International Journal of Agriculture Extension and Social Development

author(s)
AB Dhola, RR Prajapati, AS Patel and RB Rathod

abstract
Agriculture continues to play a pivotal role in the Indian economy, carrying the crucial responsibility of meeting the substantial food and nutritional requirements of the country's expansive population. However, this vital sector is confronted with an escalating array of challenges. The relentless rise in population has intensified the demand for food, while simultaneously, the available cultivable land has been diminishing. This juxtaposition raises pressing concerns regarding both food and income security. In the face of these challenges, the imperative of establishing Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) becomes evident, presenting a necessary solution within the Indian context to effectively tackle the issues. Thus, FPOs must made effort to sustain. Sustainability effort means those effort made to sustain an organization. FPO made effort like, getting remunerative prices of produce of the member of FPO, utilization of fund in proper way, establishment of various processing unit etc. to remain sustain. Considering these facts, Sustainability efforts of the Farmer Producer Organizations were studied. Henry Garrett’s ranking method was used to study the sustainability efforts of the FPO. As per this method, respondents were asked to assign the rank for all the ten efforts listed in the questionnaire and the outcomes of such ranking were converted into score value with the help of the per cent position formula of Garret’s ranking method. Result shows that willingness to participation received mean score of 68.17, which means it was the most considerable effort perceived by the FPO members for sustainability of the FPO.