The socio economic impact of farmer producer organizations in Chhattisgarh plains

Abstract

Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) are one of the viable measure to address various problems facing Indian Agriculture. The paper examined the different socio-economic impacts on members of FPO in plains region of Chhattisgarh state with 240 farmers in study area for year 2017-18. The study has adopted multistage sampling procedure for the selection of district, and sampled FPOs Due to improvement in participation in extension program, innovativeness, networking among farmers by themselves, increase in income, savings and employment opportunities producer-members of FPOs stable with better economic status in community on comparing with non-members. Poor professional management, shortage of working capital, inability to access loan from financial institutions, awareness of producer- members, insufficient directions and visions from Board of Directors and poor infrastructure facilities were major hurdles for better performance of Producer Organizations.