Sahakar Bharati organized a program on Ganga Sahakar Gram Project in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, in which Union Minister of State for Cooperation BL Verma was the chief guest.
The program was presided over by the Sahakar Bharati National President DN Thakur and attended by the IFFCO Vice-Chairman Balveer Singh, Managing Director Dr U S Awasthi as a special guest. On this occasion, Sahakar Bharati UP Chapter Chairman Narendra Upadhyaya, General Secretary Praveen Jadaun, Dhananjay Singh and others were present.
Addressing the participants, BL Verma said, “The vision of Honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi of ‘Sahakar Se Samriddhi’, can be achieved with the joint efforts of all together”.
“The Ganga Sahakar Project will be helpful in promoting the interests of farmers, facilitate marketing of natural farming/organic produce under brand Ganga through creation of market linkages, promote people-river connect through economic bridge etc”, he added.
He further said, “1100 farmers produce organizations have been formed in the country through the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC). And, in the coming days, the two thousand Jan Aushadhi Kendras will be operated through PACS.
In his speech IFFCO MD lauded the role being played by Sahakar Bharati in achieving the Prime Minister vision of Sahakar se Samriddhi and assured all help from IFFCO. “IFFCO has stayed in touch with Sahakar Bharati for a long time and we are still there for anything it feels we can do”, were the assuring words of Dr Awasthi on the occasion.
In his speech, DN Thakur said that the workers associated with Sahakar Bharti will work to double the income of farmers through various activities under the Sahakar Ganga Project.
“Sahakar Ganga Grams is an all-encompassing program that trains farmers in not only readying their farms but also crop diversification, how to keep crops safe, proper marketing, technical capacity building, and improving the livelihood standards of farmers”, he informed.
IFFCO Vice-Chairman Balveer Singh said that Sahakar Bharti is doing commendable work in the formation of FPOs and cooperatives through Sahakar Ganga.
Readers would recall that last year in September National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) and Sahakar Bharati signed an MoU for setting up at least 75 Ganga Sahakar Grams in the Ganga basin to promote natural farming and other interventions under Arth Ganga.
The MoU between NMCG and Sahakar Bharti was signed in the presence of the Union Minister for Jal Shakti Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on 16th August, 2022 on the occasion of ‘Yamuna Par Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’.
The MoU envisages to achieve the vision of a sustainable and viable economic development by public participation and creation and strengthening of local cooperatives directing their cooperation towards realizing the mandate of Arth Ganga.
