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Cooperatives and Producer Companies

Course Length : 3 weeks
Estimated Effort : 2 – 3 hrs per week

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Course Overview

This course is about cooperatives also known as Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs). It discusses what a cooperative is, how it helps small producers, and most important, how to set up sustainable, profitable and vibrant FPOs. It is based on empirical evidence from the field. It also discusses the basic principles of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA).

Cooperatives and Producer Companies

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Week 1: Introduction to course
  • Introduction
  • Entrepreneurship Demo
Week 2: R Tutorial - I
  • Installing R & RStudio
  • Basics of RStudio
Week 3: - R Tutorial - II
  • Writing programs in RStudio & HR Demo
Week 4: - Standard Variables - I
  • Uniform Distribution
  • Binomial Distribution
  • Poisson Distribution
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Week 5: Standard Variables - II
  • Exponential Distribution
Week 6: Simulation
  • Monte Carlo Simulation
Week 7: Normal Distribution
  • Properties
  • Basic Application

Cooperatives and Producer Companies

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Target Audience

Policy makers, Executives in financial institutions and banks, students pursuing post graduate and anyone who is actually promoting new cooperatives.

Learning Outcome

  • Define a cooperative
  • Illustrate how cooperatives can be set up successfully
  • Analyse why Indian cooperatives have not done well in general
  • Discuss how the cooperative situation in India can be changed
  • Illustrate on financing the genuine FPOs

Trilochan Sastry

Professor
Decision Sciences
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB)

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