Eco India: Small apple growers are reaping profits by becoming owners of a sustainable value chain

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Eco India: Small apple growers are reaping profits by becoming owners of a sustainable value chain

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4 жыл бұрын

Every week, Eco India brings you stories that inspire to build a cleaner, greener and better tomorrow. Our top story this week looks at how a social enterprise is enabling the creation of a sustainable apple supply chain that is co-owned by small and marginal apple growers of the Himalayas, who otherwise lacked easy access to a direct market and the infrastructure necessary to make profits in the apple business.
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@hiteshjusta1731 4 жыл бұрын

i am an apple grower from shimla and it feels great when you cover stories like these.

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 4 жыл бұрын

We worked in Jubbal area at Paronthi, khada pathar and ko lada

@devivinod 4 жыл бұрын

what is that water like liquid in which they put apples before putting in boxes

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 4 жыл бұрын

s cleaning of apples in a channel. Fresh clean water water only.

@humanbng7123 4 жыл бұрын

Now a days farming is better than engineering..Keep going👍

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 4 жыл бұрын

Human Bng if farming and engineering combined as partnerships for prosperity it would become win-win.

@Axat_Krishnatray 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, Govt should more encourage to tree based plantation, it help for both Farmers and environment.

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 4 жыл бұрын

After Utrrakhand flash flood of 2013 GOI’s power sectors PSUs agreed to provide funds from their CSR for restoration of farmers livelihood but never reached to them in Gangotri area. The committees has been formed at districts, state and GOI level.

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 4 жыл бұрын

True but in government system there are lack of focus on implementing these types of ventures with communities. As an example a CSR project of power sector companies of GOI was sanctioned for livelihood restoration of the farmers in Gangotri area affected by 2013 flash flood but nodal agency THDC India never released the funds due to unknown reasons.

@handl3_me 4 жыл бұрын

This is really amazing for small farmers, am sure they're grateful for all these improvements, especially financially. Well done to the organisers 😊

@shrijas19 4 жыл бұрын

This partnership bring happiness to all stakeholders by improving their situations financially, socially and ecologically. Thanks to social business kuenselonline.com/unique-opportunities-for-a-fair-and-just-economy-in-bhutan/

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 4 жыл бұрын

We are now prepared to replicate the model in other parts of India for multiple crops with like minded farmers collectives, value chain businesses and social investors to build back better from damage due to COVID-19 pandemic.

@maazkalim 4 жыл бұрын

What “damage”?

@shrijas19 4 жыл бұрын

The lockdown announced by governments to limit the spread of infectious disease damaged the businesses, supply chains and employment opportunities. Restoration of these all during unlocking by building partnerships in solidarity with stakeholders is necessary.

@nirbhaysingh6415 4 жыл бұрын

Laxmi Prakash Semwal All Best Wishes to you and team for this game changer. Fantastic

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 4 жыл бұрын

Nirbhay Singh ji thanks.

@arvindaswal8607 4 жыл бұрын

This is really amazing for our small and marginal farmers ,i hope our uttarakhand government focus more such project ,my native place many acre of land in {दड्डवा} today there is barren land where apple was once cultivated.

@shrijas19 4 жыл бұрын

Collective farming linked with market always a need for farmers prosperity and national food security.

@kmh9817 4 жыл бұрын

We are developing.

@arnapaul2617 4 жыл бұрын

It is good to see the improved condition of these farmers

@shrijas19 4 жыл бұрын

Partnerships of farmers collectives and social investors to build value chains could deliver more venture like this.

@aloma1501 4 жыл бұрын

Wow I'm super impressed by the technology and waste reduction. This model should be implemented in all states. I'm so happy that not only the farmer gets his due but also a part of the profit. Great job guys. Wish you success in all your endeavours. Lots of love and blessings from Mumbai. 🙏

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the words for encouragement. We all stakeholders at www.himalayanapples.com are dedicated to keep the businesses with socioeconomic returns successfully operational with vision of replication in other areas.

@shrijas19 3 жыл бұрын

This eventually farmers owned businesses now prepared for replication. A new company Annamrit Kalash for Maharashtra has been registered.

@vinay007parab 4 жыл бұрын

Feels good to see our indian farmers achieve great heights

@shrijas19 4 жыл бұрын

When we think www.farmersasowners.org these results are visible.

@gtanj 4 жыл бұрын

It is great to see people flourish in harmony with nature.

@Suryamani77 4 жыл бұрын

This is the true example of Atmanirbhar Bharat. Instead of shelling out lacs of crores of taxpayers money to crony capitalists, schemes and movements like these should be encouraged. But this won't happen on a countrywide scale as the parties that come to power are funded by the very cronies who don't want anyone to challenge their monopoly and unethical ways of business.

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 4 жыл бұрын

Suryamani Goswami this is true as this initiative also started and managed as a social business financially supported by a social investment organisation www.farmersasowners.org From government support for livelihood restoration after 2013 flash flood was sanctioned through THDC India but never reached to farmers and still laying in their bank account.

@nirbhaysingh6415 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant and the need of the hour

@jibinjacob. 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks be to God 🙏 May our farmers prosper and provide our nation with good quality food. If useless middlemen are removed from the chain, both farmers and consumers will benefit.

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 4 жыл бұрын

As per this social business model partnering with value chain businesses by replacing middlemen has been practiced. Removing creat a vacuum to allow another layer of greed.

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 4 жыл бұрын

JarJarBinks this model a step ahead as hybrid of cooperatives with corporate partnerships to realise the blended values of social and economic returns both at same time.

@anubhavgupta774 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you eco india team .... It really put smile on my face .... knowing these efforts improved lives of many

@maazkalim 4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget to watch the original-telecast on DW® English's global feed.. ...At 2100 hrs IST. It's worth the initiative, and.. *BONUS:* The full-episodes premiere by at least 1½ days earlier.

@anubhavgupta774 4 жыл бұрын

@@maazkalim thanks for the information

@prasanthgrandhi 4 жыл бұрын

I love your channel. I eagerly wait for your videos every week.

@maazkalim 4 жыл бұрын

The ‘Eco India®’ one?

@prasanthgrandhi 4 жыл бұрын

@@maazkalim yes the eco india one

@AmitKumarAlphaX 4 жыл бұрын

Great 😍😍😍😍

@srinivasanr245 4 жыл бұрын

Appreciate the vision... 100% profit to farmers... Is an excellent vision

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 4 жыл бұрын

The partnership of farmers collectives, value chain businesses and social investors could bring the happiness to allkuenselonline.com/unique-opportunities-for-a-fair-and-just-economy-in-bhutan/

@knightofgodserventofholymo7500 4 жыл бұрын

This kinds of groups are necessary in whole India...tears came from my eyes when I heard that few months back the middle men bought onions at 50 paise from Maharashtra farmers

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 4 жыл бұрын

If farmers collectivised and build partnerships with value chain businesses it could possible for any crop everywhere.

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 4 жыл бұрын

Anirudh k farmers collectives and value chain businesses jointly can overcome the challenges of economic policies of government.

@maazkalim 4 жыл бұрын

.@@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 How so? By being declared as Maoists/Naxalites and every other "BAAAADDD" thingy in the information-warfare at the altar of a neo world-religion dubbed ‘nAtIOnaL sEcuRiTy’? Or better yet.. By organising _havana_ and _mahayajna_ ?

@durgadangwal8269 4 жыл бұрын

अति सुंदर भाइ

@humanbng7123 4 жыл бұрын

Great guys! Cover more stories like this👍

@akanksha1296 4 жыл бұрын

oija vee bahut hi bhal lago uttarakhand dekh ber!!

@maazkalim 4 жыл бұрын

German?!?°

@akanksha1296 4 жыл бұрын

@@maazkalim Kumaoni from the uttarakhand state of India

@abdulbabusalam 4 жыл бұрын

Great video .. seeing those fresh apples in the morning feels refreshing

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 4 жыл бұрын

kuenselonline.com/unique-opportunities-for-a-fair-and-just-economy-in-bhutan/ Is an initiative to build partnerships.

@bhagyalakshmi3583 4 жыл бұрын

We also should do kitchen garden

@aleenaprasannan2146 4 жыл бұрын

Seems like even just access to cold storage can help the farmers get better incomes. We really need to get this technology accessible to every single village in India

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 4 жыл бұрын

If farmers can improve their holding capacity for longer time they will bargain better with businesses.

@Dhruv.k 3 жыл бұрын

It was against law to hoard, as it came under essentials commodities act now they can

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 3 жыл бұрын

dhruv kumar this is the store of the farmers by the farmers fir the farmers as owners in favour of consumers as this is the only solution as import substitution.

@Dhruv.k 3 жыл бұрын

@@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 bhai kya likha hai...koi nai tu hindi ma hi likhde

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 3 жыл бұрын

dhruv kumar जी ये सी० ए० स्टोर सेब उत्पादक किसानों की संयुक्त साझेदारी में उन्हीं के द्वारा, उन्हीं के अंततोगत्वा स्वामित्व में में उन्हीं के द्वारा संचालित है जो देश की सेब आयत में व्यय की जा रही बहुमूल्य धनराशि को बचाने के साथ उपभोगताओं के लिए भी लाभदायक है। ruralmarketing.in/industry/agriculture/uttarakhand-apple-farmers-become-shareholders-in-jv

@harpalsinhdodiya8765 4 жыл бұрын

Eco India keep it up

@maazkalim 4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget to watch the original-telecast on DW® English's global feed.. ...At 2100 hrs IST. It's worth the initiative, and.. *BONUS:* The full-episodes premiere by at least 1½ days earlier.

@SahilKumar-dc5ph 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this type of content

@maazkalim 4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget to watch the original-telecast on DW® English's global feed.. ...At 2100 hrs IST. It's worth the initiative, and.. *BONUS:* The full-episodes premiere by at least 1½ days earlier.

@dharmateja22 4 жыл бұрын

Well, basically don't have to move away from villages. This model should be replicated all over India. The Indian villages of the future should be technological and resource powerhouse. Cities are highly overrated and crowded.

@shrijas19 4 жыл бұрын

One of the objective of this initiative is to overcome the difficulties of our migration in Uttrakhand hills.

@arunabhbanerjee 4 жыл бұрын

Superb🙏🏾

@MySNova 4 жыл бұрын

Love you scroll 😘

@dabro4963 4 жыл бұрын

Quality videos from scroll. Thank you.

@maazkalim 4 жыл бұрын

DW & Scroll* There! FTFY 😊

@janardhanreddy4971 4 жыл бұрын

I love the speakers voice.❤️

@bhavinshukla428 4 жыл бұрын

So true. I think after a long break of approx 2 months the voiceover lady is back with eco team :-)

@humanbng7123 4 жыл бұрын

Yes it's so peaceful

@bhavinshukla428 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing... effort. I always wanted to go and see the apple farms, Now I have a reason to educate myself :-)

@aishwaryathapliyal3707 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@shreyakommuri3929 4 жыл бұрын

wow! This is so amazing.

@winfredj9820 4 жыл бұрын

awesome :clap

@pavansanni1304 4 жыл бұрын

Wowwww

@suyashgupta87 4 жыл бұрын

Always get excited when i see your new videos.

@maazkalim 4 жыл бұрын

The ‘Eco India®’ bi-platform series or..?

@suyashgupta87 4 жыл бұрын

@@maazkalim Eco India specially. I like the dw docus too, but the focus that eco India brings to India centric green innovations specially in rural India is amazing.

@maazkalim 4 жыл бұрын

Ahh... Haven't watched DW® English for long-enough. But I have grown to love their AJE®'s Mr Mehdi Hasan's interview-style in conducting interviews. One-on-one, _sans_ the oh-so-unfamiliar shouting and yearning to just jump at each other!( TOTAL understatement of ratings-driven Indian mainstream press. Since I don't believe in binaries, 'course not the absolute.) _Vide_ ‘DW®'s Conflict Zone™’, presented by a Murican journalist. I don't enough viewing-experience in DW® Documentary, the only other significantly-reliable international pubcaster to have their distinct documentary-making operations. My insight into them is[ creamless] wafer-thin. However, if you really do like DW® Documentary channel - may I recommend one? *Edit Note:* Fixed my typos. 😬😬😬

@suyashgupta87 4 жыл бұрын

@@maazkalim sure, why not.

@maazkalim 4 жыл бұрын

Alright.. Here it is: *"Land of Broken Promises" by Stéphane Girard* I found it both engaging, narrative-wise - and( *micro-spoilers ahead:* )... ...Underwhelming, because perhaps owing to the scope and time-restrictions of the DW®'s ‘Close Up®’ documentary-strand and obviously, old-school Journalism strictly abhors commentary [ which includes positing _solutions_ ] - it comes across as a wafer-thin analysis, given its setting. However, still bold enough given the political-climate across most of the "First World" in shutting-off critical, non-academic discourse pertaining to that geopolitical-entity.

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 4 жыл бұрын

so far no government support reached to these farmers organisations and businesses promoted by www.annamrit.com as a social investor. Once the support was sanctioned by NDMA government if India for livelihood restoration of 2013 flash flood effected Apple growers of Gangotri area but the implementing agency THDC India never released the funds despite a decision on a PIL of women’s cooperatives.

@rainbowxxbat 3 жыл бұрын

I sold apple at 1.5 crore in Hp . Nashpati for 32 lakh . Plums at 7lakh. Labour was a problem this season but it’s ok.

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations.

@maggikandpal7522 4 жыл бұрын

Wanna buy house in uttarakhand so can live a peaceful life and farming but I m not sure which place ...now I think this place seems right..

@jagratrajrana 4 жыл бұрын

Its not easy to buy property in Uttarakhand by outsiders.

@maggikandpal7522 4 жыл бұрын

@@jagratrajrana thanks for info but I m from uttarkhand....

@jagratrajrana 4 жыл бұрын

@@maggikandpal7522 no problem then.. I'm from Uttarakhand too.

@govindnarasimman6819 3 жыл бұрын

i am an nri . I dont see much avenues to invest in such ventures.

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 3 жыл бұрын

There are lot of possibilities but we need the right selection of areas, crops and producers collectives to start a feasibility study and investment plan to start a partnership model of social businesses.

@maazkalim 4 жыл бұрын

Ahh...! So the episodes are uploaded 2 days post-global premiere on.. ...linear TV, huh? 😏 Eureka...! ☺️

@niharikalahajal6999 3 жыл бұрын

Yahapar cherry ugana chahie i💕cherry blossom

@princenegi1886 3 жыл бұрын

How can someone from Himachal join this?

@shrijas19 3 жыл бұрын

We have already started our Apple collection centres at villages named Parinthi, Badhal and Khadapathar of Jubbal area in Shimla district.

@princenegi1886 3 жыл бұрын

@@shrijas19 great....is it available in Kinnaur too?

@rawat2608 4 жыл бұрын

The best thing that happened to Uttarakhand is getting separate d from UP

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 4 жыл бұрын

This initiative is required for farmers ownership over value chain businesses required everywhere without taking the geopolitical, socioeconomic or environmental sectional division.

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 3 жыл бұрын

Corruption at higher level of executive functionaries is the main problem in replication of the model.

@khushbootopno9826 4 жыл бұрын

This is called aatm nirbhar project

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 4 жыл бұрын

Rather than aatmanirbhar this one is paraspar Aashrit.

@khushbootopno9826 4 жыл бұрын

@@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 ok

@maazkalim 4 жыл бұрын

"Modi The Messiah", alright? 😏

@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 4 жыл бұрын

Ma'az Kalim if anyone one really wants to be self reliant there is no one to stop but if someone has a dependency on anybody it difficult to escape from daydreaming. Building partnerships on specific self strengths is the key for prosperity and happiness.

@maazkalim 4 жыл бұрын

@@laxmiprakashsemwal8626 Why are you repping OP? Are you a sock? If you're not, then Thanks but No Thanks because if I'm open to receiving any reply for my comment here - it's for her.