Articles in Agriculture

Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank has long been in crisis but the state govt has nothing to find a satisfactory way of dealing with the crisis. It is against this background that an organisation called Jan Manch has petitioned the Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court to intervene in the matter. Taking cognizance of the petition, a division bench of the court has issued notices to the state govt, Nabard, Reserve Bank of India, cooperatives commissioner and MSCB. A recent audit report had ...

Haryana is stopping at nothing to speed up its industrialization. Several new industrial projects involving thousands of crore of investment will soon be launched in the state. Significantly, Sabarkantha Cooperative – a part of the dairy major Amul prominently figures in the list of the new industrial ventures in Haryana.  Some other important corporate names include Maruti Suzuki India, Suzuki Motorcycle and Nippon Carbide. The dairy giant Amul has of late been intent on expanding ...

By Mohan Mishra, Director, NCUI It is disheartening to note that the Union Budget 2012-13 had nothing for the Indian Cooperative Movement rather it reaffirms the facts that the government is blind to the sector despite this sector having made remarkable progress. It has done quite well in the field of rural credit, fertilizer, dairy, sugar, consumer, fisheries, labour, housing, distribution of agriculture inputs, marketing, storage etc. It is not surprising that the Union Budget has ignored the ...

A dairy cooperative of 200 smaller cooperative societies has attracted the notice of the new government of West Bengal .  Himul, a poor cousin of Amul which is lying in tatters in want of governmental concern is being revived in the state. Taking serious note of the dying dairy cooperative Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has activated state machineries to come to its rescue. Animal Husbandry Minister along with district administration are at work to come out with credible revival plan. The ...