Another world is possible
Optimism is a great friend but a bad guide. The Asian Social Forum meeting in Hyderabad, India, deliberately avoided this truism while …
Profit from the poor
Fifty-four suicides in Andhra Pradesh have blown the lid off the social posturing by microfinance companies. Before the news of the deaths sank …
New milky way
Private players are entering the Indian dairy market in a big way. Dairy cooperatives, which ushered in the White Revolution, need to expand and …
‘There is not enough milk’
Amrita Patel was part of the White Revolution that made India self-sufficient in milk. She joined Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers’…
Rising popularity of artificial vanilla puts Kerala farmers in distress
Vanilla is said to be the world's most popular flavour. As much as 40 per cent of the world's ice cream is vanilla flavoured. Its sweet, mildly …
Universal health scare
The country’s planners are debating how to provide healthcare to all. In a drastic shift from the 65-year-old public health system, the …
Expenditure by Ministry of Cooperation jumped to 57% from 6% in just a month
The Union ministry spent Rs 136 crore in 10 months till January 31, 2023; then Rs 377 crore by February 24, finds a Parliamentary Standing …
Banking on thrift and credit
Cooperative banks initiated with assistance from an NGO in the Capital have plucked slumdwellers out of the red
End of the beginning
IN THE WAKE OF FREEDOM: INDIA’S TRYST WITH COOPERATIVES·L C Jain and Karen Coelho·Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi·…
How is Centre making skewed projections to show success of agri-insurance scheme?
The non-loanee farmers from Maharashtra, Kerala and Telangana are shown in loanee category to project the insurance scheme as a success
Amul takes hygiene a step forward
At Anand, the dairy cooperative movement’s birthplace, no one will defecate in the open. RAHUL KUMAR, Amul Dairy’s managing director, …
"We are dealing with attitudes"
The National Tree Growers Cooperative Federation Limited is an organisation devoted to the restoration and protection of the native ecology of …
Problem of plenty: Milk farmers stuck between less demand, more supply
Maharashtra’s dairy farmers are on an indefinite strike to seek Rs5/litre subsidy to make up for crashing prices
How to make camel milk profitable for small herders
Forming a cooperative to streamline production and market products can benefit small-scale herders who are losing income
India’s only solar cooperative receives first payment for selling surplus power
Gujarat farmers received Rs 36,005 for selling 5,097 units of power to the local power distributor
A success story
The 2003 monsoon could herald a great change in the socio-economic landscape of village Birora Kheth in the Tikamgarh district of Madhya Pradesh. …
“Cooperative is not for profit but for benefit”
Arshad Ajmal, mentor and the first chairperson of Al-khair Co-operative Credit Society Ltd, is now working on replicating the model in different …
Fishing in troubled waters
People displaced by a dam on the Tawa, the Narmada's biggest tributary, charted their own rehabilitation through exemplary management of natural …
Rise And Rise Of MFIs
Microfinance institutions entered big lending five years ago and registered 83 per cent growth
EU threat to farmers
Free trade pact with EU will have a severe impact on Indian agriculture, specially the dairy sector
When villages plug in
A Consumer movement is catching on in Nepal.Communities are extending the grid to villages.This threatens to undo the effort put in small-scale …
People's power
Farmers in Chhattisgarh's coal-rich Gare village have floated a company to assert their rights over natural resources and resist land acquisiton …
Tonight we riot? What Nintendo’s ‘revolutionary’ video game misses about worker liberation
Some might think this fantasy epitomises the modern movement for worker liberation. It doesn’t.
Lessons from two cities
Pune aims to become a zero-landfill city by 2015. With a range of solid waste management options, the target does not seem too ambitious. …
Germany in transition
From an economy addicted to coal and nuclear energy, Germany is fast transforming into one driven by renewables. Its aim is to demonstrate to the …