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                                 In any business we buy material in whole sale price and then we sell it in retail price to make our prot. But in
                                 agriculture profession is exception where farmers buy everything in retail price and once he has his produces
                                 then he sell in whole sale price in Market. If really we want to bring paradigm shift in agriculture sector then we
 EDEN HORTICULTURE               need to have disruptive thinking and have to make parallel channel (apart from traditional Mandi channel)
                                 where farmer dreams of desired price could be reality. In recent time FPC (Farmers Producing Company) has
 Servises design educational project  emerged as new hope for farmers through which he can bargain in market for his produces. A provision for
                                 setting up FPCs was made in the Companies Act, 1956 in 2003 by an amendment to the Act. According to the
 We design school project for children to understand precision farming concept which would help   National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard), a producer company is a hybrid between a
                                 private limited company and a cooperative society. Therefore, it enjoys the benets of professional management
 them to groom as future entrepreneur. Like smart class makes your children computer friendly our
                                 of a private limited company as well as mutual benets derived from a cooperative society. The preamble of the
 smart farming exposure will skilled them for future precise farming. Eden Horticulture Services also   national  policy  for  promotion  of  farmer-producer  organisations  said:  “Department  of  agriculture  and
 provide lecture series for protected cultivation to school staff and children.  cooperation, ministry of agriculture, Govt. of India has identied farmer producer organisation registered
                                 under the special provisions of the Companies Act 1956 as the most appropriate institutional form around
 Smart farming for smart school |  Grow vegetables to grow yourself |  Future Precision farming  which to mobilise farmers and build their capacity to collectively leverage their production and marketing
 Your own Laboratory  | Demonstration of Soil less farming and Drip Irrigation  Dr. Akhilesh Kumar  strength.” Despite efforts by the government over the past 15 years or so, including major nancial help, the
         Editor in chief         country has just about 3,000 FPCs so far, set up by Nabard, Small Farmers’ Agri-business Consortium or
                                 individual initiatives. Some have been formed by landless women, labourers or marginal farmers.
                                        Most of these FPCs are concentrated in a few states such as Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra
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                                 and Bihar. A signicant proportion of FPCs has been engaged in sale of agricultural inputs such as seeds and
                                 pesticides to farmers while some of them are involved in commercial seed production. However, only a handful of
                                 FPCs  have  been  able  to  become  nancially  viable.  The  National  Commodity  and  Derivatives  Exchange
                                 (NCDEX) have taken initiatives to take FPCs along for hedging and other benets. Yet, FPCs face a number of
                                 problems such as the lengthy process of registering a company, non-availability of collateral-free loan at low rate
                                 of interest and lack of leadership and business acumen. India, a country of six lakh villages, needs at least one
                                 lakh FPCs to transform agriculture, he said. Other Asian countries have used solutions suitable to them for
                                 dealing with the problem of small farms. Japan has the concept of part-time farmers while Thailand has used the
                                 contract farming model and China has adopted collective farming. In India, the model of cooperatives has
                                 worked only in the case of milk and sugarcane successfully so far. There is a need to reassess the necessity of
                                 modied FPC version especially in horticulture sector having basic infrastructure for grading, sorting and
                                 packaging with cold chain management, since these are perishable commodities. In this process IT will play
                                 pivotal role in market linkage and real time tracking of fresh produces.




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