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The cooperative model and the organic industry

The cooperative model and the organic industry

A Cooperative model appears to assist the majority of organic producers in developed and emerging economies. Advantages of establishing a legal producer’s cooperative include the improvement of supply and an enhanced capability to negotiate with wholesale agents. Cooperatives are ideal for smaller organic producers who can benefit from distributing some of the expense involved in hiring staff, training, equipment, marketing and promotion. Every now and then, I encounter lending agents who continue to distrust proposals associated with an ‘organic cooperative’. The seventies were, unfortunately, a decade of badly conceived agricultural ventures. While most participants were well meaning and earnest in pursuit of their philosophy,...

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