Vol. 12, Special Issue 11 (2023)

Farmer producer organizations are characterized by farmer groups organized with an objective to make profits be increasing economies of scale and working like a corporate organization. Establishment and promotion of farmer collectivization can provide a platform to farmers for receiving much-required information, sharing of knowledge, sharing the production, and marketing risks and adoption of market-led production of agricultural products. Grass root level actions on collectivization of the marginal agrarian folks can improve their livelihood support as income, self-respect, bargaining power etc as compared to the individual approach. present study was conducted to analyze the relationship between social capital, self-efficacy and perceived performance and thereby proposing a model by joining two streams of thoughts; the role of social capital and self-efficacy that influence the perceived performance and role of Self efficacy as mediator that influence the relationship between social capital and perceived performance. In the process of social capital influencing performance of FPCs, self-efficacy played a significant role as a partial mediator. Hence a policy shift on training motivating and critically evaluating members of FPCs should be of utmost importance right from the stage of forming the FPCs. Since self-efficacy had a mediating role, variables like means to get things done if opposed, ability to achieve aims and goals, dealing efficiently with unexpected events, ability to handle unforeseen situations, finding several solutions of a problem and capacity to handle any situation indicated the areas where individual capacity building and training programmes must be focused upon. A strong sense of building these variables will help policy makers on the focus shift towards group performance variables.