Agriculture

Just 1-5 per cent of FPOs have received funding under central government schemes introduced to promote them within the last seven years, the State of India’s livelihood (SOIL) Report 2021 stated.

·        FPO is an organization, wherever the members are farmers itself.

·        Farmers Producers Organization provides end-to-end support and services to the little farmers, and cover technical services, marketing, processing, and others aspects of cultivation inputs.

·        The Government of india has approved and launched the Central Sector theme of “Formation and Promotion of 10,000 Farmer Producer Organizations(FPOs)” to create and promote 10,000 new FPOs until 2027-28 with a complete budgetary outlay of Rs.6865 Cr.

·        An FPO may be a Producer Company, a Cooperative Society or the other legal kind.

·        FPOs are basically the hybrids of cooperatives and personal corporations.

·        The plan behind the Farmer Producer Organizations (FPO) was that “Farmers, who are the producers of their agricultural product, will type the groups and may register themselves under the Indian companies Act”.

·        Small Farmers agribusiness consortium (SFAC) was mandated by the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of India, to support the state government within the formation of the Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs).

·        The goal is to enhance the farmers’ competitiveness and to extend their advantage in emerging the market opportunities.

·         the main operations of Farmers Producer Organization (FPO) include the provision of seed, machinery, market linkages & fertiliser, training, networking, monetary and technical advice.

·        Key points of FPO at first, the minimum members in Farmer Producer Organization are one hundred in North East & mountainous Areas and three hundred in plain areas.

·        The Farmers Producers Organizations are formed and promoted through the Cluster-Based Business Organizations and engaged at the State or Cluster level by implementing the agencies.

·         Farmer Producer Organization is promoted under “One District One Product” to promote the specialization and higher branding, marketing, process and exports by FPO.

·        The Farmers Producer Organization provide adequate coaching & handholding and also the CBBOs offer the initial coaching.

·         Priority is given for the formation of Farmer Producer Organization in aspirational districts with a minimum of one FPO in every block of the aspirational districts.