Vol. 11, Special Issue 8 (2022)

Author(s):
Brinly Sasitha S, Ramakrishnan K, Mahandrakumar K and Sivasankari B

Abstract:
Farmer Producer Organizations are a collective structure that serves as the foundation for farmer growth and development. The efforts of small, marginal and big farmers are combined to improve and develop their lives. Social capital is an asset that is studied by observing interactions and the relationship prevailing in collective organizations. To improve community as a whole, various stakeholders in an organization are involved from whom the components of social capital is obtained. The study is designed by observing the five components of Social Capital in the FPOs. The data is collected from 40 functioning Farmer Producer Organizations in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu. Based on performance, the organizations are classified into better and moderately performing FPOs. Comparing the social capital within the organization of both FPOs, the result indicated that social capital enhances the Performance of FPO in terms of Human resource mobilization, Capital mobilization and Execution of activities.