Efforts will be made soon to open Aavin outlets in rural areas: Minister
'Chief minister M K Stalin has instructed the expansion of Aavin product outlets in rural areas, and we may see this expansion in a few months,' the minister said after inaugurating a workshop at a private college in Eachanari on the Mission White Wave project for MBA students in Coimbatore.
The aim of the initiative is to help milk producers' co-operative societies become profitable.
He said second-year MBA students in Rathinam Business School and Kumaraguru School of Business would collaborate with milk producers' co-operative societies. The students would work with the societies for a period of three months, during which they would engage in social analysis, resource mapping and business planning to help the societies become profitable, he added.
The minister expressed confidence that this initiative would succeed and serve as a model for sustainable development in the dairy sector.
He said the department has a clear plan to strengthen and support milk producers' co-operative societies in the state. In the last four years, 1,351 new milk producers' co-operative societies were established.
"Additionally, 483 societies that were previously non-functional were revived and made operational. A total of 650 societies that were dismantled were also brought back into functioning status. Altogether, 2,484 societies are now fully functional, benefiting more than one lakh farmers across the state," he said.
'Despite these efforts, 1,365 societies still remain non-functional, and steps are being taken to restore them as well,' he said.
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