Rhetoric of collective action in North East India: Lessons from Gin-Fed, Karbi Angling, Assam
- Economic & Political Weekly
- 61(25), Jun 22, 2024: p.57-64
In North East Indian, governments see cooperative as a new mode of embalmment with indigoes growers to overcome the challenges of integrating the region into market-led development. The Ginger growers commiserative federation was set unpin Karbi Anglon, Assam in the late 2000s to bring together ginger growers from different communities to facilitate better connections with the organic ginger market. After decades, the cooperative has been sourcing the bulk of it’s procure only via traders the agent it was supposed to replace. Thus, GIN-Fed represents only antiheroic of collective action, reminiscent of earlier development interventions that undermine traditional community Institutions, without which cooperation among indigenous growers is not fusible. – Reproduced
Cooperative model, Indigenous growers, Market-led development, North East India, Ginger cultivation, Organic market, Karbi Anglong, Assam context, Community federation, Trader dependence, Collective action, Development intervention, Traditional institutions, Institutional erosion, Agricultural policy, Regional integration, GIN-Fed, Economic marginalization, Cooperative failure, Policy critique