Sahyadri Farmer Producer Company Ltd. (SFPCL) came into being in the year 2011, as a revenue model, while ensuring reasonable returns to the farmers and quality and safe food to the consumers. SFPCL is a leading farmer producer company working with 8000 farmer members with a capital base of ₹52 crore. The company is working with a tagline “of the farmers, by the farmers, for the farmers”. Sahyadri was a movement started by Shri. Vilas
Shinde, Chairman of the company, with focus on the welfare of the farmers to get them their righteous due, while doing business profitably.
The Sahyadri Farmer Producer Company has established itself in less than a decade time and has become a leading exporter of grapes from India. It has emerged as a successful model for management and operation of a Farmers producer company in Indian agricultural environment. A lot may be learnt from the success of the Company. The capacity of the leader of a company to conceive an idea and translate it into a business and push it forward through its rough and tumble is something worth quoting as an inspiring example for others. It is the leader only who can motivate the team and encourage farmers to come along for establishing a successful partnership. An association of committed team of workers and loyal farmer members is sine qua non for evolving a common goal for the success of a Farmer Producer Company. Furthermore, the culture of a FPC should necessarily be farmer-friendly for its longterm success. Besides, ability to tap the opportunity through a balanced produce mix and diversification as per requirements of domestic and international market and strategies to deliver the same to the consumer in time-bound manner at competitive prices are some of the other business principles to be followed by a FPC. Though a company may have different stakeholders operating at different levels with varied interests including financial stakes, what counts as a necessary condition for ensuring its long-term success is the democratic principle of ‘for the farmers, by the farmers and of the farmers’.
https://www.manage.gov.in/publications/reports/Sahyadri-report.pdf
