Central Sector Scheme of Formation And Promotion of 10,000 Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs)
Project Donor:
Project Objective : Helping Small and marginal Farmers to form FPOs on a sustainable basis.
Target Beneficiary Group : Small and marginal farmers
Geographic Scope : Sahebganj, Deoghar, and Palamu districts
Project Timeline : 5 years
Key Activities:
- To provide a holistic and broad-based supportive ecosystem to form new 10,000 FPOs to facilitate the development of vibrant and sustainable income-oriented farming and for overall socio-economic development and well-being of agrarian communities.
- To enhance productivity through efficient, cost-effective and sustainable
resource use and realize higher returns through better liquidity and market
linkages for their produce and become sustainable through collective action. - To provide handholding and support to new FPOs up to 5 years from the year of creation in all aspects of management of FPO, inputs, production, processing and value addition, market linkages, credit linkages and use of technology etc.
- To provide effective capacity building to FPOs to develop agriculture entrepreneurship skills to become economically viable and self-sustaining beyond the period of support from the government.
