With over 50 million members, IFFCO is the largest farmers cooperative in the world.

Despite the high costs of the government programs, incomes of cooperative farmers remained low.

Now the "freedom fighters," termed re-contras, have their freedom, but prefer to kill cooperative farmers in northern Nicaragua.

He said cooperative farmers who took part in the land redistribution program would be allowed to keep portions of their farms.

The General Telephone Company, originally organized as a farmer's cooperative, still required the services of an operator to switch calls until 1964.

Under Babcock's management, the cooperative became the largest farmer's cooperative in the world.

Yet even the cooperative farmers say they'll now support the strike.

The only major business in town is the Delta Oil Mill, a farmers cooperative that produces $22 million in cottonseed oil a year.

Also in the meantime the "government cooperative farmer" has arrived at the farm.

The residents of the Limat hence were workers in these institutions and cooperative farmers who were provided with a certain portion of the developed farm.