Profitability and Marketing of Income Generating Activities (IGA) for ...

Study on Profitability and Marketing of IGA of Ultra-Poor under IFSUP Final Report
able to make good contract linkage just immediate actors of the value chain (backward
– forward), can be improve their business, and sale to the market.
• Lack of enterprising/business attitude of the beneficiaries makes them less
competitiveness over the market, so that they are getting less profit from the market,
though there are huge demand for agricultural produces, cattle’s, and potentialities for
small business.
• Small volume of the products that does not attract large purchaser so that they sale
their products in less price to the small or local traders
• Lack of access over the markets because of unfriendly behavior of the middlemen, nonfamiliarity
with the buyers/middlemen, limited scopes in the local bazaar / market /
growth center, non-familiarity with the language of the buyers/middlemen, and lack of
bargaining capacity causes less income
• Lack of landholdings/non-movable assets (sometimes they do not like to plant tree or
undertake vegetables gardening schemes etc.
• Lack of education makes vulnerable in the market simultaneously language also
barriers for the Adibasis to some extents
• Lack of knowledge (livestock, vegetable, paddy, or others) on cultivation technique,
fertilizer management and disease management forces them to remain at low
productive level. Almost all of the beneficiaries are new entrants learned the
cultivation technology from the fellow farmers. Commercialization of the products still
underway to go further, PNGOs can take an initiative to make them understand the
business concept, savings scheme, and entrepreneurship. They can facilitate farmers
on modern production / cultivation technology to produce market oriented products
for sale. Farmers in general were found to have little or no knowledge of the modern
and improved commercial cultivation techniques such as high yielding varieties,
cultivation practices from any public or private sector source. Preparation, printing and
distribution of a production manual, arranging customized training using public or
private resource persons, or linking them with good inputs supplying companies can
help them to learn on the aforesaid problems.
• Scarcity of service providers locally both for agricultural, livestock’s results into slow
productivity growth and thus low income growth for the beneficiaries. Although few
paravets are initiated in Rangpur but it seems to need more capacity building in many
ways to support appropriate services for the beneficiaries. If they have good
relationship with inputs selling companies (or skilled retailers) they might give some
valuable services/ suggestions time to time as embedded with their products.
• Loosely connected value chain actors and large number of trading intermediaries
results less price to sale and high cost for purchase for the beneficiaries
• Fragile to take risk on keeping productive assets, results they are selling products
earlier than expected to mature due to family needs, health care, food mitigation etc.
makes them less income and profit.
• Inadequate market information hinders to assess demand - supply of the produces that
makes them less price and overall low income of the beneficiaries
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