Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah inaugurated the new office building for the three Multi-State Cooperative Societies – Bhartiya Beej Sahakari Samiti Limited (BBSSL), National Cooperative Organics Limited (NCOL) and National Cooperative Export Limited (NCEL) at World Trade Centre in New Delhi on Wednesday. He said, the inauguration of a separate office building for BBSSL, NCOL and NCEL is another significant initiative of the Ministry of Cooperation to achieve Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of “Sahakar se Samriddhi”. He said, these three office buildings will provide a strong base in strengthening the whole ecosystem of the Agriculture sector including farmers. Mr Shah added that spread over 31 thousand square feet areas, these office buildings are equipped with state-of-the-art technologies.

National Cooperative Export Limited has been formed with a mandate to promote exports from the cooperative sector while National Cooperative Organics Limited will promote organic exports from the cooperative sector and Bhartiya Beej Sahakari Samiti Limited deals with the advanced and traditional seed research and production and is responsible for their processing and marketing through the cooperative sector.

All three societies will ensure the upliftment of the people associated with agriculture and related activities and will procure the agricultural produce and seeds from the farmers via Primary Agricultural Credit Societies -PACS. This would further strengthen PACS and the farmers associated with them will get maximum value for their produce. The Societies will be working to ensure that profits on the net surplus go directly to the farmers’ accounts thereby preventing leakages in the process.