KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF FARMERS TOWARDS OPPORTUNITIES, ADVANTAGES IN FARMER PRODUCER ORGANISATIONS

GOWRI PRASAD K.¹*, P.R. JAYANAIK^2
1Department of Institute of Public Policy, National Law school of India University, Bengaluru, 560072, Karnataka, India
²Department of Institute of Public Policy, National Law school of India University, Bengaluru, 560072, Karnataka, India
* Corresponding Author : gowri.prasad97@gmail.com

Received : 01-12-2021     Accepted : 27-12-2021     Published : 30-12-2021
Volume : 13     Issue : 12       Pages : 10964 - 10967
Int J Agr Sci 13.12 (2021):10964-10967

Keywords : BPL category, FPOs, GDP
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Department of Institute of Public Policy, National Law school of India University, Bengaluru, 560072, Karnataka, India
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

Farmer producer organisations are becoming a ray of hope among the small and marginal farmers who constitute more than 80% of the farming community. These FPO’s bring these marginalized farmers into cohesive groups, consequentially they were benefitted with better production and higher returns. By realizing these facts, the government is encouraging and promoting FPO’s for the desired impact. Despite of prime role played by FPO’s, there is a need to further tap its potential and strengthen these organizations and replication in other areas. In this context, the study was conducted to know the contemporary functioning of FPO’s, knowledge and attitude of members of FPO towards these organizations besides their profile characteristics, constraints and so on. The results of the study revealed that the majority of the respondents i.e., 40.33% oriented a highly favorable attitude. Further 48.33 % of respondents reflected a medium level of knowledge about the functioning of FPO’s. Further among mode of the functioning, majority of the members within the BPL category regularly conducted the meetings and more than 90% of attendance of the meeting was accrued, besides case study of successful FPOs were documented. Further majority of them are confronting constraints like lack of credit facility, delay in procuring required inputs etc. In trail of these problems, they suggested having more credit opportunities in FPO’s and additional government support were duly required. By considering these facts, FPOs have ample scope and potential to strengthen them by nullifying the loopholes and benefit the members to its fullest

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