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Haryana Opens Cooperative Week, Announces Credit Cards, PACS Warehouses and Rohtak Food Park

Leaders cast cooperatives as the path to rural prosperity by expanding credit access and building market infrastructure.

Overview

  • Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini inaugurated the 72nd state-level Cooperative Week in Sonipat and urged youth to build digitally enabled cooperatives.
  • More than 300,000 RuPay Kisan Credit Cards have been issued through 19 District Central Cooperative Banks to bolster farmer credit access.
  • Twenty-one Primary Agricultural Credit Society centres have been selected for warehouse construction to strengthen local storage and aggregation.
  • Timely repayers in primary cooperative societies pay no interest on crop loans, with relief totaling Rs 1,223 crore for 531,652 farmers so far.
  • Haryana State Cooperative Supply and Marketing Federation (HAFED) is setting up a nearly Rs 180 crore mega food park in Rohtak under the central Mega Food Park Scheme.