Ningbo upgrading specialized farmer cooperatives
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- Category: Ningbo News
- Published: Tuesday, 09 April 2013 11:03
According to Ningbo Municipal Agricultural Bureau, Ningbo has started a program to upgrade specialized farmer cooperatives to help specialized farmer cooperatives to upgrade themselves in competitiveness.
According to the bureau, Ningbo has 1,900 specialized farmer cooperatives, involving over 400,000 farmers. The development of the cooperatives has helped to innovate the rural operating system, bringing changes to the former household-based system. At present, the farmer cooperatives still have some problems: they are generally small in operation scale; their services are not low in level and they are not capable enough as leaders of individual farmers.
Following the guidelines of industry-orientation, marketization and brand strategy, the program aims to improve production and service facilities, improve marketing, promote processing and circulation, and enhance the links in product classification, packing, warehousing, processing and transporting, so as to promote the integration and market competitiveness.
