B.
INTERVENTION AT GROWERS AND PRODUCER GROUP LEVEL
- EXTENSION - MANAGEMENT - INFRASTRUCTURE - QUALITY CONTROL
Intervention B 1 Strengthen Producer Organization
Programme: B 1a Management, Transparency and Member Ownership
A well functioning producer organization is a pre-condition for success, also for the implementation of the other following recommended interventions.
It is important for the producer group to have effective and transparent management systems. The pomelo producer organization in Wieng Kaen is still a young organization. There are many demands and requirements towards export markets as traceability, quality management, control and certification.
Most of the farmers in Thailand are small scale farmers and may not easily understand the importance of such issues.
The producers in Wieng Kaen still lack understanding on proper structure and tools for farmer group management and suffered already from set-backs and internal conflicts at this level. This leads directly to quality problems such as member harvest too young pomelo and not proper functioning QC. Member ownership and cooperative responsibility must be strengthened with help of training and outside moderation.
The formation and strengthening of a functioning farmer organization is generally one of the most challenging tasks in agriculture project development – with the group in Wieng Kaen being no exception.
Partners
Wieng Kaen Pomelo Producer Groups, CMU, DOA, Office of Chiang Rai Cooperative Promotion, DOAE
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