India’s Cooperative Fisheries Sector Is Worth ₹28,000 Crore and Nobody Is Talking About It
On a grey monsoon morning in Alappuzha, Kerala, a woman named Leela pulls the day’s catch tally from a worn register. Her Thanneermukkom Fisherwomen Cooperative Society — 340 members strong — collectively earned ₹1.7 crore last financial year. That figure would be unremarkable for a dairy cooperative in Gujarat. But for a fisheries cooperative in … Read more