Vol. 12, Issue 3 (2023)

Methodology: Apart from the benefits and incorporation, it is equally important to know the insight of member farmers of the FPCs and to know their attitude with regard to the FPCs. Therefore, in this study, the socio-economic characteristics of farmers, the attitude of farmers, and finally the problems faced by the farmers were dealt with. To accomplish objectives, a systematic methodology was framed, in which the villages of Mahuva and Talaja taluka were selected purposively for getting responses from 100 respondents. Data were collected with the help of a structured schedule and for getting desired results, tabular analysis, charts, graphical presentation, weighted Average Mean, and Henry Garrett Ranking Method were used for analysis purposes.

Results: It was found that the majority of the respondents were male and middle age farmers with land holding capacity of more than four hectares. Most of the respondents have completed their secondary education, and the income of the farmers was more than two lakhs. Friends & Riletives, Gram Sevak, progressive farmers, and scientists of the Agricultural University found major sources of information about agriculture in the study area. In total Cent percent of farmers have shown a positive attitude towards Farmer Producer Companies. The different major reasons for the attitude towards FPCs in the study area were, The capacity of the farmers to sell agricultural produce has increased due to FPCs as the first, the second reason was given Processing and storage of agricultural produce by farmers member done neatly, the third was given to Farmers receive good profits due to common sale of their agricultural produce by FPC, fourth reason Farmers can purchase input conveniently due to FPCs was given, and last, the fifth reason, Small and marginal farmers get encouragement for doing farming as a professional business due to the FPCs. In Different problems faced by the farmer, farmers getting Lesser prices in the FPCs as compared to the open market, agriculture assistants not sharing the information, and printed literature not being available for a package of practices were found to be the major problem faced by the farmers rank-wise in the study area.