Book of Extended summaries ISDA

International Conference on Reimagining Rainfed Agro-ecosystems: Challenges &
Opportunities during 22-24, December 2022 at ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad
Upliftment Corpus (PRODUCE) Fund through NABARD. As a result of such national
initiatives, 7374 FPCs have been registered till March 2019 (Neti et al., 2019). Though the first
FPC in Kerala, IOFPCL was registered in 2004, the idea gained momentum in the state only
2013 onwards. The growth trend, which could be attributed to the support of NABARD grants
indicated maximum registration in the year 2016. But the registrations reduced to zero in the
terminal year of the NABARD project, 2018. However, a consistent increase in FPC
registrations from 2019 could be noted and with the advent of new policy regime announced
in Union budget which is expected to grow further (GOI, 2019).
Even though there was a steady increase the FPCs, which acts as an effective linkage between
farm production and the market, FPCs face many constraints in its formation, functioning, and
service delivery. This is evident from the reports that many registered producer companies
could not continue their operations due to technological, marketing, and policy constraints
(Thamban et al., 2020). In this context it is important to understand the interrelations and
influence of organisational attributes such as turnover, membership, age of FPC, infrastructure,
and machinery which are represented by nominal categorical data sets.
Methodology
A total of 30 FPOs that were in operation for at least two years from the date of registration
were selected randomly from all the 14 districts of Kerala. The number of FPCs selected from
a district was decided proportionate to the number of FPCs registered in the district. A
quantitative survey design was employed in data collection. A pretested structured interview
schedule prepared based on expert discussions and literature review was used in the research.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and enforcement of COVID protocols and restrictions, prefixed
telephonic interviews and video calls were also used for data collection in unavoidable
circumstances. Multi Coordinate Analysis was used in the study as a statistical visualisation
tool for visualising the relationship between organisational attributed represented by categorical
variable levels. This method could evaluate two-way and multi-way data. The visualisation of
the associations was done using the biplots obtained as result of plotting the first two
components contributing the maximum variance.
Categories of variables evaluated using MCA
Variable Category 1 Category 2
Age of FPC Mature Nascent
Turnover High Low
Membership High Low
Machinery More Less
Infrastructure Good Poor
Performance Good Poor
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