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M. Gildas Tiwang
Pays:
Cameroun
I am working on:
future demand of agricultural commodities in African countries
M. Gildas Tiwang
I wish to point out the contribution of a better management of farming contrats between cooperatives (hundreds of farmers), agribusinesses (processing units) and financial banks. The idea is that the producers should be able to express his needs to the agribusiness, and also to receive part of the final produce from the agribusiness.
My opinion is introduced below.
CONTRIBUTION OF CONTRACT FARMING IN THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE NUTRITION THROUGH VALUE CHAIN MANAGEMENT
This paper points out the proposal of «an improvement of food and nutrition through a better management of value chain using contract farming » from a Farmer + Agribusiness + Bank nexus.
The organization of producers into cooperatives makes it easy for agribusinesses
(who do the processing of their productions) to follow them up in their activities at the production level in other to guarantee the supply of their productions to the above. On the field, the agribusiness, which is credible at the level of conventional banks take loans, and give to the cooperatives (association of hundreds of small farmers). These farmers in return satisfy the agribusiness with a supply on time, quality, standard, and quantity with the inputs mandatory for the sustainability of activities of these agribusinesses.
We should arrive to a situation where an agribusiness gets part of its production command order from the FARMERS who supply the main input. This command of finished products from farmers stands as an expression of their needs. Practically, from the production and supply, the payment by the agribusiness to the producers should be special. The first payment should be a given percentage of agricultural inputs for the new farming season. The second part of their payment should be paid in term of processed food from their produce like nutritional drinks, cakes, oils, flour, drinks, etc. The third payment should be in cash. For the case of maize for example, the farmers supplying the maize should first express their needs, and this should constitute the best argument to select the agribusiness partner, the sale of their products should follow the normal process but the payment should be done at x% in kind of processed products obtained. For the case of maize, payment should be done in terms of flour, nutritional cool drinks, nutritive supplements, cakes, food drinks, etc. The second part of the payment should be in terms of inputs needed for new production campaign, and lastly the third part should be paid to the farmers in cash.
To conclude, this nexus will be facilitated if there is a fourth partner (an international organization or government institution) that will help the agribusiness if the bank’s procedure is taking a longer time. This partnership will have as consequences, an increase in production of food, a better orientation of agribusinesses (processing unit) to the needs of populations, an improvements of wellbeing of producers through a better enjoyment of their produces and lastly a sustainable agricultural activities.