characteristics of farmer producer company

An indicative list of services includes: Input Supply Services: The FPCs will channel low cost and quality inputs including custom hiring equipment to member farmers. It will supply fertilizers, pesticides, seeds, sprayers and pump sets, accessories, and pipe lines, where feasible. Aggregation or Procurement and Packaging Services : The FPCs may procure agriculture produce from its member farmers; will do the storage, value addition and packaging. Marketing Services : The FPCs may undertake storage and direct marketing (retailing, supply to processing retailers) after procurement of agricultural produce. This will enable members to save in terms of time, transactioncosts, weighmentlosses, distresssales, pricefluctuations, transportation, qualitymaintenanceetc. Theymayalso facilitate trading on the NCDSX platform and also provide MSP related procurement services. Insurance Services : The FPCs will channel various insurance like Crop Insurance, Electric Motor Insurance, etc. Technical Services : FPCs may promote best practices of farming, maintain marketing information system, diversifying and raising levels of knowledge and skills in agricultural production and post-harvest processing that adds value to products. They may also channel custom hiring services for farm mechanisation and operate common facility centres. Processing Services : The FPCs will facilitate the job-work based cleaning and grading of raw agricultural produced brought in by the farmers. The company would levy comparatively lower service charges (by 2-3%) to members as compared to the non-members. The job-work based primary processing charges for cereals and fruits and vegetables vary from Rs. 50-150 per quintal based upon the type of produce. Such facilitation services by an FPC in the initial stages actually allow it to operate under limited credit and infrastructure availability; it need not buy and store huge volume of raw produce at its premises. Networking Services : Making various service providers and services (e.g. about input sourcing, custom hiring of equipment and product specifications, market prices) and other business services accessible to producers; facilitatinglinkageswithfinancialinstitutions,buildinglinkagesof producers,processors,tradersandconsumers,facilitating linkages with various government programmes. Transport facilitation : Transport vehicles services are also provided for, particularly in horticulture focused FCSCs.

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