Question Q.14Understand and suggest measuresGS3GS3
What do you understand by Farmers Producer Organisations (FPOs)? Throwing light upon the various challenges faced by the FPOs, suggest measures to ameliorate the same.
Main Body
Farmer Producer Organisations FPOs are the combination of cooperatives and commercial body. Farmers in FPO's have shared interest and work for mutual benefit, valves its working and market linkage are handled like a commercial body managed by CEOs. Positives of FPOs: (1) Increase market penetration of farming activities. (2) Increase linkages between agricultural and industrial sector. (3) Better returns to farmers. (4) Collective bargaining strength of farmers. (5) Steps in upscale building of
forward and backward linkages. Challenges faced by FPOs: (1) Lack of infrastructure which can boost in productivity. (2) Structural problems related to farming are not sorted out - itself fertilisers. (3) Poor R&D in agriculture (NOVER of agricultural GDP). (4) Favours business interest at the cost of farmer's interest. (5) Supply demand as opaquacity. (6) Lack of storage and computation facilities. (7) Slow release of funds by governments (8) Concentrated for specified crops. To lacks crops diversificationreinforce yield of monoculture.
155 words1 paragraphs
Topper
Aditi Arora
AIR 3512025
Subject & Paper
GS3GS3
Topic
Agriculture and Food Security
Transport & Marketing of Agricultural Produce & Issues & Related Constraints
Farmer Producer Organisations
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155
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