Tuesday, 10 June 2025
A National Webinar on “Women FPOs: An Effective Approach for Boosting Entrepreneurship, Empowerment and Self-reliance (Atmanirbhar)’ was held on September 10, 2020.
The virtual event was organized by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Central Institute for Women in Agriculture (ICAR-CIWA) Bhubaneswar, Odisha and the ICAR-All India Coordinated Research Project on Home Science Centre, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, Rajasthan.
Dr Narendra Singh Rathore, Vice-Chancellor, MPUAT, Udaipur, Rajasthan emphasized on Farmers’ Producers’ Association and its role on entrepreneurship, empowerment, self-reliance and value-addition. He also emphasized on education, knowledge and skill-based capacity development.
Dr P Chandrasekara, Director General, Ch Charan Singh National Institute of Agricultural Marketing, Jaipur, Rajasthan, elaborated on 20 essential points required for Construction of Women Farmers’ Entrepreneurship Producer Associations.
Dr Samarendu Mohanty, Asia Regional Manager, International Potato Center (CIP) Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) stressed on the need to connect the farmers to a value-chain which will help them in becoming agri-entrepreneurs.
Dr S K Srivastava, Director, ICAR-CIWA, Bhubaneswar, Odisha urged the research and extension scientists to motivate the stakeholders to step forward and start agro-enterprises by formulating WFPOs.
