Small and Marginal farmers at Pudukkottai district initiated this Farmers Producer Company especially for Organic Indigenous Paddy and Millets

1. Pudukkottai Organic Farmers
Producer Company Ltd., (POFPCL)
Supported under
TNSFAC
ROSE Pasumai Kudil,
21, Selva Nagar, Sipcot Post,
Pudukkottai – 622002, Tamilnadu, India
Pudukkottaiorganicfpo@gmail.com

2. Legal Status
Pudukkottai Organic Farmers
Producer Company Ltd. is
registered under sub section
(2) of section 7 of The
Companies Act, 2013

3. Vision & Mission
Vision
Sustainable livelihood of Farmers
Poison Free Food for All
Future Generation in Wealthy Agriculture
Mission
To support, take initiatives for end to end services in
agriculture and allied production and marketing so as
generate sustainable and respectful livelihood to the
small and marginal farmers.

4. Promoting Organization
Rural Organization for Social
Education (ROSE)
Pudukkottai
Resource Institution
Vrutti Livelihood Resource Centre
Bangalore

5. History of FPO
Consultation Meeting
- Farmers and
Agricultural
Scientists about FPO
at Agricultural
Business Centre
(ABC)
Thiruvarakulam on
23.12.2013

6. POFPCL Registration Details
Particulars Registration No. and Date
CIN U01400TN2014PTC096992
DIC 330222107743E
fssai 12416016000038
TIN 33636278652
PAN AAHCP8566C
Packed Items License TN/TRY/1616/2016

7. Operational Area of the FPO
Particulars Details
Name of the Tamilnadu Tamil Nadu
Name of the District Pudukkottai
No. of Blocks 5
Name of the Blocks
Annavasal, Arimalam,
Kunnandarkovil, Pudukkottai &
Thiruvarankulam
No. of Villages Covered 55

8. Board of Directors
Particulars Details
Total No. of BoDs 15
Male members in BoDs 11
Female Members in BoDs 4
% of female ratio in BoD 26%
% of SM farmers in BoD 86%

9. Shareholders / members details
Particulars Details
No. of farmers enrolled 1028
No. of Share holders 1000
No. of FIGs’ 75
Share holding 100 shares of face value Rs.10
Authorized share capital (in
Rs.)
10 Lakh
Paid up share capital (in Rs.) 10 lakh

10. Inauguration of FPO
District Collector
Mr.Ganesh IAS,
Inaugurated our FPO on
10.04.2015 and
Agriculture Department
provide millet
processing machinery
like Dehuller, Destoner,
Grader cum Cleaner
under the IAMWARM
scheme

11. AGM
Date : 03.07.2015
Place : Town Hall
Participants : 400
District Collector
Mr.Ganesh IAS,
Inaugurated & DD
(AB) Mr. Mohamed
Abdul Nazeer & other
officials Participated

12. Meeting, Training, Exposure visits
• Training to CEO (3 days) and 2 days
training to BoDs organized
• FIG Meeting at Village level
• Training and Exposure visit
organized for FIG members
• Regular Board meeting was organized
at FPC

14. Nature of Business Activities
Procurement, Processing,
Value addition
of
“Indigenous Paddy,
Millets, Pulses and
Oilseeds”

15. Business Model & Operations
FPC
DLF
BLF
Villag
e
level

16. Value added products
Product Value added Products Product Value added
Products
Indigeno
us Rice
Mappillai samba raw rice Millet Rice Varagu - Raw Rice
Mappillai Samba Par boiled
unpolished rice
Varagu - Boiled Rice
Mappillai samba semi polished
par boiled (Idli) rice
Kuthirai vali - Raw
Rice
Thooyamalli Rice
Kuthiraivali - Boiled
Rice
Kavuni rice Samai - Raw Rice
Millet
Rice
Ragi Thinai - Raw Rice
Kambu Irungu cholam rice

17. Value added products
Product Value added Products Produc
t
Value added
Products
Pulses Horse Gram (white kollu)
Thinai & Kambu
Flour
Horse Gram (Black kollu)
Oil
Items
Coconut Oil
Black gram (Spitted) Gingelly Oil
Redgram dhal Groundnut Oil
Flour - Millet
& Rice
Millet Nutritious Flour
Millet
Flakes
Varagu aval
Millet Dosa Mix Irungu Cholam aval
Ragi Flour
Mappillai samba
aval
Mappillai samba puttu flour
(roasted)
Nattusakarai

18. Marketing
FPC is selling 70% of its produce to
whole sellers based out in Chennai,
Madurai, Trichy, Kanniakumari and
Bengalore.
FPC is selling 30% of the processed
products in retail on cash & carry basis

19. Purchase and sales details
2014-15 & 2015-16
Type of Product Purchase Sales
Volume
(kg)
Value
(in INR)
Volume
(kg)
Value
(in INR)
Indigenous Paddy 65274 1279559 39002.25 2186120
Millets
40205.5 907750 39994.25 3178222
Pulses
7521.5 398364 5315.75 551474
Oil Seeds
7136 432514 6609 630119
Total 120137 3018187 90921.25 6545935

20. Turnover of the FPO
Year Amount in INR
2014-15 436322.00
2015-16 3596925.00
2016-17 (till Feb 2017) 92,58,391.00

21. Business Plan of FPC
Sr.
No
.
Crop
Expected
procure-
ment (Qtls)
Expected
procurem
ent price
(Rs.)
Total cost
of
procure-
ment (Rs.)
Time of
procurem
ent
Sales
Price
(Rs./Qtl)
1 Mappilai Samba
Paddy
100 3,770 3,77,000 Feb - March 5,600
2 Karuppu Kavuni
Paddy
100 7,370 7,37,000 Feb - March 12,500
3
Thooyamalli Paddy 100 3,270 3,27,000 Feb - March 6,000
4
Redgram 50 10,070 5,03,500 Feb - March 16,000
5
Blackgram 50 10,570 5,28,500 April – May 19,000
6 Horsegram (Black
and White)
30 4,570 1,37,100 Feb - March 7,000
7
Groundnut 50 8,055 4,02,750 April – May 18,000
8
Barn Yard Millet 50 4,020 2,01,000
June &
December
8,000

22. Continued……
Sr.
No
.
Crop
Expected
procure-
ment (Qtls)
Expected
procurem
ent price
(Rs.)
Total cost
of
procure-
ment (Rs.)
Time of
procurem
ent
Sales
Price
(Rs./Qtl)
9
Kodo Millet 50 3,820 1,91,000 February 7,000
10
Foxtail Millet 50 4,370 2,18,500 Nov - Jan 7,000
11
Little millet 50 4,870 2,43,500 February 4,000
12
Finger Millet (Ragi) 50 3,670 1,83,500
June &
December
5,000
13
Pearl Millet 30 3,970 1,19,100 February 4,000
14
Sorghum 50 2,870 1,43,500 Jan – Feb 6,000
15
Coconut 30 9,380 2,81,400
Round the
year
20,000
16
Sesamum 100 9,380 9,38,000
March –
May
23,000

24. Monitoring Officer Mr. Chandrasekar IAS
along with our District collector, JDA, DD
ABC and other department officials

25. District collector visited our Organic Farm

26. Ex. District collector Mr. Manoharan IAS visited
our Millet Field, Stall and Exhibition

27. NABARD officials visit

28. TN Information Commissioner Mrs. Neelambikai
IAS Visit to our Processing Unit

29. ICAR Scientist collected 15 varieties of Indigenous
Paddy Germplasm from our farmers field

30. On 25.02.2016, Mr. Elangovan JDA (AB),
inspect our FPO and discuss with BODs about FPO
progress

31. One of our Director received “Organic Semmal
Award” from Hon.Agri Minister at TNAU

32. FIG receives Millet processing machineries
from Vamban KVK under INSIMP scheme

33. Dr.Guanamalar Prof. & Head NPRC, Vamban and
their team to visit the indigenous paddy field
Dr.Guanamalar Prof. & Head NPRC, Vamban and their team to visit the indigenous paddy field

34. Punjab State Agriculture Commissioner Dr.Siddhu and
Marketing board of Punjab State visited our FPO along with
Agri Marketing JDA Dr.Elango and Pudukkottai Agriculture
Department Team on 02.03.2016

35. World Bank Consultant Mr.Vikas Chowdary along with TN
Agri marketing JDA Mr.Mohamed Iqbal, Chennai MDPU
consultant Mr.Sowndarajan, Pudukkottai JDA Mr. Annamalai,
Pudukkottai ABC DD Mr.Singaram, DD (Central scheme) Mr.
Sathanantham visited our FPO on 30.03.2016

36. Field Level
Interventions

37. Millet-based Dryland Conservation Farming
This is Meena’s family – Organic Herbal Pest Repellent Preparation

38. After the training the Families collectively start
preparing natural manure and herbal pest
repellent solutions for their lands

39. Natural Ingredients of farm tonic not only brings back the
lost vitality to the soil but also the original joy to the farmers

40. Chemical-based farming kills the life of soil! Here the once-degraded
land now rich with earth-worms ‘The Friend of Farmer’

41. Once dryland now bloom with Azolla that fixes Nitrogen in
the atmosphere into the soil: NO NEED FOR CHEMICALS!

42. After 13 years of no-farming the poor
family now restart their journey with
Hope

43. Our farmers in the ground

44. When the Height of Chemical/Water Intensive Paddy(IR20) is
genetically reduced to only 2.0 feet this Indigenous Medicinal Paddy
(Chandikar) grows to the height of 6+ feet – ‘Joy to Cattle!’

45. Believe it or Not! A Bounty Crop!
The district average yield under chemical based farming is 27
quintal/per acre. Our Women have achieved 34 quintal/per acre!

46. Processing, Value Addition and Marketing

47. Processing, Value Addition and Marketing

48. Value added products ready to market

49. Article and News Paper
Clippings of FPO

51. Article published in leading magazine “Puthiya
Thalaimurai” on Dec 2015

52. Article
published
in leading
Newspaper
“The
Hindu” on
26.10.2015
in Agri
Business
page

53. Article published in leading Newspaper in English and Tamil

54. Article published in leading Newspaper in English and Tamil

55. Article published in leading Newspaper in English and Tamil
News Paper Clipping

56. Join with us to Bring
Joy Back to Our
Nature & to Our
Next Generation!