Braving two and a half decades of upheavals in the market, Campco, a cooperative which markets arecanut and cocao products suddenly finds itself in fight or finish stage.
The Supreme Court and subsequently Centre’s decision to ban plastic sachet for gutkha packing has shaken the cooperatives by foundation. The arecanut cooperatives produce raw material for sachets .
Talking to Indian Cooperative.com, the president of Campco cooperative Mr Konkodi Padmanabha said that we are mobilizing political opinion to save the arecanut growers who are mostly spread in the states of Karnataka,Kerala and Assam.
A meeting of about 30 Members of Parliament has taken place to put pressure on the government. Political leaders cutting acrfoss party lines have joined the movement for “save arecanut growers”,Padmanabha added.
The matter was also raised in Parliament during zero hour by 3-4 MPs. A combine of 15 cooperatives have also appealed in the court for review which is bound to come for hearing on 13th April, a hopeful President said to Indiancooperative.com
We are going with a delegation to Delhi along with the Chief Minister Mr B S Yeddurappa to meet Prime Minister.We would meet other leaders such as Jairam Ramesh and Veerappa Moilly again to impress upon them the urgency of matter, said Mr Padmanabha.
It would be indeed sad if the government does not intervene to save the cooperatives as Campco is one of the few cooperatives in India which inspires hope that cooperative movement is yet not a fallen idea.