The Department of Co-operative Business is currently assisting the consumer cooperative to diversify into the agriculture sector.
Minister for Trade, Faiyaz Koya says 47 agro-based co-operatives have been registered in the past five years alone.
Nine have been registered so far this year.
“Some of the examples of the agro based co-operatives include the Koronivia vegetable farmers cooperative which provide seedling to farmers, the cane course vegetable farmers co-operatives, facilitates the marketing of members produce, sunrise youth co-operative a youth co-operative in Lautoka, providing employment through agro farming.”
Koya was replying to a question from Government MP Dr. Brij Lal in Parliament today about what initiatives the department had taken to promote and assist agro based co-operatives.
