A Farmer Producer Organisation(FPO) is a legal entity formed by primary producers, viz. farmers, milk producers, fishermen, weavers, rural artisans, craftsmen. A FPO can be a producer company, a cooperative society or any other legal form which provides for sharing of profits/benefits among the members. In some forms like producer companies, institutions of primary producers can also become memeber of FPO.
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FPC is a Producer company of farmers, by the farmers and for the farmers, financially faciliated by the government, but managed by the professionals, leaving farmers to farm and on-farm activities.
It will help in ameliorating and ensuring sustainable livelihood of farmers and stakeholders on farm & non-farm activities.It shall facilitate and provide technical know-how such as advising, training, finance, procuring procedure.
FPC certainly help enhance export of agricultural produce, particularly of ethnic products in several ways.
FPC professionals would guide its members(employees of the FPC) would also be shareholders along with farmers and thus stakeholders to the end.
A given farmer grows only limited number of crops in a season/year but his/her family needs over ten items that are produced in a given village.The FPC will provide all items to all its members at farm gate prices and thus substaintially enhance their purchasing power, perhaps by a factor of two.
Focus of FPC is on using GAP involving low cost eco-friendly materials for crop production.Most of these inputs can be produced right on farmer's field and are already in use by practitioners of organic farming.