Women perform roughly 80 percent of agricultural labor across rural India, yet fewer than 13 percent of them legally own the land they cultivate. That gap between effort and ownership has quietly fueled one of the most consequential shifts in Indian rural economics — the steady, determined rise of women-run agricultural cooperatives that are rewriting … Read more
The last time you ordered groceries through a government-backed e-commerce network or checked fertiliser prices on a farming app, there’s a reasonable chance a cooperative was sitting quietly on the other side of that transaction. I’ve been tracking India‘s cooperative sector for years now, and the thing that strikes me most in 2026 isn’t a … Read more
Cooperative societies across India have access to one of the most reliable institutional lenders that most people outside the cooperative movement rarely hear about. I’ve spent years studying cooperative financing, and the National Cooperative Development Corporation remains one of the best-kept funding secrets for societies looking to scale their operations, build infrastructure, or launch new … Read more
