SME Times News Bureau | 18 Mar, 2020
To bring in better synergy, APEDA has signed MoU
with SFAC on Tuesday. The MoU was signed by Ms. Neelkamal Darbari,
Managing Director SFAC and Mr. Paban Kumar Borthakur, Chairman, APEDA.
Agri Export Policy announced by Government of
India with “Farmers’ Centric Approach” suggests for developing product
specific clusters in the country to help improving productivity and quality of
the varieties of crops with special involvement
of Farm Producer Organizations(FPOs), said an official statement
on Wednesday.
FPOs are an institutional innovation to help small
holders to reduce cost of produce by procuring necessary inputs in bulk at
wholesale rates, aggregation of produce and bulk transport reducing marketing
cost etc. and extend their reach to modern technology and distant markets.
The policy also aims at addressing the obstacles
faced by FPOs through organisation like Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium
(SFAC) and State level organizations to expand FPO network.
APEDA has been focusing on collaborative approach
to bring synergy with such organizations and has been engaged with them for
mutually working together in the development of agriculture and allied sectors
and its exports for bringing better value to the stakeholders.
APEDA has been in dialog with SFAC for linking of
Farmer Producer organizations, farmers’ cooperatives to the export value chain
through capacity building, production of the quality produce as per the
requirement of importing countries, creation of infrastructure, facilitating
primary and secondary processing in the clusters and also by linking them to
the exporters.