IABM cooperative became the first cooperative to be certified as a hybrid maize seed supplier in 2020. It has expanded its hybrid seed production from 50 ha in 2018 to 100 ha in 2020, which tripled its turnover as well as of 1048 members involved. With the support of Agriterra, IABM secured a contract to […]
Rukiga Sacco
Rukiga Sacco in Uganda is a financial cooperative in the rural area of Kabale, Uganda. They engage in savings for members. They also advance loans to small holder farmers and have around 21,700 clients (end 2020) with loans. As of 2019, Rukiga SACCO is transforming from a traditional cooperative financial institution to a customer needs […]
A successful rice project in DR Congo
Heineken was looking for rice for her brewery Bralima in DR Congo. Six rice cooperatives in the Ruzizi Plain had insufficient working capital to buy the members’ rice for processing and delivery. In the first year, with Agriterra’ s advice, the cooperatives were able to take out a loan at Equity Bank and buy 1500 tons of rice from the members and resell it […]
Federación de Cooperativas Federadas Ltda.
FECOFE IS A BRIDGE BETWEEN THE AGRI-FOOD COOPERATIVES. We are a cooperative of cooperatives. We represent traditional agricultural livestock cooperatives and processed food cooperatives. Today we have 38 associated cooperatives in 8 provinces, and many others in the process of association, covering a wide spectrum of socio-economic and productive realities. Our reason for being is cooperatives and […]
Young Farmers for the Future
Before 2011, formation of farmers labor organization was forbidden in Myanmar. AFFM was established, with a few members who owned less than 10 acres of land. In 2014, with the help of the MTCP2 Project, AFFM started to organize more farmer members from village levels to township and up to region / state levels. Finally […]
Case study 1: Agriculture Co-op, a mechanism to improve livelihood and forest conservation
Ou Mreah Commune, located in Siem Bouk district, Stung Treng province, is a remote and poor commune consisting of 4 villages with a population of 2,840 people (1,362 females) living in 705 households. People mostly depend on agricultural activities (95%) and involve in illegal logging and not participating in natural resource protection and 38% (2013) […]
About a primary agriculture cooperative society
It was formed in 1982 in Phyu Township. Members came to this area from various kinds of regions. They didn’t have land and other properties. In this area, it was a vacant land area. So, people organized to do collective business and get the idea to form a cooperative. There are 46 members. There are […]
Fighting climate change – with gender equality
Myanmar is third most vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the world. A We Effect and Mern project support women and men to work together to overcome the challenges. It’s not an iceberg the size of New York crashing into the ocean, a massive forest threatening a California city, or a starving polar […]