Under Marketing & Input, NCDC assists strengthening of the cooperative marketing structure with the objective of ensuring remunerative prices to the producers of agricultural commodities and narrowing down the price spread between the producer and the consumer. Marketing cooperatives provide fair quality agricultural inputs at the door steps of producers and enable them to have access to agricultural produce and inputs at competitive/ reasonable prices. These cooperatives exert a healthy influence on market prices and thus protect producers from distress sale.
Eligible Cooperative Societies:
Under the marketing & input schemes, financial assistance is provided to National/ State/District/Regional/Primary level Cooperative Marketing/ Commodity Federations/Societies.
Activities Assisted:
Assistance is provided for the following activities under various schemes of Marketing & Inputs:
(i) Margin money and working capital.
(ii) Strengthening the share capital base of cooperative.
(iii) Purchase of transport vehicles.
(iv) Establishment of Farmers Service Centers for inputs distribution.
(v) Establishment of Agro-Service Centers.
(vi) Establishment of Manufacturing units of insecticides/pesticides, agricultural implements/machineries.
(vii) Development/strengthening of agricultural marketing infrastructure, grading and standardization.
(viii) Establishment of Bio-fertilizer unit.
Mode of Funding:
Financial assistance is provided through the State Government or directly to the eligible cooperatives on certain prescribed terms and conditions. NCDC provides financial assistance in the form of loan (both Term Loan and Investment Loan) and subsidy (wherever applicable) to the cooperative societies. The assistance is provided under the NCDC Sponsored Scheme & other Central Sector Schemes (CSS). Subsidy is provided subject to availability from Government of India (GOI) otherwise equivalent amount may be provided as loan.
Quantum of Assistance and Pattern of Assistance:
Quantum of assistance may be up to 90%-95% through State Government & 65-75% of project cost directly to the society. In case of business promotion viz. margin money/ working capital / strengthening of share capital quantum of assistance can be upto 100% of the requirement. Assistance from NCDC may suitably be dovetailed with schemes of State Governments and other Ministries of GOI.
For detailed pattern of assistance please click at the link provided.
Norms for direct funding:
Cooperatives operating for minimum three years & broadly fulfilling following criteria are eligible:
(i) Net worth should be positive.
(ii) There should be no erosion in share capital.
(iii) Cash profit in last three years and net profit in two years
(iv) Should be in a position to provide 1.25 to 1.5 times security.
Assistance provided by NCDC:
(Rs. in crore)
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During F.Y. 2022-23 |
28,031.69 |
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Up to year 2022-23 |
1,50,690.78 |
For detailed norms of Direct Funding please click at the link provided.
Common Loan Application Form for availing assistance under the scheme of NCDC can be downloaded from NCDC’s website.
For further details, please contact or write to:
Marketing and Inputs Division
National Cooperative Development Corporation
4, Siri Institutional Area, Hauz Khas
New Delhi – 110 016
Tel No.: +91-011-20862512, 20862866, 20862490, 20862801
Fax: +91-011-26962370, 20862619, 26602568
Website: www.ncdc.in Email: mail
ncdc.in
Regional Directorates of NCDC: Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Gandhinagar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Shimla, Thiruvananthapuram