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In West Bengal, a similar system to contract marketing started. The Dept. ofFood Processing Industries & Horticulture, Govt. of West Bengal has made anexperiment through an arrangement between Frito-lay India Ltd and a few co-operativesocieties for supply of chip quality potato to the processing units since 2003-04. Thevarieties tried are Chipsona I & II, Jyoti, Atlantic (Dutch Variety) and Chandramukhi. Onthe basis of trial "Jyoti" was selected. Frito-lay India Ltd supplied G-2 micro tubers tosome Co-operative Societies in Hoogly and Burdwan Dists at a fixed price.Co-operatives in turn supplies seeds to its growers. Initial results has been reportedencouraging. Frito-lay buys a sizeable quantity of the chip grade potato so produced ata fixed price and also pay service charge to the societies on final procurement.The participators are:A. Frito-lay-- a) supplying seed potatoes to each society under contract at afixed price;b) providing technical guidance and supervision ;c) testing the potato;d) buying back the potato at a fixed price;e) providing service charges to the society.B. The Societies-- a) making contractual agreement with Frito-lay forgrowing chip grade potato through the memberfarmers ;b) procure and supply seed to the member farmers ;c) arrange cultivation and supply of potatoes ofacceptable grade by the farmers ;d) arrangement of organizing training to the farmers bythe Dept. Frito- lay and experts from Universities andother outsourcing.C. The Govt. Department -- a) maintain liaison with societies and Frito-lay ;b) providing training to farmers for getting desiredgrade potatoes.Source : Dept. of Food Processing Industries & Horticulture, Govt. of West Bengal54
Table No. 17BenefitsTypes of benefits To farmer / producer To contracting agencyAccess Access to inputs Access to required quality ofproduce.Risk Minimizes price risk Minimizes risk of scarcity ofconsistent supply of rawmaterialsQuality Use of good quality of inputs Getting supply of desirableNew skills of postharvest handling /practices.like seeds, fertilizers.Facilitates the adoption ofnew skills of post harvesthandling / practices at lowcost.Mutual Relationship Strengthen long termrelationship with buyer formutual interests.quality supply of produce.Adopt more efficient and betterpost harvest handling /practices.Strengthen long termrelationship with farmer formutual interest.Profit Increases Increases.7.3 Co-operative Marketing:The Co-operative marketing is the system by which a group of farmers jointogether to carry on some or all the processes involved in bringing goods from producerto consumer. In other words, it is the association of cultivators / farmers for the purposeof helping them to market their produce in a more profitable way than private tradesystem.Functions :The members of an potato co-operative society sell their surplus produce to thesociety. Member farmers sell their produce to the society and they get an advance. Aftercollecting the potato from the member, the society either processes it or sells it in themandies or to the processors. Sometimes, considering the unfavourable pricesprevailing in the market, the society stores the produce and sells later at favourableprice. As soon as the produce is sold, the society makes payment to the farmers. Thus,the co-operatives play a key role in the agricultural marketing process and they protectthe interest of the farmers from exploitation of middlemen and secure better returns fortheir produce. The Potato Growers Co-operative Association in Gujarat, FarukhabadCo-operative Marketing Society in Uttar Pradesh etc. are associated with Co-operativemarketing of potato.Besides, there are other co-operative organizations like NAFED which is a wellknown organization because and its function as the National Apex Body of the cooperativemarketing system in co-ordination with State level Marketing Federations,Regional and District level co-operative societies. The aim of NAFED is to promote55
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