By providing local growers with the appropriate facts, resources, knowledge, and supplies, Growers First helps its partners begin to tackle complex economic issues facing them, their families, and their communities. Our programs are designed to help growers create micro-enterprises through which they can generate improved and ongoing income.
Growers First's economic sustainability programs include:
Strategic Alliances—Providing contacts in the market where growers are connected to best-price commodities buyers.
Agricultural practices—Providing agronomists that teach the most cost effective farming and cultivating methods that will yield the highest quality and most abundant crops.
Micro-lending—Through micro-loans, growers can get the seedlings and supplies to initiate a crop farm and form cooperatives.
Organic Certification—Utilizing our organic specialists to train growers on how to achieve organic certification and thereby a premium price for their crops.
Transportation—Providing vehicles for transporting crops to markets, as well as medical and educational transportation.
Growers First's economic sustainability programs include:
Strategic Alliances—Providing contacts in the market where growers are connected to best-price commodities buyers.
Agricultural practices—Providing agronomists that teach the most cost effective farming and cultivating methods that will yield the highest quality and most abundant crops.
Micro-lending—Through micro-loans, growers can get the seedlings and supplies to initiate a crop farm and form cooperatives.
Organic Certification—Utilizing our organic specialists to train growers on how to achieve organic certification and thereby a premium price for their crops.
Transportation—Providing vehicles for transporting crops to markets, as well as medical and educational transportation.