Expenditure by Ministry of Cooperation jumped to 57% from 6% in just a month

The Union ministry spent Rs 136 crore in 10 months till January 31, 2023; then Rs 377 crore by February 24, finds a Parliamentary Standing …

Banking on thrift and credit

Cooperative banks initiated with assistance from an NGO in the Capital have plucked slumdwellers out of the red

End of the beginning

IN THE WAKE OF FREEDOM: INDIA’S TRYST WITH COOPERATIVES·L C Jain and Karen Coelho·Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi·…

How is Centre making skewed projections to show success of agri-insurance scheme?

The non-loanee farmers from Maharashtra, Kerala and Telangana are shown in loanee category to project the insurance scheme as a success

Amul takes hygiene a step forward

At Anand, the dairy cooperative movement’s birthplace, no one will defecate in the open. RAHUL KUMAR, Amul Dairy’s managing director, …

"We are dealing with attitudes"

The National Tree Growers Cooperative Federation Limited is an organisation devoted to the restoration and protection of the native ecology of …

Skimmed milk

Problem of plenty: Milk farmers stuck between less demand, more supply

Maharashtra’s dairy farmers are on an indefinite strike to seek Rs5/litre subsidy to make up for crashing prices

How to make camel milk profitable for small herders

Forming a cooperative to streamline production and market products can benefit small-scale herders who are losing income

India’s only solar cooperative receives first payment for selling surplus power

Gujarat farmers received Rs 36,005 for selling 5,097 units of power to the local power distributor

Democratising the global food chain

From corporatisation to cooperatives

New diet regime for calves

Islamic banking with a twist

A cooperative in Bihar offers interest-free loans, but only to its poor members

Switch on biomass

Power crisis spurs market for renewables in rural Bihar

Not a promissory note

Demonetisation casts a long shadow over the rural economy

A success story

The 2003 monsoon could herald a great change in the socio-economic landscape of village Birora Kheth in the Tikamgarh district of Madhya Pradesh. …

“Cooperative is not for profit but for benefit”

Arshad Ajmal, mentor and the first chairperson of Al-khair Co-operative Credit Society Ltd, is now working on replicating the model in different …

Fishing in troubled waters

People displaced by a dam on the Tawa, the Narmada's biggest tributary, charted their own rehabilitation through exemplary management of natural …

Maharashtra sets up panel to probe drop in mango prices

Government resolution says EU ban on Indian mango not the reason

MP government to net in fisherfolk's body

Stories of success and failure

Rise And Rise Of MFIs

Microfinance institutions entered big lending five years ago and registered 83 per cent growth

EU threat to farmers

Free trade pact with EU will have a severe impact on Indian agriculture, specially the dairy sector

A question of political will

Two innovative states prove PDS can be made efficient

Another world is possible

Optimism is a great friend but a bad guide. The Asian Social Forum meeting in Hyderabad, India, deliberately avoided this truism while …