NAFED is working as Implementing Agency for Central Sector Scheme of Formation and Promotion of 10,000 FPOs under Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (MoA&FW), Govt. of India.
The objective of the scheme is to enhance productivity through efficient, cost-effective and sustainable resource use and realize higher returns through better liquidity and market linkages for their produce and become sustainable through collective action.
FPO is a generic name, which means and includes farmer- producers’ organization incorporated/ registered either under Part IXA of Companies Act or under Co-operative Societies Act of the concerned States and formed for the purpose of leveraging collectives through economies of scale in production and marketing of agricultural and allied sector.
Main activities by Nafed under this project:
