Universal Journal of Agricultural Research Vol. 11(5), pp. 882 - 892
DOI: 10.13189/ujar.2023.110513
Reprint (PDF) (635Kb)

Farmer Producers Company and Agricultural Sustainability: A Status in Kalahandi District of Odisha, India

Padmalochan Rout ¹, Saswat Kumar Pani ¹, Damodar Jena ^1,*, Amar Kumar Mohanty ², Saismita Swain ¹, Madhuswapna Pattanaik ¹, Sasmita Rani Samanta ^3
1 KIIT School of Rural Management (KSRM), Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), India
² KIIT School of Law, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), India
³ Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), India

ABSTRACT

Agriculture, being the important sector in Indian economy in terms of absorbing more than half of the total workers, continues to be less remunerative. The marginal and small farmers constitute around 86% of the total farmers. They are mostly unorganized and integrated with a lack of supportive environment in terms of institutional support, infrastructure, production ecosystem, access to on time resources and effective coordination with stakeholders. Farmer Producers Company (FPC), the latest version of farmer institution in India, has been developed to organize the marginal and small farmers, and enhance their capacity to multiply their income through agricultural sustainability. With this background, the present paper attempts to answer the following questions: what is the status of agriculture with a sustainability perspective in FPC context; and what are the unique practices (innovation, value addition, collaboration, risk coverage and institutional governance) adopted by the better performing FPC to attain agricultural sustainability. The study was conducted in a district (Kalahandi) in Odisha with a higher number of FPCs. It was found that none of the FPCs follows the risk coverage mechanisms. However, the relatively better performing FPC was found with the practices of value addition, innovation, collaboration and institutional governance. The bivariate correlation of all these facilitating variables with agricultural sustainability index was found to be significant. However, the extent of relationship between any one of these variables and agricultural sustainability index was found to be insignificant when we controlled the other facilitating variables. It is inferred that all the facilitating variables, viz. innovation, value addition, collaboration, institutional governance along with risk coverage are important when they are implemented simultaneously to ensure better agricultural sustainability scenario.

KEYWORDS
Farmer Producers Company, Agricultural Sustainability, Innovation, Collaboration, Value Addition, Institutional Governance, Risk Coverage

Cite This Paper in IEEE or APA Citation Styles
(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Padmalochan Rout , Saswat Kumar Pani , Damodar Jena , Amar Kumar Mohanty , Saismita Swain , Madhuswapna Pattanaik , Sasmita Rani Samanta , "Farmer Producers Company and Agricultural Sustainability: A Status in Kalahandi District of Odisha, India," Universal Journal of Agricultural Research, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 882 - 892, 2023. DOI: 10.13189/ujar.2023.110513.

(b). APA Format:
Padmalochan Rout , Saswat Kumar Pani , Damodar Jena , Amar Kumar Mohanty , Saismita Swain , Madhuswapna Pattanaik , Sasmita Rani Samanta (2023). Farmer Producers Company and Agricultural Sustainability: A Status in Kalahandi District of Odisha, India. Universal Journal of Agricultural Research, 11(5), 882 - 892. DOI: 10.13189/ujar.2023.110513.