The cooperative's employees seated together outside the Zunpha office
Community Enterprise · Cooperative Development · Community Livelihoods

Cooperative Development

Community enterprise in collaboration with Zunpha Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd. for livelihoods.

  • 5
    Enterprise units
  • 40+
    Members
  • 1,200+
    Shareholders
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The enterprise units

Five units, one cooperative.

Stewardship needs an economy behind it. The cooperative runs enterprises that employ local youth, keep services inside the community, and return their surplus to the mission.

An operator stitching a striped seam on yellow fabric
TextilesKenono Garments

School uniforms for Nagaland, sewn in Tseminyu.

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Printing and mediaArtifex Ka

Printing and multimedia house with a Tseminyu town outlet.

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PoultryEggs & Chicken

Layer and broiler poultry for Tseminyu and Kohima.

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The yellow Christian School Tseminyu bus
LogisticsCustom Hiring

Agri mobile van and a bus for hire and school transport.

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WoodworkCarpentry Unit

Furniture and joinery, led by a master carpenter.

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Textiles

Kenono Garments.

Industrial sewing lines under one roof in Tseminyu, producing school uniforms for the whole state.

  • Over 90% of school uniforms in Nagaland are supplied by Kenono Garments.
  • 30+ people employed on the production floor.
  • Cutting, stitching, and finishing in sequence on industrial machines.
The Kenono Garments team at their machinesThe team
Stitching
Cutting
Printing and media

Artifex Ka.

A printing and media house: design, print, and multimedia for churches, schools, businesses, and events across the district.

  • Tseminyu town outlet opened in 2024 as a customer touchpoint, cutting the travel burden for customers and embedding the service in the community.
  • Digital outreach: a prototype cooperative website and upgraded social media channels launched in 2024.
The Artifex Ka studio with a pinboard of printed work and two workstationsArtifex Ka · Quality and services for you
The Artifex Ka team outside the Kenono Foundation office, two holding certificatesThe team
Poultry

Eggs & Chicken.

  • 1,000 layer birds for eggs and 500 birds for meat.
  • Zunpha Premium Eggs are stocked by Kiwi XL and Mixed Bag in Kohima.
  • Broiler batches sized to Tseminyu’s monthly demand for poultry meat.
  • Farm Field School for Tseminyu Block runs at the poultry unit.
Layer shed · Zunpha Poultry Unit
The Zunpha Poultry Unit gate with the Farm Field School Tseminyu Block signZunpha Poultry Unit
Free-ranging hens outside the poultry shedSection 3
Logistics

Custom Hiring.

Vehicles the cooperative runs for its own units and hires out to the community: an agri mobile van, and a bus for hire and school transport.

  • Agri Mobile Van, supported by NABARD, meets the cooperative’s business logistics and transport needs, from egg trays to sacks of produce.
  • Bus for hiring, financed through a PACS-as-multi-service-centre term loan from the cooperative bank under a NABARD scheme, also addressing the transport needs of school children.
Agri Mobile Van
Produce run
The front of the yellow school busSchool bus
Woodwork

The Carpentry Unit.

Furniture and joinery from locally sourced timber, restarted in 2024 with a new team and a training remit.

  • Revived after 1.5 years of dormancy, with a new, skilled team.
  • A master carpenter with more than 20 years’ experience joined as trainer.
  • Local youth onboarded through comprehensive carpentry training.
The carpentry unit from above, its roof lettered CARPENTRY UNIT, timber stacked under the eavesCarpentry Unit
The master carpenter planing a beamMaster carpenter
A carpenter guiding a board through the table sawMachine room
The Farm Field School sign at the Zunpha Poultry Unit gate
Training and capacity building

Our cooperative is also a resource agency for the district.

More than 100 visitors came on exposure visits in 2024, with sessions on project management, cooperative governance, and technical skills. The Zunpha Poultry Unit doubles as the Farm Field School for Tseminyu Block. The cooperative also represented itself at the year’s key forums.

New DelhiIndia PACS MeetMinistry of Cooperation and NABARD
KohimaNagaland State Credit Seminar
Dimapur and MeziphemaCooperative model seminarsPACS computerisation and business development