Lok Sabha Question No. 3412 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-03-16
Subject: Increasing Farmer Income through FPOs
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Vishnu Dutt Sharma

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

कृ ष एवं कसान कयाण मंी

(SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

- (a) to (c): The Government has been promoting the scheme of 'National Agricultural Market'  popularly  known  as  e-NAM,  whereby  regulated  physical  wholesale  mandis  of different States/ Union Territories (UTs) are integrated on a virtual platform to facilitate online trading of agricultural commodities to enable farmers to realize better remunerative prices for their produce through improved access to market. The e-NAM also facilitates Farmer Producer Organizations(FPOs) to get access to large number of buyers for selling their produce to increase the income of their farmer members. So far, 1820 Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) from various States have been on-boarded in the e-NAM platform.

The  Government  of  India  has  already  been  implementing  the  Central  Sector schemes of 'Formation and Promotion of 10,000 FPOs' under which well defined skill training through institutions like Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD), Lucknow and Laxmanrao Inamdar National Academy for Co-operative Research & Development

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## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, COOPERATION AND FARMERS WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3412

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 16 TH  MARCH, 2021

## INCREASING FARMER INCOME THROUGH FPOs

3412.  SHRI VISHNU DATT SHARMA:

Will the Minister of AGRICULTURE AND  FARMERS  WELFARE कृ ष एवं कसान कयाण मंी be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government is formulating any scheme in respect of online marketing for Farmers Producers Organisation (FPO) to increase the income of farmers;
- (b) whether the Government is contemplating to impart skill training and provide export facility for FPO associated with 'Cooperative Agriculture Processing Units';
- (c) if so, the details thereof; and
- (d) if not, the reasons therefor?

(LINAC), Gurugram have been provided for capacity building of FPOs including their skill development  in  marketing,  processing  and  export.  Further,  the  Ministry  of  Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) has been implementing the  Scheme  for  Human Resources  and  Institution  -  Skill  Development  (SHRISD)  under  the  umbrella  Scheme namely the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana (PMKSY), from 2017-18 onwards for the  purpose  of  assisting  creation  of  skill  infrastructure  and  development  of  course curriculum in food processing thereby contributing for overall  Human  Resource Development in Food processing industry in the Country including that of FPOs.

Also,  as  part  of  Aatmanirbhar  Bharat  Abhiyan,  Ministry  of  Food  Processing Industries  (MOFPI)  has  launched  an  all  India  centrally  sponsored  scheme  called  "PM Formalisation  of  Micro  food  processing  Enterprises  (PMFME)  Scheme"  for  providing financial, technical and  business support for upgradation of existing micro food processing enterprises. The scheme aims at supporting Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs), Self Help Groups (SHGs) and Producers Cooperatives along their entire value chain.

Furthermore,  in  order  to  facilitate  export  facility  for  FPOs,  the  Agricultural  and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) has taken an initiative to develop a Farmer  Connect  Portal viz. providing a platform for  FPOs/FPCs, Cooperatives to connect with exporters with the key objective to facilitate and integrate the activities of Farmers and aggregators in the form of FPOs with Exporters through the assistance  of  ICT  platform.  Around  2360  FPO/FPCs  and  2324  exporters  have  been registered in the portal so far.

(d) In view of the above, question does not arise.

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