Pan'an County in Jinhua, Zhejiang Establishes Its First Fruit and Vegetable Cooperative Union

[Introduction · China Vegetable Network]It is reported that the union was facilitated by the county's agricultural department, aiming to enhance the overall market competitiveness of the county's fruit and vegetable industry. The establishment of the union will effectively solve the problems of the original farmers' professional cooperatives, such as few members, small scale, non-standard management, and backward service methods.

On January 8, the Pan'an County Liuhe Fruit and Vegetable Professional Cooperative Union was established, initiated and organized by 6 farmers' professional cooperatives, including the County Xiaochun Vegetable Professional Cooperative, the County Fengjiao Vegetable Professional Cooperative, and the County Cuilang Ecological Vegetable Professional Cooperative. This is the county's first farmers' professional cooperative union with fruit and vegetable as its main industry. The establishment of this union marks that the county's farmers' professional cooperatives have moved from separate operations to cooperative and clustered operations, elevating rural economic organizations from cooperatives to a new level of cooperative unions. It is reported that the union was facilitated by the county's agricultural department, aiming to enhance the overall market competitiveness of the county's fruit and vegetable industry.

The establishment of the union will effectively solve the problems of the original farmers' professional cooperatives, such as few members, small scale, non-standard management, and backward service methods. Union members will adopt an integrated marketing approach to achieve information exchange and resource sharing, unify quality, and jointly seek markets, thereby boosting the county's fruit and vegetable industry to become bigger, accelerating the development of modern agriculture, and improving the guarantee of agricultural product quality and safety.