1. Organize the procurement and supply of agricultural means of production required by members;
2. Organize the purchase and sale of products of members and similar producers and operators;
3. To provide services such as processing, transportation and storage of agricultural products required by members;
4, the introduction of new technologies, new varieties, to carry out technical training, technical exchanges and information consulting services related to agricultural production and operation.
Rural cooperatives have experienced three main periods, namely, the cooperative period (from primary cooperatives to advanced cooperatives). People's commune period (production team, production brigade, commune three-level ownership, production team is the foundation). During the period of economic cooperatives (after the rural reform was cancelled and the rural organizational system was established, the original people's commune, production brigade and production team were changed to township and village groups, and in order to adapt to the economic functions of the production team, they were renamed economic cooperatives, and the names of village groups and economic cooperatives coexisted).
legal ground
Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) Municipality on Farmers' Professional Cooperatives
Article 16 To establish a farmers' professional cooperative, the following documents shall be submitted to the administrative department for industry and commerce for registration:
(1) Application for registration;
(2) Minutes of the founding meeting signed and sealed by all promoters;
(3) Articles of Association signed and sealed by all promoters;
(four) the legal representative, director of the office certificate and identity certificate;
(5) List of capital contributions signed and sealed by the investors;
(six) the certificate of residence use;
(seven) other documents as prescribed by laws and administrative regulations.
The registration authority shall, within 20 days from the date of accepting the application for registration, complete the formalities and issue a business license to the applicant who meets the registration conditions. The registration type is farmers' professional cooperatives.
Where the statutory registration items of farmers' professional cooperatives change, they shall apply for registration of change.
The registration authority shall notify the relevant departments such as agriculture at the same level of the registration information of farmers' professional cooperatives.
Measures for the registration of farmers' professional cooperatives shall be formulated by the State Council. There is no charge for registration. Seventeenth farmers' professional cooperatives shall, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state, submit an annual report to the registration authority and make it public.