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Abstract : Farmers' Producer Organizations (FPOs) are collectives or associations of farmers who come together voluntarily to improve agricultural production (Hellin et al., 2009; Basavaraj et al., 2022). FPOs have a scope to transform agribusiness (Kumar Joshi and Choudhary, 2018; Prasad and Prateek, 2019; Kadam, 2022) and achieve sustainable development (Ma et al., 2023). However, there have been studies that reported the challenges faced by existing FPOs (Yadav et al., 2018; Trivedi et al., 2023), which might be an indication of the unforeseen sustainability challenges that can be expected in the journey of promotion of FPOs shortly. Hence, a critical evaluation at this point would help the key stakeholders of FPOs to systematically increase the number of FPOs in the country. The paper assesses the strengths and areas of improvements of FPOs to attain long-term viability. The evaluation areas enable similar small and marginal farmers' agribusiness organizations globally to assess the long-term viability of their farmer's collectives.