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Determinants of Smallholders’ Participation in Farmer Producer Companies–Insights from West Bengal, India

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Title Determinants of Smallholders’ Participation in Farmer Producer Companies–Insights from West Bengal, India
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Creator Rajkumar Das
Subhasis Mandal
 
Subject Farmer Producer Company
Market access
Financial linkages
Smallholder farmers
Socio-economics
 
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Farmer Producer Companies (FPCs) are the recent institutional innovations to provide single window solution for multiple problems of farmers and ensuring better price realisation through establishing direct market linkages. A Study was conducted through primary survey during 2018-19 from six villages covering 120 households (60 FPC and 60 non-FPC farmers) associated with two FPCs in West Bengal. Average family income of FPC farmer was ₹ 242765 per year, significantly higher than the average family income of non-FPC farmer (₹ 159732). FPC farmers were better linked with the financial institutions (66 percent) as compared to non-FPC farmers (43 percent). The functioning of FPCs was quite successful in terms of achieving better income, easy input buying, and establishing linkages with the banking/financial institutions. Being member of a FPC, accrued multiple benefits to the farmers, but the functioning of such small institutions was depending on some extraneous factors like, activeness and desire to take responsibility by the CEO and others Board of Director members in FPCs; establishment of market linkages with Govt. owned marketing initiative, Sufal Bangla and other organized retailers; prospects of value addition of the commodities produced by the farmers, availability of funds, technical and financial viability; and managing the overhead and maintenance cost like salary payment of CEO, accountant, field supervisor, particularly during initial years. Key determinant socio-economic factors have been identified that are influencing participation of small-holder farmer in FPCs in the state. The study concluded that formation of FPCs should be promoted in different parts of the state to enhance farmers’ income and to bring grassroots level changing in the society.
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Date 2021-11-19T11:48:23Z
2021-11-19T11:48:23Z
2021-09-15
 
Type Research Paper
 
Identifier Das and Mandal (2021), Determinants of Smallholders’ Participation in Farmer Producer Companies–Insights from West Bengal, India, Decision, Vol.48, 327-342, DOI: 10.1007/s40622-021-00287-5
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40622-021-00287-5
http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/67538
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Springer