activities :
- scholarships for select children of farmers in the project
- one fund for each farmer bloc; fund managed by farmers plus one Urmatt staff member
- premium over market price for all paddy contracted
- no child labor allowed in any part of entire project and operations
- subsidise schools
- provide fertilisers to farmers as needed by the poorest farmers
- provide seed to farmers as needed by the poorest farmers
- ad hoc funding for water pumps, road and temple repairs, funerals etc.
- subsidised loans to field staff as requested
- buy wet paddy to further reduce costs to farmers; we do the drying of paddy ourselves to help them
- provided solar lighting to two complete villages who had no electricity