Cooperation dates back as far as human beings have been organizing for mutual benefit.

Tribes were organized as cooperative structures, allocating jobs and resources among each other, only trading with the external communities A cooperative (also co-operative or co-op) is a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through jointly owned and democratically controlled enterprise A cooperative may also be defined as a business owned and controlled equally by the people who use its services or by the people who work there. The state government of Karnataka, in order to facilitate farmers to sell their produce and get reasonable prices, created APMCs in many towns. Most of the APMC have market where traders and other marketing agents are provided stalls and shops for purchase of agriculture produce from farmers. Farmers can sell their produce to agents or traders under supervision of APMC. Farmers cannot sell produce outside the APMC mechanism. This makes them vulnerable to traders' and marketing agents' price manipulations. The Government of India is considering improving the ecosystem to benefit all parties involved.

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