By the end of 1985, a self-sustaining system of 43,000 village cooperatives with 4,250,000 milk producers were covered.

The Simputer is expected to cost 9,000 rupees, or about $190; it is meant to be owned not by individual users but by village cooperatives.

Productivity in coffee and cloves doubled, although East Timorese farmers were forced to sell their coffee at low prices to village cooperatives.

Pabu Ram, who is 42, walks nearly 14 miles every day along a sandy track to supervise the village cooperative.

Honey is one sustainable product being harvested by village cooperatives in Costa Rica.

The company history starts with many village cooperatives that gradually merged into each other and thus became big regional companies.

They also wanted village cooperatives to keep the profit from crop sales in local hands, and credit institutions to underwrite needed improvements.

It was mentioned in 1335 as part of the village cooperative of Seseglio.

The judge was of the opinion that cloves from farmers had been bought up by village cooperatives and sold further to the Puskud under various pretenses.

As to payment, everything has been settled, including all funds of the clove farmers and village cooperatives.