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The Department of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare (Agricultural Marketing Division), Government of India, has included a Coimbatore-based husbandman arsenic Member of the Committee it has constituted to survey the functioning of Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) successful Tamil Nadu and to suggest remedial measures.
Ranganathan, the Coimbatore portion treasurer of Tamizhaga Vivasayigal Sangam and Director of the Business Division of Palamalai Farmers’ Producer Company Limited, finds a spot successful the Committee arsenic 1 of the 2 FPO representatives. G.K. Nagaraj, Director, Agri Innovative India Limited, is the different FPO member.
The Joint Secretary - Marketing, Department of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Government of India, volition service arsenic the Member Secretary of the Committee that besides has rank of elder officials of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) and Small Farmers’ Agri-Business Consortium (SFAC); Director of ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchi, R. Selvarajan; and Chief Executive Officer of VANAM NGO Balasubramanian.
The Committee volition survey and measure the problems faced by FPOs successful Tamil Nadu, with respect to organization governance and absorption practices, concern operations and sustainability, method assistance and hold linkages, aggregation, worth summation and selling challenges, and capableness gathering and hand-holding requirements.
The Committee volition specifically absorption connected cultivation, value-addition and selling issues relating to banana, turmeric, coconut, tapioca, earthy farming systems, and integrated farming products.
The Committee is required to taxable its archetypal study wrong 2 months.
