Vision & Mission

Vision

Mission Goals

• Improved standard of living of farmer & farm-worker households under COFA
• Enhancement of sustainable agriculture
• Development of entrepreneurship – Self Organization
• Advocating policies at national & international level to support small & marginal farmers
• Consolidate small & marginal farmers from rainfed regions under a common flag
• Promotion & support of a self-sustaining Farmers’ trading company Chetna Organic
• Be a knowledge repository for organic farming & ethical supply chain development

Objectives

• Stabilizing crop yields while promoting ecological farm practices.
• A 30-50% increase in the returns to farmers.
• Reduced outlays in health costs.
• Establishing and strengthening self sustaining farmer owned and managed association and company (COFA & COAPCL).
• Policy, advocacy and campaigns relating to institutionalization of responsible credit, insurance,market policies and agro-ecology.
• Self-organization – development of entrepreneurship: being a business partner in the textile chain rather than dependent on individual payments by money lenders/traders (group trading and holding equity at various levels in the supply chain).
• Up-scaling the production of organic/NPM agricultural produce by small holder farmers in India such that volumes become a significant part of mainstream trade.
• Farms have improved conditions for labor.
• Enabling Govt. policies in support of revitalizing rainfed agriculture.