This paper examines the effect commercialization (sale ratio, market transaction, co-operative sale), and diversification (crop, animal husbandry, and non-farm diversification) may have on farmers’ income. In investigating so, this paper takes into account the structural factors which could also affect farmers' income. The results show that increasing diversification (crop and …
After the richer locals leased land/water from the poor cooperatives in the 1970s in Kolleru in Andhra Pradesh, the land has remained in the name of poor "beneficiaries", while the real fisherfolk work on meagre wages. Ironically, those legally entitled to the benefits have been reduced to wage earners on …
This article looks at the emerging policy context on irrigation and drinking water supply in Jharkhand, the position of water rights in state legislation, the importance of water user groups, the critical issues of access to water for both the rural and the urban poor and the legal implications.
It seems the ruling United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre is seriously considering undertaking social banking reforms. It has agreed to implement the report of the A Vaidyanathan committee, set-up by the Union government, on the revival of cooperative credit institutions. The Union ministry of finance has accepted the …
The study conducted in Jalgaon and Kolhapur districts of Maharashtra showed two differing scenarios insofar as the impact of milk cooperatives on production and marketed surplus is concerned. While milk cooperatives had positive and significant impact on both production and marketed surplus of milk in Kolhapur district, such impact could …
The 2003 monsoon could herald a great change in the socio-economic landscape of village Birora Kheth in the Tikamgarh district of Madhya Pradesh. Its 42-member fishery co-operative
the future of the Tawa Matsya Sangh (tms), Madhya Pradesh's highly acclaimed federation of fisherfolk cooperatives, is at stake. The Madhya Pradesh (mp) government is contemplating taking over the management of the Hoshangabad-based body. tms comprises local people who were displaced during the construction of a dam on Tawa river. …
optimism is a great friend but a bad guide. The Asian Social Forum (asf) meeting in Hyderabad, India, deliberately avoided this truism while proclaiming grandly: "Another world is possible". Another world is definitely possible. In fact it exists. The numerous communities that gathered there, with their own stories of survival …
the Tawa dam, in Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh (mp), tells a story of success where the people displaced chart their own rehabilitation by fighting for their water and land rights. A thousand people in 44 relocated villages around the Tawa reservoir are living a contented life today thanks to …
the book records the strug gle of the Indian Cooperative Union (icu) to carve out a niche for itself in the country's cooperative movement. Born from efforts to resettle refugees after partition, the icu was formed in 1948 as a voluntary organisation that would translate India's newly gained freedom into …
On what necessitated the formation of the National Tree Growers Cooperative Federation Limited (NTGCF): In 1985, the Wasteland Development Board (WDB) was looking for institutional alternatives to the Joint Forest Management (jw) programme. The idea was to establish a cooperative based on the Anand pattern, It envisaged the promotion of …
A BANK with no minimum deposits, no signatures, ridiculously low interest rates on loans and run by the depositors themselves: "It is not really a bank, but more of a thrift and credit scheme," says Sushma, a housewife living in Shankar Camp near Moti Bagh in the Capital, one of …
SOMETIMES, eco-support comes unexpectedly from the most unlikely quarters -- this time round, cooperative movements. The pathbreakers are already here: the Kooperativa Forbundet, a large production, manufacturing and distribution cooperative in Sweden has an environment secretariat and a monitoring mechanism; the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool in Canada has established a Responsible …
