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    AGRICULTURE OUTPUT MARKETING AND INPUT LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT OF FARMER PRODUCER ORGANIZATIONS (FPOs) IN MADHYA PRADESH
    (UHF Nauni, 2024-07-05) RICHA KHUSHWAHA; Piyush Mehta
    The study was done to know the agri-output market operations and input logistics management of Farmer Producer Organizations in Madhya Pradesh. Multistage sampling has been used for the study. Primary data has been collected from 20 FPOs of Madhya Pradesh. In the first stage Madhya Pradesh has been selected for study purposively. At the second stage CBBOMBCFPCL has been selected purposively for the study. At the third stage of sampling 20 FPOs has been selected purposively for the study. In fourth stage of sampling 5 BoD & CEO and Farmer or shareholders from each FPO has been selected for the study making the total sample size of 300. Secondary data is collected from various government sources. For analyzing the data Frequency, percentages, mean, AHP, FPC effectiveness Index, PCA, Perception Index and Garett ranking has been used. The finding reports that there are more female directors and shareholders in newly formed FPOs. All the FPOs are found to be active meeting all the regulatory compliances given by government. Nascent FPOs are not performing capital intensive activities while growing and mature FPOs mostly performs all activities. The effectiveness index of all FPOs for output and input operations found to be highly effective which shows the positive outcome of FPOs. Farmers/shareholders perception towards FPOs found to be positive for both output and input operations among all categories of FPOs. Nascent FPOs has turnover of less than 20 lakhs while growing FPOs has turnover in between of 41-60 Lakhs and mature FPO has more than 60 lakhs of turnover. Local resource utilization and group fund were the main motivating factor for farmers/ shareholders to join FPO. Capital intensive activities were mostly performed by growing and mature FPOs. The effectiveness index was found to be 53.28per cent and 45.69 per cent for output market operations and input logistics activities respectively.