Transportation Projects

Bullock cart for transportation of agricultural produce, Shivaganga, Chitradurga District, Karnataka

This project, implemented in June 2005, is to run a bullock cart rental business for small farmers in the village of Shivganga in Chitradurga district. Villagers need a mode of transportation to ship their agricultural produce and other items from their farms to the village center. In the absence of bullock carts, the farmers have to rely on tractors, which are expensive for small farmers. It makes economic sense to rent the tractors only when the farmer has a sufficient quantity of items to transport. The bullock cart was be owned by Kuvempu Trust, a local NGO in Shivganga which is engaged in educational activities and rural development activities. The Trust was renting out the bullock cart to farmers on a daily rental basis. S3IDF financed the project by providing a three-year loan for Rs. 15,000.

After running the bullock cart for about a year, Kuvempu Trust sold the bullock cart as they found managing the bullock cart’s operations difficult. Kuvempu Trust sold the bullock and closed the loan outstanding with S3IDF.