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title: 'fpoValue: Farmer Producer Organisation Economics and Member Benefit Accounting'
version: 0.1.0
abstract: Tools to determine when collective marketing, aggregation, grading and bulk
  input procurement through farmer producer organisations (FPOs) and agricultural
  cooperatives improve member-farmer returns. The package provides channel-level transaction
  cost accounting (transport, commissions, market fees, time, rejection and payment-delay
  costs), estimation of scale economies from consolidated transport, tiered bulk input
  discounts and grading premiums, break-even throughput and procurement-price analysis,
  and comparison of individual and collective marketing scenarios. Its core is a member-level
  distributional accounting framework that separates the total surplus generated by
  an FPO from the benefits actually received by farmers through prices, transaction
  cost savings, input savings and dividends, and summarises their distribution across
  members with Gini and concentration indices and farm-size group shares.
authors:
- family-names: Perumal
  given-names: Anbukkani
  email: anbueconomic@gmail.com
repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
commit: 52bbcc7d2804efe55d56cf6d3ed7760e5c557f5d
date-released: '2026-10-24'
contact:
- family-names: Perumal
  given-names: Anbukkani
  email: anbueconomic@gmail.com