IFFCO officers’ & employees’ unions’ heads rushed to IFFCO Marketing Director Yogendra Kumar’s chamber to greet him on becoming the first Chairman of the newly constituted- National Level Multi State Seed Cooperative Society, in an election held on Thursday.
AIIOF Chairman Jitendra Tiwari and AIIEF Chairman Brajesh Kumar congratulated Kumar in his office at the IFFCO headquarters.
In his congratulatory message, Tiwari said, “Very proud moment. Hearty congratulations. Under your leadership, this new co-operative society will reach the pinnacle of success very soon. This organization will definitely complete the task of ending the shortage of high quality seeds among the farmers”.
It bears recalling that he was elected during the 1st Annual General Body meeting of the Seed Cooperative Society, held at IFFCO’s headquarters located in Saket. Kribhco Chairman Chandra Pal Singh Yadav and NCDC MD Pankaj Bansal were the proposer and seconder of Yogendra Kumar. Mrs Suman Kumari, Asstt Registrar was appointed as the Returning Officer of this election.
The seed cooperative society under the Multi State Cooperative Societies (MSCS) Act, 2002 which will act as an apex organization for production, procurement, processing, branding, labelling, packaging, storage, marketing and distribution of quality seeds; strategic research & development; and for developing a system for preservation and promotion of indigenous natural seeds.