Farmer Training & Agri Workshops
“Cottonguru MahaFPO Federation” registered as a producer Company with FPOs & farmers as shareholders, acts as the market-facing Company which is responsible for value-addition and marketing.
The following services will be provided by “Cottonguru MahaFPO Federation” to its member FPOs and farmers as required:
- Making a sustainable Business plan for FPOs
- Facilitating marketing linkage with Government as well as private buyers
- Giving updated market reports
- Identifying and preparing for best available Government schemes
- Linking with banks / finance companies to raise capital
- Negotiating with various fertilizer, seed & agri-equipment companies for maximum discounts
- Training farmers for increasing their yield and quality
- Guiding FPOs in compliance and governance matters
- Helping FPOs to increase farmer loyalty and membership FPOs/Farmers are requested to become members and avail the above benefits
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Cottonguru® conducts regular farmer and FPO training workshops
across India so as to make agriculture a profitable profession for the small and marginal farmers. Over the last years, Cottonguru® has conducted hundreds of such workshops personally meeting over 100,000 farmers across 3500 villages.
The agenda of the training workshops includes
- Assisting farmers/FPOs in improving their yield and quality
- Guiding farmers combat the fatal diseases like Bolrot,Pink Bollworm, white fly ,etc through guidelines, training and counselling.
- Assisting the farmers in building marketing linkages simultaneously helping the cotton ginners , spinners and brands to build sustainable supply chains for sourcing Organic, BCI and contamination free cotton.
Vision of Cottonguru® : Understanding the economics of cotton agriculture for global prosperity