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The Small Farmers’ Agri-Business Consortium (SFAC) and Bayer CropScience Limited have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to form and promote 50 specialized Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs).
In collaboration with SFAC, Bayer has identified clusters in 10 states and will aim to assist smallholder farmers with business planning, identification of key enablers, creation of market linkages and knowledge transfer, while working to establish 50 FPOs.
SFAC’s partnership with Bayer will help strengthen grower collectivisation and support farmer collectives to evolve as profitable and self-reliant business entities, the company said in a statement. Bayer CropScience Limited is a leading innovative crop science companies, providing sustainable farming solutions that has conceptualised an initiative with key value chain partners to build capacities of FPOs in India.
SFAC emphasised the importance of collectivisation and FPOs important role in building socio-economic resilience of the farmers, leveraging economies of scale in production and marketing.
Global commitment
Simon-Thorsten Wiebusch, Country Divisional Head, Crop Science Division of Bayer for India, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka, said, “India is a nation of smallholder farmers. Collectivisation in the form of a vibrant and strong network of FPOs will not only improve farmers’ incomes but also supports the building up of a robust food value chain network to aid India’s food security, supporting food quality improvements and export potential.
We as Bayer, are grateful to SFAC for giving us this opportunity of forming 50 FPOs. It brings to life and makes tangible our global commitment of empowering 100 million smallholder farmers by 2030 and providing them necessary resources to enhance their productivity and livelihoods and at the same time also contribute to the development of the Indian agricultural ecosystem.”
The MoU is aligned towards achieving the goal of the Central Sector Scheme launched by the Agriculture Ministry of forming and promoting 10,000 FPOs
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