Summary:
New Delhi: Union Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare Minister, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar today said that a new dimension is going to be added to farmers' groups with the creation of ten thousand new Farmers' Producer Organizations (FPOs). The Union Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare Minister was addressing a meeting of Laghu Udyog Bharati and Sahakar Bharati through video conference, in which Ministers of State for Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare, Shri Purushottam Rupala and Shri Kailash Choudhary, and Union Minister of State for Water Resources Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal were also present. Shri Tomar said that in the beginning, the minimum number of members in the FPOs would be 300 in the plains and 100 in the North-East and hilly areas. The FPOs will help to reduce the cost of production and marketing, and also help to improve production in the agricultural and horticultural sectors. Further elaborating on the scheme, Shri Tomar said that it will be implemented through agencies like NABARD, SFAC and NCDC..