Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) are an integral aspect of BAIF’s agri-horti-forestry (wadi) programme. BAIF has promoted over 50 FPOs to provide backward and forward market linkages in its operational areas. The activities include collective agri-input purchase, knowledge dissemination, promoting modern agricultural practices, collective aggregation of produce, grading, processing, packaging, branding and direct marketing while enabling a support price for critical commodities and strengthening the capacities of their members.
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The local wadi groups aggregate the produce and supply it to their cooperatives for grading and processing. To provide marketing support to these cooperatives, BAIF has promoted a second-tier Farmer Producer Company known as Vasundhara Agri Horti Producer Company Ltd. (VAPCOL).
VAPCOL, with its focus on processing and marketing of fresh and processed fruits, nuts and vegetables, has a membership base of more than 50 producer organisations and 40,000 farmers spread across 7 states.
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