An Insight into the Performance of Fishermen Co-operative Societies in Tripura

Banking and Finance

Fisheries in Tripura playing an active role for achieving livelihood in rural households as well as to generated income and employment opportunities in one hand and uplifting the socio-economic conditions of the poor fish farmers' on the other. In this development co-operative societies play an important role. In the year 1951, fishery activity based Co-operative Society was first launched in the state at Melagharh, Sonamura sub-division of the then west Tripura district. The prime objective of these societies is to invigorate the weaker section by extending and enlarging financial and technological support. At the end of March 2012, the total production of culture and capture of fish in Tripura has crossed 53350.24 M.T. over a culture and capture water areas are 23484.71 ha. and 7878.76 ha. respectively. Out of total fish production 316.24 M.T. has been produced by the 145 numbers of existing co-operative societies. The present study attempts to investigate the role of fishermen co-operative societies in enhancing the socio-economic condition of the rural underprivileged section and also evaluates the performance of those co-operative societies.

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