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Govt to revive joint farming cooperatives
State Government To Revive Joint Farming Cooperatives. The State government evolved a strategy to develop the under privileged sections by revitalising the non-functioning 1,397 Cooperative Joint Farming Societies (CJFS) in the State in a comprehensive way.
1,397 Cooperative Joint Farming Societies lying defunct.
- Aims to achieve inclusive growth among underprivileged
- MGNREGS to be extended to weaker farm sections
- UN declares 2014- as year of family farming
Hyderabad: The State government evolved a strategy to develop the under privileged sections by revitalising the non-functioning 1,397 Cooperative Joint Farming Societies (CJFS) in the State in a comprehensive way. As part of the effort, the government decided to extend MGNREGS (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) in a big way to the weaker section CJFS keeping in view the ‘2014-Year of Family Farming’ by United Nations.
Cooperation department conducted a workshop on Friday over the issue and took key decisions including convergence of other departments in developing the CJFS, taking up water harvesting works, soil enrichment through compost pits and bio-fertilizers, credit to societies and imparting training to the members of CJFS. Minister for Cooperation Kasu Krishna Reddy said CJFS have been constituted to consolidate holdings of weaker sections, introduce new technique of cultivation and improve the irrigating system.
Principal Secretary for cooperation Dasari Srinivasulu said, “The government has planned for revitalising the CJFS to achieve inclusive growth among the underprivileged sections. Cooperatives are the best way of protecting the interests of the underprivileged.” He stated that the farmers of SC, ST communities and backward classes were facing hardships in farming. “The need of the hour is to revive the Cooperative Joint Farming Federation to identify the problems of farmers and solve them,” Srinivasulu added.
He said that the government received various inputs at the brainstorming session held with Cooperative Registrars, Joint Collectors, Project Directors and District Cooperative Officers on Friday held at MCR Human Resources Department Institute. It was noticed that the lands of these societies were alienated in some districts. “The workshop felt the need to develop the 1,397 CJFS, which were non-functioning, through all means MGNREGS, Streenidhi Cooperation Federation, AP Minor Irrigation Programme and Watershed programme,” the Secretary for cooperation said, adding that there was also a plan to construct the houses for them in the vicinity of their fields.
Srinivasulu informed that the main aim of the government was to increase the area under agricultural operations and make necessary steps to improve the living standards of farmers.
