Farmers are leaving cooperative societies

The government should take immediate measures to reform the Cooperative Societies (Amendment) Act-2013 to restrict the power of bureaucrats and make it suitable for farmers. Economists, teachers, and politicians came up with the demand at a discussion recently.
Cooperative societies, which are under the Social Welfare ministry, are associations that work toward mutual, social, cultural and economic benefit. Officials of cooperatives have the power to dismiss any member without any consent of other members if they want to, which is unacceptable. Farmers have been leaving farming because the Cooperative Societies Act is not friendly anymore. Speakers said that the current Cooperative Societies Act only safeguards bureaucrats and other members with power. They have been enjoying the benefits of this law.
Bangladesh has two billion bighas of khas land and reservoirs. There are one million landless households. The government distributed around 12 per cent of this land among the people. The rest remains unallocated. If the concept of cooperative societies had been realised, there would not have been a food crisis in the country. Social and political movement, along with law reform, should occur simultaneously.