Strategies for Linking FPOs to Contract Farming Companies

Avisweta Nandy, Dwity Sundar Rout

2024

Abstract

Small-scale farmers are suffering from market uncertainty because the majority of institutional and policy supports benefit large, progressive farms, while smaller farmers are left out, widening the gap between producers and consumers. Farmer Producer Organizations have a significant role in fostering and supporting the member-based institutions of farmers in such circumstances. Using this business form, an organisation can be articulated with at least ten producers in accordance with its memorandum of association. If there is no political intervention, FPOs can efficiently connect smallholder farmers to local, regional, national, and international markets as well as companies. Members of FPOs that are shaped as Farmer Producer Companies (FPCs) have access to financial, executive, and other input services. With a great potential to control future food retails not just in India but throughout the world, FPOs must be competitive with other businesses and competitors in the market to overcome these effective and sustainable profit-making FPOs.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Nandy A. and Rout D. (2024). Strategies for Linking FPOs to Contract Farming Companies. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Emerging Innovations for Sustainable Agriculture - Volume 1: ICEISA; ISBN 978-989-758-714-6, SciTePress, pages 180-188. DOI: 10.5220/0012886300004519

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceisa24,
author={Avisweta Nandy and Dwity Rout},
title={Strategies for Linking FPOs to Contract Farming Companies},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Emerging Innovations for Sustainable Agriculture - Volume 1: ICEISA},
year={2024},
pages={180-188},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012886300004519},
isbn={978-989-758-714-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Emerging Innovations for Sustainable Agriculture - Volume 1: ICEISA
TI - Strategies for Linking FPOs to Contract Farming Companies
SN - 978-989-758-714-6
AU - Nandy A.
AU - Rout D.
PY - 2024
SP - 180
EP - 188
DO - 10.5220/0012886300004519
PB - SciTePress