National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) has come up with a ‘Farmer Producer Organisation (FPO) Capacity Building Toolkit’. The toolkit contains the following modules.
1. FPO orientation material
2. FPO capacity assessment tool
3. ToT manual for Board of Directors (BOD)
4. FPO Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
5. Guidebook on FPO business planning
6. Guidebook on FPO legal compliances
7. Business models for FPOs
8. Schemes and policy initiatives for supporting FPO
9. Guidebook on commodity derivative market for FPOs
10. Guidebook on input business planning for FPOs
11. Guidebook on FPO financing for bankers