Livelihood and Entrepreneurship Development
Under various schemes, we are promoting livelihood & entrepreneurship development programmes. We help the community to identify most suitable & viable livelihood activities through micro entrepreneurship development and livelihood entrepreneurship development training programmes, financial inclusion programmes and through participatory micro planning exercise.
Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs)
CRD is one of the Producer Organisation Promoting Institutions for NABARD. Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) are formed to increase the income of the farmers through value addition and aggregation of farming activities. CRD is promoting 6 FPOs in Kannur and Kasaragod Districts with the support from NABARD. They are Gramalakshmi Marketing Producer Company LTD, Thulunad farmer producer company LTD & Ksheera Farmer producer company in Kasaragod district and Pariyaram Coconut Farmers’ Producer Company LTD, Anthoor Vegetable & Fruit farmers producer company LTD & Kurumathoor Honey farmers producer company LTD in Kannur district . All the FPOs are registered under Companies Act.
Rural Mart
With the assistance from NABARD, we have promoted a Rural Mart at Peria. It is run by Kairali Farmers’ Club. Rural Mart facilitate marketing of the own produces of the farmers and supply necessary tools and inputs for farming activities. Process is on to install a Rural Mart at Irrity for the Aralam Tribal Community.
Farmer participatory Seed Production and Seed Bank programme
This farmer participatory programme is indented to produce and supply quality seeds of vegetable crops to the farmers in our intervention areas. Selected farmers were trained on various aspects of seed production and seed bank and they took part in the programme.
Promotion of Self Help Groups and Joint Liability Groups
We have been promoting small groups of the communities to facilitate social and economic improvement and community empowerment programmes. Savings and thrift programmes, income generating programmes, bank linkage programmes, lease farming, community shramadhan and various capacity building training programmes have been undertaken.