HONEY FPO’S

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CONTEXT:

Inauguration of Honey FPOs under the “Formation & Promotion of 10,000 FPOs” Scheme.

IMPORTANT POINTS:

1. The Honey FPO Programme of the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited (NAFED) has been inaugurated.
2. The Honey FPOs made by the Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals (ISAP) under the aegis of the National Bee Board (NBB) and NAFED will help its members in: o Upgrading their skills in scientific bee keeping
3. Setting up state-of-the-art infrastructural facilities for processing honey and allied beekeeping products like bee’s wax, propolis, royal jelly, bee venom, etc., quality control laboratories, collection, storage, bottling and marketing centres.
4. NAFED, through its empanelled Cluster Based Business Organisation (CBBO), ISAP, has initiated the formation and promotion of FPOs of beekeepers and honey collectors in 5 states of India.

NAFED:

• NAFED is an agricultural cooperative organisation established with the objective of promoting cooperative marketing of agricultural produce to benefit farmers.
• It was established in 1958 to promote the trade of agricultural products and forest resources.
• With its headquarters in New Delhi, it is today one of the largest procurement as well as marketing agencies for agricultural products in India.
• It is the nodal agency to implement price stabilization measures under Operation Greens

National Beekeeping and Honey Mission:

• It is a central sector scheme for the overall promotion and development of scientific beekeeping in mission mode to achieve the goal of “Sweet Revolution” in the country.
• It aims to achieve its goal by giving thrust on capacity building & trainings, specific focus on women, input support for promotion & production, setting up of Integrated Beekeeping Development Centres (IBDCs), other infrastructures, digitization/online registration, etc., processing, value addition, market support, etc. & R&D under 3 Mini Missions (MMs)-MM-1, MM-2 & MM-3.
• The mission is carried out by the National Bee Board under the aegis of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare.

National Bee Board:

• The main objective of the National Bee Board (NBB) is the overall development of beekeeping by promoting scientific beekeeping in India to increase the productivity of crops through pollination and increase the honey production for increasing the income of the beekeepers/farmers.
• The Small Farmers’ Agri-Business Consortium (SFAC) registered the National Bee Board as a society in 2000. The Board was reconstituted in 2006.

SOURCE: PIB