{"id":8850,"date":"2020-07-06T12:04:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T06:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=8850"},"modified":"2020-07-06T12:04:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T06:34:24","slug":"farmers-producer-organisations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/farmers-producer-organisations\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers\u2019 Producer Organisations"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"page-title\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Relevance: Prelims: Economy<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 Union Agriculture Minister announced that rural sector will be transformed by constitution of 10,000 new Farmers\u2019 Producer Organisations (FPOs).<\/p>\n<p><b>About:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image.slidesharecdn.com\/farmerproducerorganizationfpo-180423053358\/95\/farmer-producer-organization-fpo-2-638.jpg?cb=1524461758\" alt=\"Farmer producer organization (fpo)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 This is a produce cluster based scheme. The FPOs will be managed in such a way that these farmers get access to technological inputs, finances, and better markets and prices for their crops<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In the beginning, the minimum number of members in the FPOs will be 300 in the plains and 100 in the North-East and hilly areas. 15 % of the FPOs are to be constituted in aspirational districts, and will be formed on priority basis in scheduled tribal areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 All FPOs will be provided professional support and handholding for five years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 This is a central scheme, whose total budget is Rs. 6,865 crores.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It will be implemented through agencies like NABARD, SFAC and NCDC. There will be credit guarantee fund with NABARD and NCDC, under which suitable credit guarantee up to two crore rupees per FPO will be provided.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image.slidesharecdn.com\/farmerproducerorganizationfpo-180423053358\/95\/farmer-producer-organization-fpo-14-638.jpg?cb=1524461758\" alt=\"Farmer producer organization (fpo)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Background:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In the Budget 2020-21, there is a proposal to adopt cluster approach for horticultural produce through \u201cOne district \u2013 One Product\u201d scheme so as to give a fillip to value addition, marketing and exports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image.slidesharecdn.com\/farmerproducerorganizationfpo-180423053358\/95\/farmer-producer-organization-fpo-23-638.jpg?cb=1524461758\" alt=\"Farmer producer organization (fpo)\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Economy Why in news? \u2022 Union Agriculture Minister announced that rural sector will be transformed by constitution of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-8850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8851,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions\/8851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}