Question
What is Weavers cooperative? How does it work?
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Answer
Weavers are paid very little under the putting-out system. Weaver's cooperative is a way of reducing their dependence.
- In a cooperative people with common interests come together and work for mutual benefit.
- They take activities collectively like procuring yam, distribution among weavers.
- They do the marketing also.
- The role of merchant is reduced and weavers earn higher income.
- Government also helps the cooperative by buying cloth from them at reasonable rates
- Tamil Nadu government runs a Free School Uniform programme in the state. The cloth is procured from power loom weaver's cooperatives.
- Government buys cloth from handloom weaver's cooperatives and sell it through Co-optex stores
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