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Market Access for Farmer Collectives by PGS Organic Council

The whole world is going through an extraordinary situation due to the spread of COVID-19 virus which has been announced as a Pandemic by WHO. India is also going through challenging times with a national wide lockdown announced from March 25th, 2020 to April 14th, 2020 to curtail the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Farmers have been severely affected by the series of events and there are a lot of uncertainties on what lies for them in the coming months.

In this overwhelming time of national lock down and hampered supply chain, we are taking an effort to coordinate market access to FPOs and farmers groups (preferably organic). We are collating a list of products which are available and needs immediate sales (strictly from farmers/ farmer collectives).

To consumer groups/institutions: Please try the best to procure your requirement directly from farmer groups. We request you to look at the “Approved list – Protected” sheet of https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ERdq4X7UQiDL2JscpVvvCsk8spfcIve5ydHSRkv30lM/edit?usp=sharing and directly co-ordinate with the respective point of contacts. We are just enablers and don’t want to involve in sales transactions.

To Farmer groups: We request each of you to share a precise list of products that are in excess/available along with the best possible price and other logistics details (Please review your usual list and only share the list of products which are in excess and needs market) by filling the “Edit list – to add products” sheet of https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ERdq4X7UQiDL2JscpVvvCsk8spfcIve5ydHSRkv30lM/edit?usp=sharing

Disclaimer: We are collating the product list from known networks. However, we are not responsible for organic authenticity/quality of produce and authenticity of the buyers. Also, this is an voluntary effort and we are not assuring sales/market.

Contact: 8939138207 (Karthik)

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