The National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) is a statutory corporation under India’s Ministry of Cooperation, established to plan and promote cooperative societies across agriculture, fisheries, processing, marketing, storage, and allied rural activities. NCDC provides loans, grants, and technical assistance to cooperative societies and state governments, and acts as a nodal loaning entity under FIDF, channeling concessional finance to fisheries cooperatives. It has supported fisheries cooperatives, financing fishing vessels, ice plants, cold storage facilities, hatcheries, and processing infrastructure.