“Making Farmer Producers’ Organisations : Smart, Competitive and Sustainable”-Vaikunth Mehta

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Pune

Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management (VAMNICOM), Pune under Ministry of Agriculture and Famers Welfare, Government of India (GoI) is a premier national institute for cooperatives; to cater the emerging training needs of the entire Cooperative Sector through Management Training, Education, Research and Publication, Consultancy etc.

In fulfillment of the Government of India’s commitments to double the farmer’s income by 2022 and with a view to strengthen the Farmers Producers Organisations movement in the country the institute is organizing National Workshop on the theme “Making Farmer Producers’ Organisations: Smart, Competitive and Sustainable” on 20th September 2018, at 9.00 AM at the institute.

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Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, and Farmers Welfare, GoI will steer the workshop and share his vision and ideas for supporting the FPO movement.

Prof. Ramesh Chand (Member, NITI Aayog and Member, 15th Finance Commission of India) will chair the panel discussion. Dr K. K. Tripathy, IES, Director, VAMNICOM will deliver the welcome address. The key note address will be delivered by Dr. Sukhpal Singh, Professor, Centre for Management in Agriculture IIM (Ahmedabad).

The workshop is designed with a view to understand and deliberate various grass-root level issues of FPOs and to arrive at an all-inclusive and implementable resolution mechanism so as to make these emerging rural agri – business hubs, Smart Competitive and Sustainable. The workshop will provide FPO’s/FPC’s a platform to share and learn from the experience of different FPOs across the country.

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Further, it will offer an opportunity to network and liaison with the representatives of the agri-input and marketing companies, financial organizations etc. FPOs/FPCs and agri-input/marketing companies will get an opportunity to showcase their products in the exhibition arranged on the side lines of the workshop.

The final outcomes of this workshop will be an actionable road map which will be placed before Parshottam Rupala for appropriate action by the Government of India The event will feature addresses and technical presentations by key officials from the government, Agri & Allied companies, banks and academias who have been engaged FPO movement.

The workshop is structured with three technical sessions consisting of Smart Technology for Smart FPOs, Funding of FPOs and Innovative Approaches for Value addition and Market Linkages. Eminent personalities like Prof. Ramesh Chand (Member, NITI Aayog) and Dr. Sudhir Kumar Goel (Retd) IAS, will chair the panel discussions.

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Other distinguished panelists are Mr. Kamal Kumar, Dhanuka Agritech, Dr. Surendra Singh, Technical advisor, AMMA, India, Mr.Venkatkrishna, COO, Nabkisan, NABARD, and others.

The Conference will be attended by 350-400 delegates across India, consisting FPOs’ representatives from various States, agencies promoting FPOs, policy makers, banks, financial institutions, international funding agencies, Agri marketing agencies, input providers, technology providers, academicians and other key stakeholders.