A regional conference of Cluster Based Business Organisations (CBBOs) and Farmers’ Producer Organisations (FPOs) under Central Sector Scheme of ‘Formation & Promotion of 10,000 FPOs’ was organised in Bengaluru on May 27 by Karnataka’s Watershed Department.
The conference was attended by Union Ministers of State for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Kailash Choudhary and Shobha Karandlaje. The main intention was to facilitate knowledge sharing among CBBOs on best practices and provide a platform for discussion on expectations from CBBOs.
Karnataka’s Agriculture Minister B. C. Patil appealed to the Centre to envisage a special transport subsidy for exporting the produce of FPOs to various countries as the cost of international transport is very high. “This would go a long way in promoting export of agricultural commodities by the FPOs,” he said.
