THEMATIC AREAS

Market Linkages

JKS also supports farmers with establishing and strengthening market linkages to help improve their incomes and their quality of life by empowering farmers to set up Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs). These farmer-owned and managed companies help them come together as a collective, aggregate produce for economies of scale and bargain for better market prices.

The FPOs have successfully established linkages with various government institutions such as NABARD and the Department of Agriculture to leverage support for farmer training, capacity building, raising working capital and acquiring finance to purchase assets at the village level. Furthermore, the FPOs have established links with agri-input companies, agri commodity purchasers, farm machinery service providers as well as government agencies to provide quality market interactions to their member farmers. So far, JKS has mentored the formation of 3 FPOs with 1670 shareholders.