Fengdu Farmers’ Club project is a participatory poverty alleviation project. The project runs for three years and is funded by Carrefour Foundation. It covers three administrative villages: Honghuapo, Baiguoyuan and Qinggangping, benefiting 1000 households. The project concept is to develop productivity, increase yield, improve income and potentially link farmers’ clubs with Chongqing Carrefour supermarket.

The project provides support to the community young entrepreneurs and some financial support to promote their own industry. The farmers wanted to realize commercial market scale. But it was difficult for them to make the first step due to budget and technical limitation. Therefore, the project provided subsidies to them and helped them to do with the industry. Meanwhile, the project provided trainings and technical support to them. Experts were invited to provide onsite guidance and suggestions. The project also regularly arranged study tour to other counties and meetings discussing technical issues for the young entrepreneurs to increase their confidence and broaden their mind.

In the mean time, other farmers could observe their industrial development process in the most direct way, which would impel them to participate in the team of development, help them to get ready and gain confidence for future development.

Subsidies were distributed according to the young entrepreneurs’ own situations, willingness and capacity. Until now, the project had subsidized 2 farmers for planting walnut. They are Huang Renxiang (200 mu) and Ran Shide (50 mu). 3 farmers were subsidized for planting sticky corns. They were Liu Xiwu (10 mu) and Liu Xiwen (10 mu). 1 farmer called Wang Wenli (20 mu) was subsidized for planting rice, 1 farmer called Liu Xiliang (5 mu) was subsidized for planting vegetables. 1 farmer called Huang Chunxiang (5 mu) was subsidized for planting black potato. 1 farmer called Zhang Yun (20 mu) was subsidized for planting ginger. 2 farmers were subsidized for breeding goats. They were Huang Zhihui (10 goats) and Huang Zhiqiong (10 goats). 1 farmer called Ran Shiqing (5 cattle) was subsidized for keeping breeding cattle.2 farmers were subsidized for keeping breeding pigs. They were Liu Jiashu (4 pigs) and Huang Rulin (8 pigs). 1 farmer - Liu Changqing - was subsidized for keeping pigs (20 pigs).
 Subsidy to Zeng Mingzhe of Honghuapo village for the manure pool.
 
 Subsidy for Liu Xinwu of Honghuapo village for planting sticky corns. 
 
 Subsidy for Zhang Yunsheng of Qinggangping village for planting ginger.


FC Fengdu project is supported by Carrefour Foundation