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Cooperative farming not mandatory

HYDERABAD: The State government has clarified that its proposal for introduction of cooperative farming was aimed at ensuring assured income for farmers.

The project would be implemented on a pilot basis in two villages in each district and the participation by farmers would be voluntary, not mandatory. The system was conceived to overcome problems of the small and marginal farmers in marketing, mechanisation and related areas and the government had no intention to forcibly implement it.

Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy reviewed the arrangements being made for the all-party meeting convened on cooperative farming on Monday. Floor leaders of all political parties in the Assembly and Council as well as experts in the field including agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan would attend the three-hour meeting.

Briefing reporters later, Agriculture Minister N. Raghuveera Reddy and Agriculture Technology Mission deputy chairman D.A. Somayajulu said that there was no proposal to enact a separate legislation for constituting the cooperative societies and they would be registered under the Societies Act. There would no intervention of the government in the affairs of the societies and it would only give “handholding” required for their successful functioning.

The government had invited all the stakeholders and would consider their suggestions before formally initiating the pilot project. The project, they asserted, was a beginning of several efforts to address problems of the small and marginal farmers including productivity-related aspects. “This is one of the solutions for the problems faced by farmers ,” Mr. Somayajulu said.

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