Assessing the economic impacts of farmer producer organizations: a case study in Gujarat, India

Singh, Gurpreet; Vatta, Kamal

doi:10.5958/0974-0279.2019.00023.5

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“…(2014). This is contradictory to that of Singh and Vatta (2019) who have found a negative relation between landholding size and FPO membership in Gujarat. This may be because small farms in Sikkim mostly produce a mix of crops for domestic consumption while bigger farmers produce for selling.…”

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“…Furthermore, the results show a positive relation between farm size and FPO membership similar to the works of Hasen and Mesfin (2017) and Abate et al (2014). This is contradictory to that of Singh and Vatta (2019) who have found a negative relation between landholding size and FPO membership in Gujarat. This may be because small farms in Sikkim mostly produce a mix of crops for domestic consumption while bigger farmers produce for selling.…”

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“…Farmers participate in FPOs to avoid market risk, to avail extension services and technical information, to access quality inputs, and also to access credit and storage and processing facilities. The study concluded that further work is necessary to understand region-specific and crop-specific factors for the success of FPOs (Singh and Vatta, 2019). Another study by Roy et al.…”

Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

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“…Multiple constraints faced by small farmers can be overcome by organising and collectivising them through cooperatives, farmer associations, unions and self help groups (Verma et al, 2019;Singh and Vatta, 2019;Cherukuri and Reddy, 2014). Studies suggest that collectivisation has enhanced smallholder farmers' collective bargaining power, reduced transaction costs, improved access to credit and other resources they could not afford individually (Rondot and Collin, 2001;Birthal et al, 2007;Hellin et al, 2007;Fischer and Qaim, 2014;Karatepe and Scherrer, 2019).…”

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Determinants of agricultural households to join farmer producer organisations (FPOs) in Northeast India: evidence from Sikkim

Gurung

Choubey

2022

IJSE

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PurposeGovernment of India has launched FPOs to organise small and marginal farmers into farmer collectives called FPOs. These FPOs, through economies of scale, aim to provide better collective strength to farmers for better access to production technology, value-addition services, high-quality inputs and marketing services for improving their incomes. Recently, the government has launched a scheme for creation and promotion of 10,000 more FPOs in the country. Despite potential benefits of FPOs and encouragement from the Government, there are many farmers in India, particularly Sikkim, who do not join the FPOs. This study aims to identify the major determinants that motivate farmers to join FPOs.Design/methodology/approachPrimary data for this study was collected during October, 2019–February, 2020 from 560 farm households in all four districts of Sikkim, India. The study used two-sample t-test and FPO participation probit model for determining the factors influencing a household's decision to participate in an FPO.FindingsThe results of this study illustrate that education, farming experience, farming as the primary occupation, size of landholding, access to Internet, distance to the nearest market, medium level of social participation, extension contact, transportation facility and plan to expand the scale of operation in future are the major explanatory variables that have statistically significant impact on the farm households' participation in FPOs.Research limitations/implicationsThis study was based on a cross-sectional survey. As a result, the findings may be subjected to some limitations though the study made all possible efforts to minimise the limitations.Originality/valueThis paper is based on or a novel data set, collected specifically to examine the determinants of membership in Sikkim, India that has not been studied before. Moreover, this study has identified the importance of information and awareness initiatives among the farmers as responsible for farmers' participation in FPOs. The findings of this study will have important implications and lessons to draw from for the Central Government's effort towards Formation and Promotion of 10,000 new FPOs, especially in the hilly states of India.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-04-2022-0216.

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Determinants of agricultural households to join farmer producer organisations (FPOs) in Northeast India: evidence from Sikkim

Gurung

Choubey

2022

IJSE

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“…309 out of a total 3044 FPOs, which accounts for 10.15% of the total FPOs storage, output and input markets and their bargaining power vis-à-vis traders. Households associated with FPOs have a higher level of income, consumption and investment, and a lower incidence of indebtedness (Singh and Vatta 2019).…”

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Progression of Farmer Producer Organisations in India

Agarwal

Goyal

2022

Indian J Agri Sci

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Present study was carried out to examine the status and growth of Farmer Producer Organizations across the states in India based on the secondary data collected for the periods 2015–16 to 2020–21. It was found that SFAC and NABARD promoted 3044 FPOs registered in the country. NABARD supported 2168 FPOs (71.22%) and remaining 876 FPOs (28.78%) have been supported by SFAC. Madhya Pradesh has the largest number/share of FPOs accounting to 10.15% of the total FPOs registered throughout the country. The FPOs promoted by SFAC increased at the compound growth rate of 15.22% and those promoted by NABARD increased at the rate of 1.34% per annum. At the country level, the average number of farmers per FPO are found to be 582. In addition, about 50% of the total farmers who are members of FPOs belong to five states, namely Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. The region-wise study revealed that central region has the highest average number of FPOs (194.67) promoted by SFAC and the average number of FPOs promoted by NABARD were found highest in southern region (634.5). The variability and CAGR was highest in north-eastern region (39.77% and 26.43%) and eastern region (9.58% and 6.17%) promoted by SFAC and NABARD, respectively. In line with the policy framework of the Govt. of India, the State Governments may introduce appropriate flexible policy to scale up FPO promotion so as to become a self-sustaining commercially viable business enterprise of the farmers’ particularly of small producers.

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