Bengal farmers' cooperatives to go digital
The West Bengal government is planning to build a digital database of farmers' cooperative societies to ensure transparency, a minister said here on Thursday.
 
State Food Supplies Minister Jyotipriyo Mullick said work will start in October on the computerised system encompassing details on farmers and the cooperatives.
 
"It will contain all information about the farmer, land owned by farmers, details regarding output and sale, on paddy bought by cooperatives from farmers," Mullick told the media here.
 
On the yield of paddy, he said around 45 lakh tonne production is expected by September.
 
"This is much higher than last year," he added.
 
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B. Yerram Raju
10 years ago
It is high time that all the farmers' cooperatives are digitised on a mission mode. Leaving to themselves these cooperatives will not be able to accomplish the task. The Government that capitalises the PSBs year after year for refurbishing the performance why it should feel shy of transforming the farmers' cooperatives into economic entities that would alone stabilise the financial inclusion effort? These cooperatives being the seedbeds of political careers of quite a large number of politicians today and who milked them could be averse to correct the mis-governance and mis-management the two evils of the cooperative system in the country. The subject being a state subject as per the Indian Constitution, it is the states that should take to this transformation. West Bengal deserves compliments for ushering in such change.
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