ABSTRACT A multi-purpose cooperative is a business that is a mixture of two or more
different types of cooperatives. The study examined the performance of multi-purpose …

Purpose Primary agricultural cooperative credit societies (PACSs) in India are considered to
be the backbone of the last mile delivery of rural credit for landless and marginal farmers …

Credit cooperatives in India make up one of the largest rural financial systems in the world.
Playing a vital role in dispensing credit in largely agricultural areas, they are also the …

Cooperatives as an institution in India are more than a century old. With more than a lakh
grass root level cooperatives, their presence is formidable. Notwithstanding, impressive …

The Indian cooperative movement is a century old story which has made phenomenal
contribution towards the development of rural sector in India. The key focus of the PACS is to …

The present empirical study looks at the role of primary agricultural credit societies (PACS)
towards empowerment of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The investigation …

Abstract The short term Cooperative Credit Structure (STCCS) has a federal three-tier layer
with the Primary Agricultural Credit Society (PACS) being the bottom level institution. To …

Agricultural credit is one of the most crucial inputs in all agricultural development
programmes. For a long time, the major source of agricultural credit was private …

The importance of primary agricultural credit societies (PACS) in the cooperative structure of
the country is known to all. The present study makes an analysis of total factor productivity …

The cooperative movement in India has started long time back. With regard to the support to
the agricultural sector in the country, though NABARD has been playing a pioneering role, a …