Minister for pragmatic measures to improve cooperative sector in KP

PESHAWAR
Provincial Minister for Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperative Fazal Hakeem Khan Yousafzai has said that Provincial Govt will take steps to make the Cooperative department more active so that the farmers can get benefits and support in the true sense. He directed to provide details of cooperative department assets and point out where assets are leased. He gave these instructions while presiding over the meeting of the Cooperative Department.
The meeting was attended by Secretary Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperative Muhammad Fakhar Alam, Registrar Cooperative Muhammad Ishaq, Director General Livestock Extension Dr. Asal Khan and others relevant officials.
While giving a briefing in the meeting, it was told that at present there are five thousand and two hundred registered societies in the province which are providing services in various sectors such as housing, handicrafts, marketing, honey bee keeping and others. The Minister was also informed about the problems faced in this regard.
Provincial Minister Fazal Hakeem Khan Yousafzai issued instructions that a joint task force should be formed to formulate a comprehensive policy for the rehabilitation and development of the Livestock, Fisheries and especially cooperatives department so that the department can play an important role in the development of the people and especially farmers.
He further said that in the past, cooperative banks used to provide loans to farmers on easy terms and conditions to buy fertilizer, Seeds etc. He also directed to take solid steps to revive Cooperative Bank.