Experiment code 20.7.3.10
Experiment Title Governance and management of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) in South Gujarat
Research Type Departmental Research
Experiment Background Producer companies can help smallholder farmers by participating in emerging high-value markets, such as export markets and also help in reducing the input cost by aggregation of the inputs in the group. At present total 341 FPOs (25 SFAC under old scheme, 126 new scheme and 190 NABARD) promoted FPOs are there in the Gujarat State. Out of these 52 FPOs are there in South Gujarat.
Experiment Group Social Science
Unit Type (02)EDUCATION UNIT
Unit (15)ASPEE AGRIBUSINESS MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE (NAVSARI)
Department (281)ASPEE Agribusiness Managment Institute, NAU, Navsari
BudgetHead (341/12245/00)341/03/REG/01878
Objective

Objectives:

1. To examine the governance practices adopted by the selected FPOs

2. To assess the gap in management role played by the BoDs and CEOs of the selected FPOs

3. To identify the constraints faced by the BoDs and CEOs in running the FPOs and to seek their suggestions to overcome these constraints

PI Name (NAU-EMP-2012-000394)KULDEEP SHIVJI RAM CHOUDHARY
PI Email kchoudhary@nau.in
PI Mobile 8511363830
Year of Approval 2024
Commencement Year 2024
Completion Year 2026
Research Methodology

Methodology:

FPOs those are functional since more than one year out of entire 52 FPOs in South Gujarat has been selected for the present study. From each functional FPO, one CEO and 2 BoDs have been selected for the present study by using “Simple Random Sampling Method”. The primary data is being collected through preparing questionnaire. Tabular analysis will be used for the analysis of the data.

(NAU-EMP-2012-000394)
KULDEEP SHIVJI RAM CHOUDHARY
kchoudhary@nau.in 8511363830 11-02-2025
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1 14/02/2025 In Progress
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