Commerce Minister sets up forum for cooperatives to boost farm exports

03 Jul 2019 Evaluate

In order to achieve an agriculture export target of $60 billion by 2022, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal has taken decision to set up a Cooperative Sector Exports Promotion Forum (CSEPF) under the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) which will work with 20 states and union territories in the area of export. He also informed that the first-ever ‘International Cooperative Trade Fair’ will be organized to promote exports by cooperatives. He noted that there are more than 8 lakh cooperative institutions in India and 94 percent of the country’s 15 crore farmers are members of at least one cooperative body.

The minister has stated that cooperatives are in a nascent stage right now as far as exports are concerned. Therefore, he said the government’s aim is to get them together and encourage them produce and market products for the global market. He also pointed out that boosting farm exports will help the government achieve the target of doubling farmers’ income by 2022. He added that all concerned ministries are working jointly towards this direction.

Goyal has said that the international trade fair is one such platform for cooperatives to interact with global buyers and understand their needs and accordingly produce or manufacture products. He also noted that the trade fair, to be organized jointly by commerce, agriculture and external affairs ministries with support of cooperative bodies such as the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) and the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority, will show direction for exporting value-added agriculture products.

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