Cooperatives expect the support of Mr. Wazir
The Minister of Agricultural Jihad recently claimed in a conversation that the strategy of the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad is to delegate tasks to the private sector and cooperatives.
According to Green Agricultural News; In the year of production leap with people’s participation, supporting cooperatives can be a main axis for outsourcing activities and handing over government responsibilities in the agricultural sector and brought acceleration of development in the agricultural sector.
Beautiful words of the minister of agricultural jihad
Mohammad Ali Nikbakht admitted in an interview: The strategy of this ministry is to hand over tasks to companies and organizations, cooperatives and knowledge-based companies, so that the government is directed towards governance works.
The Minister of Agricultural Jihad added in the first-line program: “If the organizations of the agricultural sector really pay attention to what I said, they should come to the field and we will have support policies, which we will definitely do, and production will be easier, as well as marketing and elimination of middlemen.” will be done and the export of agricultural products will be done.
The distance between word and action
However, what has been happening in the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad since the beginning of the year has been contrary to the slogan of the year. The union and cooperative companies in the country believe that nothing new has happened to the union and cooperatives so far and they demand the submission of the performance report of the Minister of Jihad Agriculture regarding the practical support of the cooperatives in the agricultural sector.
The cooperatives of the agricultural sector thought that the appointment of the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad for the CEO of the Central Organization of Rural Cooperatives, because of the knowledge he has acquired during the management of that set of cooperatives, can change the approach of the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad towards the cooperatives and improve their contribution and role in the agricultural sector. forgive
But in practice, Nikbakht has a cautious approach towards making decisions in the agricultural sector and, as expected, failed to make fundamental changes in the agricultural sector, one of the examples of which is not paying attention to the role of cooperatives and their empowerment.
Nikbakht relied on the cooperatives to get a vote of confidence from the parliament, but now he has to present a work report because in the year of production leap with the participation of the people, the best example of increasing participation through cooperatives and cooperatives should be supported so that they can prove themselves. .
The rolelessness of cooperatives in the agricultural sector
One of the minister’s practical measures in order to weaken the cooperatives again from the beginning of this year was to reassign the implementation of the guaranteed purchase of wheat.
Notification 020/1981 determined 7/1/1403, despite the fact that in most provinces of the country, more than 60% of the guaranteed purchase of wheat is done by cooperatives.
Also, not allocating the quota of fertilizer and inputs to cooperatives and focusing the supply and distribution of inputs to the support services company have also been examples of not paying attention to the cooperatives in the year of the leap in production with the participation of the people. The company is distributing inputs by relying on cooperatives, so why shouldn’t the supply and distribution of inputs be entrusted directly to the union and cooperatives of the agricultural sector so that these cooperatives can play a more colorful role in serving their members.
This post is written by U920nima