Warana Rural Cooperatives in India: A Response to Globalization

Warana Rural Cooperatives are considered as a model of integrated rural development in India. Warana cooperatives include a sugar factory, a dairy products plant, a bank, a chain of super market, a paper plant, a fruit processing plant and education institutions from kindergarten through to engineering. This presentation highlights the effects of globalization on rural illiterate farmers in Warana Valley in India and explains how the workings of these cooperatives changed in response to globalization. Warana, once a barren area with very little attention to human rights and child labor issues, now has prosperity. Warana, with so many facilities and opportunities, has become a wonderful place for children. This presentation explains this interesting case of change in Warana due to globalization.