CONTENTS:- Preface. I. Growth of cooperatives: 1. India's rural cooperatives: some issues/Gursharan Singh Kainth. 2. Role of cooperatives in rural development/Sant Kumar and D.K. Mishra. 3. Performance, constraints and prospects of cooperative marketing societies in India/Brahm Parkash. 4. Consumer co-operatives in developing countries/Ravikesh Srivastava. 5. Co-operative farming in India: problems and prospects/D.P. Pal and R. Pal. II. Cooperative movement across states: 6. Dynamics of cooperatives in Punjab/Gursharan Singh Kainth. 7. Co-operative movement in Rajasthan and its impact on rural development/J.P. Mishra and B. Mishra. 8. Performance of cooperative vegetables marketing federation: a case study/Jagdish Prasad. 9. Co-operatives in rural economy: the case of Assam/Archana Sharma. 10. Cooperative movement and rural development in Goa/J.P. Mishra. III. Credit cooperatives: 11. Cooperative movement with special reference to rural credit in India/K.S.S. Uduman Mohideen. 12. Credit co-operatives in India's rural economy/R. Mukherji. 13. Co-operative credit institutions across Indian regions/U.K. Pandey and K.S. Suhag. 14. Long-term credit requirements of rural India: role of PLDBs/Sant Kumar and R.S. Dixit. 15. Management of Central Co-operative Bank: a case study/Kumar Priya Ranjan and R.K.P. Singh. 16. Agricultural credit co-operatives in Karnataka/B.V. Chinnappa Reddy, T.N. Venkata Reddy and P.G. Chengappa. 17. Co-operative credit and agricultural change: a case study/V.B. Jugale and D.T. Patil. 18. Performance of co-operative credit: a case study/Ashok Kumar and R.K. Pandey. IV. Agro-processing cooperatives: 19. Role of agro-processing cooperatives in rural economy: a case study/A. Raja. V. Dairy cooperatives: 20. Economic performance of dairy cooperatives: a case study of Verka Milk Plant/Gursharan Singh Kainth. 21. Dairy cooperatives in Maharashtra: problems and prospects/Deepak Shah. 22. Milk cooperatives in promotion of rural economy: a study in Warana Milkshed/V.M. Rao. 23. Dairy co-operatives: a boon to milk producers in Maharashtra/S.N. Tilekar and S.K. Nawale. VI. Sugar cooperatives: 24. Co-operative sugar factories and rural development: a case study of Maharashtra/P.A. Koli. 25. Cooperation, privatisation and competition/K. Padmanabhan. VII. Natural resource cooperatives: 26. Performance of lift irrigation cooperative: a case study/R.D. Khodaskar. VIII. Fishery cooperatives: 27. Fishery cooperatives in Himachal Pradesh/Pradeep K. Katiha, Y.S. Negi and S.C. Tewari. 28. Status of inland fishermen's co-operatives in Himachal Pradesh/S.K. Chauhan. IX. Women cooperatives: 29. Role of women's co-operatives in rural development/P.P. Koli. 30. Rural women dairy co-operatives in West Bengal: perspectives and prospects/Lotan Singh and J. Chattaraj. X. Cooperatives under liberalisation: 31. Impact of new economic policy on cooperatives/P.D. Chengappa and B.M. Shashidhara. 32. Co-operatives and rural development under economic liberalisation/Dilip Shah. 33. Development of rural cooperatives under liberalisation/R.K. Patel and Ferenc Fekete.
DESCRIPTION
The present volume, containing 33 papers contributed by eminent scholars, makes an indepth study of various aspects and growth of the cooperative sector in rural areas. It is hoped that this valuable compilation will be of immense use for all those who are interested and concerned with the performance and progress of rural cooperatives.
