Lok Sabha Question No. 3094 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-08-08
Subject: Setting up of SFAC
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Jayanta Kumar Roy

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3094

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 08 TH  AUGUST, 2023

## SETTING UP OF SFAC

3094. DR. JAYANTA KUMAR ROY:

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

- (a) whether  the  Government  has  set  up  Small  Farmers'  Agri-Business  Consortium (SFAC)  in  various  States  and  if  so,  the  details  thereof  including  functions  performed  by SFAC;
- (b) the  details  of  projects/schemes  being  implemented,  funds  sanctioned  and  physical achievements/progress made so far under the SFAC, State-wise;
- (c) whether the SFAC has been able to make any impact on the agriculture sector and if so, the details thereof;
- (d) whether  the  Government  has  reviewed  the  functioning  of  SFAC  to  make  it  more effective; and
- (e) if so, the steps being taken by the Government in this regard?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

कृ ͪष एवं ͩकसान कãयाण मंğी (SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

- (a): Government of India has set up Small Farmers' Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC), a registered society under Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India, in 1994. SFAC has its head office in Delhi and has also an office in Guwahati, Assam. The mandate of SFAC is as under: -
- (i) to promote agri-business projects by catalysing private investment for generating income and rural employment; and
- (ii)  to  promote  aggregation  of  farmers  as  producers'  organisations  with  forward  and backward linkages for efficient supply chain management.

Various  State  Governments  have  also  set  up  State  level  SFACs  in  their  respective States and have sought corpus fund from Government of India. The amount Rs.900.00 lakhs were  released  to  21  State  SFACs  as  matching  Corpus  for  setting  up  of  State  SFAC.  The State-wise details of State SFAC is at Annexure-I.

- (b): SFAC is one of the Implementing Agency under Central Sector Scheme for 'Formation & Promotion of 10,000 Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs). SFAC has been entrusted in

formation  &  promotion  of  3,599  FPOs  by  Department  of  Agriculture  &  Farmers  Welfare, Government  of  India.  As  on  31st  July,  2023,  2657  No.  of  FPOs  across  the  country  have already been incorporated under the scheme. State-wise information is at Annexure-II. Under the  10,000  FPOs  scheme,  FPO  management  cost  of  Rs.94.90  cr.  and  Equity  Grant  of Rs.32.91 cr. have been released.

SFAC is also the nodal implementing agency for National Agriculture Market         (eNAM) scheme.  With the objective  to facilitate  transaction  of  Agriculture  Produce  between seller  (Farmer,  FPO  etc.)  and  buyer  (Trader,  Processor,  Exporter,  Institutional  buyer  etc.), Government of India has launched National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) in April 2016. e-NAM is  a  pan-India  electronic  trading  (e-trading)  platform  integrating  physical  wholesale  mandis/ markets of different  States/ Union Territories (UTs) to facilitate  online trading of agriculture and horticulture commodities to enable farmers to realize better remunerative prices for their produce. State-wise key achievements of e-NAM is at Annexure-III.

(c): SFAC has also formed FPOs under various scheme viz. National Food for Security Mission  (NFSM),  Mission  for  Integrated  Development  of  Horticulture  (MIDH),  Vegetable Initiative for Urban Cluster (VIUC) and tribal welfare etc. besides the Central Sector Scheme for 'Formation & Promotion of 10,000 FPOs'. The total No. of 13.72 lakh farmers have been benefitted under the various schemes of SFAC.

(d)  &  (e):  Govt.  of  India  under  the  chairmanship  of  Cabinet  Secretary  held  a  meeting  of Committee  of  Secretaries  on  15.11.2017  about  the  role  and  relevance  of  SFAC  and recommended to  entrust  additional  responsibility/  targets  to  SFAC.  In  2020,  NITI  Aayog  Wattal Committee had specifically recommended SFAC as the only organisation of its kind and has been working to promote agribusiness and the empowerment of farmers. Therefore, considering the  importance of  being  the  Implementing  Agency  of  e-NAM,  SFAC  is recommended to continue as autonomous body.

The State wise details of State SFAC along with the amount released as corpus

| State SFAC        |   Amount Released as corpus (Rs. in lakhs) |
|-------------------|--------------------------------------------|
| Arunachal Pradesh |                                         50 |
| Assam             |                                         50 |
| Himachal Pradesh  |                                         50 |
| Jharkhand         |                                         25 |
| Kerala            |                                         50 |
| Karnataka         |                                         25 |
| Madhya Pradesh    |                                         50 |
| Maharashtra       |                                         50 |
| Meghalaya         |                                         50 |
| Manipur           |                                         50 |
| Mizoram           |                                         50 |
| Nagaland          |                                         50 |
| Punjab            |                                         50 |
| Sikkim            |                                         50 |
| Tamil Nadu        |                                         50 |
| Tripura           |                                         50 |
| Uttar Pradesh     |                                         25 |
| Uttaranchal       |                                         25 |
| Rajasthan         |                                         25 |
| Bihar             |                                         25 |
| Gujarat           |                                         50 |
| Total             |                                        900 |

State wise details of registered FPOs under Central Sector Scheme for Formation and Promotion of 10,000 FPOs by SFAC as on 31-07-2023

| S. No.   | States            |   No. of Registered FPOs |
|----------|-------------------|--------------------------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh    |                       77 |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh |                       10 |
| 3        | Assam             |                      111 |
| 4        | Bihar             |                      191 |
| 5        | Chhattisgarh      |                       60 |
| 6        | Gujarat           |                      111 |
| 7        | Haryana           |                       50 |
| 8        | Himachal Pradesh  |                       55 |
| 9        | Jammu & Kashmir   |                       81 |
| 10       | Jharkhand         |                       81 |
| 11       | Karnataka         |                       45 |
| 12       | Kerala            |                       40 |
| 13       | Madhya Pradesh    |                      250 |
| 14       | Maharashtra       |                      175 |
| 15       | Manipur           |                        9 |
| 16       | Meghalaya         |                        8 |
| 17       | Mizoram           |                       12 |
| 18       | Nagaland          |                        8 |
| 19       | Odisha            |                      141 |
| 20       | Punjab            |                       65 |
| 21       | Rajasthan         |                      174 |
| 22       | Tamil Nadu        |                       77 |
| 23       | Telangana         |                       91 |
| 24       | Tripura           |                       17 |
| 25       | Uttar Pradesh     |                      546 |
| 26       | Uttarakhand       |                       43 |
| 27       | West Bengal       |                      129 |
| Total    | Total             |                     2657 |

## State-wise - Key Achievements of National Agriculture Market (e-NAM)

| S. No.                                              | e-NAM States/ Union Terrotries                      | No. of mandis integrated                            | No. of Farmers Registered                           | No. of Traders Registered                           | No. of FPOs Registered                              | Total Trade Volume (MT)                             | Total Trade Volume (Nos*)                           | Total Trade Value (Rs Cr)                           |
|-----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|
| 1                                                   | Andhra Pradesh                                      | 33                                                  | 1450734                                             | 3600                                                | 199                                                 | 6600187                                             | 0                                                   | 41865.31                                            |
| 2                                                   | Assam                                               | 3                                                   | 9                                                   | 8                                                   | 1                                                   | 16.9                                                | 0                                                   | 0.03                                                |
| 3                                                   | Bihar                                               | 20                                                  | 68                                                  | 26                                                  | 9                                                   | 9.48                                                | 0                                                   | 0.02                                                |
| 4                                                   | Chhattisgarh                                        | 20                                                  | 135473                                              | 3197                                                | 30                                                  | 940853                                              | 0                                                   | 1883.12                                             |
| 5                                                   | Goa                                                 | 7                                                   | 21                                                  | 649                                                 |                                                     | 3.3                                                 | 0                                                   | 0.05                                                |
| 6                                                   | Gujarat                                             | 144                                                 | 869346                                              | 10066                                               | 195                                                 | 2013255                                             | 0                                                   | 7858.26                                             |
| 7                                                   | Haryana                                             | 108                                                 | 2725488                                             | 16161                                               | 259                                                 | 24819777.8                                          | 0                                                   | 77052.46                                            |
| 8                                                   | Himachal Pradesh                                    | 38                                                  | 125120                                              | 2084                                                | 73                                                  | 347263.88                                           | 0                                                   | 1263.47                                             |
| 9                                                   | Jharkhand                                           | 19                                                  | 262766                                              | 2460                                                | 167                                                 | 26282.66                                            | 4469                                                | 48.75                                               |
| 10                                                  | Karnataka                                           | 5                                                   | 1479                                                | 715                                                 | 18                                                  | 154596.17                                           | 0                                                   | 985.00                                              |
| 11                                                  | Kerela                                              | 6                                                   | 3029                                                | 404                                                 | 9                                                   | 559.79                                              | 0                                                   | 1.79                                                |
| 12                                                  | Madhya Pradesh                                      | 136                                                 | 3022093                                             | 22548                                               | 136                                                 | 6920454.64                                          | 0                                                   | 22215.00                                            |
| 13                                                  | Maharashtra                                         | 118                                                 | 1224293                                             | 21962                                               | 298                                                 | 3634992.43                                          | 0                                                   | 12686.00                                            |
| 14                                                  | Nagaland                                            | 19                                                  | 43                                                  | 63                                                  |                                                     | 292.18                                              | 0                                                   | 1.67                                                |
| 15                                                  | Odisha                                              | 66                                                  | 337650                                              | 8455                                                | 286                                                 | 981602                                              | 245953260                                           | 2532.34                                             |
| 16                                                  | Punjab                                              | 79                                                  | 217476                                              | 2710                                                | 13                                                  | 3328092.83                                          |                                                     | 10795.00                                            |
| 17                                                  | Rajasthan                                           | 145                                                 | 1505053                                             | 84211                                               | 262                                                 | 16123970.29                                         | 4664516                                             | 65004.34                                            |
| 18                                                  | Tamil Nadu                                          | 157                                                 | 374238                                              | 9516                                                | 152                                                 | 1432433.11                                          | 7505370                                             | 3032.22                                             |
| 19                                                  | Telangana                                           | 57                                                  | 1823897                                             | 5944                                                | 99                                                  | 5803521.05                                          | 0                                                   | 20286.07                                            |
| 20                                                  | Tripura                                             | 7                                                   | 33                                                  | 11                                                  | 2                                                   | 0.76                                                | 0                                                   | 0.002                                               |
| 21                                                  | Uttar Pradesh                                       | 125                                                 | 3304141                                             | 38957                                               | 307                                                 | 5560762.25                                          | 0                                                   | 9617.69                                             |
| 22                                                  | Uttarakhand                                         | 16                                                  | 89671                                               | 5525                                                | 69                                                  | 425981.48                                           | 0                                                   | 569.93                                              |
| 23                                                  | West Bengal                                         | 18                                                  | 63549                                               | 4316                                                | 206                                                 | 42456.28                                            | 97100                                               | 77.33                                               |
| 24                                                  | Andaman and Nicobar Islands                         | 1                                                   | 1                                                   | 4                                                   |                                                     | 0.01                                                |                                                     | 0.00003                                             |
| 25                                                  | Chandigarh                                          | 1                                                   | 7106                                                | 120                                                 |                                                     | 474809                                              |                                                     | 890.62                                              |
| 26                                                  | Jammu & Kashmir                                     | 11                                                  | 26094                                               | 1940                                                | 29                                                  | 9782.17                                             | 13400                                               | 35.05                                               |
| 27                                                  | Puducherry                                          | 2                                                   | 13582                                               | 208                                                 | 3                                                   | 43415.61                                            |                                                     | 149.85                                              |
|                                                     | Total                                               | 1361                                                | 17582453                                            | 245860                                              | 2822                                                | 79685371                                            | 258238115                                           | 278851                                              |
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