Agriculture and food industries The agriculture and food industry groups together all co-operatives that operate along the entire agricultural value chain, starting from the cultivation of agricultural products and livestock farming to the industrial processing of agricultural products and animals. This sector includes both agricultural producers’ co-operatives and consortia of co-operatives, or similar arrangements, to carry out for members the processing and marketing of agricultural goods. Overall, data was collected for 553 co-operatives distributed in 36 countries, with a total turnover in 2010 of 483.2 billion US dollars.
f.7 Co-operatives in the agriculture and food industries sector
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