Agricultural cooperative
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An agricultural cooperative, also known as a farmers' co-op, is a producer cooperative in which farmers pool their resources in certain areas of activities.
Agricultural cooperatives in Guinea
Headquarters of Hokuren Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives in Sapporo, Japan
A smallholder coffee farmer in Colombia contributing her coffee to an agricultural cooperative. Cooperatives give small farmers an opportunity to be more competitive in markets, especially commodity crops like coffee and cocoa where many of the purchasers are large businesses who can manipulate markets.
Sugarcane weighing at a cooperative sugar mill in Maharashtra, India
Sunkist Growers, Incorporated, branded as Sunkist, is an American citrus growers' non-stock membership cooperative composed of over 1,000 members from California and Arizona headquartered in Valencia, California. Through 31 offices in the United States and Canada and four offices outside North America, its sales in 1991 totaled $956 million. It is the largest fresh produce shipper in the United States, the most diversified citrus processing and marketing operation in the world, and one of California's largest landowners.
Sunkist headquarters in Valencia
Women packing oranges at the Sunkist packing plant, Redlands, California, 1943
Fruit crate label for Sunkist California Oranges
A 1928 ad featuring Santa Claus