The surviving farming cooperatives still carry combative names like Popular Resistance and Victory for the People.

Two years ago Mr. Hernández, who works with a farming cooperative, brought in thousands of peach plants.

A guard at a farming cooperative was killed when assailants opened fire on the building in the northern city of Kirkuk.

But meanwhile they were preparing their own farming cooperatives for the inevitable.

The measure would merge five national farming cooperatives into a single enterprise.

He operated under a new constitution which expanded schools, established rural farming cooperatives, and raised salaries of civil servants.

The insurgents advocate a "land-to-the-tiller" policy in which they would seize holdings without compensation and establish farming cooperatives, using them to build small industries.

Members of a farming cooperative might be persuaded into signing a petition against construction of an airfield.

As Madécasse expanded, it ventured out and partnered with more farming cooperatives in order to meet demand.

A rural town mostly given over to agricultural activity, mainly timber, cereals and sugar beet, organised by a farming cooperative.