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Fodder-Centric Farmer Producer Organizations
November 16 , 2022
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- Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying proposed the setting up of fodder-centric Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) in 2020.
- It requested the Union Agriculture Ministry to permit the establishment of fodder-centric FPOs under the central scheme “Formation and Promotion of 10,000 new FPOs”.
- It aims to address the fodder deficit situation in India.
- National Dairy Development Board has been designated as the implementing agency for this scheme.
- It is setting a target of 100 such FPOs in 2022-23.
- Currently, fodder deficit in India is 12 to 15 per cent for green fodder, 25-26 percent for dry fodder and 36 per cent for concentrated fodder.
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