The age of middlemen in the life of farmers should find its exit as early as possible . Sooner the better for the farming community in India, as I had been advocating for decades after studying and researching the economics of small and marginal farmers.
Example: About 1000 goat herders from 10 neighbouring villages floated Theni District Goat Producer Company Ltd (TNiGPCL), a company in 2015 that markets the goats of of all its shareholders in bulk.
Farmers Producer Organisations (FPO) are farming startups which are being incubated by the Centre through Small Farmer Agri-business Consortium (SFAC) , rural development bank NABARD, agriculture and horticulture departments of state governments and NGOs. There are around 200 such companies in Tamil Nadu.
A good initiative and strategy in the interest of farmers!
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