Winny Wang / Shanghai Daily news
Shanghai has set up the municipality¡¯s first cooperative agency for dairy
farmers in Fengxian District.
The agency will help farmers sell their products and ease their concerns
about competition in the market, said a member of the co-op, surnamed Jiang.
¡°Now the agency has more than 4,000 milk cows,¡±Jiang said.
The city has set up 510 cooperative agencies since 2004 to show Shanghai¡¯s
100,000 farmers advanced methods of selling their produce.
A farmer in Nanhui District, Wang Honggang, is now selling 470 tons of
haricot beans a day after joining one of the co-ops, compared with 200 tons
previously.
Farmers made 3 billion yuan in revenue last year through the cooperative
agencies.