Overview
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah publicly congratulated the cooperatives, casting the result as a boost for India’s cooperative agenda.
- The rankings were announced at the ICA CM50 conference in Doha and draw on the annual World Cooperative Monitor compiled with Euricse.
- GCMMF said the recognition highlights its farmer-owned model’s impact on inclusive growth and multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals.
- Amul operates a three-tier structure with more than 18,600 village dairy cooperatives and about 3.6 million milk producers, most of them women.
- IFFCO, founded in 1967, works through roughly 35,000 member cooperatives and reaches tens of millions of farmers across India.