This narrative suggests that growing state faith played a critical role in evolution of cooperatives. Cooperatives also driven by the land holding pattern 19. In addition to state policy, the changing pattern of landholding in India aided the spread of cooperatives. BIS central bankers’ speeches  3  20.
During the 50s and 60s, more than a fourth of the total cultivable land was held by large farmers. By the year 1995–96, this picture changed significantly with large farms yielding ground to small and marginal farms whose share increased both by way of number of operational holdings as well as operational area.