Thursday, 5 October 2023

Role of FPOs in a Local Circular Economy

My imagination of a Farmer Organisation in a local circular economy context is to be doing the following -


1. Serving the prosumers; build and continuously enhance & deepen circularity

2. Promoting crop diversification and produce diversification 

3. Being in a collection of dung and cow urine, have a collective biogas plants, process for localised agri-inputs for sustainable agriculture (act as bio resource centres)

4. Have a cooperative stores in the village/panchayat collecting produce from farmers and selling it to people in the area (facilitate inter farmer crop exchange via coop) -equipped with coolers/freezers.

5. Collective price fixation (dynamic) based on cost of production and not based on market dynamics (insulated from the market price determination)


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Changing food platter!

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