Farmer Collectives: A Case Study on Kudumbashree, VFPCK and FPCs in Kerala Discussion Paper 18 MANAGE- Centre for Agricultural Extension Innovations, Reforms, and Agripreneurship (CAEIRA) Published by National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE) (An organisation of Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Govt. of India) Rajendranagar, Hyderabad – 500 030, Telangana State, India ©MANAGE, 2020 About the Publication The research report is based on the research conducted by Ms. Reshma Sara Sabu as MANAGE Intern under the MANAGE Internship Programme for Post Graduate students of Extension Education. Authors Ms. Reshma Sara Sabu M. Sc (Agricultural Economics) & MANAGE Intern Kerala Agricultural University Trissur, Kerala. e-mail:
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[email protected] Layout Design Ms. Niharika Lenka Disclaimer The views expressed in the document are not necessarily those of MANAGE but are of the authors’ own. MANAGE encourages the use, reproduction and dissemination of this publication for personal study and non-commercial purposes only with proper acknowledgement of MANAGE Citation: Reshma Sara Sabu and Saravanan Raj (2020). Farmer Collectives: A Case Study on Kudumbashree, VFPCK and FPCs in Kerala, Discussion Paper 18, MANAGE- Centre for Agricultural Extension Innovations, Reforms and Agripreneurship, National Institute for Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE), Hyderabad, India. Director General’s message Smt. G. Jayalakshmi, IAS Director General, MANAGE I congratulate Ms. Reshma Sara Sabu, MANAGE intern and former M.Sc. Scholar, Kerala Agricultural University, for conducting passionate study on the topic “Farmer Collective’s: A case study on Kudumbashree, VFPCK and FPCs in Kerala” and collecting good data from field and analysis.