Question

The first marketing co-operative in India was organized at :

• A. Chennai
• B. Kolkata
• C. Hubli
• D. Pune

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Hubli

Marketing Co-operatives:

• Marketing Societies emerged with a concept to avoid middle men and to offer better price to the Producers.
• It was formed by farmers, artisans and small producers.
• Simply saying, it is an association of cultivators organized on co-operative principles to perform marketing functions
• The birth place of marketing societies : USA
• No restriction for overlapping Marketing type co-operative societies
• First Co-operative marketing Society in India was in former Bombay presidency in 1915 - Hubli in Karnataka (to encourage cultivation of improved cotton and to sell it collectively.)