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Shah Unveils 10k Agri Cooperative Societies

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December 26, 2024

Union home and cooperation minister Amit Shah on Wednesday inaugurated 10,000 newly established multipurpose primary agricultural and dairy cooperative societies or PACS, in a bid to ease farmers' access to markets, part of the government's plan to create 200,000 such rural enterprises.

- HT Correspondent

NEW DELHI:

These PACS will actively engage in the business of marketing organic products, dairy production and seeds, including exports, Shah said at an event organised at the Pusa complex in the national capital.

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