Keshab Gogoi

Farmer Producer Organisations as Extension and Innovation Platforms: Beyond Collective Marketing towards Integrated Farmer Services

Manish Kanwat, Santosh Kumar, KH Naveen & Keshab Gogoi · Journal of Scientific Research and Reports · 2026

Farmer producer organisations were promoted chiefly as instruments of collective marketing that would allow smallholders to capture economies of scale, reduce transaction costs and bargain more effectively with buyers. Policy expectations have since widened. In India, where the p...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jsrr/2026/v32i104556

Economics of Farmer Producer Organisations: Collective Action, Market Power and Smallholder Transformation

Manish Kanwat, Santosh Kumar, Naveen Kh & Keshab Gogoi · Journal of Experimental Agriculture International · 2026

Farmer producer organisations, a category that includes marketing and service cooperatives, farmer groups and the producer companies promoted in India, have become a central instrument of agricultural development policy. They are expected to reduce transaction costs, pool output,...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jeai/2026/v48i104538