Enthused in the wake of bagging prestigious Times Impact Award, IFFDC- the CSR arm of IFFCO held its 22nd AGM on Saturday at the behemoth headquarters in Saket in Delhi. Welcoming the guests IFFDC Chairman Guru Prasad Tripathi said that this AGM is more important as IFFCO MD Dr U S Awasthi is participating for the first time.
All the Directors of the IFFDC Board along with some of the prominent persons of mother organizations IFFCO and other participants coming from different states across the country participated in the function with enthusiasm.
Chairman Tripathi explained the various schemes launched recently by the IFFDC and said that with the ready guidance from IFFCO MD we have been marching ahead year by year in our goal of transforming rural India.
Dr Awasthi also underlined the fact that with the proper utilization of limited resources IFFDC is doing a wonderful job in rural areas in general and for the rural women in particular.
Dr. U S Awasthi tweeted “ #IFFDC is doing a great job in bringing change in #Rural India. We need to keep Rural art & craft alive”. His next tweet read “ We at #IFFCO promote rural women to take the decisive seat in role of development. With Women directors of #IFFDC.
With great satisfaction I note that IFFDC is active preserving tress, earth and water so crucial for sustainable development and protecting environment. He also expressed his joy over meeting cooperators in the AGM as reflected in his tweet” I am delighted to share the dais at #IFFDC #AGM with eminent cooperators.”
IFFDC’s cooperative forests hold significance because revival and regeneration of 26,000 hectares of salt-affected ravines and waterlogged wastelands of which 12864 hectares have been developed through cooperative efforts.
These changes were made by the small and marginal communities of Uttar Pradesh, who are as much the drivers of the ecological change as much its beneficiaries. The number of persons who have benefitted from the activities of IFFDC in past 3 years is said to be more than 39 thousand persons.
IFFCO had promoted a separate Multi-State Cooperative Society named ‘Indian Farm Forestry Development Cooperative Limited’ (IFFDC) in 1993 with the prime objective of development of wasteland for tree plantation and to enhance the socio-economic status of rural poor through sustainable Natural Resource Management by collective action.
