Value Chains

Urmul crafts centers at village level are being made available for many basic and many technical (crafts) upgrades to improve the output qualitatively and quantitatively, eventually leading to higher income opportunities for artisans. Energy for operations, lighting and thermal comfort, post-production QC and finishing is giving a new vertical of utility to these centers. Solar energy intervention in lighting and operational power is optimizing the unit productivity. Innovation and access to semi-automatic looms and other machinery is ensuring product improvement and development of new product segments

Bikaner is rapidly growing as an important mustard oil producer but there still is significant drudgery involved. The oilseed mills are heavily inefficient and completely rely on grid power. This makes the operative costs surge and with higher incidents of downtime. Investment in renewable energy in this sector will benefit both in energy access and cost saving at value addition thus directly benefiting the producer and eventually the farmers. Urmul’s demo farm and organic farming training centre at Bajju, is being used for all the demo, research and to scale interventions.

Pastoralism is perhaps the most compromised sector today facing apathy of the system. The pastures are shrinking and community-pastoralists relations are losing the vibrancy. Amidst such scenarios, development of a Common Facility Centre is an innovation Urmul is proposing. Fully developed, the CFC would be serving hundreds of pastoralists and their thousands of animals from the vicinity of the center and also the travelers. The CFC is envisioned to offer services, space and products to pastoralists at nominal maintenance costs.