Peasant Welfare Association India is a network of farmers associations, grassroots development organizations and community based organizations. We work with small and marginal farmers and indigenous communities in the rain-fed and hill slope farming areas including shifting cultivation areas. Peasant welfare association was formally registered under The Societies Registration Act 1860 on 2005 in Muzaffarnagar City. Have coordinators, consultants, staff, volunteers, contract staff and advisory board. We organize and empower the rural farming communities in capacity building, organization and farmer for self reliance and poverty reduction. The farmer association member farmers are professionally working for quality extension, production, value addition, storage and marketing and legal assistance to the farmers. One of our slogan is “Farm to Board Room” and empower the farmer take his/her decisions. PWA has become a People’s Movement, by the farmers, of the farmers & for the farmers. Trainings are organized and conducted on organic farming, fair-trade, farmer-led certification (for both ecological and social standards), entrepreneurship, natural resource management and conservation of mountain ecology and biodiversity. Agro-bio diversity and livelihood options for poverty reduction are addressed with quality extension and demonstration activities through farmer field schools. The household debts are addressed through self help groups and micro credit (savings and loans) induced production and marketing activities ensuring effective experience in local and mid level marketing by women groups and youth. We set up a procurement fund for farmers produces and building infrastructure to reach market to villages and production areas. Through the farmer, the long chain of middleman is reduced and the consumers are best served with quality, quantity and affordable pricing. We try to empower the farmers for negotiating skill and helping them to set up strong community based organizations for long term trade relations. PWA has also written to Congress chairperson Mrs. Sonia Gandhi for creating a separate agricultural budget just like the railway budget. The association has also demanded that a national-level special fund be created for farmers which could be used for poor farmers. We value location specific traditional knowledge and try to document and disseminate them for best practices. We have offices in Muzaffarnagar (Utter Pardesh) We solicit enquiries from genuine fairtrade and organic companies as well as small farmer organizations.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 04:09:58 +0000
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