Constraints faced by the Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) in Gorakhpur District of Uttar Pradesh

The present study was conducted in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh during the year 2023-2024. From Gorakhpur district, Campierganj and Brahmpur blocks were selected purposively based on considerable number of respondents as a member of 'Farmer Producer Company'. A total 100 sample farmers were selected for the study out of which 50 FPO farmers and 50 non-FPO. Information relating to various problems faced by the FPOs was enlisted in a pre-tested interview schedule. The FPOs were asked to rank the constraints in the order of importance. The opinion of the FPOs were analysed by Garrett’s ranking technique. The result of the analysis has shown that the FPOs opined that lack of finance (ranked I) was the major constraints followed by farmers are not aware of FPOs (ranked II), lack of trustworthiness of farmers (ranked III), lack of processing plant (ranked IV), government employ not provide information timely (ranked V), lack of skilled person (ranked VI), FPO members are not active (ranked VII), lack of price policy and crop insurance by Govt. (ranked VIII) respectively.