The State of India’s Livelihood (SOIL) Report 2021 has stated that just 1-5 % of Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) have received funding under central government schemes introduced to promote them in the last seven years.
Access Development Services, a national livelihoods support organization has prepared the SOIL report.
It has analysed only Farmer Producer Companies (FPC — FPOs registered under Companies Act, 2013) since they make up a large majority of the organizations started in recent years.
The number of FPOs registered as cooperatives or societies is very small.