This partnership aims to empower over 1,460 FPOs in Karnataka, ensuring their sustainability, scalability, and growth.

The Centre of Excellence for Farmer Producer Organizations (CoE-FPO), Bengaluru, signed a landmark MoU with Sahyadri Farmers Producer Company Ltd. (SFPCL) and the Sahyadri Rural Development Foundation (SRDF) in Nashik.

This partnership aims to empower over 1,460 FPOs in Karnataka, ensuring their sustainability, scalability, and growth. As we step into 2025, this collaboration reflects CoEFPO’s unwavering commitment to supporting FPOs through training, capacity building, exposure visits, and value chain development.

Key focus areas of this landmark MoU are as follows:

• Capacity Building & Training: Equipping FPO board members and CEOs with leadership and governance skills.
• Knowledge Partnership: Sharing Sahyadri’s expertise in sustainable farming and value chain management.
• Exposure Visits: Hands-on learning opportunities at Sahyadri Farms for farmers and officials.
• Value Chain Development: Enhancing horticultural value chains for crops like grapes, pomegranate, mango, and banana.
• Export Promotion: Improving quality and expanding market access for Karnataka’s horticultural products.
• Institutional Development: Collaborating with Karnataka’s development departments for holistic growth.

 With Sahyadri’s expertise in post-harvest management, value addition, and an integrated value chain model, Karnataka’s FPOs are set to achieve higher returns, better governance, and enhanced market competitiveness. Established in 2017, CoEFPO is India’s first dedicated centre solely for FPO development and has been recognized as the FPO Knowledge Partner in Karnataka’s FPO Policy, 2018.