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Farmer producer organizations as farmer collectives: A case study from India
Author(s) -
Bikkilini,
Turaga Rama Mohana R.,
Bhamoriya Vaibhav
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
development policy review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.671
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1467-7679
pISSN - 0950-6764
DOI - 10.1111/dpr.12274
Subject(s) - transaction cost , collective action , production (economics) , business , value (mathematics) , capital (architecture) , database transaction , social capital , agriculture , action (physics) , economics , industrial organization , microeconomics , finance , ecology , social science , programming language , archaeology , machine learning , sociology , politics , biology , political science , computer science , law , history , physics , quantum mechanics
Small and marginal farmers in India have been vulnerable to risks in agricultural production. Several organizational prototypes are emerging to integrate them into the value chain with the objective of enhancing incomes and reducing transaction costs. Among these are Farmer Producer Organizations ( FPO s). We explore the potential of FPO s as collective institutions through a case study of Avirat, one of the first FPO s in Gujarat. Our analysis suggests that FPO s have the potential to provide benefits through effective collective action. The main challenge, however, is to raise sufficient capital to maximize these benefits. We discuss the implications of our findings to policy.