Cooperatives in Maharashtra: Role in Agricultural, Industrial and Employment Generation
Shinde Balkrishna Narayan
School of Agribusiness and Rural Management, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Bihar (848 125), India
DOI: NIL
Keywords: Agriculture, Cooperatives, Development, Employment
Abstract
Since long time cooperatives are working effectively in India. But the large numbers of cooperatives are in Maharashtra and still they are working continuously in sectors of agriculture, industries, finance and more. Agriculture is the important sector in many of the developing countries and cooperatives helping agricultural sector in many ways like in marketing, credit, processing and employment generation. There are many of cooperatives successfully working in India like IFFCO, KRIBHCO, AMUL, etc. who provides number of benefits to the farmers by increased crop productivity and finally through the cooperatives getting profits by efficient marketing of their produce.
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