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.
Farmers' professional cooperatives take farmers (herdsmen) as the main body, serve the members as the purpose, take the market as the guidance, seek the interests of all members, adhere to voluntary membership, freedom of withdrawal, equal status of members, carry out activities in accordance with the articles of association and implement democratic management. Surplus is mainly returned in proportion to the transaction volume (amount) between members and farmers' professional cooperatives, and benefits are shared and risks are borne. Article 4 People's governments at or above the county level shall formulate and implement specific measures to encourage and support the development of farmers' professional cooperatives, guide farmers' professional cooperatives to operate on a large scale, and promote the development of agricultural industrialization.
Township people's governments shall provide convenience and services for the establishment, development and production and operation activities of farmers' professional cooperatives, and coordinate and solve the difficulties and problems in production and operation.
Villagers' committees and village collective economic organizations shall support farmers' professional cooperatives to carry out production and business activities according to law. Fifth administrative departments of agriculture of the people's governments at or above the county level shall give guidance, support, coordination and services to the construction and development of farmers' professional cooperatives within their respective administrative areas; Rural economic management institutions specifically undertake business guidance, publicity and training, demonstration and cultivation, legal policy consultation, project support, information services and other work, and their work funds are included in the fiscal budget at the corresponding level.
The administrative departments of forestry, animal husbandry, finance, water conservancy, land and resources, commerce, transportation, industry and commerce, taxation and other people's governments at or above the county level shall, according to their respective functions and duties, give relevant guidance, support and services to farmers' professional cooperatives. Sixth people's governments at or above the county level shall commend and reward the units and individuals that have made remarkable achievements in supporting and promoting the development of farmers' professional cooperatives, and the farmers' professional cooperatives that have played a significant role in demonstrating and driving. Chapter II Establishment and Operation Article 7 A farmers' professional cooperative shall be registered by the local county (city) administrative department for industry and commerce and obtain the business license of the farmers' professional cooperative as a legal person.
Two or more farmers' professional cooperatives may form cooperatives on the principle of voluntariness and equality. The provisions of the preceding paragraph shall apply mutatis mutandis to the registration of the United Press.
Farmers' professional cooperatives shall, within 20 days from the date of obtaining the business license of farmers' professional cooperatives as legal persons, inform the rural economic management institutions at the same level of the registration authority of the registration information. Eighth farmers' professional cooperatives shall formulate articles of association according to law, and clearly stipulate the conditions for members to join and quit the cooperative and other important matters in the articles of association.
Farmers' professional cooperatives registered according to law shall, in accordance with laws, regulations and cooperative articles of association, standardize internal management, carry out agricultural production, operation and service activities, enjoy relevant preferential policies of farmers' professional cooperatives, and perform relevant obligations. Ninth farmers' professional cooperatives engaged in production, management and service activities:
(a) planting, fruit and aquaculture;
(2) Sales, processing, storage and transportation of agricultural products;
(3) Agricultural leisure tourism and rural folk tourism;
(4) Handicrafts of farmers;
(5) Agricultural technology and information services;
(six) agricultural machinery operation services;
(seven) other agricultural production and service activities as prescribed by laws and regulations. Article 10 Members of farmers' professional cooperatives can make contributions in cash, or they can make contributions in the form of their own physical assets such as houses, equipment and facilities, agricultural machinery, and intangible assets such as intellectual property rights and land contractual management rights. In the case of investment in physical assets or intangible assets, the general meeting of members (representatives) will evaluate the pricing, or the general meeting of members (representatives) decides to entrust an evaluation agency to evaluate the pricing and use it as the basis for debt settlement, except as otherwise provided by laws and administrative regulations. Article 11 Members of farmers' professional cooperatives are encouraged to transfer the contracted management right of land to farmers' professional cooperatives in the form of subcontracting, leasing and joint-stock cooperation in accordance with the principle of voluntary compensation according to law.
Farmers who have the right to contracted management of land will not lose their right to contracted management of land when they join cooperatives, and farmers' professional cooperatives shall not change the nature of land ownership and agricultural use.
Farmers who have invested in cooperatives with the contracted management right of land withdraw from cooperatives and are encouraged to transfer the contracted management right of land to other members of cooperatives according to law. Twelfth farmers' professional cooperatives shall set up a member account for each member. In addition to the contents stipulated in the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Farmers' Specialized Cooperatives, the ledger shall also record all business dealings between farmers' specialized cooperatives and the surplus shares returned by members from farmers' specialized cooperatives.
The property formed by farmers' professional cooperatives that receive direct subsidies from the state and the property donated by the society shall be equally quantified to each member and credited to the account.