Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman wanted poor farmers to jointly own production machines to take the benefits of cooperatives, said Khandker Mosharraf Hossain, minister of the local government division.

He spoke at a programme to observe the National Cooperative Day 2017 with the slogan “Make production based cooperation, make a developed Bangladesh”, in the capital yesterday.

A discussion was also organised to mark the day Osmani Memorial Auditorium in Dhaka in presence of the minister along with Md Abdul Majid, registrar and the director general of

 the Cooperative Department.