The Ministry of Cooperation has set up National Cooperative Exports Limited (NCEL) under the Multi-State Cooperative Societies (MSCS) Act, 2002 as an umbrella organization to give thrust to exports from cooperative sector. This society will focus on exporting the surpluses available in the Indian cooperative sector by accessing wider markets beyond the geographical contours of the country, thereby, increasing the demand of Indian Cooperative products/services across the globe and fetch best possible prices for such products/services. It will promote exports through various activities including procurement, storage, processing, marketing, branding, labelling, packaging, certification, research and development, etc, and trading of all types of goods and services produced by cooperative societies. The society will also help in arranging finance, provide technical guidance, help in training and capacity building, develop and maintain market intelligence system, implement related government schemes and undertake any other such activities which will increase exports from the cooperative sector and other related entities.

Any multi-State co-operative society or any co-operative society registered or deemed to be registered under any law relating to co-operative societies in force in any State or Union Territory is eligible for membership of this Society.

As per information provided by NCEL, so far 11,034 cooperatives have been granted membership as under:-

SI.No	Type of cooperative	Number
i.	PACS & other primary Coops (Class-5)	10793
ii.	Tehsil/ District Level Coops (Class-4)	216
iii.	Multi-State Co-op. Societies (Class-3)	10
iv.	State Level Co-op. Societies (Class-2)	10
v.	Promoter Co-operatives/ Organizations (Class-1)	5

 Total Volume and value of agri commodities exported by NCEL so far is as under: - Total Volume: 13,49,831.05 MT

Total Value: ₹ 54,03,01,47,854.00 (₹ 5403.01 crores)

Commodities-wise break up is enclosed at Annexure-A

The Ministry of Cooperation is working to strengthen the cooperative export ecosystem through Indian Missions abroad by requesting them to provide information to NCEL regarding the availability of market and introduce NCEL to the importers in their specific country.

Ministry of Cooperation (MoC) and Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprise Development (MoSMED) of the Republic of Zambia for promotion of cooperatives have signed MoU which is aimed at inter-alia, providing required facilities and means for trade alliances between cooperatives of both nations.

Further, NCEL has also entered into:-

1. 1. MoU with Ministry of Industry and Trade, Government of Senegal.
   2. MoU with Sinton Vantage Trading Pvt. Ltd. & PT Sinton Surini Nusantara of the Republic of Indonesia.

Annexure-A

For the year 2023-24: Export Summary

SI.No	Agri Commodities	Quantity (Metric Tonne)	Value (Rupees)
1.	Non basmati white rice (export duty)	230310.01 MT	9,931,363,187
2.	Whole broken rice (exempt)	32194.00 MT	1,070,769,516
3.	Fresh red onion	2530.00 MT	94,094,000
4.	Wheat grain	1025.29 MT	35,116,011
Total		266059.30 MT	11,131,342,714

 

For the year 2024-25: Export Summary

SI.No	Agri Commodities	Quantity (Metric Tonne)	Value (Rupees)
1.	Baby food milk	150.01 MT	94,134,758
2.	Barley	30.00 MT	9,391,108
3.	Black lentils	75.01 MT	15,431,143
4.	Black pepper	15.00 MT	20,116,381
5.	Brown sugar	180.00 MT	25,344,221
6.	Chick peas	120.00 MT	46,626,692
7.	Corn flakes	60.00 MT	35,573,522
8.	Cumin seeds	15.00 MT	15,376,000
9.	Cumin seeds (exempt)	24.53 MT	9,072,604
10.	Fresh red onion	5039.87 MT	245,463,248
11.	Garlic powder	15.00 MT	14,949,278
12.	Healthy biscuits	29.99 MT	9,421,760
13.	Instant coffee	30.01 MT	28,713,860
14.	Instant noodles	30.01 MT	11,949,759
15.	Instant soup	15.00 MT	8,530,609
16.	Kidney beans	150.00 MT	34,337,140
17.	Loose tea	16.00 MT	7,452,418
18.	Millet flour	150.00 MT	39,655,386
19.	Mix fruit jam	37.51 MT	16,130,215
20.	Non basmati white rice (export duty)	280003.31 MT	12,527,069,648
21.	Oats	150.00 MT	39,374,725
22.	Potato starch	120.00 MT	47,907,618
23.	Raisins	60.00 MT	34,740,771
24.	Red lentils	75.00 MT	17,543,130
25.	Regular salt	180.00 MT	13,806,369
26.	Sorghum	1030.00 MT	53,219,557
27.	Sugar	15246.50 MT	686,168,800
28.	Sunflower oil	480.00 MT	86,163,010
29.	Tea bag	5.00 MT	6,861,244

 

30.	Turmeric powder	15.00 MT	7,351,652
31.	Wheat grain	0.001MT	178,047
32.	Whole broken rice (exempt)	775596.00 MT	28,450,081,863
33.	Yellow/black/red lentils	55.00 MT	11,506,543
34.	Yellow lentils	125.00 MT	25,798,919
35.	Yellow maize	3500.00 MT	111,581,750
36.	Yellow peas	150.00 MT	28,620,576
Total		1082973.75 MT	42,835,644,321

For the year 2025 to till date:

SI.No	Agri Commodities	Quantity (Metric Tonne)	Value (Rupees)
1.	Whole Cumin Seed	84.00 MT	17,624,007.00
2.	Indian Parboiled Rice	520.00 MT	18,278,260.00
3.	Turmeric Finger	168.00 MT	25,948,440.00
4.	Indian Long Grain Rice	26.005	1,310,111.10
Total		798.005MT	63,160,818.10

This was stated by the Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha.

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