Improving Livelihoods of Rural Farmers through ICT Enabled and eServices Integrated MFIs
Lovely beans that rural Nepal produces in Lamjung District. Coffees are now grown from Dhading, Argakhanchi, Gulmi and Palpa districts also. Small holder growers dominate the producers in Nepal.
"Bottom-up approach and instigated Community's Stake with support of long term service might be your best chance of sustaining any ICT based strategies. Better, if social enterprise can directly partner with coommunities it has more chance of sustaining."
- Tikajit Rai.
"Out of 100, I cut down 98 coffee plants after I did not get any market-linkage leads. After I met Magnus team, I regret that I did it. However, I planted and harvested coffees from these trees for the last 20 years. No one could really help me, including Tea and Coffee Board, for the right way to process it and for the buyout. One JTA even advised us we should boil the beans before pulping them."
- Farmer member of Maidi VDC coop