CIKS has been granted a project for providing a series of training programmes for Farmer Producer Collectives and building their capacities during the year January – December 2018. The project is being funded by FWWB, Ahmedabad.

The project consists of three different components, namely, Trainers’ Training Programmes (TTP) in which a group of trainers will be nurtured and trained, to be followed up by training programmes where about 120 members and staff belonging to 10 different FPCs in various parts of Tamil Nadu will be trained. Resource material will also be produced on four selected topics. An assessment of the performance of the project will be carried out during the last quarter of the year based on which future plans will be made for the period after December 2018.