Report of National Workshop on Farmer Producer

Organisation – Business Opportunities and Challenges

jointly

Jointly organised by:

www.sfac.in

www.asaindia.org

Date: 19th December,2014

Venue: Hotel Noor-Us-Sabah, Bhopal

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Contents

Report on workshop and recommendations Page 2

Programme agenda Page 9

List of participants Page 11

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Report of National Workshop on

Farmer Producer Organisation – Business Opportunities and Challenges

The National Workshop on Farmer Producer

Organisation organized by ASA (Action for Social

Advancement) and SFAC (Small Farmers

Agribusiness Consortium) on 19th December, 2014

at Hotel Noor-Ul-Sabah, Bhopal was attended by

about 100 delegates from the Government,

Corporate, NGO, Donor organization, financial

institutions and the FPO sectors.

The Program started with Shri Ashis Mondal,

Director ASA, presenting on the FPO journey since

2005 in M.P. Dr Ravindra Pastor, Divisional

Commissioner, Ujjain in his inaugural address, dealt

upon the problems faced by the FPOs and also suggested practical solutions for these -. Shri Pravesh

Sharma, MD, SFAC in his remarks shared the information on the status of FPOs at the national level, and

also talked about the policies of the government to support the FPOs.

The chief guest of the program, Shri R. K. Swai, Agriculture Production Commissioner, GoMP, in his

address highlighted the steps taken by the MP Government to promote the Farmer Producer

Organisations and reiterated the commitment of the state government to work for the benefit of the

small and the marginal farmers. The Inaugural session was followed by 3 technical sessions dealing with

the different types of issues that FPOs had to deal with in their day to day activities.

Dignitaries on the Dias during inaugural session

Speakers Shri R.K.Swai, APC, GoMP Shri Pravesh Sharma, MD, SFAC Dr.R.Pastor, Commissioner, Ujjain Div.

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The occasion was also used for the formal launch of the state level apex farmer producer organization

which has been registered with the Registrar of Companies under the name of Madhya Bharat

Consortium of Farmer Producer Companies Limited (MBCFPCL), with the release of its logo, brochure

and website launch by Shri R.K.Swai, APC, Shri Pravesh Sharma, MD-SFAC, Shri R.Pastor, Commissioner

Ujjain Division, Dr.S.K.Rao, Dean JNKVV and Vikram Spingh, the Chairman of the MBCFPCL.

The First technical session entitled “Agriculture Marketing – Scope and Challenges for FPO’s” was

chaired by Dr. Ravindra Pastor, who in his keynote address dealt on the policy barriers in agri-

marketing. Amongst the panelists, Shri Y K Dwivedi, CEO, MBCFPCL shared his experiences on the

ground realities while handling agri-marketing issues at the FPO level. The other panelists Shri R.S.

Thakur, CEO, Samarth FPC, and Shri Sanjay Pandya, CEO, Nimad FPC shared their experiences with the

audience. Shri Ashok Purohit, the representative of the M/s. EM3, spoke on the policies of their

company to collaborate with the FPC to provide cheaper and better farm mechanization services to the

small and marginal farmers. They shared their experience of collaboration with FPCs in Narsinghpur

district of M.P. The session closed with an open house discussion, in which several queries and

recommendations came up, which are being given in the recommendations section

The Second technical session entitled “Building new business with FPOs- Infrastructure, inputs supply, e-

marketing, logistics was chaired by Dr S.K. Rao, Dean Faculty, JNKVV, Jabalpur. Amongst the panelists,

Shri Ashis Mondal, shared his views on the possible business models by joining hands with established

players. The panelists also included representatives from well known corporate like IFFCO, John Deere

and NCDEX. Shri Rakesh Swami, General Manager from John Deere, explained on the various farm

mechanization collaboration models available, and also about their plans to take farm mechanization

services to the door step of the marginalized community in collaboration with the FPOs. Shri Praveen

Hiremath, Sr. Vice President of NCDEX-E-market Ltd., through his presentation, discussed on how the

FPOs can become the hub for e-marketing and other logistics support. He also mentioned that an MOU

has been signed with MBCFPCL to provide several services using the FPO platform. Shri Anil Dhingra,

A view of involved participants during the workshop

Launching MBCFPCL and release of brochure

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Zonal Manager, IFFCO provided valuable tips on connecting FPOs with the fertilizer value chain, and on

how to reduce the FPO marketing costs. He described the initiatives which IFFCO would be taking in

future to accommodate FPOs in their business systems, especially for the capacity building of FPO. He

also announced that IFFCO has issued the ‘O’ form for MBCFPCL, thus clearing the way to appoint

MBCFPCL as its authorized distributor for MP. Shri Y K Dwivedi, CEO, MBCFPCL dealt on the scope and

importance of value addition and processing at the FPC level. The open house at the end of the session

threw up several ideas and recommendations which have been in this document ahead.

The third technical session saw the banking

fraternity and the lending institutions coming

forward to support the financial needs of the FPO

sector. The session entitled –Financing Issues for

FPOs was chaired by Mrs N Neerja, DGM NABARD,

included presentations of representatives from

Financial organizations like FWWB and NABFINS.

Mrs Neerja in her keynote address highlighted the

fact that since SFAC has taken collateral guarantee

of loans to FPOs, NABARD will start direct

financing to the FPOs to meet the capital

requirements of the FPOs, and this is likely to start

within the next 1 – 2 months. Shri Ajay Mishra, DGM, SBI in his address mentioned about the initiatives

taken by SBI to finance the FPO sector, and also about the special interest taken by the Chairperson of

the State Bank group Mrs Arundhati Bhattacharya in providing credit linkages to FPOs. The

representative of the FWWB shared their positive experience in FPO financing in last three to four years

and highlighted the areas of improvement for capacity building of the FPOs in financial management.

NABFINS, which has started FPO financing in recent times, was represented by Shri Indrajit Kumar

reiterated their commitment to FPO financing and developing varieties of loan products suiting their

requirements.

The concluding session saw Shri Pravesh Sharma

persuading the audience to take a vow to do at least

one act every day which could help to serve the

marginalized community. The entire house stood up in

unison to take the pledge which was led by Shri

Sharma. The concluding remarks and the activities of

the day were summarized by Shri Ashis Mondal, who

reiterated that the future belongs to FPOs.

Earlier during the day, a proposal mooted up by Shri Pravesh Sharma, to appoint Dr Ravindra Pastor as

the honourary patron of MBCFPCL was unanimously adopted and accepted by Dr Ravindra Pastor.

FPO representative raising questions to panelists

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Key Recommendations of the workshop

Facilitating direct market interventions by the FPOs

1. FPOs to be included as a recognized category of institutions under the APMC Act at the State level and allowed to market members’ produce directly to buyers of their choice, through all platforms, physical, electronic, etc. This is one of the most important factors in getting fair value for the produce of FPO members.

2. Exempt FPOs from the APMC Cess (Mandi fee) when trade is executed outside the market yard as in this case they have not used the facilities of the market yard, the primary reason for which cess is levied.

3. Each of the inputs (seed, nutrients, crop protection chemicals) is governed by a separate Act, and every point of sale needs to take a separate license under each Act. This system needs to be replaced with a single state-wide license with every point of sale included in the list.

4. Consider single unified license for Spot Exchange or electronic market within the State.

5. Prioritizing procurement from FPOs: Compulsory procurement of 15-20% by organized retailers and wholesalers from FPOs to be introduced considering the fact that FPOs represent the small and marginal farmers.

6. Setting Trade Facilitation Centre/Hub - Enabling Processors / Retailers to Procurement: A strongly anchored single-window decentralized match-making, facilitative agency is required to assist potential investors/processors to negotiate licensing and pre-operative clearances. Transparent rules & procedures (inventory of guidelines at one place) and assistance in contracting procedures etc. can greatly accelerate participation of organized/formal market players to source produce.

Create conducive policy regime for the FPOs to access credit and tax related exemptions

FPOs face major challenges in mobilizing working capital and investment credit. Since most of these are floated by small producers, from economically weaker sections, their own capital base is low and hence, cannot provide collateral security, a prerequisite by the financial institutions. Also, the rate of interest is as high as 13-14% which makes it difficult for FPOs to run business profitably. The interest subvention1 which is extended to the individual farmers for crop loans is not available for the FPOs. The current legal structure of FPOs both as Cooperatives as well as Producer Companies do not provide for external equity infusion or external commercial borrowing. In nutshell, the window of financing to FPOs is currently very limited. The experience of Madhya Pradesh, a pioneering state in FPO promotion, showed that an initial capital grant of Rs.25 Lakh and the infrastructure support (viz. warehouse, land, machinery, etc. under various schemes) provided by the GoMP helped FPOs to make a head start. 7. Collateral Free Loans: Collateral requirement to be dispensed with for loans upto Rs.25 lakh to the

FPOs by the financial institutions. In the current policy, Self Help Groups are eligible for collateral free loan upto Rs. 5 lakh. Given the fact that FPOs are the federated body of the primary groups like SHGs, Farmers’ Interest Groups, Farmers’ Club, etc. they must also be made eligible for collateral free loan.

1 GOI expects the crop loans under Rs 3 lakhs each to be charged only 7% interest. NABARD gives concessional finance at 4.5%

to the banks.

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8. The rate of interest for FPOs should be at par with the rate charged to individual farmers for crop

loans under the priority sector lending. The moratorium to not charge commercial interest rate to FPOs should be for at least initial five years. This is important considering that high credit cost and difficulties accessing credit are serious impediments for making business viable in shorter time. It is recommended that a separate scheme be formed by the Government for extending interest subvention scheme to the FPOs.

9. FPOs, which are non-cooperatives such as producer companies to be considered eligible for loans

from the Cooperative banks, State Finance Corporation, NCDC and similar financial institutions which primarily provide loans to the cooperative institutions. Although cooperatives and producer companies are incorporated under the different Acts both have the same purpose and guiding principle of cooperation with key characteristic of one member one vote. Since DAC has already recognized producer companies to be at par with Cooperatives, it should advise all States to extend loans to all FPOs through the State Cooperative Financial Institutions as well as State Financial Corporation.

10. Resolve operational issues of the Warehouse Receipts Scheme: The FPOs have accessed intensively

the Warehouse Receipts (WHR) schemes of the banks. Undoubtedly this is one of the most easily accessible credit schemes that are available for the FPOs. However, there are operational issues because of which the FPOs cannot always take the benefits of the scheme. For instance, under WHR scheme not all warehouses in the rural areas are covered and hence the FPOs who do not have access to the central or state owned warehouses either due to distance or unavailability of space, cannot avail the benefits of WHR scheme. With regard to WHR it is recommended that the guidelines should be reviewed and reiterated to make it more enabling for the use of the FPOs. Specifically, the category of FPOs (producer companies and Cooperatives) to be included in the list of eligible users of the WHR; the warehouse of the FPOs, if accredited, should be considered under WHR, etc. Re-issue of the guidelines/new provisions, is critical and will make a difference on the ground.

11. External Commercial Borrowing (ECB) to be allowed for FPOs. In a recent RBI circular (A.P. DIR

Series, Circular No. 59, Dt. 19/12/2011) under which NGOs and NBFCs engaged in micro finance activities are allowed to avail ECB up to US $ 10 million. It is recommended that this circular may be modified to include FPOs.

12. Extend Tax exemption to FPOs. There are certain Tax exemptions provided to the Cooperatives

under Income Tax, Sales Tax and under State and Local Taxes. It is recommended that the Producer Companies be made eligible for tax exemptions at par with the Cooperatives.

Specifically :

(a) Income Tax : Presently, the Cooperatives under the Clause 80P, enjoy Income Tax relief which should be extended to the Producers’ company also as the purpose and nature of functioning of both the institutions are similar i.e. socio-economic development of the poor member producers.

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(b) Sales Tax: Agriculture commodity specific exemptions are provided to the Cooperatives. It is recommended that Central government may issue advisories to the States that the Producer companies may be treated at par with the Cooperatives for all sales tax exemptions.

(c) State and Local Taxes: State specific Tax exemptions are provided to the Cooperatives. It is

recommended that central government may issue advisories to the States to bring Producer companies at par with the Cooperatives under such benefits.

13. Targeting FPOs for creation of rural agriculture support infrastructure. The following are recommended:

a. Infrastructure such as warehouse, processing unit, agriculture implements bank, bulk coolers, quality testing lab, weather stations, marketing platform, spot exchange facility, etc. to be provided to the FPOs through various government schemes like RKVY, IWRM, MGNREGA, NRLM, NHM, NFSM, etc. Specific mention of such provisions to be made in the guidelines of those schemes and a certain percentage of the fund meant for infrastructure should be allocated for the FPOs.

b. Unused infrastructures of the government such as warehouse, processing facilities, marketing

yard, etc. should be given to the FPOs for use. This would ease their load on investing on capital asset.

c. A percentage of the NABARD’s warehouse construction subsidy scheme to be earmarked for the FPOs. Similarly, FPOs may be allowed access to funds from the Grameen Bhandaran Yojona of Agriculture ministry. Processing and value addition units should be supported both at the input and output end. This is especially so for FPOs engaged in ecological farming. This could also include seed markets at a localized level, run by FPOs for themselves.

d. FPOs registered under Producer Companies Act to be treated at par in terms of benefits and

privileges extended to the Cooperatives by the Central and State governments. The Ministry of Agriculture has already issued an advice to the State Governments.

e. Establish national level insurance agency for Group insurance schemes pertaining to members of FPO viz. crop insurance, crop loan linked with life of the member, etc., including the post-harvest phase. Smallholder FPOs should be eligible for fully subsidized insurance coverage (premium paid fully by the state). There is also a need to include tenant farmers into insurance coverage.

f. Central Government may issue advisory to States to directly involve FPOs as producers of certified seed, saplings and other planting material and extend production and marketing subsidies on par with cooperatives. The National Seeds Corporation and similar bodies at the national and state level to reserve a certain percentage of their procurement of seeds through FPOs. Successful models may be replicated across the country wherever FPOs are willing to

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participate in certified seed production, which will lead to higher availability of certified seed and increase in SRR (Seed Replacement Rate) of major crops.

g. Government should setup Kissan Mandis for grain and vegetables

h. More number of seed testing labs should be accredited in the private domain for ease in the

testing systems, which currently is too crowded resulting in delay in certification of seeds.

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National workshop on Farmer Producers’ Organization – Business opportunities and Challenges

19 December 2014

Hotel Noor-us-Sabah, VIP Road, Bhopal

Workshop Schedule

Topic By Person/ presenter

Registration starts at 9.00 am

Inaugural Session (9.30–10.15 am): Chief Guest – Shri. R.K. Swai, Agriculture Production Commissioner, GoMP

9:30am Welcoming FPO Journey in M.P since 2005 FPO status-national scenario Way forward on FPOs in M.P

Launching of Madhya Bharat Consortium of Farmer Producer Companies

Address by the Chief Guest

Shri Ashis Mondal, ASA Shri Pravesh Sharma, MD, SFAC, GoI Dr. Ravindra Pastor, Divisional Commissioner, Ujjain Chief Guest & Other dignitaries Chief Guest

10:15 – 10.45 am Tea / Coffee break – Networking

TECHNICAL SESSION-1: Agriculture Marketing – Scope & Challenges for FPOs (10:45am- 12:15pm)

Chairperson : Dr. Ravindra Pastor, Divisional Commissioner, Ujjain

10:45-11.00 am Key note lecture (Highlights:Policy barriers in agri-marketing & how to resolve them)

Dr. Ravindra Pastor, Divisional Commissioner, Ujjain

11:00-11.15 am Ground realities while handling agri-marketing issues at FPO level

Shri Y.K. Dwivedi, CEO, MBCFPCL

11:15-12.00 noon Panel Discussion: Field experiences of doing business with FPOs

Panelists: Shri Ram Singh Thakur, CEO,

Samarth FPC, M.P. Shri Sanjay Pandya, CEO, Nimad

FPC, M.P. Representative of Ginners Shri Ashok Purohit, M/s. EM3

12:00-12.15pm Open house discussion and conclusion

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TECHNICAL SESSION- 2: Building new businesses with FPOs - Infrastructure, inputs supply, e-marketing, logistics…….. (12.15 – 01.30 pm) Chairperson: Dr S K Rao, Dean Faculty, JNKVV, Jabalpur

12.15–12.20pm Key note lecture (Highlights – Infrastructure gaps, possible business models by joining hands with established players)

Shri Ashis Mondal, ASA

12.20-12.30 pm Scope for processing & value addition infrastructures for FPOs in Govt. schemes – M.P experience

Shri Y.K. Dwivedi, CEO, MBCFPCL

12.30-12.45pm Farm mechanization - How to join hands with FPOs

Shri Rakesh Swami, M/s. John Deere

12.45-01.00 pm Can FPOs become the hub for E-marketing and other logistics support?

Shri Praveen Hiremath, Sr. Vice-President, NCDEX-E market Ltd.

01.00-01.15 pm Connecting FPOs with fertilizer supply chain

Shri Anil Dhingra, Zonal Manager, IFFCO

01.15 -01.30 pm Open house discussion & Conclusion

LUNCH BREAK (1:30-2.30 PM)

TECHNICAL SESSION- 3: Financing issues for FPOs (2.30 – 3.30 pm) Chairperson : Mrs N Neerja Deputy General Manager, NABARD, M.P

2:30 -3.00 pm Experiences in FPO financing

Presentation – 1 Presentation - 2 Discussion

Friends of Women’s World Banking Nabard Financial Services Ltd.

Sri Ajay Mishra , DGM, SBI

3.00-3.30 pm Open house discussion and conclusion

CONCLUDING SESSION : (3.30 – 4.15 pm) (Tea on the Run) Chairperson : Shri Pravesh Sharma, MD, SFAC, GoI

3.30- 3.50 pm Summary report presentation of the technical sessions

Rapporteur

3.50- 4.00 pm Open house discussion for new points and fine tuning of recommendation

4.00 – 4.15 pm Concluding remarks by Chairperson

Vote of Thanks and Closure of the workshop

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List of participants / Attendance

S.No Name & Designation Department/ Organization E-Mail ID

Govt. of India

1 Mr. Pravesh Sharma, MD Small Farmers Agribusiness

Consortium (SFAC)

pravesh.sharma@nic.in

2 Ms. Manila Mahendra Manila.mahindra@sfac.in

3 Ms. Anitha Govindraj SFAC, Bhopal Anitha_iari@yahoo.com

4 Mr. Onkar Singh

National Seeds Corporation CMD. nsc@indiaseeds.com

rm.bhopal@nsc.gov.in

rastabeej@sancharnet.in

5 Mr. S. Sakthi Ku Murar ESAF, Thrissur sakthi@esat.in

Govt. of MP

6 Mr. R.K.Swai Agriculture Production

Commissioner

diragri@mp.gov.in

7 Mr. Manoj Saxena MPDPIP Manojsaxena65@mpdpip.org

8 A.K. Rastogi Jt. Director Agriculture diragri@mp.gov.in

9 Dr. BC Dubey,

State Coordinator Agri.

MP-SRLM

(MP-NRLM)

drbcdubey2013@gmail.com

10 Mr. K.C. Sharma MPRAF, SRLM kcsharmajc@gmail.com

11 Mr. Omprakash Bedia omdua@rediffmail.com

12 Ms. Sona Jaiswal Mandi board mdmandiboard@gmail.com

13 Dr. Ravindra Kumar Pastor Commissioner, Ujjain commujjain@mp.nic.in

ravi090@gmail.com

Acad.Instt- Universities/institutes

14 Dr. T. Rajaretnam Tata Institute of Social Sciences

trajaretnam@gmail.com

15 Dr. S.K. Rao, Dean Faculty of

Agriculture

SAUs (JNKVV etc.), Jabalpur skrao_jnau@yahoo.co.in

s.k.rao@bpd-jnkvv.org

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S.No Name & Designation Department/ Organization E-Mail ID

The Corporate organizations

16 Mr. Giresh Mohan ITC Limited,

nikhil.rathi@itc.in

giresh.mohan@itc.in

17 Mr. Rakesh Swami, GM M/s. John Deere Public Affairs –

Communications

John Deere India Private Limited,

swamirakedh@johndeere.com priyadarshimeenakshi@johnde

ere.com

18 Anil Dhingra, Zonal Manager IFFCO anildhingra@iffco.in

19 Mr. Bhatnagar

Mahyco seeds

info@mahyco.com

sudhakar.sharma@mahyco.co

m

20 Mr. Manoj Sharma Ruchi Global manojsharma@yahoo.com

21 Mr. Anand Chocporkal anandchoporkal@yahoo.com

Donors/Financial Institutions

22 Mr Ganesh Neelam,

Development Manager

Sir Ratan Tata Trust

23 Mr.Ashok Kumar,

Senior Program Officer,

Sir Dorabji Tata Trust

24 Mr.Sabarinadhan KS,

Senior Manager

25 Mr.Shankar Narayanan

World Bank snarayanan@worldbank.org

hfernandes@worldbank.org

26 Ms. N. Neerja, AGM NABARD, Bhopal neerja@nabard.org

27 Mr.Indrajit Kumar, AGM

NABFINS

indrajit@nabfins.org

sathish.rao@nabfins.org

sheikh.parvej@nafins.org

28 Mrs. P. Choudhari

29 Mr. Sheikh Parvej

30 Mr. Ajay K Mishra

Dy. General Manager (AB)

SBI Local head office, Bhopal

State bank of India

Bhopal

agmprem.lhobho@sbi.co.in

dgmagri.lhobho@sbi.co.in

pravin.laad@sbi.co.in

31 Mr. Pravin Laad

32 Mr.Vinod D. Madhani IDBI Bank

Vinod.madhani@idbi.co.in

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S.No Name & Designation Department/ Organization E-Mail ID

33 Mr. Ashok Purohit EM3 Model

34 Mr. Sanjay Kumar IGS-Basix k.sanjay@sixindia.com

NGOs/RIs

35 Dr. Alpana Khanna

Indian Farm Forestry

Development Co-operative Ltd

sgrkiran_dubey@yahoo.co.in

iffdcho@iffdc.org.in

iffdchodelhi@rediffmail.com

iffdcsagar@iffdc.org.in

khannaalpana.iffdc@gmail.com

36 Ms. Hemlata Pandey Indian Farm Forestry

Development Co-operative Ltd

sgrkiran_dubey@yahoo.co.in

iffdcho@iffdc.org.in

iffdchodelhi@rediffmail.com

iffdcsagar@iffdc.org.in

khannaalpana.iffdc@gmail.com

37 Mr.Kapil Pagnis

Access Development Services niraj@accessdev.org

kapil@accessdev.org

38 Mr. R.R. Singh,

Vice President

Mahila Chetna Manch Madhya

Pradesh

singh.raghuraj@gmail.com,

mcmngo@yahoo.com,

39 Mr. Naveen Patidar AKRSP

amkhandwa@akrspi.org

40 Mr. Sanjeev Vishvakarma

41 Mr. Vinita Chaturvedi

CARD card_vivek@yahoo.com

42 Mr. Ravindranath

PRADAN

bhopal@pradan.net

rabindranath@pradan.net

43 Dr. Arun Joshi Gramin Vikas Trust headnlri@gmail.com

44 Mr. Vimal Dubey, State

Coordinator

NIWCYD niwcydjabalpur@gmail.com

45 Mr. J.P. Trivedi VRUTTI- Livelihood Resource

Centre

pramel@vrutti.org

46 Mr. Dhruv Narang

47 Mr. Amit Singh

48 Mr.M. Laxma Reddy

General Manager

Mulkanoor Coop. mcrbms1956@gmail.com

ASA PROMOTED FPC

49 Mr.Prakash Singh Dada Darbar Producer Company fpcddpcl@gmail.com

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S.No Name & Designation Department/ Organization E-Mail ID

50 Mr.Shakun Soni

51 Shri Vikram Singh

Chairman

MBCFPCL shajapur@mpdpip.org

samarthkpcpl@gmail.com

52 Ram Singh Thakur

Samarth FPC, M.P samarthkpcpl@gmail.com

53 Mr.Dipesh Shukla Petlawad Tribal Farmer Producer

Company ltd.

Am-jhabua@asabhopal.org

54 Mr.Bahadur Singh Bilawal

55 Mr.Jitendra Parmar Nirankaar Crop Producer

Company ltd.

Ncpcl2012@gmail.com

56 Mr.Ram Gopal

57 Mr.Anil Kumar Shrama, Chairman Khajuraho Producer Company

Ltd.

chhatarpur@mpdpip.org

58 Ms.Nidhi Pandey Karnawati Agri.Producer

Company Ltd.

pckarnavati@yahoo.com

pckarnavati@rediffmail.com

59 Shri Rakesh Roshan Zimmedar Samrudhi Kisan

Producer Co. Ltd

roshanbhu64@gmail.com

60 Mr.Ankush Rathod Mandla Tribal Farmer Producer

Company Limited

ankushrathod82@gmail.com

61 Mr.Punnulal Nanda

62 Mr.Rewaram Chauhan Nimad Farmer Producer

Company Limited

Nfpcl.ojhar@rediffmail.com

63 Mrs.Kalabai Barwani Farmer Producer

Company Limited

bfpclrajpur@gmail.com

64 Mr.Shailendra Singh Khargone Farmer Producers

Company Limited

shle@rediffmail.com

65 Mr.Manohar Patel

66 Mr.Mukam Solanki Alirajpur Farmer Producers

Company Limited

atpcljobat@gmail.com

67 Mr.Jitendra Singh Chandel RR FPCL chandeljitendra@gmail.com

68 Mr.Navjot Bali Navjotbali9@gmail.com

69 Mr.Ratan Singh Bhairav Chichli Farmer Producers

Company Limited

70 Mr.Shyam Saroj Soni

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S.No Name & Designation Department/ Organization E-Mail ID

71 Mr.Raj Bahadur Singh Nowgaon Farmer Producers

Company Limited

napcl@yahoo.in

Media

72 Mr. Bidesh Manna Hindustan Times Bidesh.manna44@gmail.com

73 Mr. Sunil Gangrade Krishak Jagat info@krikjagat.org

ASA

74 Mr. Ashis Mondal, Director

ashis@asabhopal.org

75 Ms. G. Jayanthi, PD-HR

jayanthi@asabhopal.org

76 Mr. Y.K. Dwivedi, PD-APSF, RM

& CEO

yogesh@asabhopal.org

77 Mr. Vivek Saraf.

PD MIS, M&L.

vivek@asabhopal.org

78 Mr. Vishal D. Giripunje

vishal.asa@asabhopal.org

79 Mr. Neeraj Mansharamani,

Consultant-FI

neeraj.mansharamani@gmail.com

80 Ms .Anita Purohit, PE-HR

anita@asabhopal.org

81 Ms. Pushpa Nair, Secretary

pushpa@asabhopal.org

82 Mr. Sanjay Pandya

sanjaypandya@asabhopal.org

83 Mr. Pankaj Sharma

am-barwani@asabhopal.org

84 Mr. Vikas Pandey

85 Mr. Ashish Tiwari

86 Mr. B.P. Singh

87 Mr. Pushpendra Singh Bhadoriya

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S.No Name & Designation Department/ Organization E-Mail ID

88

Mr. Ravi Prakash Sharma

89 Mr. Shaji John

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