Share of Cooperatives in National Economy

Ministry of Cooperation Share of Cooperatives in National Economy

Posted On: 05 AUG 2025 3:08PM by PIB Delhi At present, no separate database is maintained for assessing the contribution of cooperative sector in national and state level Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Therefore, information on contribution of cooperatives sector in percentage of GDP is not available. However, as per the Statistical Profile-2018 on Indian Cooperative Movement published by National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI) in 2018, the estimated percentage share

of Cooperatives in various Sectors in National Economy is as follows:

PERCENTAGE SHARE OF COOPERATIVES IN NATIONAL ECONOMY Cooperative Sector Percentage (%) Total Agricultural Credit Disbursed by Cooperatives (2016-2017) 13.40 Short Term Agricultural Credit Disbursed by Cooperatives to Small

19.13 and Marginal Farmers Kisan Credit Cards Issued by Cooperatives Banks + Regional Rural Bank

67.30 (as at end- March 2017) Kisan Credit Cards Issued by Cooperatives (as at end - March, 2017) 50.20 Fertiliser Distributed (2016-2017) Estimated 35.00 Fertiliser Production Capacity (5.35 Million Tonnes for the year 2016-

24.92

2017) Fertiliser Production (51.62 Million Tonnes for the year 2016-17) 28.80 Capacity of Fertiliser Products (10.77 Million Tonnes for the year

20.32 2016-2017) Installed Capacity of Fertiliser Manufacturing Units

25.60 (3.638 Million Tonnes, N Nutrient, As on 31.03.2017) Installed Capacity of Fertiliser Manufacturing Units

23.53 (1.713 Million Tonnes, P Nutrient, As on 31.03.2017) Installed Number of Sugar Factories (284 as on 31.3.2017) 38.63 Sugar Produced (5.654 Million Tonnes as on 31.3.2017) 30.60 Capacity Utilisation of Sugar Mills (As on 31.3.2017) 46.14 Liquid Milk Marketed out of total Milk Procured by Cooperatives 84.17 Milk procurement to total production (2016-17) 9.50 Milk procurement to marketable surplus (2016-17) 17.50 PACS having Storage facility (at village level) (2016-17) 55.50 Total Storage Capacity of Cooperative Sector (2016-17) 22.77 Million

14.79 MT Fishermen in Cooperatives (active) 20.05 Wheat Procurement (4.4 Million Tonnes during 2017-18) 13.30Paddy Procurement (7.5 Million Tonnes during 2016-17) 20.40 Retail Fair Price Shops (Rural + Urban) 20.30 Spindleadge in Cooperatives (3.56 Million - As on 31.3.2018) 29.34 Direct Employment Generated by Cooperatives 13.30 Self-employment Generated for persons 10.91 PFMS is a web-based financial management application developed and implemented by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA), Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, Government of India. PFMS is a Centralized Transaction System & Platform, providing end to end financial management services to all stakeholders. PFMS was started with the objective of tracking funds released under all Plan schemes of Government of India, and real time reporting of expenditure at all levels of Programme implementation.

SNA/CNA/TSA/SNA-SPARSH are the various fund flow and real time monitoring of releases mechanisms of PFMS.

As per DoE OM No. 48(06)/PF-II/2016 dt. 12.09.2017 registration of all the Central Sector Schemes and all of their implementing agencies at all levels of PFMS is mandatory and use of EAT module by all these implementing agencies. The PFMS/EAT module ensures complete tracking of funds up to last mile and also ensure Just in Time release of funds.

This was stated by the Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha. ***** RK/VV/RR/PR/PS/HS (Release ID: 2152466)