NE AGRICULTURE BUREAU
CHENNAI, MAY 26
Stating that more than 50 per cent of Indian population directly and indirectly dependent on agriculture sector, Tamil Nadu Governor and Chancellor of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University RN Ravi on Friday said that that agricultural economy of the country and farmers income should be increased by following of Prime Minister Narednra Modi’s seven-point strategies and Agriculture 4.0. 10 FPOs from different parts of Tamil Nadu have signed MoUs with TNAU in the presence of Governor.
He was interacting with the farmers at three-day International Millets Conference and Futuristic Expo 2023 to celebrate the centennial year of millets research (1923-2023) and International Year of Millets at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) here on Friday.
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Kickstarting the Interactive meeting on ‘Empowering the Farmer Producers Organizations (FPOs) towards Excellence’, the governor outlined the visionary schemes of Government of India to achieve the status of developed India. Governor has also highlighted the importance of self-reliant movement and inclusive economic growth for prosperity of the people.
Governor visited stalls at the Futuristic Food Expo 2023 at TNAU, Coimbatore, demonstrating millets-based products. He praised the entrepreneurs & FPOs for their innovative efforts.#IYM2023 #ShreeAnna@PMOIndia @HMOIndia @AgriGoI @IYM2023 @investindia @PIB_India @ANI @PTI_News pic.twitter.com/XyOVAPs9fM
— RAJ BHAVAN, TAMIL NADU (@rajbhavan_tn) May 26, 2023
Governor RN Ravi said, “More than 50 per cent of Indian population directly and indirectly dependent on agriculture sector. The agricultural economy of the country and farmers income should be increased by following of Prime Minister’s seven-point strategies and Agriculture 4.0. The Govt of India through State Government is implementing formation of 10,000 FPOs for improving their socio-economic status. FPOs is only platform to execute market-led agricultural approaches for doubling the farmers income. FPOs will also provide joint action plan, bargaining power, collective marketing and leadership.”
Marketing and availability of quality inputs are important issues faced by the farmers and members of FPOs.
“FPOs should have robust supply chain management skills, coordination, bargaining power, democratic way of functioning, legal compliance, participatory approaches, timely tapping of right market, collective planning, sharing of resources and strong leaderships are required for empowering the FPOs towards excellence,” the governor added as successful strategies for FPOs.
The TNAU is committed to provide technical guidance and capacity building programmes to the FPOs through MoU. During the interactive meeting, 10 FPOs from different parts of Tamil Nadu have signed MoUs with TNAU in the presence of Governor of Tamil Nadu.
FPOs, research institutions, entrepreneurs displayed the millets technologies and products for creating large scale awareness and commercialization during the program. Governor also visited and millet exhibition stalls and interacted with millet entrepreneurs.
TNAU Vice Chancellor Dr V Geethalakshmi highlighted the novel activities implemented by the university. They are One TNAU centre One FPO linkage, One faculty One Paper, TNAU Corpus fund, international collaboration, TNAU contribution during last one year, TNAU agricart (buy TNAU farm inputs anywhere anytime) and promotion of TNAU startups during her welcome address.
Self-Reliant India and inclusive economic strategies envisioned and implemented by the Government India are very important for achieving sustainable agricultural development in India, said Dr M Raveendran, Director of Research, who delivered the vote of thanks.
More than 1,000 participants which include members of FPOs, progressive farmers, entrepreneurs and scientists were benefitted from this program.
