Who we are?
MAHA FPC Farmers Producer Company Limited (MAHA-FPC / MAHAFPC) is a state Level Farmer Producer Company registered under Companies Act & having its registered office at Pune, Maharashtra.
After the Indian government’s focus on creating more farmer producer organizations/companies (FPO/FPC), there has been rise in the number of such organization. Maharashtra is a key state leading FPO/FPC driven growth. However, an individual FPC cannot have the wherewithal of engaging with the market. The economies of scale that a federation can potentially offer was beyond the reach of an individual FPC.
Since its inception MAHA FPC has been working directly with the Farmers Producing Organizations (FPOs/FPCs) to provide them the much needed infrastructural, and institutional Development services, agri-produce market linkage development support, policy advocacy, and other consultancies which help farmers to mitigate the difficulty in their agricultural operations. Currently, MAHA FPC has over 650 FPC/FPO members, half of whom are active in a sense doing some business with the help of our facilitation.
MAHAFPC is closely working with National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED), Food Corporation of India (FCI), NABARD to develop integrated value chain in order to development & growth of the farmers of Maharashtra with the support of more than 500 Member FPC’s from state. MAHAFPC playing the vital role as State Level Agency / Supporter to NAFED & FCI for price support operations of oilseeds & pulses.
Our History
Maha Farmers Producer Company Limited is a Private incorporated on 03 September 2014. Starting with 11 member FPCs, MAHAFPC now, is the largest FPC federation in the country with presence in 24 districts with over 650 FPC members. It is a state Level Farmer Producer Company registered under Companies Act & having its registered office at Plot No. 622/623/624, NAFED Building, Market Yard, Gultekadi, Pune – 411037.
In a workshop titled ‘Development and sustainability of FPOs’ organized by MANAGE, Hyderabad at the Mahatma Phule Agriculture University campus in Rahuri on 26th March 2014, 42 representatives of FPCs across the state deliberated on the need for forming an apex federation. After a couple of rounds of discussion, the registration of MAHA Farmers Producer Company Ltd. was done on September 3, 2014 under the companies Act.
MAHA FPC facilitates Minimum Support Price (MSP) procurement for central and state government agencies. MAHAFPC’s supports its members in capacity building, aggregating input and output, establishing linkages, ensuring credit flow to the members, and facilitating compliance.
The company has its regional offices – Latur in Marathwada region and Amwavati in Vidarbha Region. These regional presence and focus have helped the organization to better serve the farmers and FPOs at local / grassroot level.
Vision & Mission
MAHA FPC’s vision is “to develop commodity centric clusters of FPCs with common business models for value addition through markets at farm gate level”.
The company strives to prepare a track and facilitate the member FPCs run smoothly on these tracks. It envisages that the FPCs as institutions, have to remain vibrant for next 10 to 20 years. Hence MAHAFPC continuously thinks of system improvement, efforts to remain meaningful and relevant for the member FPCs. Local storage, generating local employment, assuring quality storage and payment to farmers at the doorstep eliminating the uncertainties they face in APMC, is the value addition MAHA FPC brings to farmers.
The founders and the management of MAHA FPCs are very clear that they need to be seen and functioning as a commercial and professional organization. In the line with the govt’s recently launched asset monetization program, MAHA FPC feel the need to work on commodity monetization.
