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Regional Directorate, LUCKNOW
National Cooperative Development Corporation
1. State under jurisdiction: Uttar Pradesh
2. Major activities funded in the State: Setting up sugar mills, expansion and modernization of sugar mills, establishment of distilleries, construction of marketing and rural godown, construction of cold storage units, establishment of oilseed processing units, rice mills, dal mills, establishment / modernization of spinning mills, construction / renovation of UPICA’s showroom, computerization in PCF and spinning mills federation, rural consumer scheme, implementation of ICDP schemes, horticulture cooperatives, onion godowns, power loom project, soybean complex, ice plant, fishery, poultry, piggery, ICDP, renovation of old godowns, working capital assistance to cooperatives, farmers service centre, Agro Service Centre.
3. Successful stories / Achievement There are few success stories and whatever success has been achieved, it is not uniformed and only visible in certain pockets. The scheme of marketing and rural godown is highly successful; because of godown / warehouses is highly profitable venture. Many Distt. Coop. Federation and PCF are surviving on income of godowns. Rice mill / dal mills were not successful when these were run by cooperatives. However, after giving them on lease to private entrepreneurs, these mills are running satisfactorily and are also generating profits. Construction of godowns as well as mini banks is also successful, because, it has given permanent identification to village cooperative societies. Likewise, margin money scheme is also found very helpful; because of cooperatives are getting necessary working capital assistance from DCBs. Expansion and modernization of cooperative sugar mills was also found very useful and effective, because of it has increased the survival of rolling cooperative sugar mills. Computer scheme is also found very useful, because it has improved the efficiency and monitoring of in-house activities. ICDP scheme is also found very useful, as it has given an opportunity to need cooperatives for repairing and upgrading of their old dilapidated godowns and revival of delivery of credit and agri. inputs to farmers.
4. Thrust area ICDP Scheme, computerization, repairing of old godowns, fruit processing units, modernization of dairy, cattle feed, medicinal plants, power loom, organic farming, bio-diesel plantation, seed multiplication / processing, bee-keeping, honey processing, agri. clinic, bio-compost, rearing livestock, fishery, floriculture, handicrafts, rural household industry, onion godowns, potato processing industry, branded good products, revival of weak PACS and weak DCBs, Revitalization of UPICA, revival and modernization of cooperative spinning mills, providing working capital assistance to Apex Federation, spinning mills and sugar mills, setting up ethanol projects and bio-compost unit in sugar mills, creation of post harvesting facilities for horticulture / medicinal crops. |