VOH recently signed an agreement with Dadhol Gram Sewa Sahkari Samiti to assist the famers cooperative in setting up a dairy unit in their area of operations. The Dadhol cooperative has more than 1600 members and is currently operating in 4 panchayats of Ghumarwin block in District Bilaspur of Himachal Pradesh.
The cooperative was established in 1956 with 13 members and 130 Rupees share capital. The cooperative today boast of a turnover of more than 7 Crore Rupees. As of today rural banking is the mainstay of the cooperative and proposed diversification is with an idea of creating livelihood opportunities in this agrigarian belt.
The project is of much importance to VOH as it gives our nascent organisation an opportunity to tread a path of creating sustainable livelihood opportunities for farmers in this region. In this project VOH will help the cooperative in conducting feasibility studies, prepare diversification plans, project reports, business & marketing plans and hand-holding support for setting up a dairy unit This certainly is a way of catalysing sustainable development in Himachal Pradesh.
Project manager: Varun Singh
Project location: Dadhol, Himachal Pradesh
Thematic area: Livelihoods
Beneficiaries: 10,000+ people which fall in the milk-shed area