The concept behind Farmer Producer Organizations is that farmers, who are the producers of agricultural products, can form groups. To facilitate this process, the Small Farmers’ Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC) was mandated by Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of India, to support the State Governments in the formation of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs)

The role of FPO is to act as an aggregator for member farmers including from inputs to output which will enhance the economy of scale and bargaining power of member farmers. In case of unsold Lots, Logisitics arrangement is to be made by FPO/FPC

FPOs/ FPCs can act as an aggregator for its member and sell through e-trading as one/ multiple lot depending upon requirment.

Payment will be done directly to the FPO/ FPCs bank account. In turn FPO/ FPCs can distribute among members.

Union budget 2017-18 made provision to install collection/ sorting/ grading/ packing facilities at their premises.

Provision for personalised dashboard and real time information on arrival, quality and price of commodities.

Currently 2389 FPO's have been onboarded on e-NAM platform.

- The entire Payment will be credited to One Bank account of FPO/FPC.

- Post credit of Payment disbursal of amount to Individual members farmers has to be done by FPO/FPC

- FPOs/FPCs will be provided access to e-NAM Dashboard to see MIS and Reports related to the Trade executed by FPOs/FPCs