Haryana writing farmers’ prosperity through collaboration, says Amit Shah

Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah, on Wednesday, addressed a Cooperative Conference organised by Krishak Bharati Cooperative Limited (KRIBHCO) on the theme ‘Role of Cooperation in Sustainable Agriculture' here, with the Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini and several other dignitaries were also present.

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Home Minister Shah said, "Haryana, connected with history, religion, spirituality, and traditions, is today gradually writing new dimensions of farmers' prosperity through the collaboration between agriculture and cooperatives."

He noted that on the occasion of the International Year of Cooperatives, Milk chilling centre, Haryana State Cooperative Supply and Marketing Federation Limited (HAFED) flour mill, distribution of RuPay Platinum Card and registration certificates of model Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS), and the portal on the International Year of Cooperatives were also inaugurated at this conference organised by KRIBHCO.

Home Minister Shah said that nearly 70 per cent of the country's population resides in rural areas, and a large section of "our population is directly or indirectly dependent on agriculture, farming, and animal husbandry for livelihood".