Editing Cooperative (section)

=== Producer cooperative ===
Producer cooperatives have producers as their members and provide services involved in moving a product from the point of production to the point of consumption. Unlike worker cooperatives, they allow businesses with multiple employees to join. [[Agricultural cooperative]]s and [[fishery cooperative]]s are such examples.

[[Agricultural marketing]] cooperatives operate a series of interconnected activities involving planning production, growing and [[harvest]]ing, grading, packing, transport, storage, [[food processing]], distribution and sale. Agricultural marketing cooperatives are often formed to promote specific commodities.

Commercially successful agricultural marketing cooperatives include India's [[Amul]] (dairy products), which is the world's largest producer of milk and milk products, [[Dairy Farmers of America]] (dairy products) in the United States, and Malaysia's [[FELDA]] ([[palm oil]]).

Producer cooperatives may also be organized by small businesses for pooling their savings and accessing capital, for acquiring supplies and services, or for marketing products and services.

Producer cooperatives among urban artisans were developed in the mid-19th-century in Germany by [[Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch]], who also promoted changes to the legal system (the Prussian ''Genossenschaftsgesetz'' of 1867) that facilitated such cooperatives.<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Oswald Hahn|url=https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/zfgg.1989.39.issue-1/zfgg-1989-0116/zfgg-1989-0116.xml|title=100 Jahre deutsches Genossenschaftsgesetz (1889–1989)|journal=Zeitschrift für das gesamte Genossenschaftswesen|year=1989|volume=39|number=1|pages=91–92|doi=10.1515/zfgg-1989-0116|s2cid=201699198 |language=de|access-date=17 March 2019|archive-date=27 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627232613/https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/zfgg.1989.39.issue-1/zfgg-1989-0116/zfgg-1989-0116.xml|url-status=live}}</ref> At about the same time, [[Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen]] developed similar cooperatives among rural people.<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Gerhard Weisser, Bertel Fassnacht|url=https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2790&context=lcp|title=Cooperatives as an aid to small businesses in Germany|journal=Law & Contemporary Problems|volume=24|number=1|year=1959|pages=208–221|doi=10.2307/1190425|jstor=1190425|language=de|access-date=17 March 2019|archive-date=21 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321200852/https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2790&context=lcp|url-status=live}}</ref>