The
society provides a wide range of financial
services. These can be broadly categorized
as lending services and
savings services.
Under lending services, the society offers
loans, part in kind, part cash. Members
can avail the loans for the following needs
Short term loans for Crops
18 types of medium term loans meant for
Purchase of current motors, purchase of
cranes, deepening of wells, installation
of drip sprinklers, laying pipelines, establishing
or maintaining or augmenting poultries,
Milch animals, sheep rearing, Poultry, drip
irrigation,rig loans, silk yarn, purchase
of power tillers, purchase of maze Sheller,
installation of Anato plants, construction
of toilets, purchase of paddy cleaner soil
laying, and purchase of solar lantern etc.
Long term loans for Development of orchids,
purchase of tractors etc.
The Cooperative stores keep a stock of
most of the items required by its members,
the member can easily purchase the goods.
Under savings services, the society extends
the services as under
Savings Deposits – Interest of 5%
Fixed Deposits – interest of 7%
Thrift Deposits – Interest of 9%
Current Deposits
The society is strict about recovering
loans. At any given point of time, it is
unlikely that the society has a default
payment that has been standing for more
than 3 years and the Co-operative has never
written off a debt as bad. It has simply
collected and members have paid, because
they trust the society to be there to provide
services on time and adequately. They know
too, that any bad debt eats into the savings,
capital and reserves, all of which belong
to the members.
Allied with the savings services, the lending
services have resulted in creating precious
equity for many of the old members. In fact
many of them have savings that worth more
than the crop loans that they take each
season from the bank.
Naturally, these savings act as a cushion
for credit and also serve as working capital
for non-credit activities of the society.
The society pays an attractive interest
to members on these savings, since these
funds are less costly than funds available
from banks.
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