Cooperatives and Rural Development in India

Baviskar, B. S.

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“…However, in many developing countries and in India, cooperatives in the past have been less successful. Their effectiveness was limited by issues of poor organization and incompetent management, political interference in their functioning, financial irregularities and corruption within the organizations (Akwabi-Ameyaw, 1997;Attwood, 1982Attwood, , 1987Baviskar, 1987;Holloway, Nicholson, Delgado, Staal, & Ehui, 2000;Lalvani, 2008). In India, the significant challenges the cooperatives faced were structural and incentive based.…”

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Enabling Smallholder Prosperity through Commercialization and Diversification

Pingali

Aiyar

Abraham

et al. 2019

Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India

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As India becomes the world’s most populous nation, the two central concerns for food security is how to increase and diversify food production. Although this is an opportunity for income growth for small farms, rectifying disadvantages owing to low economies of scale and poor access to capital, technology, and mechanization is critical to leverage it. In this chapter, we look at the scope of institutional interventions such as aggregation models in the form of cooperatives and farmer producer organizations in addressing the scale and access disadvantages. We also touch upon the need to revisit the issue of land reforms to enable land tenure systems to improve access to land and access to mechanization and credit.

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Section: Institutional Interventions In Smallholder Agriculture-aggrementioning

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Enabling Smallholder Prosperity through Commercialization and Diversification

Pingali

Aiyar

Abraham

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Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India

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“…The rarity with which one finds reasonable uniformity of relative abilities lays the foundation for the second principle: The strengths of distinct organizations should be combined through either vertical coordination within nested hierarchies-e.g., many communities performing certain tasks in exchange for resources from a few regional governments operating within the bounds of policies established by the central government-or horizontal coordination within a level in a hierarchy, such as through federations or unions of neighboring communities around a protected area or of national governments bordering an ocean commons (Navarro 1989, Baviskar 1990, Bebbington 1996, Inamdar et al 1999, Ostrom et al 1999, Wilkinson 1999. This is essentially just the economic law of comparative advantage, which states that division of labor according to relative ability improves outcomes.…”

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Conserving Tropical Biodiversity amid Weak Institutions

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Gibson³

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“…According to Baviskar (1987), two basic questions require to be answered while understanding the impact of cooperatives. The first one is what has contributed to the success of the cooperatives, and second, what impact the cooperatives have made concerning the rural poor.…”

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“…However, even in the case of dairy cooperatives, the growth varies in different states as in few states, the cooperatives were initiated by the people and in some states by the state government (Vaidyanathan, 2013). In most cases, the cooperatives are facing two major challenges: one is the rigid social structure and the second is state interference (Baviskar, 1987). In this situation, maintaining democratic governance is a big challenge but very essential for cooperatives.…”

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“…There were also complaints about the inadequate availability of fodder from 51%, cross-breeding facility from 31% and unsatisfactory veterinary services from 41% of the sample members. The report also claimed few more reasons for non-functionality: first the quality of animals, second the cost of dairying and third is the difference between the market price and money received by the farmers at the Dairy Cooperative Societies (DCS).4 | DISCUSSION AND SUGGESTIONS4.1 | Dealing with institutional changeAccording toBaviskar (1987), two basic questions require to be answered while understanding the impact of cooperatives. The first one is what has contributed to the success of the cooperatives, and second, what impact the cooperatives have made concerning the rural poor.…”

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Rethinking local institutional development in India: Theoretical perspectives and analysis of dairy cooperatives

Christie

2020

Journal of Public Affairs

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The quality of institutions indicates the level of economic development in the country. Institutions are a part of a system that is based on human interactions and that leads to the generation of incentives. These incentives can deal with uncertainties and foster economic, social, political growth, provided the human interactions are moderated well. This paper reflects on the strength of the interventionalist institutions like cooperatives in India and promotes institution building for a better future. The base of the paper focuses on the lessons learnt from dairy cooperatives in Gujarat state and discusses the current situation of the cooperatives and challenges faced by them. The cooperatives in India have been old institutions with a great history of success as also failures. Though there are various types of cooperatives in India, the dairy cooperatives have been able to gain more attention in the international market due to the Operation Floods I, II, and III. India has secured its position as one of the largest milk producers in the world. At present, India produces 20% of the total milk production in the world. This paper is a blend and analysis of theoretical perspectives and ground realities of the dairy cooperative sector in India. The paper follows theoretical perspectives from institutional theory to analyse the present scenario of dairy cooperatives in India. It addresses the gaps in the dairy cooperative development sector with an in‐depth analysis of ground realities and contributes to future policy formulation and interventions.

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Cooperatives and Rural Development in India

Cited by 7 publications

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Enabling Smallholder Prosperity through Commercialization and Diversification

Enabling Smallholder Prosperity through Commercialization and Diversification

Conserving Tropical Biodiversity amid Weak Institutions

Rethinking local institutional development in India: Theoretical perspectives and analysis of dairy cooperatives

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