Since when we have been given the task of Blog writing we talk more about collective action and co-operation. But we almost all participants of PRM must have gone through the cases of collective action and co-operation in the villages where we went for around 2 months in Field Work segment.
What i saw in my village was something unique. Before going to fieldwork I had seen different entrepreneurs who were working individually. But in the village where i went for field work in Uttarakhand, i saw the people shifting from individual entrepreneur to collective entrepreneurship. It was done for having better livelihood and more incentive that individual cost. The collective entrepreneurship was done to promote Eco-tourism in that area.
I saw the fruitful impact of action.
Don't you think this is the need of rural India; particularly those people living on lower side of socio-economic spectrum if they want to have a better and enhanced livelihood?
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The need for collective action comes up also in the case where the initial project cost is very high. I recently read a MTS report on the Lift Irrigation in the Kolhapur district in which farmers have come together and formed a cooperative so as to minimise/optimise the cost involved per head. Sometimes the situation is such that an individual may not be able to recover his investment as the cost involved is very high.
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