Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) Municipality on Farmers' Professional Cooperatives
Chapter I General Provisions
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Farmers' professional cooperatives are mutual economic organizations organized by producers and operators of similar agricultural products or providers and users of similar agricultural production and operation services on the basis of contracted management by rural households.
Farmers' professional cooperatives mainly serve their members, providing services such as purchasing agricultural means of production, selling, processing, transporting and storing agricultural products and technologies and information related to agricultural production and operation.
The business scope of agricultural professional cooperatives is:
1, farmers' professional cooperatives should mainly serve their members.
As an economic organization, farmers' professional cooperatives should naturally carry out business activities. However, farmers' professional cooperative is a mutual economic organization, which is different from other enterprises such as companies and must take its members as its main service target. Farmers' professional cooperatives mainly carry out business activities around the needs of cooperative members, and the trading objects are mainly limited to cooperative members. For example, a cooperative with ducks as its main members should focus on duck farmers who join the cooperative, rather than residents in nearby industrial and mining areas.
2 farmers' professional cooperatives should provide services around agricultural production and operation.
Farmers' professional cooperatives must carry out business activities around the specific needs of their members, that is, to meet the relevant needs of their members in agricultural production and business activities. Generally speaking, farmers' professional cooperatives provide technical and information services related to the purchase of agricultural means of production, the sale, processing, transportation and storage of agricultural products, and agricultural production and operation. Specifically, different professional cooperatives should only provide professional services. For example, cooperatives with tea planting as their main members should carry out business activities around tea seedlings, fertilizers, tea machines and tea products processing. In the process of tea planting, business activities unrelated to tea planting, such as commercial housing development and sales, shall not be carried out.