India Region

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.NoStates/ Union union territoriesNo. of FPOs registered
1Andaman & Nicobar7
2Andhra Pradesh449
3Arunachal Pradesh150
4Assam427
5Bihar577
6Chhattisgarh208
7Dadra Nagar Haveli2
8Goa59
9Gujarat393
10Haryana161
11Himachal Pradesh201
12Jammu & Kashmir282
13Jharkhand335
14Karnataka327
15Kerala113
16Ladakh3
17Lakshadweep1
18Madhya Pradesh614
19Maharashtra579
20Manipur76
21Meghalaya55
22Mizoram49
23Nagaland87
24Odisha448
25Puducherry6
26Punjab136
27Rajasthan526
28Sikkim13
29Tamil Nadu413
30Telangana302
31Tripura59
32Uttar Pradesh1,237
33Uttarakhand141
34West Bengal344
Grand Total8,780

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/ UTsNo. of FPOs working on ODOP initiative
Andhra Pradesh7
Arunachal Pradesh16
Assam29
Bihar51
Chhattisgarh1
Gujarat13
Himachal Pradesh1
Jammu and Kashmir28
Jharkhand1
Karnataka8
Kerala9
Ladakh1
Madhya Pradesh40
Maharashtra38
Manipur16
Meghalaya12
Nagaland19
Odisha23
Punjab2
Rajasthan1
Tamil Nadu14
Telangana37
Tripura5
Uttar Pradesh5
West Bengal2
Grand Total379

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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