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Notable examples of agricultural cooperatives include Dairy Farmers Of America, the largest dairy company in the US, [2] Amul, the largest food product marketing organization in India [3] and Zen-Noah, a federation of agricultural cooperatives that handles 70% of the sales of chemical fertilizers in Japan. [4]
The origin of the Japan Agricultural Cooperatives system can be traced back to the Nogyokai, a government-controlled association of farmers and landowners, which worked under government orders to collect, store, and redistribute agricultural products in respective regions during the Second World War. Nogyokai was transformed into the JA in the ...
The members of the ICA are international and national cooperative organisations from all sectors of the economy, including agriculture, banking, consumer, fisheries, health, housing, insurance, industry and services. The ICA has members from more than 100 countries, and it is estimated to represent one billion individuals worldwide.
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (NoBAWC) Northern States Co-operative League (NSCL, established 1921) Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance (PACA) Portland Alliance of Worker Cooperatives (PAWC) U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC) Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives
Gay Lea Foods Co-operative Limited is a dairy products company in Canada producing butter, sour cream, cottage cheese, whipped cream and lactose free milk for retail, foodservice, industrial and export markets. Organic Meadow Cooperative is an agricultural cooperative in Ontario. The cooperative originated in 1989 after local farmers sitting ...
Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives; Collective farming; Collectivization in the Polish People's Republic; Collectivization in the Soviet Union; Collectivization in Yugoslavia; Community-supported agriculture; Confédération Nationale de la Mutualité, de la Coopération et du Crédit Agricoles; Countrywide Farmers; CPA (agriculture)
The co-operative model has a long history in the U.S., including a factory in the 1790s, the Knights of Labor, and the Grange. [17] In Colorado, the Meadowlark cooperative administered the only private free land program in the United States, providing many services to its members who buy and sell together.
ZEN-NOH consists of 1,173 agricultural cooperatives and federations that in 2004 had a combined revenue of $53.8 billion (USD). ZEN-NOH is involved in the marketing, tracking, and quality assurance of the products of its cooperatives.