Women’s Participation in Farmer Producer Organisations
28 July 2024, New Delhi: The Government of India is implementing the Central Sector Scheme for “Formation and Promotion of 10,000 Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs)” scheme to form and promote 10,000 new FPOs. As on 22.07.2024, 10,000 FPOs have been allocated to 14 Implementing Agencies (IAs) out of which 8780 FPOs have been registered across the country. The state-wise number of FPOs registered is given below:
State/ UT wise number of FPOs registered under 10,000 FPOs scheme
Sr.No | States/ Union union territories | No. of FPOs registered |
1 | Andaman & Nicobar | 7 |
2 | Andhra Pradesh | 449 |
3 | Arunachal Pradesh | 150 |
4 | Assam | 427 |
5 | Bihar | 577 |
6 | Chhattisgarh | 208 |
7 | Dadra Nagar Haveli | 2 |
8 | Goa | 59 |
9 | Gujarat | 393 |
10 | Haryana | 161 |
11 | Himachal Pradesh | 201 |
12 | Jammu & Kashmir | 282 |
13 | Jharkhand | 335 |
14 | Karnataka | 327 |
15 | Kerala | 113 |
16 | Ladakh | 3 |
17 | Lakshadweep | 1 |
18 | Madhya Pradesh | 614 |
19 | Maharashtra | 579 |
20 | Manipur | 76 |
21 | Meghalaya | 55 |
22 | Mizoram | 49 |
23 | Nagaland | 87 |
24 | Odisha | 448 |
25 | Puducherry | 6 |
26 | Punjab | 136 |
27 | Rajasthan | 526 |
28 | Sikkim | 13 |
29 | Tamil Nadu | 413 |
30 | Telangana | 302 |
31 | Tripura | 59 |
32 | Uttar Pradesh | 1,237 |
33 | Uttarakhand | 141 |
34 | West Bengal | 344 |
Grand Total | 8,780 |
The provisions have been made in the operational guidelines of 10,000 FPOs scheme to increase women’s participation in FPOs. As per the clause 4.4 of the operational guideline of the “Formation and Promotion of 10,000 Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs)” scheme, FPO provide special focus to include small, marginal and women farmers/women SHGs, SC/ST farmers and other economically weaker categories etc. as members to make FPOs more effective and inclusive. Further, as per clause 11.3 of the operational guideline, in the Board of Director (BoD) and Governing Body (GB) as the case may be , there shall be adequate representation of women farmer member (s) and there should be minimum one women member.
As on 22.07.2024, 810 FPOs have been registered as 100 percent women members FPOs under the said scheme. Besides this, out of overall registration of 19,82,835 farmers in FPOs 6,86,665 are women farmers.
379 FPOs formed under “Formation and Promotion of 10,000 Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs)” scheme are working on the One District and One Product (ODOP) initiative. The state-wise number of FPOs working on the ODOP initiative is given below:
State-wise no. of FPOs working on the ODOP initiative
States/ UTs | No. of FPOs working on ODOP initiative |
Andhra Pradesh | 7 |
Arunachal Pradesh | 16 |
Assam | 29 |
Bihar | 51 |
Chhattisgarh | 1 |
Gujarat | 13 |
Himachal Pradesh | 1 |
Jammu and Kashmir | 28 |
Jharkhand | 1 |
Karnataka | 8 |
Kerala | 9 |
Ladakh | 1 |
Madhya Pradesh | 40 |
Maharashtra | 38 |
Manipur | 16 |
Meghalaya | 12 |
Nagaland | 19 |
Odisha | 23 |
Punjab | 2 |
Rajasthan | 1 |
Tamil Nadu | 14 |
Telangana | 37 |
Tripura | 5 |
Uttar Pradesh | 5 |
West Bengal | 2 |
Grand Total | 379 |
This information was given by the Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Mr. Shivraj Singh Chouhan in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.
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