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Getting facts unmasked organically 🤣 The point is - focus should be laid on the aggregators, FPO though leadership, CBBOs and all those unicorn start ups and financial services providers in the name of capacity building who have smartly amassed public wealth! Bureaucracy in India is still playing safe game by allowing systematic corruption and giving a blind eye. Much more will be unmasked very soon at national level and we will find few aggregators either vanishing or transforming themselves into training institutes or research institutes. Very sad when a cause becomes a cash cow for few!! Compliance is just one dimension - this could be solved if a strong advocacy is done at national to waive off for FPOs/FPCs. These micro entities cannot be treated on par with companies and CBBO scheme itself is a scam - u fund a FPO 10 lakhs and give a 25 lakhs grant per fpo to a CBBO agency - hilarious! Something is wrong at the policy level and see the impact!

This study is about status of the FPOs promoted with the support of SFAC in MP. Bigger Question is - what did Government/SFAC learn from their pre-2000 initiatives and what did they do to improve the outcomes in 10K FPOs? 1) What one expects from these CBBOs post-project? Would they continue to support these FPOs once funds have dried up? Not possible, they need fund to sustain. 2) In fact, many of these CBBOs, across states, used to put money from their own pockets against share capital collection because they were not able to collect from farmers and their payments were linked to KPI such as amount of share capital collected. What else does the average paid-up capital of 1.5 Lakh per FPO say? 3) Most of the government officials just sit on the dias, hold a mic and talk about their programs, based on the reports submitted to them. They don’t visit fields and if they ever do, it all happens to be stage-managed to show and make them hear only good stories.. 4) Today, when I roam around in MP and meet FPOs, who are promoted by some government departments besides supported under million-dollar international donors’ project and talked about the most, I find their turnover are not made of farmer procurement but of trader/middlemen procurement. Why? Because they have kept turnover as one of the most important KPIs for these projects. 5) Another issue is while both government programs and these donors talk about small/marginal and women farmers development as they are the shareholders of the FPOs supported by them but when you look data closely, you will find most farmer procurement is done from non-members, probably large farmers. 6) Question is how people outside know about these shortcuts but those who can control these all don’t know? Or they know but busy in story-telling? In the background notes of many of these CBBOs, I still find sentences like, we have promoted xxxx FPOs across India, feel amused of their innocence! Forget about the defaulters they also perhaps add stricken-off FPOs to inflate their count. Good job, Shaji John. We all need to talk about these things more and more, in public. And tell these story-tellers on their face - “In God we trust, rest others MUST bring data”. And yes, verified data. Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India | Shivraj Singh Chouhan | Suryamani Roul | Nishant Gupta

This is in continuation to our earlier Desk Research studies made to analyse the current status of FPOs (Farmer Producer Organisation) promoted in Madhya Pradesh. We had earlier conducted a study on the FPOs promoted under the New 10K FPO scheme, which showed that out of 575 FPOs (Companies) formed in MP, 503 (87%) are already defaulters within 2- 3 years of their existence. We conducted a study on the FPOs promoted by NABARD in Madhya Pradesh prior to 2020 and found that of the 103 FPOs all the FPOs are defaulters with an average penalty of over Rs7 Lac per FPO. We have recently conducted a study on the status of the FPOs promoted by SFAC in MP prior to 2020. Of the 147 FPOs (Companies) formed, 144 are defaulters with an average penalty of Rs14.5 crores. There is absolutely no way that these FPOs can pay up the penalty. And if the compliances are not upto date, No Bank will finance these FPOs, which means that either the FPO will be facing a severe funds crunch or will seek NBFCs at exorbitant interest rates. Subsidy Schemes Bank Loans are out of question for these FPOs. As a nation, can we afford the failure of the FPO sector? Can we hope to revive/ rejuvenate the agriculture sector without the involvement of Farmer Collectives or FPOs? Will the Civil Society come forward for advocating on behalf of FPOs? Will somebody show the true picture of the state of FPO sector to the policy makers? My letter to Union Agriculture Minister regarding compliance penalties on FPOs can be accessed here https://lnkd.in/d_6sDG69 My article on failed ABPU experiment of SFAC can be accessed here https://lnkd.in/dVbdUYmg

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