Effectiveness of poultry based Farmers' Producer Organization and its impact on livelihood enhancement of rural women

Abstract

Farmers Producer Company (FPC) has emerged as a new business model for the rural area. Like agriculture and horticulture, it is working in poultry sector too. With an intuition to find out the impact of poultry based Farmer Producer Company on upliftment of rural people, the present study was conducted by selecting Madhya Pradesh Women Poultry Producer Company Pvt. Limited (MPWPCL) founded by a team of poor rural women. An Ex-Post Facto research design was used. Difference in difference technique was utilized to estimate the actual impact of FPCs. To measure the effectiveness of MPWPCL and its impact, two indices, viz. effectiveness index and livelihood wellbeing index were prepared. Study was conducted in Orchha district of Madhya Pradesh from 37 randomly selected poultry growers' members and 15 nonmember respondents from the same locale. The MPWPCL was found highly effective with overall effectiveness score of 71.88. Joining the FPC has improved the poor rural women's human, social and political dimensions of livelihood empowerment in addition to a significant economic gain.

An Exploratory Study on Farmer’s Perception about dairy-based Farmer Producer Companies in India

“…More than half (74.44%) of the member farmers responded that Members of FPCs have better accessibility of agricultural and training programs for their members. These programs helped in increasing self-confidence, change the attitude and behavior of members toward dairy farming in study areas (ASA 2009, Venkattakumar and Sontakki 2012, Bikkina 2015, Mukherjee 2019. Apart from that, factors like the role of FPCs in bridging the gap between lab to land through strengthening linkages (GFRAS 2015, NABARD 2015), enhancing social cohesion, developing specific skills (Wilson 2009), ensuring a proper market place and better price realization, etc (Table 1) were perceived significant by the farmers towards the FPCs.…”

“…Generally, FPCs have strong backward and forward linkages with various stakeholders. This helps in better accessibility of agricultural services to their members (Trebin 2014, Mukherjee 2019. Most (73.61%) of the members perceived that Membership of FPCs help to enhance knowledge about good agricultural practices and they have assigned the fourth rank to it with a weighted mean score of 111.33.…”

“…This might be due to the reason that FPCs usually conducts various training programs, exposure visits, demonstration and lectures to enhance their knowledge about scientific dairy farming practices. Exposure visits to different farms and technology demonstrations add to their existing knowledge and help to make it more rational (Bachke 2009, Asante 2009, Mukherjee 2019). The dairy farmers responded positively that 'FPCs help in reducing transport cost of members' with a weighted mean score was 111.13.…”

Analysis of Technical Efficiency of Rice Farmers under Farmer Producer Organisation (FPO) in Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh

“…It could be due to a lack of efficient business plans, more administrative controls, limited knowledge of the promoting institutions, lack of adequate infrastructure etc. [7,8]. It was observed that FPOs faced many threats, such as increased competition from existing private companies, lack of self-sustainability, and more administrative controls by the CEOs offer less opportunity to expand their business activities and lack of professional expertise and low involvement of the members as major weakness of FPOs [9].…”

(Farmer) Producer Companies in India as new generation cooperatives: Case studies of performance and impact from West Bengal, India

“…However, the demand for such enterprises does not create its own supply—though such demand is higher when buyers from or sellers to smallholders have market power, which allows them to provide less desirable outcomes for smallholders (Ben‐ner, 2018)—which is, in other words, a case of complete or partial market failure for such smallholders, in the form of lower prices, higher transaction costs or prices that are not quality based (Novkovic, 2021). There are studies that examine the role and impact of traditional cooperatives in developing countries, including India and China (Roy & Thorat, 2008; Kumar et al, 2013; Song et al., 2013; Desai & Joshi, 2014; Kumar et al., 2018; Ma and Abdulai, 2016; Dey, 2018; Ito et al., 2012; IIIE, 2019; Mukherjee et al., 2019; Verma et al., 2019; Baskova & Ahado, 2020); and there are others that study their failures and the reasons thereof (Hu et al., 2017; Hu et al., 2022).…”