Government Seeking Increased Private Sector Participation To Support More Farmer Producer Organizations

While the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has supported over 4,000 farmer producer organisations (FPOs), the government is seeking increased private sector participation to support more farmer producer groups and link them with markets, Union Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare Minister, Radha Mohan Singh said at an ASSOCHAM event held in New Delhi yesterday.

Highlighting that farmers cannot get adequate price for their produce without value addition, he stated that adding value to the farm produce would make agriculture a remunerative proposition. Noting that there is a huge opportunity for conversion of farm produce into value added products, Singh said that focusing on value addition, processing, end-to-end management, input and output management, marketing and all these aspects would go a long way in realising government's commitment towards increase farmers' income.

Talking about government's achievements in farm sector, the Union Minister said that there is more awareness amid farmers countrywide about agricultural schemes floated during the tenure of present government unlike in the previous regime whereby reform process in the area of agriculture slowed down considerably.

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