Koratty Service co-operative society

Koratty Service Co-operative Bank

Projects

Matsya Dhan

As a means to ensure greater self-reliance in the area of fish farming, KSCB is looking to institute a freshwater fish farming project called Matsya Dhan.

This project will focus on a holistic, sustainable, and comprehensive model of fisheries development for the Bank. Infrastructural, technical, socio-economic, and supply chain related projects will be conducted as part of Matsya Dhan.

  • SHG/ JLG Formation (Pisciculture): Presently there are 33 SHG units under the Bank.
  • Training participation from Govt/PPP/NGO

Krishi Vigyan Kendra, CMFRI, KFD, MatsyaFed, National Fisheries Development Board etc. will be sought out to create industrial visits, exposure visits, training, and collaborations.

  • Land bank
  • Labour bank
  • Viable project deployment
  • Technical Know-How
  • Agricultural loans, Financial Integration, & Availing financial assistance
  • Infrastructure Development
  • Project Participation LSGD/Govt/PPP/NGO
  • Monitoring System
  • Certifications
  • Insurance
  • Model farms for SHGs
  • Production Technology

Project Scope

To build an Integrated Freshwater Fisheries Project with Supply Chain in collaboration with Coop Mart.

This project will ensure production, value addition, and marketing outlet & ecommerce with a door-to-door delivery supply chain that supports the freshwater fisheries project.

Aims

  • Self-reliance in food production
  • Sustainable development plan for the project and the communities involved.
  • Create a successful and replicable model in pisciculture
  • Create a community of resilient, and successful members.

Objectives

  • Reduce production costs by utilising all existing systems
  • Increase production by adapting to seasonal practices.
  • Ensure the quality of the product is such that it can compete with today’s market.
  • Create value-added products that offer higher prices.
  • Direct the products to the consumer, avoiding intermediaries so that the farmers can get the right price
  • Create and maintain a strong system of fish storage, and supply to ensure project success.

Supply Chain Services Including E-Marketing Platform In Agriculture

Through this project Koratty Service Cooperative Bank aims to create such a cohesive, and coordinated effort towards a seamless supply chain services, including the end-mile connectivity with ecommerce orientation, this is arguably the first time an organisation in the Co-operative sector is attempting such a project. This could be a model for other organisations as well, and will have a positive impact on accountability and transparency.

Project Mission

  • To create and maintain a seamless and sustainable technological supply chain management system suited for the Cooperative sector, and the farming and supporting sectors.
  • To create warehousing, storage, packaging, assaying systems to support the entire range of products from FPOs, Cooperatives, NGOs, SHGs from across Kerala and India.
  • Focus on marketing GI tagged products of India, both agricultural and non-farm products.
  • Deliver quality products at a fair price from the producer to the customers.
  • Employment generation for youth and women in surrounding areas.
  • To support Farmer institutions, FPOs, Cooperatives, Small holder farmers, SHGs, through its holistic model.
  • Create an affordable, quality supply chain model with traceability for the produce in the Cooperative sector, that can be replicated by other organisations.

Through this project the Bank aims to be a national model in the above documented aspects. The farmers of Kerala will no doubt benefit from this project, but products that have been GI tagged from across India will receive a larger market base. Kerala as a consumer market along with its large non-resident Indian population will help generate much needed market along with global visibility for the products.

The United Nations (UN) has identified the current decade as the ‘Decade of Action’ and all countries, including India, are working to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The emphasis nationally has been on making agricultural supply chains more sustainable, transparent, traceable and innovative to prevent any kind of exploitation while working towards guaranteeing food security. Thus, there needs to be an imperative focus towards conceiving a strategy through dialogue and discussion for establishing and modelling a sustainable Agricultural Value Chains framework to improve productivity, profitability and environmental outcomes, leading to robust and resilient agricultural supply chains.

Project is funded under the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF), supported by NABARD, and Kerala Bank. Technical Management Organisation: RM Agronature Pvt Ltd.