Government Achieves Milestone of 10,000 Farmer Producer Organisations Registered Across the Country

• Farmer Producer Organisation (FPO) = a legal entity (typically a Producer Company under Companies Act, 2013, Part IXA / or a Cooperative) formed by primary producers (farmers, milk producers, fishermen, weavers, etc.) for collective input procurement, aggregation, value-addition and marketing.
• Government has hit the 10,000-FPO registration milestone under its flagship Central Sector Scheme, an aggregation-driven strategy to address the small-and-marginal-farmer problem (≈86% of Indian farmers).
• Tests Prelims (scheme facts: year, outlay, agencies) + Mains GS-III (agricultural marketing, doubling farmers' income, cooperatives).