Jaguar farms continues to innovate its sustainable. distributed contract farming network. Jaguar farms is implementing its farms via 'green jaguar' label.
The local network support operators enroll small farmers from their neighborhood into the network. The farmers gain from a range of services and benefits that are a result of the aggregation of commodities, scale of network, supply, distribution and trading provided by Jaguar Trading and affiliates.
The idea is to build a global network of small farmers which can benefit the farmers in multiple ways including new product ideas, seeds, organic/conventional farming approaches, help with getting relatively higher prices for farm produce by cutting layers of middlemen and trading/marketing product via aggregation, better storage, transportation, preprocessing and post processing, better reach for crop insurance products etc.
The network is building green houses, seed banks, seedling nurseries, tissue culture/micro propagation, bio-fertilizers and bio-pesticide facilities in select locations to allow small farmers access to seeds, seedling, fertilizers etc. Very often, farmers produce what they believe the local markets require as they have very little choice and little voice in managing a better use of their land, labor, time and resources. Being part of the Jaguar farm network allows them to get benefits starting with planting better mix of plants that can give them better profits. The collective, aggregation power of the network that works with Jaguar Trading, supply, logistics to line up large orders and large buyer clients.
Such a network can not just work on a local level but has to be international in scope as a lot of the farm output can land in distant markets. And since demand for products can originate via Jaguar Trading clients from distant markets, user groups etc, the demand flows backwards and is optimally matched by the Jaguar farm network to appropriate farmers based on a large number of factors including size of demand, local growing conditions, weather, soil, water etc, distance of farm from market, logistics, carbon foot print, embedded energy etc. There are quite a few factors to be considered and the agronomists and other technical and market experts in the network help optimize connecting farmers to the end product buyer via Jaguar Trading.
