Financial Performance Evaluation: A Case Study of MAHA-Farmers Producers Company Ltd.

AUTHORS :

S. N. Tripathy

DOI :

CP2020/OCT-MAR/ARTCL1

ABSTRACT :

The present paper with the help of secondary sources of data attempts to capture the major events that shaped the course of cooperative movements in Odisha. The paper portrays the prevailing socio-economic factors and key events which contributed to the development of cooperatives in different phases and its genesis and growth trend in Odisha in the national perspectives.

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KEYWORDS :

Cooperatives Movements, Rural credit, Money lenders, Farmers.

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AUTHORS :

Sagar Wadkar, Pallavi Ingale and Bhargavi Thakur

DOI :

CP2021/October-December2021/ARTCL2

ABSTRACT :

In 21st century, Farmer Producers Organizations (FPOs) model has been seen as vehicle for agri-food system transformation. Despite two decades journey, the FPOs movement is in the nascent stage, where in the focus is on formation and promotion of a commodity specific FPOs under both cooperative and producers company act. Increasingly, the government of India is spending huge amount on creating the social capital and handholding them. However, their financial and longterm sustainability is a serious issue. The present study is an attempt to assess the financial performance of one such state level federation of FPOs i.e. MAHA-FPC, a state level producers company. The study follows the case study approach and descriptive research design. The primary data was collected through semi-structured interview schedule from the chairman and CEO of MAHA-FPC. The secondary data has been collected through company’s previous six years annual report (2014-15 to 2019-20). The data was analyzed through ratio analysis liquidity, leverage and profitability and trend analysis. It was found that the liquidity position of MAHA-FPC is stable, net profitability to revenue from operation of the company has a fluctuating trend over the last six years. Overall, MAHA-FPC is in the growing phase of the business cycle thus, the company would increase the profitability in the coming years.

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