Centre for Collective Development

CCD is a Not-for-Profit Non-Governmental Organization working with small and marginal farmers towards improving their livelihoods by educating them in collective methods of pool & sell, processing, market links and sustainable agri practices. Currently CCD is operational in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana impacting 22,178 farmers livelihoods. THE BACKGROUND There is high uncertainty of income associated with agriculture due to its sole dependency on the monsoon. Growth in agriculture is part of a wider process of economic development accompanied by dramatic changes in agriculture. Where economic growth and urbanisation have occurred, they are mirrored by the reduction in the number of people engaged in agriculture and the rising productivity of labour in agricultural production. Most available jobs in agriculture are associated with low and unstable incomes, poor safety and health conditions, inequality in pay and opportunities, and limited social protection. Due to re...