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Amit Shah: Shah said that the government has set a target of increasing India’s share in the global organic market to 40 percent by 2035.
Amit Shah: Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah said on Friday that as part of its defined strategy, the government aims to triple the contribution of the cooperative sector in the country’s GDP in the next few years. Apart from this, more than 50 crore active cooperative members have to be made. In his address at the Earth Summit held at the Mahatma Mandir Convention Center in Gandhinagar, Shah said that the government has set a target of increasing India’s share in the global organic market to 20 percent by 2030 and 40 percent by 2035. He said that the government wants to strengthen the cooperative sector across the country. The Earth Summit is a national initiative led by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) and the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). Shah said that after Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister, rural development, agriculture, animal husbandry and cooperative sectors were recognized as important components of the country’s economic system and overall development.
There will be a cooperative institution in every panchayat
Shah said that the vision of a fully developed India includes the welfare of every citizen and to achieve this goal it is necessary to focus on cooperation, agriculture, animal husbandry and rural development sectors. He said that under a certain strategy, we have decided that within a few years we will establish a cooperative institution in every panchayat. We will create more than 50 crore active cooperative members and increase the contribution of cooperative societies in the country’s GDP three times. The Union Home Minister told the gathering that Banas Dairy in Gujarat has developed a circular economy model in the dairy sector and that model is now available for emulation across the country.
Labs will be built for biological testing
On this occasion, Shah announced that now the Ministry of Cooperation is working on developing a similar circular economy model for the sugarcane sector in the country. Regarding the ministry’s focus on the organic farming sector, Shah said that the latest figures show that about 49 lakh farmers in the country have already adopted natural farming and there is immense potential in it for the farmers. Shah said that in collaboration with Bharat Organics and Amul, we are building a chain of laboratories to organically test farmers’ land and produce as per international standards so that farmers can easily sell their organic foods. Currently around 40 such organic products like wheat and rice are already being sold online.
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