The National Statistical Office (NSO) under the Ministry of Statistics and & Programme Implementation (MoSPI), in August 2024, released the 25th edition of its publication, Women and Men in India, covering the year, 2023. The publication “offers a comprehensive overview of the status of women and men in India, incorporating data on key socio-economic indicators for both women and men. It consolidates information from various sources, providing a centralized resource”.
The National Sample Survery Office (NSSO) recent;ly released two reports of its Annual Survey of Unincoporated Sector Enterprises (ASUSE) for the years 2021-22 and 2022-23. A factsheet containing the highlights of these two AUSES Surveys was also released. The ASUSE measures the “economic and operational characteristics of unincorporated non-agricultural etablishements in manufacturing, trade, and other services sectors (excluding construction.) The three documents, released in July 2024, can be accessed through the links provided here.
The Union Budget, 2024-2025, presented by the Union Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, and related Budget Documents can be accessed here.
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In recent years, the concept of Farmer Producer Company (FPC) has gained the attention of researchers. Though relatively new in India and still in an emerging phase in Maharashtra, these FPCs are being viewed as a possible replacement for the old cooperative model and taken the form of new movement. The formation of FPCs in the districts of Maharashtra began in 2015 under the Maharashtra Agricultural Competitiveness Project (MACP). In Osmanabad and Solapur districts of Maharashtra, FPCs have been in operation for the past three years. As FPCs gained the attention and participation of the farmers it becomes pertinent to study their formation and performance. This Policy Report attempts to look at the FPCs in Solapur and Osmanabad districts of Maharashtra to ascertain the level of inclusiveness and participation of the various categories of farmers in the running of the company. The study points out that caste and family hierarchies continue to hold a grip on ownership patterns, albeit in the early days of the FPCs. However, it can be said that the FPCs have the potential to overcome the difficulties faced by the farmers in selling their produce directly in the conventional market arising out of rigid vertical coordination of the middlemen based on the experiences of the farmers with the producer company model.The Report also includes an analysis of the new policy on the FPCs and attempts to assess the differences between the old cooperative Act and new Farmer Producer Companies Act. [PDF 829 KB]
