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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]
In 1935 it took the name Consumers Cooperative Association (CCA), and in 1966 Farmland Industries, Inc. [1] At its peak, the organization was the leading agricultural cooperative in North America, owned by 1,700 farm cooperatives in the United States, Canada and Mexico, which cooperatives were in turn owned by more than 600,000 farmer families ...
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.
Organic Meadow Cooperative is an agricultural cooperative in Ontario. The cooperative originated in 1989 after local farmers sitting around a kitchen table realized that commercialized farming practices were not sustainable for them. Rochdale College, Toronto (defunct) St-Albert Cheese Co-operative; Sudbury Indie Cinema Co-op
Riceland Foods, Inc. is the largest farmer-owned rice and soybean marketing cooperative in the world with headquarters in Stuttgart, Arkansas, United States.The cooperative was founded in 1921 and has become a major rice and grain miller and a global marketer of the same.
Gujarat State Co-operative Agriculture and Rural Development Bank Ltd., 489, Ashram road, Ahmedabad-9, Gujarat. Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. (GCMMF) Gujarat State Co-operative Cotton Federation. Ltd. Ahmedabad-9. Haryana Dairy Development Cooperative Federation Ltd. Sector 17-C, Chandigarh 160017
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.
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)