• Dr. Vidushi Tyagi

The National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) was established in the year 1958 as an apex organization of State Marketing Federation at the national level with the primary objectives of assisting its constituents in the marketing of their produce and to arrange supplies of goods required. It made a significant progress in diversifying and expanding its activities in the field of foreign trade, marketing of fresh fruit and vegetables, distribution of agricultural machinery, supply of agricultural inputs and packing requisites. The membership of NAFED is open to state and national level cooperative organizations. The position of membership of NAFED can be seen in Table 1.1. It is clear that primary marketing and processing societies from the base upon which the whole edifice of NAFED is built. Numerically they account for more than 90 percent i.e. 800 out of total of 854 of the total membership of NAFED. Share of state level marketing federations (25), apex level marketing federations (3) state level tribal and commodity federations (24).

THE ROLE OF NAFED

"THE ROLE OF NAFED ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.489-491, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807973.pdf

"THE ROLE OF NAFED ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp489-491, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807973.pdf