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The Unati Agri Allied and Marketing Multi-State Cooperative Society Ltd. (UAMMCL) is a cooperative institution rooted in grassroots participation and shaped by a long-term vision of inclusive, member-led development. UAMMCL represents the evolution of a cooperative journey that began at the community level and grew into a multi-state institution designed to strengthen livelihoods, cooperative enterprises, and shared economic systems through cooperation.
Our Cooperative Journey
The origins of UAMMCL trace back to 2003, when the Unati movement emerged as a village-rooted initiative focused on dignity, self-reliance, and collective progress through cooperation. Over two decades of on-ground experience in working with farmers, women, producer groups, and community institutions shaped the foundation for a broader institutional role. In 2023, this journey culminated in the establishment of UAMMCL as a Multi-State Cooperative Society, enabling the cooperative to operate across regions while retaining its grassroots character. This transition reflects a shift from localized efforts to a structured institutional framework capable of supporting cooperation at scale.
Why UAMMCL Exists
UAMMCL was established to respond to structural challenges faced by rural and community-based economic systems, including fragmented markets, limited value addition, weak institutional capacity, and unequal access to opportunity.
Rather than relying on short-term interventions, UAMMCL focuses on institution-building—strengthening cooperative ownership, enabling sustainable livelihood systems, creating linkages across production and markets, and integrating economic activity with community wellbeing.
This approach ensures that development outcomes are collective, inclusive, and resilient.
OUR VERTICALS
The Living Structure of UAMMCL’s Work
UAMMCL is not built as a collection of projects. It is built as an institution — a cooperative system that grows slowly, deeply, and together.
Our work is organized across four integrated verticals. Each vertical represents a core truth of rural India:
- livelihoods must be dignified
- food must be trustworthy
- farmers must receive fair value
- cooperation must remain the foundation
These verticals are not separate departments.
They are connected pathways — like roots, trunk, branches, and fruit — forming one cooperative ecosystem.
Mass Livelihood Generation For Women
When Women Rise, Communities Become Strong
The first foundation of UAMMCL is women.
Rural women already carry the economy silently — through farms, households, and care. Our work is to ensure that this strength becomes recognized, organized, and economically empowered. Through cooperative pathways such as Unati Behan, women become entrepreneurs, wellness guides, and community leaders — not as beneficiaries, but as owners of the system. When a woman earns with dignity, the village breathes with confidence.
Health And Wellbeing Of Consumer
Food, Trust, and the Wellness of Society
Health is not a luxury. It is the first right of every household.
UAMMCL works to rebuild the natural connection between nutrition, wellbeing, and community trust. We strengthen cooperative systems where food is pure, supply chains are honest, and wellness is rooted in India’s living traditions. This vertical carries a simple belief: When society eats well, society lives well.
Authenticated & Assured Markets Platform for Farmers
Closing the Distance Between the Farmer and the Consumer
The farmer should not remain distant from the consumer. For too long, value has been lost in the gap between the one who grows and the one who consumes. UAMMCL exists to build cooperative value chains that bring fairness, transparency, and dignity back into the market journey:
Farm → Factory → Fork → Consumer
When farmers receive fair value and consumers receive trusted products, the economy becomes balanced again — not extractive, but circular.
Cooperation Among Cooperatives
A National Grid of Shared Strength
India’s future cannot be built by isolated efforts.
The cooperative movement grows when cooperatives grow together. UAMMCL is designed as an enabling institution — connecting PACS, FPOs, SHGs, women collectives, and cooperative bodies into one shared ecosystem of learning, governance, and mutual progress. This is cooperation among cooperatives: a national structure of trust, not competition.
How We Work
UAMMCL advances its mission through structured cooperative platforms, defined initiatives, and partnerships that align grassroots participation with institutional responsibility. By combining community engagement with disciplined governance frameworks, the society enables cooperatives and collectives to participate effectively in value chains, markets, and capacity-building processes—without compromising cooperative principles.
Values That Shape Us
The work and conduct of UAMMCL are guided by the core values of cooperation, including voluntary and open membership, democratic member control, equity and mutual assistance, transparency and accountability, and deep concern for community and sustainability. These values are not symbolic; they actively shape institutional decisions, partnerships, and long-term priorities.
Our Institutional Identity
UAMMCL functions as a member-owned cooperative institution where ownership, decision-making, and accountability remain with the cooperative membership.
The society brings together individuals, cooperatives, women collectives, producer groups, and allied organization’s within a shared institutional structure. This design allows UAMMCL to work across state boundaries while ensuring transparency, democratic governance, and regulatory compliance.
At its core, UAMMCL exists to serve its members and strengthen the cooperative ecosystem they belong to.
An Institution for a Cooperative Future
As India moves toward Viksit Bharat 2047, UAMMCL positions itself as a cooperative institution that enables communities, cooperatives, and member-led enterprises to grow with resilience and shared purpose. By strengthening institutions rather than isolated projects, and by fostering cooperation among cooperatives, UAMMCL contributes to building a more inclusive, accountable, and sustainable cooperative ecosystem for the future.
Our Multi-State Presence
The Unati Agri Allied and Marketing Multi-State Cooperative Society Ltd. (UAMMCL) operates as a registered multi-state cooperative institution with an active presence across multiple regions of India. This multi-state framework enables coordinated cooperative action while remaining responsive to local contexts, regional livelihoods, and community needs. UAMMCL is structured to balance national-level institutional coherence with grounded adaptability — ensuring that cooperative development remains inclusive, participatory, and effective.
A Cooperative Presence Across Regions
UAMMCL works across diverse geographic and socio-economic environments, allowing the institution to develop cooperative models that are locally relevant while remaining institutionally scalable. This regional breadth strengthens UAMMCL’s ability to support livelihood generation, community wellbeing, and cooperative enterprise systems across varied contexts, while remaining anchored in shared governance and mutual accountability.
Why a Multi-State Cooperative Model
Operating as a multi-state cooperative enables UAMMCL to extend cooperation beyond administrative boundaries and build long-term institutional pathways rather than fragmented or isolated efforts. This model supports stronger inter-regional linkages, coordinated value chains, knowledge sharing, and consistent cooperative standards — ensuring that growth remains unified, responsible, and trust-led.
Regional Engagement Approach
While guided by a unified institutional framework, UAMMCL’s engagement remains rooted in local cooperative ecosystems.
Regional work focuses on strengthening grassroots governance, enabling participation of farmers and women’s collectives, supporting community-led enterprise structures, and aligning cooperative activity with local livelihood and food systems. This ensures that cooperative development remains context-sensitive and community-driven.
Coordination, Learning, and Replication
UAMMCL’s multi-state presence enables continuous institutional learning. Experiences from one region inform work in others, supporting the replication of effective cooperative models and strengthening the wider cooperative ecosystem. Through structured coordination, the society advances shared standards, cross-regional dialogue, and cooperative collaboration across sectors.
Bridging the Gap Between Farmer and Consumer
A central purpose of UAMMCL’s multi-state structure is to close the long-standing gap between producers and consumers by strengthening cooperative pathways across the full value journey:
Farm → Factory → Fork → Consumer
By enabling local processing, responsible value addition, and trusted cooperative distribution, UAMMCL ensures that farmers retain a fair share of value while consumers receive products rooted in transparency, authenticity, and community trust.
This integrated approach allows cooperation to function not only at the village level, but across regions — forming a living bridge between rural livelihoods and national wellbeing.
Founder & Director
Mr. Jyoti Saroop
UAMMCL carries forward a cooperative journey that began at the grassroots in 2003 through the Unati movement, led by Mr. Jyoti Saroop. His leadership emerges from a simple lived understanding:
• The farmer must not remain distant from the consumer
• Women must become central to livelihoods and wellbeing
• Value must circulate back into the community
• Cooperation is not a programme, but a civilizational framework
As Founder and Director, Mr. Jyoti Saroop continues to shape UAMMCL as an institution rooted in soil, science, trust, and long-term cooperative discipline.
Chairman
Mr. Vikrant Dogra
UAMMCL is chaired by Mr. Vikrant Dogra, who provides strategic oversight and institutional stewardship aligned with cooperative principles.
Under his chairmanship, UAMMCL continues to strengthen its multi-state cooperative presence, deepen member participation, and build pathways of shared prosperity across regions.
His role reflects the cooperative commitment to responsibility, balance, and institutional clarity.
Vision & Mission
A Cooperative Institution for Bharat’s Shared Future
UAMMCL is guided by a long-term cooperative vision rooted in dignity, wellbeing, and collective prosperity. Our work is anchored in the belief that cooperation is not only an economic model, but a civilizational pathway — where value circulates within communities and development remains inclusive, trust-led, and sustainable.
Our Vision
A Cooperative Bharat Where Prosperity is Shared
UAMMCL envisions a future where farmers, women, cooperatives, and consumers are connected through systems of trust, ownership, and mutual responsibility.
Our Mission
Building Livelihoods, Markets, and Wellbeing Through Cooperation
UAMMCL’s mission is to strengthen cooperative-led economic and social systems across multiple states through long-term institution-building.
Enable Women-Led Mass Livelihoods
Support rural women as entrepreneurs, livelihood leaders, and cooperative actors through scalable collective pathways.
Strengthen Farmer Value Chains and Assured Markets
Build transparent, authenticated market systems that ensure fair returns for farmers and trusted access for consumers.
Advance Consumer Health and Community Wellbeing
Promote nutrition, wellness, and responsible food systems so that health becomes a shared cooperative outcome.
Bridge the Gap Between Farmer and Consumer
Create integrated cooperative pathways across the full value journey:
Farm → Factory → Fork → Consumer
Ensuring that value circulates back to communities rather than being extracted away.
Build Cooperation Among Cooperatives
Connect PACS, FPOs, SHGs, and cooperative institutions into one ecosystem of shared learning, governance, and mutual growth.
Use Technology as an Enabler of Trust
Leverage platforms, traceability systems, and rural skill-building tools such as drone and digital training — strengthening transparency and institutional capability.
Leadership & Advisory
Governance Rooted in Trust, Responsibility, and Cooperation
UAMMCL is a member-owned multi-state cooperative institution guided by democratic governance, cooperative law, and long-term institutional responsibility.
In a cooperative, leadership is not about control. It is about stewardship — holding the trust of farmers, women, members, and communities with humility and discipline. Our governance framework ensures that UAMMCL remains transparent, participatory, and anchored in the cooperative values that make institutions endure.
Cooperative Governance Structure
Institution Before Intervention
UAMMCL functions as a structured multi-state cooperative society as per its bye-laws and regulatory framework. This structure exists for a deeper purpose: to ensure that rural development is not fragmented, temporary, or extracted — but built slowly through shared ownership, accountability, and collective decision-making. Cooperative governance ensures that the institution belongs to its members, and that the future is shaped together.
