The Kisan Business School (KBS) approach is a participatory action learning process that involves farmer groups’ participation in agricultural value chains.
As part of capacity strengthening, KBS comprises a series of group- based experiential learning activities over a production-marketing cycle while interacting with other chain actors and stakeholders. KBS aspires to a more profitable pro-poor farm business through market-oriented innovations that enhance trust, coordination and collaboration between farmers and other chain actors while empowering men and women farmers, thus ultimately contributing to sustainable livelihoods of targeted farming households.
Learning Objectives
- To form and strengthen farmer groups for marketing-oriented learning and actions
- To identify and describe key actors and their roles in agricultural market chains
- To analyze and prioritize market opportunities by using appropriate tools towards increasing business profitability of farmer groups and their individual members in the context of sustainable production systems
- To introduce technological, commercial, and institutional innovations in collaboration with other chain actors and stakeholders to enable them to respond to market opportunities
- To develop a business plan that builds on innovation in making use of new market opportunity/ies.
- To develop strategies for enhancing farmer’s access and use of business development support services
Centre for Sustainable Agriculture in partnership with National Institute for Agricultural Marketing has began this initiative on a pilot basis in Andhra Pradesh and now being scaled up in AP, Telangana, Maharashtra, Bihar and Manipur. for more details contact kbs@csa-india.org
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