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A gendered assessment of the Mulukanoor Women’s Cooperative Dairy value chain, Telangana, India
Kumara Swamy, Michael Blümmel, Jean-Joseph Cadilhon, Kathleen Earl Colverson, Yerradoddi Ramana Reddy and Thanammal Ravichandran
8th International Conference of the Asian Society of Agricultural Economists (ASAE) on Viability of Small Farmers in Asia 2014, Saver, Bangladesh, 15-17 August 2014
Contents
Introduction
Study area
Research hypothesis
Methodology
Results
Conclusion
Recommendations
Context/Introduction
Crop-livestock farming plays a major role in livelihood of rural community in India
90% of dairy farmers are small and marginal farmers (NSS, 2006) with less productive animals
Poor bargaining power and lack of capital investment restrict to link markets
Collective way of marketing and services like cooperatives will help them to improve livelihood
Cooperatives played a major role in dairy development in India for last 4 decades through operation flood program
Women play a major role in dairy production and management
Research Hypothesis
Gender based value chain assessment was doneTo understand the gender roles and relations in the dairy value chain (needs, status, capacities, roles and constraints)
To formulate business expansion strategies of women based dairy cooperative
Study area
Mulukanoor Women Cooperative Dairy (MWCD) Demanded ILRI for study on gendered assessment for
business expansion This dairy is supporting 110 villages with 25kms radius
KARIMNAGAR DISTRICT
WARANGAL DISTRICT
KHAMMAM DISTRICT
CHHATTISGARH STATE
MAHARASHTRA STATE
ADILABAD DISTRICTNIZAMABAD DISTRICT
MEDAK DISTRICT
NALGONDA DISTRICT
MWCD KamalapurShanigaram
KandugulaChigurumamidi
Basvapur
ThatikondaDharmasagar
Tharigoppula
PecharaMallampalli
Antakkapet
Bommakal
www.mapsofindia.com
Methodology
F-Female, M-Male
Analysis Qualitative gender based analysis
Descriptive statistics
Results
Gender roles
Area of activities Men Women
Agriculture Ploughing Sowing
Purchase inputs Weeding
Irrigation infrastructure Harvesting
Transport Threshing
Marketing Packing
Livestock Animal health Fodder collection
Breeding Feeding
Cleaning shed
Dairy animals Marketing milk Milking
Sweet manufacturing Marketing milk
Gender importance
• More labour hours by women for dairy activities than men
• Decision making- mostly combine
• High income share from milk sale by women
• High income share from cattle sale by men
• Service providers/stakeholders- paravet, veterinarian, AI/NS
service provider, sweet shops, feed seller, milk traders- Mostly
men
Existing area- dairy value chain
Dairy producers
Own consumption
Neighbours
Hotels
Vijaya Dairy
Nagarjuna Dairy
MWCD
MarketingInput
credit
Animal health,
insurance
Breed
Extension service
FeedMWCD
BanksMoney lenders
State government
MWCD Insurance to women members
Informal marketing-traders
In existing area Traders numbers decreased competition with MWDC Other livelihood options-business, transport, agriculture labour
Most of the milk from small dairy farmers >95%
Pricing system
Existing area- good price through cooperativeProspective area- exploitation by traders
Conclusion
Women play a major role in dairy farming activities
Men play major role in marketing services and service provision- not restricting the women to sell milk or getting service
Cooperative system is beneficial for women for better price and input services
Informal marketing through traders is exploiting the farmers
High value added products like sweet from Khoa are from rain-fed area
Recommendations
Increase the procurement- expansion of area 5-10 km or open membership for men (non-members in existing area- but no compromise on women empowerment)
Feed related interventions need improvement (fodder seed, feed unit expansion, chopping the fodder)
Long term business agreement with sweet manufacturers
Supply milk to other cities and 24 hrs. milk booths
Comparison study for decision making and impact - women only & mixed cooperatives
Acknowledgements
This work was undertaken as part of, and funded by, the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish, led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). This presentation has not gone through IFPRI’s standard peer-review procedure. The opinions expressed here belong to the authors, and do not necessarily reflect those of PIM, IFPRI, or CGIAR