Acknowledgement
Travancore Manufacturers Consumer Producer Company Limited (TFCPCL) sincerely acknowledges the efforts of Rahul Chakrapani, The Chairman and Director, who has a decade of rich experience in the field of industries like Education, Farming, Hospitals, Finance, Politics, Overseas, Charitable Trust, Co-operative Societies etc. who have made significant contribution in bringing out this Manual on Farmer Producer Organizations. Special thanks to all the Staffs of Royal Travancore Farmers Producer Co. Ltd for collating information from different sources and organizing various chapters in a sequential manner. They have taken due care in drafting and editing the contents in a user friendly way. The access to the material and information from earlier manuals and resources on the subject developed, inter alia, by Department of Agriculture and Cooperation (DAC) in Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of India, Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC) and other organizations/ departments in bringing out this manual, are greatly acknowledged.