Inputs
Develop member services
Expand quality input supply and strengthen the FPO’s operational capacity.
Collective enterprise
Growing together.
Reaching further.
Community-owned organisations connect farmers, local products and new market opportunities.
Collective enterprise
Farmers at the centre
of the value chain.
Producer organisations give farmers a shared platform for inputs, aggregation and marketing.
Vanasamakhya supports two community institutions linked to Maa Thota farmers: Medaram FPO and Sammakka Sarakka Farmers Producer Company Ltd. Each has its own activities and organisational identity.
Medaram FPO
Building a member-owned
enterprise.
Promoted for 500 Phase 2 Maa Thota farmers, Medaram Farmers Producers and Producers Mutually Aided Cooperative Society completed its first full year of operations in 2025–26.
Awareness meetings covered 14 villages in Tadvai and Govindaraopet. Members received information on rights, duties, share capital and collective marketing.
500Farmer-members
₹5.90 LShare capital & membership fees
₹2 LFirst fruit-marketing turnover
GST registration received December 2025; fertiliser, pesticide and seed sales licences received April 2026. ₹5.90 lakh includes membership fees and must not be read as share capital alone.
Sammakka Sarakka FPCL
A platform for
tribal products.
Formed by Phase 1 Maa Thota farmers, SSFPCL supports tribal products and women’s enterprises.
Natural forest honey, pickles and other products are marketed through Medaram’s Gram Dukan and NABARD-supported stalls. Collective mango marketing creates opportunities to connect orchard produce directly with consumers.
The company also received ₹40,000 in godown rent during 2025–26, adding another source of institutional income.
Inside the NABARD Mango FestivalThe next steps
Stronger institutions.
Better market connections.
Markets
Build collective sales
Support fruit aggregation, Gram Dukan sales, institutional enquiries and seasonal festivals.
Ownership
Grow member capital
Continue awareness and share-capital enhancement, with a revised target of ₹2,000 per member.
Let’s work together
Good partnerships.
Lasting possibilities.
Explore collaboration in tribal livelihoods, community institutions and sustainable natural resource management.
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