Abstract

                                The agriculture sector is undergoing a revolution, owing to several initiativesby Government of India aimed at increasing farmers’ income by 2022-23.These efforts should not be implemented in a traditional manner, but ratherwith farmers as partners in the process. Farmer producer Companies (FPCs)could serve as a ground-level implementation entity. As a result, FPCs may beat the lead of the economic opportunities that these reforms will generate.The financial viability or health of a Farmer Producer Companies is animportant factor because many small and marginal farmers depend on it.Therefore, this study evaluated the financial performance of Farmer ProducerCompanies of the Western agro-climatic zone of Tamil Nadu utilizing AltmanZ’ score model and sustainable growth rate for the period 2015 to 2020.This analysis utilized secondary data gathered from the Ministry of CorporateAffairs, India. According to the results, it is concluded that the majority of thesample Farmer Producer Companies are in distress zone and if the presentcircumstance proceeded, these organizations will be bankrupt, within nexttwo years and all of the companies have negative sustainable growth rate,indicating that they would be unable to operate without external funding.As a result, there is an urgent need to concentrate on these companies inorder to ensure their sustainable growth

Key words : Financial performance; Altman Z’ score; Sustainable growth; Farmer Producer Company; Distress zone