SFAC-GOI

The Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC) under the Ministry of Agriculture, Co-operation and Farmers Welfare empanelled Erode Precision Farm Producer Company as a Resource Institution / Cluster based Business Organisation to promote FPOs in TN under National Food Security mission. The following are the FPOs promoted under SFAC-GOI.

  1.  Erode Pulses Farmer Producer Company Ltd.
  2.  Namakkal Pulses Farmers Producer Company Ltd.
  3.  Salem Kanjamalai Pulses & millet Farmer Producer Company Ltd.
  4.  Tiruppur Farmer Producer Company Ltd.
  5.  Karikalan Pulses Farmer Producer Company Ltd.

Presently two FPOs on ‘Nutri millets’ (Ragi) are under promotion at Thally and Hosur area of Krishnagiri district.

  1.  Hosur Soolagiri Nutri millets Farmer Producer Company Ltd.
  2.  Thally Nutri millets Farmers Producer Company Ltd.

Under 10K FPO Programme the following 6 FPOs are allotted.

a. Pudukkottai district (4 FPOs ) : Manamelkudi, Avudaiyar Kovil, Thirumayam and Ponnamaravathi.
b. Madurai district ( 1 FPO) : Melur.
c. Salem district (1 FPO) : Tharamangalam.

  • Linked all the FPOs with e- NAM for better price for farmers produce.
  • The process of linking all the FPOs with NeML (NCDEX) platform for spot and future market is in progress.
  • Facilitated to avail equity grant , Seed Processing Unit and Value addition units.