News

Cooperative extension service brings the difference

By Olika Urgessa, cooperative advisor Ethiopia
 
Chercher Oda Bultum Farmers’ cooperative union (COBFCU) in Ethiopia is one of the fast-growing cooperative unions. Currently, the cooperative union consists of 144 primary cooperatives with a total of 43,576 individual farmers.

A cooperative as a solution

Agriterra goes on an excursion in Ghana. Although it normally only works with cooperatives that have already been going for a while, a project has been started here with women who often don't even know the term cooperative. 

Indonesian rice farmers invest in their own cooperative

The members of Citra Kina Raya (CIKI) cooperative on Java are gradually buying shares into their cooperative to invest on a processing factory. 

Listen to the youth

Vital services to farmer members

By Guido Guerra, senior analyst

Iringa Farmers Cooperative Union (IFCU) is a secondary level cooperative that groups more than 5,000 farmers through 45 affiliated primary cooperatives that operate in the districts of Iringa, Kilolo, Mafinga and Mufindi, inside Iringa region located in the center of Tanzania.