Report of the Co-operative Planning Committee appointed by the Government of India on the recommendation of the Fourteenth Registrars' Conference

4. The first draft of the Report was prepared in the light of the discussions at the first meeting and considered at the second and third meetings of the Committee held at Bombay and at Delhi from the 11th to the 18th July 1945 and from the 18th to the 24th October 1945 respectively. [...] Some provinces appointed Committees of Inquiry into the progress of the movement and the Reports of the Royal Commission on Agriculture and of the Central and Provincial Banking Enquiry Committees were noteworthy contributions to co-operative thought and practicem The expansion of the movement was rapid till 1929 when the depression set in and the various defects which had been noticed by the Ma [...] While the risks are high in all lines of production they are particularly serious in the sphere of agriculture because of the vagaries of the monsoon the inelasticity of production the large number of small producers and the wide range of price fluctuations. [...] We strongly endorse the recommendation of the Crops and Soils 10Wing of the Board of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry in India (Imperial Council of Agricultural Research*) that the question of the post-war absorption of soldiers'must be regarded as part of a large-scale plan for the development and welfare of the country as a whole. [...] policy of the State the illiteracy of the people and the fact that the movement did not especially in its initial stages take the life of the individual as a whole.