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Producer Company Registration
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The producer company facilitates the formation of co-operatives as companies and support the co-operatives to convert into companies. We help to incorporate the producer company in India.

Producer Company : an overview

The concept of farmer Producer Company seeks to foster the betterment of financially aggrieved farmers in India through synergy and collective efforts. Such entities seek to operate in line with the underlying objects, which typically revolve around the mutual financial growth of the member. As such, Farmer Company has no intention to serve the public domain in any way. A Producer Company is an umbrella term that includes Producing, harvesting, procurement, grading, pooling, handling, marketing, selling, exporting the primary producers of the members, or the imports of goods or services.

Types of Producer Companies:
 

Production Businesses

Production, Procurement, manufacture of its members and others’ primary producer is the producer companies’ primary function.

Marketing Businesses

A business involved in the marketing or promoting the primary produce or provision of education services to members and others can also constitute itself as a Producer company.

Technical Service

Any business that offers technical assistance to the producers, Provides training and educational services, or conducting research and development can register as a Producer in India.

Finance Business

A business financing producing activities, be it production, or marketing, or development, it can register itself as a producer company.

Infrastructure business

The business involved in providing infrastructure to the producers, whether in the form of electricity, water resources, irrigation techniques, or consultation regarding the same, may also incorporate themself as a Producer company.

Checklist for Producer Company Registration

Pre-incorporation legalities for incorporation:

  • At least ten producers to register the company;
  • Minimum 5 and maximum 15 directors;
  • Maximum 200 members: if the proposed entity willing to function as a private limited company.

Inter-state co-operative society functioning as a producer farmer company may have more than 15 Directors for one year from the incorporation date of a producer company. 

Stepwise Process to Register a producer company

A Producer Company gets registered as a Private Limited Company and hence, the entire process of registering a Producer Company is similar to that of a Private Limited Company. The application is filled out by any director of the Company and submitted to the Registrar of Companies, who verifies the details furnished in the application and the documents attached with it. Once the verification of the application is complete, the ROC shall issue the Certificate of incorporation in the name of the company.
 
Step 1: The first step is to obtain the DSC and DIN for the Producer Company’s proposed first Directors.
Step 2 : An application for name reservation can be filed with the Registrar of Companies (ROC) after obtaining the DSC and DIN.The name should end with ‘Producer Limited Company’.
Step 3 :  After receiving the ROC’s name approval, file the incorporation application in the prescribed format for incorporating the Producer company.
Step 4 : The Certificate of Incorporation is issued if the registrar is satisfied with the application for the Incorporation of the Producer company.
 
The functioning of the producer company is similar to the Private Limited company. But unlike the Private Limited companies, there is no limit on the number of members. Even if the Producer Company’s name ends with the words “Producer Limited Company”, it shall under no circumstance become or be deemed a public limited company.
 

Documents Required for Registering a Producer Company

The application for the registration of a Producer Company must be accompanied by the scanned copies of the documents prescribed under the Companies Act, 2013. These documents can be categorized into the documents of the members, documents of the company, and the documents of the premises where the business is being carried out. An elaborate list of such documents have been mentioned in the table below:

  • PAN & Photo
  • PAN & Photographs of the active directors & shareholders
  • ID Proof 
  • Aadhar card, Driving License, passport, & voter ID of the Directors, members, and shareholders. 
  • Address Proof 
  • Bank Statement, utility bills such as landline bill, mobile bill, and electricity bill 
  • Producer Proof
  • Sarpanch letter/ Khasra – Khatuni/ Income Tax Return (ITR) with Agriculture Income/ Any other proof a person as a serving member
  • Registered Address proof
  • No objection certificate from the owner, Utility bill and Rent agreement