Support investments in strengthening Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs), value chain enterprises involved in inputs, aggregation, value addition and market linkage, the federation of CIGs to FPOs, techno-managerial capacity building, grants to FPOs for inclusion, digitization of FPO operations, value addition for livestock products, building capacity for value addition, marketing, and branding, value chain assessments and selection, farmer capacity and productivity, market linkages and resilience building.
Support marketing of crop and livestock products, improving food safety, traceability, and value addition, storage and market infrastructure development including, cold chain, grading, sorting and processing facilities, rural feeder roads, upgrading of market infrastructure in key market centers in Public-Private partnership mode (PPP) , capacity building of value chain stakeholders, training and certification programs, improvement of plant and animal health certification, holding grounds, plant and animal health certification system, national livestock identification, registration and traceability system.
Build the capacity of smallholder farmers and pastoralists to leverage formal finance by supporting group level savings and collateral free small credit for agri-livestock production; group level revolving funds will be provided through a matching grant mechanism, group level small loans for the adoption of TIMPs, financial literacy training, financial support to select FPOs for collective purchase of key inputs and services.