RS: Shah gives details of co-op societies in agri, dairy & fisheries
There are nearly 95,000 Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS); 1,99,182 primary dairy cooperative societies and 25,297 primary fishery cooperative societies as against 2,55,643 Panchayats and 6,62,750 villages in the country. As per the Allocation of Business Rules, 1961, one of the mandates of the Ministry is “Strengthening of cooperative movement in the country and deepening […]
‘Milkfed’ strengthens Punjab’s dairy sector with over 6,474 societies
Punjab produces 6.7 per cent of India’s total milk and has per capita availability of 1,181 grams of milk per day, the highest in the country. More than 3.5 lakh dairy farmers in the state are attached to the Punjab State Cooperative’s Milk Producers Federation (Milkfed). The federation procures between 13 lakh to 27 lakh […]