Formation and Promotion of 10000 Farmer Producer Organizations This is a central sector scheme which aims to achieve inclusive and sustainable transformation through the creation of a holistic and supportive ecosystem for the formation of 10000 FPOs and their nurturing, hand holding and capacity building. This scheme is implemented through the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC). Formation and promotion of FPO is based on Produce Cluster Area. NCDC identified 6 Cluster- Based Business Organizations (CBBOs) in this zone of which 4 are KVKs and two are ICAR institutes. Each CBBO established two FPOs under this scheme. No shareholders in each FPO range from 354 to 960. On average, these FPOs have about Rs. 10.48 lakh equity amount. Ten FPOs have office buildings and two are functioning in rented offices. Eight FPOs have owned/hired storage facilities. Eight FPOs have licenses for the marketing of seeds, fertilizers and pesticides. Two FPOs have FSSAI license and the process of getting FSSAI license was initiated by another two FPOs. Eight FPOs have eNAM registration and three FPOs are involved in paddy procurement. Only two FPOs have custom hiring centers. All the FPOs have linkages with Markfed, APMAS, ICRISAT-IFDC, NABARD, IFFCO, FMC, KRIBCO etc.

All the CBBOs completed the identification of training needs and training modules were developed for 10 FPOs, 95 awareness programmes, 38 exposure visits, and 34 trainings were organized by these CBBOs benefiting 850 members of FPOs including CEOs and BoDs. With the support of CBBOs all the 12 FPOs got the first instalment of equity grant and 7 FPOs got second instalment of equity grant. about 78 % of business plans were implemented by the FPOs during the year. e-NAM registration was completed by all the FPOs and two of them started trading.