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With a presumption to research the imaginable of carrying retired “cooperating farming” successful the State, Bihar’s Cooperative Minister Pramod Kumar connected Monday (February 23, 2026) asserted that teams of 50 persons each associated with cooperative societies volition beryllium sent to Gujarat to survey cooperative farming.
Asserting that the State has imaginable for cooperative farming successful presumption of tiny onshore holdings, Mr. Kumar portion addressing the property said that “a squad of 50 persons each associated with cooperative societies of the section volition sojourn Gujarat and spot however radical are carrying retired cooperative farming and however it is creating employment opportunities determination (in Gujarat). The teams aft studying Gujarat’s cooperative farming volition replicate the aforesaid successful Bihar.”
Stating that Bihar has the imaginable of carrying retired cooperative farming, the Minister said that “now the State’s farmers bash not person large onshore holdings. Earlier, farmers utilized to person 100 acres, 150 acres oregon 200 acres of onshore but present that is not the case. Now, it [land parcels] has been further divided into tiny pieces of land. We are exploring the imaginable of cooperative farming successful the State.”
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The Minister was accompanied by Cooperative Department’s Secretary Dharmendra Singh, Registrar, Cooperative Societies Rajnish Kumar Singh, Additional Registrar, Cooperative Societies Ram Naresh Pandey and others connected the occasion.
Cooperative has the imaginable of giving employment opportunities, Mr. Kumar said, adding that the section is looking into the possibilities of creating employment done cooperatives arsenic it has the imaginable to make employment opportunities.
Citing the illustration of the celebrated Tilkut concern of Gaya, helium said that plentifulness of firms are engaged successful the mentation of Tilkut successful the area. Interestingly, til [sesame seeds] is not produced successful the State arsenic it is imported from different States specified arsenic Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal.
“After talking to farmers, we volition research whether oregon not til tin beryllium produced successful the Magadh portion done cooperative farming,”Mr. Kumar said.
Stating that helium has reviewed paddy procurement successful 22-23 districts of the State, Mr. Kumar said the section has, truthful far, procured 29.22 lakh metric tonnes of paddy which is 79.30% of the people of 36.85 lakh MT that is to beryllium procured successful the existent Kharif Marketing Season (KMS) 2025-26.
Paddy has been procured from a full of 4.28 lakh farmers done 6,879 cooperative societies, helium said adding that ₹6,400 crore has been transferred into the slope accounts of farmers arsenic Minimum Support Price (MSP).
Meanwhile, the State’s cooperative section connected Monday (February 23, 2026) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories Ltd (NFCSF), New Delhi for reviving 2 closed sweetener mills astatine Sakri successful Madhubani territory and Raiyam successful Darbhanga territory of the State.
The MoU was signed astatine a relation held astatine Deep Narayan Singh Regional Institute of Cooperative Management, Patna. It was held successful the beingness of Cooperative Minister Department’s Secretary and NFCSF Managing Director Prakash Naiknavare and others.
Both Sakri and Raiyam sweetener mills person been closed since 1997. Raiyam mill was established successful 1914 portion Sakri mill was acceptable up successful 1933.
Sakri sweetener mill has 47 acres of onshore whereas Raiyam has implicit 68 acres of land. Besides, Raiyam has its ain dedicated 14 km agelong trolley enactment which goes upto a spot named Makdumpur.
