Letters: Usher in better future

It started in early 2002 after the National Agriculture Policy laid the formation of FPOs

With reference to Vimukt Dave's article “With corporate push, more farmers get active on futures platform” (April 17), linking farmers with the market-based risk management instrument can be a positive policy push. It started in early 2002 after the National Agriculture Policy laid the formation of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs). While a few FPOs have so far been enabled to connect with futures platform complying with nuanced futures trading rules and regulations, many are still left in the lurch as past efforts by cooperatives or NGOs failed on account of market access and managing farm risks. Real-time price information to