For our farmers, we've been creative from the beginning as to how we can further benefit the livelihoods of these people that are key parts of our projects yet often economically impoverished and culturally indigenous. Under our agreements with our farmers we guarantee a premium price for all our contracted organic crops and provide extensive operational guidance, as well as look for opportunities for additional revenue. These side projects have included the collection of organic biomatter for fertilizer production and growing additional crops for trials, seed production, or poultry feed. We offer fertilizer and seeds to our poorest farmers who need the support, and buy wet-paddy instead of dry-paddy to help them reduce costs.
Whenever there is a way we can help we do, often providing ad hoc funding for things like water pumps, roads, repairs for temples, and funerals. We have surveyed two complete villages without electricity and installed ful solar lighting projects. We have a long history of subsidising village schools and providing scholarships for select children of our farming partners, and have even funded the university studies of a man who became the first member of his village to go to post-secondary education, and who now works on our team that communicates with our farming villages. We organize our groups and the way we distribute funds with the existing group structures of the village, providing funds to farmer blocs for them to organize amongst themselves with our supervision.