Farming together : Building a shared livestock farming platform between Urban and Rural citizens

The Goat Trust in partnership with Pashubajaar.com introduces a shared livestock farming model, enabling micro-investors to support poor women farmers in rearing livestock on a produce-sharing basis. Through (pashubajaar.com), investors can purchase goats and select women farmers to care for them. The project aims to reach 100 families in the first year, expanding to 400 in the second year and 500 in the third year.

Objectives:

- Empower poor women farmers through livestock ownership and skill development

- Provide micro-investment opportunities for social impact

- Promote sustainable livelihoods and poverty reduction

- Foster community development and networking

Key Stakeholders & their roles –

Micro –Investor (Individual) – Invests capital to purchase livestock and lease it to selected farmer

May invest 1 to 5 goats (one farmer will be provided max 5 goats in two trenches 3 goats in first trench and 2 goats in second trench which is after 6 months of first trench or return of first 3 goat kids)

Farmer Producer companies – Selects and nominates ultra poor families as lease clients

Pashubaaar.com – Provides option to buy and sale livestock

The Goat Trust – Facilitates whole program and monitors financial and non financial services, outcome and impact reporting

Key Components:

- Micro-investment: Investors purchase goats through (pashubajaar.com)

- Women Farmer Selection: Investors choose women farmers to rear the livestock (cow/goat/poultry)? out of the list published by TGT team

- Produce Sharing: Women farmers receive a share of the goat's produce (kids, milk, etc.) and Investor gets 50% value of kids , chicks, calves born

- Monetization – Investor can sale his/her share to pashubajaar.com on live body weight basis and realize his/her return, Assets value (livestock) will depreciate 10% for cow, 20% for goat and 50% for poultry per year and investor can realize their investment by selling livestock at anytime they wish to pashubajaar.com

- Capacity Building: Women farmers receive training and support for goat rearing

- Scaling: Gradually increase the number of families and goats involved

An open call for Sensitive citizens - Most often we sym0athize with rural farming hardships and we understand the hard labour these farming women/men puts in agriculture and livestock farming. To be a partner in their profession, you can write us ([email protected]) and we will share App link to log in to our App to express your willingness, select & purchase livestock and lease it to a farmer of your choice. A small size breed pregnant goat costs around Rs 5000 including insurance and induction protocol costs and a larger size breed costs Rs 10000 including essentials as package. So your investment may be from Rs 5000 onwards. Once you select a farmer as per your choice of region and profile, we will handover it to that particular family and she will rear it as lease livestock. TGT will monitor health, feed and growth of livestock and a monthly updates will be available on your page. After 6 months in lock period , you may take 50% produce and can sale it to get cash and original livestock may continue or you are free to sale and realize cash. This will provide estimated 30% annual return to you (Totally depends on actual production and sale value and is not any commitment ). More importantly farmer will also milk, manure besides cash in equal value realized by you as produce are shared 50% between both.

As program has been implemented since 2014 with multiple field trials , TGT is willing to open it for micro investors as an open opportunity to share, learn and earn with farmers.

Prof Sanjeev Kumar

Director

International Institute of Goat Management (IIGMA) - Institute runs a Diploma in Livestock Entrepreneurship and Business Management (LEBM) and this program will be managed by trained interns to enable them to be leaders in Livestock business