The National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) was established in 1963 by an Act of Parliament as a statutory corporation under the Ministry of Agriculture. NCDC provides planning, promotion, financing and technical support to cooperatives in areas like production, processing, marketing, storage and imports/exports of agricultural commodities. It lends funds to state governments and national level cooperatives for primary and secondary cooperative societies. NCDC is managed by a General Council and Board of Management and has various regional offices across India. It assists cooperatives in sectors like marketing, processing, storage, distribution and industries.

1. (NCDC)
NATIONAL COOPERATIVE
DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

2. GENESIS
“The National Cooperative Development
Corporation (NCDC) was established by an
Act of Parliament in 1963 as a statutory
Corporation under the Ministry of
Agriculture”

3. FUNCTIONS
 Planning, promoting and financing
programmes for production, processing,
marketing, storage, export and import of
agricultural produce, food stuffs, certain
other notified commodities.
 NCDC Act has been further amended which
will broad base the area of operation of the
Corporation to assist different types of
cooperatives and to expand its financial base.

4.  Loans and grants are advanced to State
Governments for financing primary and
secondary level cooperative societies and
direct to the national level and other societies
having objects extending beyond one State.
 Corporation can also go in for direct funding
of projects under its various schemes of
assistance on fulfillment of stipulated
conditions.

5. ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT
 The Management vests in 51 member widely
represented General Council to give shape to
its policies and programmes
 Board of Management with 12 members to
cater to day-to-day activities. Besides its
Head Office, NCDC functions through 16
Regional/State Directorates.
 The Managing Director is the Chief Executive.

6.  The field offices play an important role in project
identification/formulation and oversee its
implementation.
 NCDC is endowed with in-house technical and
managerial capabilities in the areas of Cooperation,
Organisation & Methods, Financial Management,
Management Information Systems, Sugar, Oilseeds,
Textiles, Fruits & Vegetables, Dairy, Poultry and Live
stock, Fishery, Handlooms, Civil Engineering,
Refrigeration and Preservation to help cooperatives
to identify/formulate projects and successfully
implement them.

7. ACTIVITIES FUNDED BY NCDC
 Marketing
 Processing
 Cooperative Storage
 Distribution of essential articles through
cooperatives
 Industrial Cooperatives
 Service Cooperatives
 District Plan Schemes (ICDP)
 Cooperatives for Weaker Sections

8.  Assistance for Computerisation
 District Plan Schemes (ICDP)
 Cooperatives for Weaker Sections
 Promotional and Developmental
Programmes
 Consultancy Services

9. OTHER ACTIVITIES
Evaluation & Statistics
 To critically evaluate project implementation,
identify problem areas, assess effectiveness
of participating institutions and measure
project impact on the participating
cooperatives and their members, compare
costs and benefits realised with the appraisal
estimates and projections.
 To collect & collate statistical data relating to
NCDC activities / policies.

10. TOPIC TRAINING CENTRE
“To develop professional competence of the
personnel of NCDC and the assisted
cooperatives to enable them to achieve
organizational objectives through suitable
training and developmental interventions,
research, consultancy and / or related
activities”

11. In-charge Officers at Head
Office
 Managing Director
 Deputy Managing Director
 Executive Directors
 Financial Advisor
 Chief Directors
 Directors

12. Few assisted Successful
Cooperatives
Agricultural Inputs
eg: The Regional Agro-Industrial Development
Cooperative Ltd., Kannur, Kerala.
Fisheries
eg: Kerala State Coop. Federation for Fisheries
Development Ltd., Karuvankonam,
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

13. Handlooms
eg: Tamil Nadu Handloom Weavers' Coop.
Society Ltd., Egmore, Chennai-8.
Spinning Mills
eg: Shetkari Sahakari Soot Girni Ltd., Distt.
Sholapur, Maharashtra.

14. Sugar Mills
eg: The Shahabad Cooperative Sugar Mills
Ltd., Kurukshetra, Haryana.
Cold Storage, Fruits & Vegetable
eg: HOPCOMS, Lalbagh, Bangalore