India’s Producer Companies and Small Farmers

Sukhpal Singh is Professor and Former Chairperson, Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA), Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, Former Director General, Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID) Chandigarh, and Former Professor and Head, Agricultural Economic Research Unit (AERU), Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), New Delhi. He has been conferred the title of the Fellow of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics for his contributions to the discipline and the Society in 2018 and is the President Elect for the Annual Conference (2024) of the Indian Society of Agricultural Marketing. He is founding co-editor, Millennial Asia – an international journal of Asian studies. He was a visiting fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sussex (the UK), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (Thailand), the University of Manchester (the UK); and the Copenhagen Business School (Denmark). Professor Singh specializes in issues of value chain analysis and management, vertical co-ordination in agribusiness, agribusiness marketing and regulation, and producer collectives. He has been a member of various committees/working groups of the Planning Commission of India/NITI Aayog, the National Development Council, the Food Safety Standards Authority of India, and the EC of the Mission on Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH). He was also a member of the GoI Committee on MSP, Natural Farming and Crop Diversification (2022) and the National Level Committee for National Co-operative Policy (2022). He has 15 books to his credit, the latest ones include 'Regulating Agricultural Markets in India: A Smallholder Perspective' (authored, 2023) and 'Reverse subsidies in global monopsony capitalism - gender, labour and environmental injustice in garment value chains' (co-authored, 2022). He has authored more than 150 research papers in international/national journals/edited books, besides 70 articles in newspapers and magazines. His research has included contract farming, organic produce value chains, food supermarkets, agricultural input and output markets and market channels, and farmer producer companies.

• Introduction.- Performance and Impact of PCs in Uttar Pradesh.- Performance and Impact of PCs in Rajasthan.- Performance and Impact of PCs in Madhya Pradesh.- Performance and Impact of PCs in Tamilnadu.- Overview, Conclusions and Recommendations.