Farmer Producer Organization In Andhra Pradesh

163 Pages·2017·6.63 MB·English

Research Report IDC-16
ICRISAT Development Center
Farmer Producer Organization
In Andhra Pradesh: A Scoping Study
Rythu Kosam Project
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Citation: Raju KV, Kumar R, Vikraman S, Moses Shyam D, Srikanth R, Kumara Charyulu D
and Wani SP. 2017. Farmer Producer Organization in Andhra Pradesh: A Scoping Study.
Rythu Kosam Project. Research Report IDC-16. Patancheru 502 324. Telangana, India:
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. 160 pp.
ISBN 978-92-9066-592-2
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Farmer Producer Organization
In Andhra Pradesh: A Scoping Study
Rythu Kosam Project
KV Raju, Ranjit Kumar, Surjit Vikraman, Moses Shyam,
Srikanth R, D Kumara Charyulu and Suhas P Wani
ICRISAT
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DEVELOPMENT
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Sri N Chandrababu Naidu
Chief Minister, Andhra Pradesh
Message
The Government of Andhra Pradesh has envisaged, “Sunrise Andhra Pradesh: Vision 2029 to promote a
happy, inclusive and globally competitive society”. As part of this, the state has set up seven missions and
the Primary Sector Mission is one of them. To begin with, the state in collaboration with the International
Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has developed a strategy for Primary Sector
development to enable double-digit growth in the Primary Sector across its 13 districts of the state.
In order to improve welfare and living standards of farmers, particularly small holders, the government
wishes to create an appropriate ecosystem in the state. Certain commodities are identified for providing
necessary support system for the entire products and creating value chain. In this entire process, one of
the important elements is by promoting innovative institution for farmers to support this transformation.
Considering this, the Government of Andhra Pradesh (GoAP) based on a series of consultations with
public and private organizations, experts, NGOs and farmers, had brought out the Policy and Operational
Guidelines to promote Farmer Producers Organizations (FPOs). Further, the GoAP requested the ICRISAT
to carry out a comprehensive scoping study of the functional FPOs in the state. This study is an outcome
of intensive discussions with several proposed and functional FPOs and other stakeholders across Andhra
Pradesh.
I am sure, this study would provide valuable input to the Government of Andhra Pradesh and its various
departments, besides, other state governments in India and other countries, who plan to promote
FPOs. I am congratulating the ICRISAT team for bringing this timely publication for the benefit of farming
community in the state.
(Nara Chandrababu Naidu)

Sri S P Tucker
Chief Secretary, Andhra Pradesh
Message
The new state of Andhra Pradesh, during the last two years have been relentlessly striving to
achieve multidimensional growth. Enormous efforts have been directed to strengthen agriculture,
horticulture, and fisheries, dairy, and meat/livestock sectors in terms of new technology, productivity
improvement, infrastructure, knowledge, IT applications, market intelligence, linkages, and credit and
finance arrangements and so on. But, majority of small and marginal farmer producers in the state are
unorganized and fragmented. They are highly prone to underpricing at various stages of production,
marketing and value addition. The lack of synergy among concerned government departments is further
escalating this situation in the state. Even though the state has robust existing social capital and their
productive relationships across commodities are absent. To overcome this situation and to generate more
wealth for the farmers, there is an urgent need for creating of membership based institutions which are
globally found to be backbone for primary sector growth. So, both Union and State governments are
clearly putting considerable emphasis on promoting “Farmers Producers Organizations (FPOs)” as an
important policy for creating an ecosystem for enhancing farmers’ profits in the state across sub-sectors.
This comprehensive report on ‘Farmer Producer Organization in Andhra Pradesh – A Scoping study’ under
Rythu Kosam Project is a timely effort delivered by ICRISAT team to deeply understand the snapshot
of FPOs in the state. I am quite confident this report will enhance the understanding of all concerned
departments, academicians, researchers, scholars and NGOs.
(Satya Prakash Tucker)