Current status of research on farmer producer organizations: A systematic review based on Scopus database.

Agricultural producer organization is a tool for enhancing the farmers' income, market participation, reducing transaction cost, and to commercialize the Agri output. The main focus of this paper is to systematically review the existing literature and thematically analyze the publications on the Farmer Producer Organizations across the globe. This paper considered the Scopus database from with Boolean keyword "Farmer" AND "Producer organization" and identified 1654 abstracts from which 234 articles were shortlisted after inclusion and an exclusion criterion from top International Journals. Of this only 15 articles were related to India. The study found that research on farmer producer organizations has geared up from the past 3 years with Elsevier having the highest number of Ethiopia had more number of studies and 14 themes were generated based on FPO. Overall, the study found that the research on the farmer producer organization is gradually increasing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]