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Periyanaickenpalayam-based Palamalai Farmer-Producer Organisaton has provided selling enactment to 200 members of the Irular people organically cultivating insignificant millets, ragi and kambu successful the adjacent hilly terrain, by enrolling them arsenic members.
Be it the organically cultivated cultivation produce, arappu (powdered dried leaves of Albizia amara tree), shikakai (soap pod) oregon honey, the farmers successful astir 7 habitations are presently not getting the close terms owing to selling constraints.
“Earlier, they utilized to instrumentality the nutrient to residential localities connected bicycles, and enactment up shops successful shandies. But, of late, they conflict to find buyers and are forced to merchantability the nutrient straight to shops for a pittance. Hence, the intervention,” said Ranganathan, elder functionary of Tamizhaga Vivasayigal Sangam and manager of the concern part of Palamalai Farmer Producer Company Limited.
Mr. Ranganathan was portion of a committee constituted by the Department of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare (Agricultural Marketing Division), Government of India, to survey the functioning of Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) successful Tamil Nadu and suggest remedial measures.
The tribal farmers person been provided with an outlet to showcase and merchantability their nutrient astatine a retail portion tally by the Palamalai FPO, Mr. Ranganathan said.
With the summation of the 200 tribal farmers, the spot of the Palamalai FPO has gone up to 500. Every caller subordinate is required to bargain 10 shares of ₹100 each. The amount, though nominal by wide standards, is precocious for the tribal farmers. They have, nevertheless, travel guardant owing to the spot they person reposed successful the founding members of the Palamalai FPO, and this has travel successful for appreciation from the officials of the Department of Agricultural Marketing and Agri Business, helium said.
The vantage for consumers is that they get the accidental to acquisition organically cultivated nutrient astatine 70% of the outgo they incur elsewhere, Mr. Ranganathan said.
The consumers basal to prevention connected the 30% committee that middlemen marque for taking the products to the consumers, Mr. Ranganathan said, adding: “The Palamalai FPO has enactment successful spot a mechanics to procure the nutrient from the tribal farmers and way backmost the returns, enabling them to prevention their time, vigor and expenditure.”
