.

Regards,
Rajani
How the members interact with each other at Pineapple Farmer's Association? Do they have any weekly meetings? Please tell about networking amongst the members?

Regards,
Shweta
 

Business Opportunities in Agriculture: 150 Field Interviews (Book)


Business Opportunities in Agriculture: 150 Field Interviews (Book)

rajani21

New Member
How the members interact with each other at Pineapple Farmer's Association? Do they have any weekly meetings? Please tell about networking amongst the members?

Regards,
Shweta
Pineapple Farmers Association gives training in cultivation-planting,manuering,land preparation, sucker selection, weed control, pest and disease management, harvesting,ethepone application etc.
Experts from kerala agriculture university and experienced farmers as resource persons.
Agri input companies and experts from the companies also conduct programmes with PFA.
We also offer consultancy services to farmers and farming companies in other states and abroad.

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As answered by Mr.Baby John-PFA
 

Business Opportunities in Agriculture: 150 Field Interviews (Book)

rajani21

New Member
Also tell us what are the activities organized by Pineapple Farmers Association?

Regards,
Shweta
We are conducting biannual pineapple festivals in which training is given in preparing different dishes and items with the help of pineapple and also we are awarding best pineapple farmer in the state and during this occasion we conduct training programs with the help of experts from kerala agriculture university.
Almost all the agriculture companies visit with their products and farm equipments.

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As answered by Mr.Baby John-PFA

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Regards,
Rajani
 

Business Opportunities in Agriculture: 150 Field Interviews (Book)

rajani21

New Member
We are conducting biannual pineapple festivals in which training is given in preparing different dishes and items with the help of pineapple and also we are awarding best pineapple farmer in the state and during this occasion we conduct training programs with the help of experts from kerala agriculture university.
Almost all the agriculture companies visit with their products and farm equipments.

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As answered by Mr.Baby John-PFA

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Regards,
Rajani
Thanks for the sharing the information.

We have another question.

If any farmers want to join PFA as member what benefits he can expect to get?

Regards,
Rajani
 

Business Opportunities in Agriculture: 150 Field Interviews (Book)

rajani21

New Member
Thanks for the sharing the information.

We have another question.

If any farmers want to join PFA as member what benefits he can expect to get?

Regards,
Rajani
Any farmer who joins our association they will get latest information abOut cultivation, marketing etc and we will assist them to handle the day to day problems like in getting loans frm banks, subsidies from govt, labour issues.

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As answered by Mr.Baby John-PFA
 

Business Opportunities in Agriculture: 150 Field Interviews (Book)

rajani21

New Member
Any farmer who joins our association they will get latest information abOut cultivation, marketing etc and we will assist them to handle the day to day problems like in getting loans frm banks, subsidies from govt, labour issues.

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As answered by Mr.Baby John-PFA
Thank you for explaining the details.

We have another question.

Since establishment of Pineapple farmers association what are the goals and objectives achieved?

What are the next milestones to be achieved in next five years?

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Regards,
Rajani
 

Business Opportunities in Agriculture: 150 Field Interviews (Book)

rajani21

New Member
Thank you for explaining the details.

We have another question.

Since establishment of Pineapple farmers association what are the goals and objectives achieved?

What are the next milestones to be achieved in next five years?

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Regards,
Rajani
Our objectives were to train the farmers in production and marketing and avail financial help from govt, banks etc.

We are now not in marketing, but in cultivation and selling it to traders and we are planning to start our own marketing division with a smaller group.

We are planning to start an organisation specifically for the cultivation and marketing of VAZHAKULAM PINEAPPLE.
Now farmers get more than Rupees 1.25 lakhs bank loan per acre for pineapple cultivation .that is one of our main achivement.
We train the farmers to get optimum yield and we train farmers to minimize use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

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As replied by Mr.Baby John-PFA
 

Business Opportunities in Agriculture: 150 Field Interviews (Book)

rajani21

New Member
Our objectives were to train the farmers in production and marketing and avail financial help from govt, banks etc.

We are now not in marketing, but in cultivation and selling it to traders and we are planning to start our own marketing division with a smaller group.

We are planning to start an organisation specifically for the cultivation and marketing of VAZHAKULAM PINEAPPLE.
Now farmers get more than Rupees 1.25 lakhs bank loan per acre for pineapple cultivation .that is one of our main achivement.
We train the farmers to get optimum yield and we train farmers to minimize use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

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As replied by Mr.Baby John-PFA
Thank you for detailed information.

Our readers would also like to know

Does PFA has any direct link between producer and consumer?
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Regards,
Rajani
 

Business Opportunities in Agriculture: 150 Field Interviews (Book)

rajani21

New Member
Thank you for detailed information.

Our readers would also like to know

Does PFA has any direct link between producer and consumer?
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Regards,
Rajani
We don't have direct link with consumers, only middlemen do.But some of our big farmers are big wholesale traders too.Usually they give more importance to farming than trading.They try to bring up the price of pineapple.So middlemen exploitation is less in pineapple compared to other products.

As answered by Mr.Baby John-PFA
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Regards,
Rajani
 

Business Opportunities in Agriculture: 150 Field Interviews (Book)

rajani21

New Member
We don't have direct link with consumers, only middlemen do.But some of our big farmers are big wholesale traders too.Usually they give more importance to farming than trading.They try to bring up the price of pineapple.So middlemen exploitation is less in pineapple compared to other products.

As answered by Mr.Baby John-PFA
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Regards,
Rajani
Thank you for the reply.

We have another question

How do you help pineapple farmers in marketing their produce? please share the details? and also, how does PFA promotes the pineapple processing facilities?

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Regards,
Rajani
 

Business Opportunities in Agriculture: 150 Field Interviews (Book)

rajani21

New Member
Thank you for the reply.

We have another question

How do you help pineapple farmers in marketing their produce? please share the details? and also, how does PFA promotes the pineapple processing facilities?

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Regards,
Rajani
We are not into marketing but we record the everyday price of the pineapple and if the farmers ask the price we provide them with the day to day price and if the farmers ask for forecast we may give some approximate price.We provide the same service to the traders from outside.

We are not in the field of processing but we are getting many enquiries and I had very good experience in processing industry and was the chairman of NAPCL-NADUKARA AGRO PROCESSING COMPANY LIMITED.

It Is a 50 crore company entirely funded by European Union and with this experience we advice the enquirers.
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As answered by Mr. Baby John-PFA
 

Business Opportunities in Agriculture: 150 Field Interviews (Book)

rajani21

New Member
We are not into marketing but we record the everyday price of the pineapple and if the farmers ask the price we provide them with the day to day price and if the farmers ask for forecast we may give some approximate price.We provide the same service to the traders from outside.

We are not in the field of processing but we are getting many enquiries and I had very good experience in processing industry and was the chairman of NAPCL-NADUKARA AGRO PROCESSING COMPANY LIMITED.

It Is a 50 crore company entirely funded by European Union and with this experience we advice the enquirers.
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As answered by Mr. Baby John-PFA
Thanks for sharing the detailed information.

Our readers would like to know--

Does PFA supply pineapple only in India or does it exports too? Please tell us how do you tap the international demand of the pineapple and in which countries it is supplied?
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Regards,
Rajani
 

Business Opportunities in Agriculture: 150 Field Interviews (Book)

rajani21

New Member
Thanks for sharing the detailed information.

Our readers would like to know--

Does PFA supply pineapple only in India or does it exports too? Please tell us how do you tap the international demand of the pineapple and in which countries it is supplied?
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Regards,
Rajani
We are not directly into exporting into any country but we are planning to start in the middle east with the help of govt with the proposed new organisation meant for the development of VAZHAKULAM PINEAPPLE by participating in the coming dubai fest.

As replied by Mr.Baby John-PFA
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Business Opportunities in Agriculture: 150 Field Interviews (Book)

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