FOOD SECURITY PROGRAM

BACKGROUND

Pakistan is mainly an agriculture country and most of its inhabitants are engaged with agriculture.  Agriculture provides the basic needs of life (food / cloth / shelter).  It is also the backbone of our economy.  Population of Pakistan is increasing at the rate of 3.1 % per annum but our agriculture production is 2.5 per annum there is big gap between the population rate and the production rate.  We can fill the mouth of the increasing population by either increasing our area under agriculture or increasing per acre yield.  It is impossible to increase area under agriculture.

However, we can increase per acre yield.  Before this program, it was impossible for the poor farming community to increase their yield because they were a prey in the vicious circle of the Feudal.  They give them inputs and devour their yield.  Due to this, the farming community was not able to eat their fill.  So to liberate the poor farming community from the claws of landlords and save them from starvation, agriculture program was started in Archdiocese of Lahore.

GOAL

To enhance the food security program through agriculture production of small farmers, regardless of their cast, creed and culture.

OBJECTIVES

• Inclination towards scientific beliefs
• Elimination of monopolistic design
• Increase in per acre production
• Socio-economic upliftment
• Provision of appropriate and modern production technology at doorstep
  

STRATEGY

• Agriculture program is launched through cooperative society
• Animator & Agriculture Expert prepares solid grounds through meeting and seminars
• Agriculture Expert provides timely technical guidance
• Agriculture Expert lavished his time to the farming community from distribution of quality inputs to harvesting
  

METHODOLOGY

• To meet the desire goal we provide quality input (seed / fertilizer / agro chemical etc.) to our poor farming community.
• The quality inputs are given to those agriculture cooperative members that have the savings of six month.
• Framer that gets inputs has to fill promissory note
• Framer is bound to repay the input cost at the time of harvesting with 14% surplus charges
• If any farmer refuses to repay the input cost, the cooperative society has the authority to pledge the saving of his two guarantors. In spite of it, the society has the right to take legal actions.
• To bring the farming community towards the scientific beliefs and intensive agriculture exposures of Research Centers, Universities, Cooperatives and Leading farmers are arranged
• Farmers are introduced to appropriated modern innovation by Audio Visual Aid
  

IMPACTS

• Social Impact
  
  • Framers will get together on one platform
  • They will share their joys, needs and techniques with each other
  • New relations will be established and strengthen among them
    
• Economic Impact
  
  • Middle man role will be vanished
  • Good and quality inputs available to the framers on time
  • Increase their income and save them from the feudalistic web
    
• Culture Impact
  
  • Framer will come towards civilization from philistinic mode of life
    
• Political Impact
  
  • Due to well organized groups, they will have a solid platform of Agriculture cooperative society, so they will approach political figures and authorities without any hesitation for their needs and problems