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NCDC Functions and Agricultural Support

The document discusses marketing and processing assistance provided by the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC). Specifically: 1) NCDC provides margin money assistance to marketing federations and cooperatives to strengthen their share capital base and working capital financing. This helps marketing of fruits and vegetables which currently sees 20-25% waste. 2) For processing, NCDC provides investment loans and margin money assistance to set up new sugar factories, modernize existing ones, and support cooperative spinning mills, cotton federations, and other processing units. 3) NCDC also assists with construction of godowns and cold storages to aid cooperative storage of agricultural produce.

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NCDC Functions and Agricultural Support

The document discusses marketing and processing assistance provided by the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC). Specifically: 1) NCDC provides margin money assistance to marketing federations and cooperatives to strengthen their share capital base and working capital financing. This helps marketing of fruits and vegetables which currently sees 20-25% waste. 2) For processing, NCDC provides investment loans and margin money assistance to set up new sugar factories, modernize existing ones, and support cooperative spinning mills, cotton federations, and other processing units. 3) NCDC also assists with construction of godowns and cold storages to aid cooperative storage of agricultural produce.

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a) Marketing

• Margin Money assistance to Marketing Federations


• Strengthening share capital base of primary / district marketing societies
• Marketing (Fruit & Vegetable)
India is the second largest producer of fruits in the world, producing 46.8
million
Genesis tons of fruits and accounting for 10% of the world's fruit
production. It is alsoDevelopment
The National Cooperative the second largest(NCDC)
Corporation producer of vegetables,
was established by an Act of
Parliament in 196320-25%
Approximately as a statutory Corporation
of the under produce
horticulture the Ministrygoes
of Agriculture.
waste due to
improper
Functions
post harvest operations which reduces the growers share In the
present
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a consumer rupee. There
financing programmes is, therefore, a need to evolve a
for production,
marketing system where
processing, marketing, storage, growers and consumers both benefit. The
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efforts areimport
alsoofon agricultural
the Valueproduce,
Addition activities where the fruits and
food stuffs,
vegetables are processed, that fetches higher remunerative prices of the
certain other notified commodities e.g. fertilisers, insecticides, agricultural machinery, lac,
produce.
soap, kerosene oil, textile, rubber etc.,
Strengthening of share capital base of fruit and vegetable
cooperatives
Organisation & Management
The Management
Margin money assistancevests in 51for
member
raisingwidely represented
working General Council to give shape to
capital.
its policies and programmes.
• Working Capital Finance
Board of Management with 12 members to cater to day-to-day activities.
b) Processing
Besides its Head Office, NCDC functions through 16 Regional/State Directorates.
• Setting up of new
The Managing Sugar
Director factories
is the (Investment Loan) / Modernisation and
Chief Executive.
Expansion/ Diversification
Various functional of existing
divisions look after the Sugar Factories
programmes. (Investment
The field offices playloan +
an important
role inloan)
term project identification/formulation and oversee its implementation.
• Margin Money assistance to cooperative Spinning Mills / State Cooperative
Cotton Federations / Share Activities
Capital Funded by NCDC
participation in New Spinning Mills /
Modernisation/ Expansion of Spinning Mills / Modernisation of Existing
and Establishment of Modern Ginning & Pressing Units / Rehabilitation of
Sick Spinning Mills / Cotton Development Programmes
• Other Processing Units: Food Grains / Oilseeds / Plantation Crops / Cotton
Ginning and Pressing / Fruit & Vegetable / Maize Starch / Particle Board,
etc.
• Power Loom Cooperatives covering pre and post loom facilities
c) Cooperative Storage
• Construction of godowns (Normal)
• Upgradation/renovation of existing godowns
• Construction of Cold Storages / Upgradation/ Rehabilitation of Cold
storages

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