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Certification schemes like IndGAP are designed to help Indian farmers and exporters meet global food safety standards, which is essential for accessing global markets
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The two-year project with grant funding of INR 7 crore from the Walmart Foundation will directly impact 10 FPOs in Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka and reach out to 5,000 smallholder farmers
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Speaking at a FICCI seminar, the minister also said that 10,000 FPOs were being formed countrywide to aid farmer groups jointly undertaking several post-production activities
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The FinTech-driven agriculture ecosystem plans to impact the lives of one crore farmers by 2025 by leveraging its tech infrastructure and the recently announced agriculture and FPO-friendly government policies
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Better awareness and understanding of the quality parameters of a commodity will help the farmers to trade better and generate more income
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These FPOs have the potential to be viable entities, but the biggest challenge they are confronted with is lack of finance from banks, the senior bureaucrat with the Government of India said
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The partnership targets to initially serve 100,000 smallholder farmers in select clusters over the next two years, through a range of hi-tech and high-touch Farmer-360 services
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The project focuses on financial linkage, access to market, capacity building on day-to-day operation and compliance, gender mainstreaming and various FPO development areas
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The initiative intends to impart training to the women farmers to grow crops with high nutritive value in their kitchen gardens and provide training on cooking simple nutritive recipes using minimal ingredients in the second phase
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The initiative has been implemented to increase the product range of the Gangavaram FPO thereby improving income levels of the 1,595 cashew farmers associated with the FPO and generate local employment
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