Union Ministers of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shri Parshottam Rupala and Shri Kailash Choudhary inaugurated professional training programmes designed and developed for CEOs, Board of Directors, Accountants of FPOs on the occasion of the anniversary of the Central Sector Scheme titled ‘Formation and Promotion of 10,000 Farmer Produce Organizations (FPOs)’.
- The scheme was launched by Prime Minister on February 29, 2020 at Chitrakoot (Uttar Pradesh) with a budgetary provision of Rs 6865 crore.
- More than 2200 FPOs produce clusters have been allocated for the formation of FPOs in the current year, of which 100 FPOs for specialized Organic produce, 100 FPOs from Oilseeds & 50 commodity-specific FPOs with value chain development will be formed.
- In addition to SFAC, NABARD & NCDC, 06 more implementing agencies have been approved for the formation and promotion of FPOs.
