increasing the availability of feed and fodder," he added.
To promote market facilities for farmers, the government
announced its support tosetting up of Farmers Producers
Organisation (FPO) with an allocation of Rs 50 crorematching equity
grants for registration process.
Each FPO will get a maximum of Rs 10 lakh to leverage working
capital fromfinancial institutions.
Besides, a credit guarantee fund will be created in a small
farmers agri-businesscorporation with an initial corpus of Rs 100
crore. "I urge state governments tosupport such FPOs with necessary
amendments to the APMC Acts and other ways,"the minister said.
