Farmer producer organizations

Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) are being established so that it can help farmers in earning more returns through collective input purchase, collective marketing, processing, increasing productivity through procuring better inputs, augmenting knowledge of farmers in better management practices and ensuring quality. An attempt was made to develop a standardized scale to analyze the attitude of members towards Farmer Producer Organization (FPO) using summated rating methods suggested by Likert and Edwards. The attitude scale developed was found to be highly reliable and valid.

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The present paper was written based on analysis of secondary data of various cases of FPOs in South India. A total of five FPOs were selected and reviewed based on the set objectives. The analysis revealed that there are about 683 FPOs in India. Individual cases revealed that FPOs have been helping a boon for farmers as it enhanced the income of farmers, enable savings by reducing the input, transportation and labour costs. It has also helped them enhancing their marketing intelligence.

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The study is therefore proposed to identify the bottlenecks perceived by the respondents of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPO) in improving the livelihood of farming community by collecting information from the existing FPOs members.

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Role performance of the Agricultural extension professionals are much required for effective technology transfer and continued adoption by the farmers. A study conducted with 182 Agricultural extension professionals revealed that the respondents had performed better on developing technical competency, communication system, planning, programme implementation and capacity building of the farmers in comparison to community organization and marketing of the produce.

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There is a lack of quality seeds requirement every year and this can be addressed by the public sectors. Further, Public sectors alone cannot produce seeds and meet the demands and hence farmers need to involved as a producer. Scientists Farmers participatory seed production programme and buy back system are successful methods to produce quality seeds in large quantity.

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Marketing of cashew nut is not properly organized. The channel consists of the producer, village merchant, wholesalers or agents and exporters. Since it is an activity restricted to only three months in a year, there are no exclusive traders for raw cashew nuts. Often there are intermediaries or wholesalers between the traders and manufactures who provide the services of information and make the deal. This has resulted in middleman playing an important role in the marketing of nuts thereby reducing the margin or dividends for the cashew farmers.

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Coconut Producer Societies are a non-subsidized knowledge based, farmer centred approach of organizing farmers which aims in socio-economic upliftment through productivity improvement, cost reduction, efficient collective marketing and processing and product diversification. The study was undertaken to analyse the impact of coconut producer societies in Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala. The data were collected from 130 selected respondents from three villages using proportionate random sampling method through a well-structured and pre-tested interview schedule.

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To popularize Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz.) among the farmers of Ernakulum district of Kerala, a front line demonstration organized by Krishi Vigyan Kendra, ICAR- Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute on 10 selected farmer‟s field during 2010-11. For this purpose, two cultivars of Cassava i.e. “Sree vijay” and “local variety” were used and the demonstration was conducted during the kharif season of (May to September). The results of demonstration revealed that Sree vijay and local variety produced 250 and 150 q/ha, respectively. The average income of Sree vijay was 1.

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In the present paper the year wise production and sales of organic inputs are taken into account to derive the total area and economic impact thereof. The receipts of produce sold at laboratories served as the source of information to the study. The results indicate that, the sale of inputs is on rise, so also the farmers who are adopting these technologies in their own field are also more. People are approaching KVK for these technologies. To increase the production of organic inputs KVK, Bagalkot is imparting the technologies of Vermicompost production (Biradar, 2006).

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This study compares the price of organically and inorganically grown produce in online organic and conventional stores in 55 produces covering cereals, pulses, oilseeds, spices, plantation, vegetables and fruits in Coimbatore city of Tamil Nadu, India. The results indicated that price of organic produces were 63 per cent costlier than their conventional counterparts.

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The costs of feeding dairy animals can make up to 50-70 % of the total cost of producing milk. Therefore, it is important to find ways of minimizing feed costs to improve the economic efficiency of any dairy enterprise. Producing economical fodder to feed dairy animals is of great importance to the farming system. Further in India the total feed requirement for the country’s livestock population is also increasing rapidly in order to sustain milk production. In the country majority of the farmers are small and marginal who use most of their land for agricultural crop cultivation.

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The study examined the economics of marketing of organic farm produce in Kalaburagi district using primary data from 60 farmers each cultivating Sorghum and Redgram comprising of 30 farmers each practicing Organic Farming (OF) and Conventional Farming (CF) and also from 30 organic retail outlets. The spatial price variability of organic farm produce across different brands were analysed using retail prices of different organic farm products from different markets in Karnataka viz., Gadag, Dharwad, and Bengaluru..

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An initiative was taken by AEEC, Koppal to educate farmer on the importance of organic mango production and value addition with the help of a NGO. Farmer produced the organic mango and NGO procured and processed the produce and sold at premium price. The farmer received an additional income of Rs. 98926 and consumer satisfied with organic products.

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Many farmers in the country have only vague ideas about organic farming and its advantages as against the conventional farming methods. The present study was carried out in Uttarakhand state. Two districts namely, Rudraprayag from Garhwal region and Nainital from Kumaon region were selected purposively as the locale for the proposed study. In Rudraprayag district one block i.e. Jakholi was selected through simple random sampling and in Nainital district Betalghat block was selected purposively as it is the only block in the district declared as organic.

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A weed is essentially any plant which grows where it is not required. A weed can be thought of as any plant growing in the wrong place at the wrong time and doing more harm than good. Weeds are the most severe and widespread biological constraint to crop production, and cause invisible damage till the crop is harvested. The composition and competition by weeds are dynamic and dependent on soil, climate, cropping and management factors. Weeds decrease the value of land, particularly perennial weeds, which tend to accumulate on long fallows; increase cost of cleaning.

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The integrated farming system study was conducted at farmers field of village –Mohpur, BlockKanker, District- Uttar Bastar Kanker (C.G.) under All India Coordinated Research Project on Integrated Farming System- On Farm Research, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Kanker during July, 2017- June, 2018 for finding the contribution of total income to the livelihood of farmers who practices integrated farming system.

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Vermicompost is a fine granular, dark brown/black coloured organic product prepared by earthworms by using animal dung and organic wastes which is much useful for soil health. It has biological properties as rich in population of soil micro-organisms compared with those in conventional composts. Vermicompost has adequate amount of micronutrient and macronutrients depending on sources of earthworm’s feedstock. Earthworm promotes soil fragmentation and increase aeration of soil by volume 8-30 per cent.

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In traditional method of agricultural marketing farmers were exploited by the middlemen by taking major share in the consumer’s price. In view of multiple benefits of online trading, the farmers in Karnataka were taking their business online, because of Unified Marketing Platform (UMP) an initiative by the state govt. launched in 2014 by the Rashtriya e-market services (ReMS).

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Physical and mechanical properties of several bamboo species have been studied extensively. Chapter 3 presents the fiber length distribution of Phyllostachys pubescens at different age, layer and location. Contact angle of different layers of the bottom portion of three year old bamboo were measured by dynamic contact angle measurement. Specific gravity and bending properties of bamboo at different ages, horizontal layers, and height locations were also determined. Also compressive strength at different ages and height locations were determined.

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Butler attributed the primary cost differences between organic and conventional operations to reduced milk production, slightly higher feed and labor costs, and significantly higher herd replacement and transition costs. Herd replacement costs were significantly higher for organic producers because replacement heifers must be raised organically, or must be purchased from organic heifer breeders.

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