Dynamism of the cooperative sector in Haryana is unmistakable. Most of the cooperative organizations in the state are continuously growing.  The Haryana state cooperative supply and marketing federation (HAFED) , for example, has notched up  a net profit of nearly 41 crore on a turnover of 5,489 crore during 2010.

Hafed will have a turnover of 6,000 crore during 20-12. It is this organization that mainly supplies inputs like fertilizer, pesticides and seeds to farmers. Being the largest food grain procuring agency in Haryana, it undertakes various agro-processing activities for rice, barley, sugarcane, turmeric powder and mustard oil.

The cooperation minister Mr Sangwan said that the pace of activities of HAFED would be accelerated so that farmers would get maximum facilities and remunerative prices.

HAFED has been declared as the State Nodal Agency by the Food Corporation of India. HAFED had warehouse or storage capacity of 10.50 lakh tonne, open plinths storage capacity of 14.81 lakh tonne, 11 rice mills, two animal feed plants, one pesticides plant, two mustard oil plants, one barley malt plant, sugar mill, turmeric plant and wheat seed processing plant.

Haryana State Cooperative Supply and Marketing Federation Limited (HAFED) has for the first time, exported 100 tonnes of rice and 3 tonnes of mustard oil to USA under its own brand name during last financial year.

It has also exported 21.02 tonnes of rice to Mauritius during the same period, an official release said.

The release quoting Haryana Cooperation Minister Satpal Sangwan said that 41 tonnes of rice and 18 tonnes of mustard oil had also been exported to the USA during the current

financial year.

It was expected to further explore the possibility of entering the market of other countries for export of rice and mustard oil, Sangwan said.

The Minister said a new alternative has been provided on experimental basis to the farmers at Rewari and Narnaul to sell their mustard seed through Electronic Commodity Spot Exchange, which is a transparent trading system for buyers and sellers.

Through this system, he said, the farmers get information about prevailing market price across the country.

Sangwan said HAFED has also expanded its Organic Growers Group Projects from 750 acres to 2,500 acres.

He said the area under organic farming in district Sirsa has been expanded to 1,000 acres and in district Jhajjar and Mewat, it has been increased to 750 acres.

An area of 750 acres in districts of Karnal, Kaithal and Kurukshetra was already under organic farming. HAFED is providing best technological advisory services and organic

certification as per standards of organic farming to the farmers free of cost through different agencies, he added.

He said a turmeric plant had also been set up at Radaur in district Yamunanagar to  provide marketing support to the local turmeric farmers. Besides, the storage capacity of

HAFED’s godowns was being increased, he added.