Agriservi is a social media platform to connect poor farmers in Mozambique with donors and work groups.
Semi -commercial farming .
Expert agricultural work group :
Motivation for an Expert Agricultural Work Group.
The profile of a beneficiary that can become a semi-commercial farmer.
Semi - commercial farming .
The aim of the semi-commercial farmers is profit maximization subject to withholding enough Resources for use in subsistence production.
- A semi-commercial farmer aims to establish a mixed farming enterprise with different crops and live stock and does not farm in only one or two sectors.
- The semi-commercial farmer aims to find a sustainable income for themselves and their immediate family.
- Their link with their farming project is based on a long term vision for building up a farming enterprise that can be handed over to next generations for sustainable resource use.
- They provide sustainable livelihoods and contribute substantially to the economic growth of their immediate area by providing increased employment that can sustain and uplift the lives of hundreds of people.
- The semi-commercial farmer uses his different farming sectors to flow into each other and support each other. He is not reliant to market fluctuations to the same extend than a commercial farmer He farms with crops , fruit trees , vegetables , animals and also do some value adding on his own products and takes his profit from any sector when the market conditions exist.
- A semi-commercial farmer is a farmer who has his own land-use certificate and is a resident on his own farm.
Expert agricultural work group :
A work group is not a beneficiary Group, but only the link between the donor and the beneficiary. Agriservi can help you to find the right work group to do a certain job with your chosen beneficiary. An Agricultural expert Work Group consists of normal young Mozambique men and women with a proven record of hard intelligent work and enough expertise and organising ability to fulfil their task. The Agricultural work group is goal orientated and available to assist in the rural development of the Agricultural sector of Mozambique. The Work group identified alternative forms of direct donor support to Agriculture projects or qualifying beneficiaries. The primary goal of the work group is to assist in the development of semi-commercial farms.
Motivation for an Expert Agricultural Work Group.
It is much smaller and functions as operators straight in the hands of the donor.
- It allows for Direct Donations to a certain project and can be fully managed by the donor or donor group to the extent that they need.
- It is a lot more streamline and less time-consuming.
- Smaller percentage of Donor money ends up in the management of a big NGO company or institution.
- It suits Donors who is result driven and want to see, first hand, what is happening with their money.
- It suits donors who are really concerned about productive agriculture in Mozambique.
- Donors are able to see the profile of each beneficiary beforehand and keep life-long communication to see their progress.
- Donors can, by means of the expert work group, own their �own piece of Africa� in the form of the specific beneficiary family that they are working with.
- A work group can move around. They are not permanently based at any place.
The profile of a beneficiary that can become a semi-commercial farmer:
1. They are men and women in the age group of 25 to 55 who already distinguished themselves in their efforts of making a living. They are normally very hard-working and show a good profile of responsibility, endurance and honesty.
2. They have at least tried a few things on their own to improve their quality of living and acquired some skills over the years.
3. They are motivated, but have not got the means and the expertise to become semi- commercial farmers on their own.
4. With the right support, they are the people who can be developed into semi -commercial farmers that can farm their own farms in a sustainable and profitable way and to provide for the previous and the next generation.
5. They have got some natural leadership qualities and the ability to work with other people.
6. They have good inter personal relationships and good references from their present neighbours.
7. They are organised into a normal functioning family set-up.