Nepal Agricultural Cooperative Central Federation Limited is the umbrella organization of Small Farmer Agriculture Cooperative limited (SFACL )and similar types of agriculture cooperatives distributed across the countries. It was established in 2008. In the present context, NACCFL has covered 77 districts out of 77 districts of Nepal having 1301 member cooperatives and 45 district agriculture cooperative federations. These member cooperatives have more than 1 million small farmers’ household members among which the majority of the members are women. It consists of more than 82% of female members i.e. 4.8% of the female population of Nepal. Total beneficiary population consists of more than 5.1 Million, Social leaders 47 thousand and Staffs within NACCFL network (60% female) (5,650 in Number). NACCFL has been involving in policy advocacy, network expansion, capacity development, increasing production/ productivity and value chain development/ market linkage.
Significance
Financial as well as non-financial services are equally important for every agriculture cooperatives to be financially viable and sustainable. It was more effective and more sustainable to establish their own federation to receive non-financial and other services instead of relying on other donors or other government agencies. The central federation could strive for the extension of lobby and advocacy for policy formation at the local as well as central level, access to available resources through collective demand and coordinating with relevant and concerned stakeholders.
Recognition and Honors
The activities of NACCFL Nepal by empowering small farmers across Nepal by strengthening agricultural cooperatives, improving access to affordable credit, promoting sustainable farming practices, fostering market linkages and many more has been recognized and awarded by different national and institutional bodies . Some of the recent prestigious awards includes
- FAO Award for Partnership 2023 in Rome, Italy ( 24 April 2023 )
- Best performing farmer organization from AGRI TERRA (2019)
- Various awards for government of Nepal, national and international institutions
Our Services
NACCFL promotes rural access to finance via cooperatives, promotes value chains through the "Kisan Ko Poko" model linking rural producers to urban markets, and strengthens cooperatives with training in agriculture and technology, market linkage, financial management, and project development.
Policy Advocacy
NACCFL Lobbies and advocates to ensure the rights of small farmers through amendments and formulation of Co-operative friendly acts and policies, Pro-farmer's acts and implementing campaigns like UN Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028
Network Expansion
NACCFL is implementing the co-operative model called "SMALL FARMERS AGRICULTURE CO-OPERATIVE LIMITED" to expand the outreach of micro-finance and agro-inputs in the rural area of Nepal
Value chain and Market promotion
KKP "KISAN KO POKO" is a breakthrough model developed by NACCFL based on the C2C - Cooperative to Cooperative marketing approach linking the rural producers with the urban market. Further, NACCFL Supports in establishment of Agro-enterprises like Rice Mills, Tea Plants, Lentils Processing Plants based on local producers of Small Farmers.
Capacity Building
NACCFL to strengthen the SFACLs, provides various capacity building/enhancement trainings on Agricultural, Institutional Development, Market-linkage, Financial Management, Information Technology and Project Development/Management aspects
NACCFL Future Plans
The focus areas include advancing climate-smart agriculture, advocating for policy support, strengthening value chains by promoting small and medium-scale cottage industries, setting up central wholesale markets at national and provincial levels, supporting initiatives under the UN Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028), and improving food security.
