Country’s first Farmers Producer Organisation (FPO) – a green chilli and mushroom processing unit has been registered under the ambit of the Cooperative Societies Act in Varanasi, according to a press release issued by NCDC.
Registered on February 26, 2021, Krishak Utpadak Sanghthan Evam Audyanik Viparan Sahkari Samiti, in village Tikri under Kashi Vidyapeeth Block of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh will be set up for processing high value vegetable products. The focus commodities of the FPO are mushroom and green chilli. The FPO falls within the Prime Minister’s Parliamentary Constituency.
Generally, the FPOs are registered under the Companies Act. However, this is the first time that such an entity has been established under the Cooperative Societies Act as the part of the Government’s Central Sector Scheme titled “Formation and Promotion of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs)” to form and promote 10,000 new FPOs. The scheme was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on
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