We organized training programmes for eight Producer Organization Promoting Institutions (POPI) at Chennai and for another nine POPIs at Vitheeshwaran Koil. The training covered topics such as “Essentials of Contracts for Producer Companies, Procedure for application of Matching Equity Grant under SFAC, Compliances for Producer Companies, Introduction to Statement of Accounts, Revenue Sources for Producer Companies and Introduction on Goods and Services Tax for Producer Companies. A field exposure visit was organized for the participants from Chennai and Vitheeswaran Koil to Marutham Sustainable Agriculture Producer Company in Thiruvannamalai district and Valanadu Sustainable Agriculture Producer Company in Nagapattinam district, respectively to learn about their functions and systems.
Follow-up training programmes are being planned in February 2018 at Chennai and Sirkazhi.
