Farmers Should Connect with FPOs and Get Right Price for their Crops: Collector Shivraj Singh Says in ‘One District One Product’ Workshop

BHOPAL / A workshop on Prime Minister Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises Scheme (PMFMFPES) was held in Barwani on Wednesday to boost up the one district one product (ODOP) programme; in the event, the experts advised farmers about doubling up their income, an ambitious project of Narendra Modi-led central government. The move is one of the efforts to make Madhya Pradesh self-sufficient.

Madhya Pradesh Minister of State (independent charge) for Horticulture and Food Processing (H and FP) Bharat Singh Kushwaha virtually addressed the farmers and the members of Farmer Producers Organisations (FPOs).

The collector of Barwani, Shivraj Singh inaugurated physically the workshop and he also addressed the farmers. Principal secretary of HFP Kalpna Shrivastava, Commissioner Horticulture Manoj Kumar Agrawal, Managing Director of MP State Agro and Industries Development Corporation Limited Shrikant Bhanot, CEO of Packaging Solution Pankaj Sharma, Maitreya Naidu from district export hub Ahamadabad and CEO of Global Food Ram Nath Suryawanshi also put their opinions virtually during the workshop to promote the ODOP scheme.

Addressing the farmers, minister Kushwaha said that the state government was leaving no stone unturned and making every possible effort for doubling of farmers’ income. “The government has launched the ODOP scheme in the state so that the local product can be promoted and a processing unit related to the crop can also be set up in the district for its procurement”, the minister also said. During his address, Kushwaha praised the collector, Shivraj Singh for making his efforts to implement the ODOP scheme in the district; he expressed hope that the district would make a record in the country in the field of ginger production and marketing.

The state government has approved ginger crops for the Barwani district under the ODOP scheme.

Addressing the farmers and the members of FPOs of the district, collector Shivraj Singh said the district administration is not only providing all necessary facilities to the farmers to produce ginger under the ODOP scheme but also making all efforts to help for producing other crops. “The farmers should take benefit from the FPOs so that they could get the fair price of their products”, the collector added. The ODOP scheme would help the farmers to make them Atmnirbhar and it would also make the state self-reliant, the collector further added.
The experts of the agro products explained to the farmers about the schemes and described that how they could increase their income by adopting the ODOP initiative. Around 700 farmers participated in the workshop. Fifteen farmers have been provided sanction certificates of various schemes by the guests, during the programme.