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National Workshop on Reimagining Farmer Producer Collectives across India
As part of the Verghese Kurien Centenary celebration, the workshop, organised on 25th November 2021 at IRMA, brought together practitioners, academics and policy makers to share their views on the management, governance, financial support and capacity building aspects of Farmer Producer Collectives. The need for newer institutional arrangements, a strong incubation phase and managerial support was discussed as part of the workshop dialogues.
C S Reddy
Yogesh Thorat
Shirish Joshi
C S Reddy
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The session also saw the release of the following publications: -
Fields of Change: Managerial Insights on FPOs in India
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FPOs as harbingers of agricultural transformation: The significance of credit
Agenda for the workshop
Plenary session
Dr. Umakant Dash
Director, IRMA
Dr. Vijaya Lakshmi Nadendla
Joint Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, GoI
C S Reddy
CEO, APMAS
Nagendra Nath Sinha
Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development, GoI
​Yogesh Dwivedi
CEO, MBCFPCL
Sanjeev Kumar Chadha
Managing Director, NAFED
Yogesh Thorat
CEO, MahaFPC
​Sridhar Easwaran
Senior VP - FPOs, Samunnati
Keynote address
Dr. G R Chintala
Chairman, NABARD
There are close to 140 million agricultural producers. But no one knows where the value is added, how the value is added, and who is knocking off the profit.... This is where the FPO revolution comes in.
Authors' workshop
The second part of the workshop was meant for primarily carrying out discussions around the findings of case authors who have been studying 17 FPOs across the country. These cases are slated for release as an edited book volume in 2022. The case writers also got the opportunity to interview the CEOs of FPC federations (Kuldeep Solanki, Yogesh Dwivedi and Yogesh Thorat) to gain a better understanding of the challenges and ground-level realities of managing farmer-led organisations. The session was also attended by field experts, scholars and experienced development consultants like Dr. Dinesh Awasthi, VC, Lok Jagriti University, Mr. Emmanuel Murray, senior adviser, Caspian Investment and Mr. Shirish Joshi, Independent Consultant
Shirish Joshi
Independent Consultant
Emmanuel Murray
Senior Adviser, Caspian Investment
Interviews of the CEOs of FPC federations
Kuldeep Solanki
CEO, Gujpro
Yogesh Thorat
CEO, MahaFPC
Yogesh Dwivedi
CEO, MBCFPCL
Authors' experience sharing : Fields of Change
A compendium of blogs titled Fields of Change based on FPO field visits was released during the Verhese Kurien Mahotsav. This compendium brings together 33 academics and collaborators to understand the FPO ecosystem of in detail. A few case authors share their experience of working on the project.
Dr. Deborah Dutta
Senior Research Fellow - Living Farm Incomes
Abhishek Saxena
FPM(RM) Scholar, IRMA
Pallavi GL
FPM(RM) Scholar, IRMA
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