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Unit IV: A Century of Philippine Cooperative Movement
Unit IV: A Century of Philippine Cooperative Movement
Movement
A WRITTEN REPORT
IN PARTIAL FUFILLMENT
OF THE REQUIREMENTS
IN COOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT
BY
JANETH V. JAMISON
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Philippines we’re popularly known for their way of helping one another through
As part of the Filipino culture, this practice is a compatible concept for cooperatives which evolves
after the colonization of the Spaniards in the country. The transformation of the economy from
(professionals, merchants, and artisans) emerged. These illustrados were the organizers of the
“gremios” (local crafts union and guilds) which where the forerunners of cooperatives.
During the latter part of the Spanish colonization, the local “gremios” and other self-help
association emerged. In 1896, Dr. Jose P. Rizal started an agricultural marketing cooperative
while in an exile in Dapitan, Mindanao. It was 1898 when Emilio Jacinto organized a failed
On the other hand, Isabelo De Los Reyes was sked to be a head of a cooperative association
of a group of printers in January 1, 1902. Within a month, February 2, 1902 this organization of
workers and gremios became the Union Obrero Democrata, the first Philippine labor federation.
It was noticed that they always recognize cooperatives as instruments for social justice and
economic development. However, due to the intense revolutionary struggles of the Filipinos
against the Spaniards, the initial origin of the cooperatives during the Spanish Colonial period
The Americans replaced the Spaniards as the new colonial administrators in 1900-1913. It is
when the Raiffeisen-type rural agricultural cooperatives were implemented in the Philippines
through Irish-American missionaries and teachers also with the help of local organizers. One of
the first reported credit cooperative in the country was organized at the University of the
Prantel (or Prauter) was one of the early rural credit cooperative organizers. He was also
involved in credit cooperative in India for many years before he came in the Philippines in 1898.
He supported the Sandiko Bill in 1907, through some articles in Manila newspaper, and became
In 1906, the Corporation Law (PA No. 1459) provided the legal framework for all private
In 1907, Gov. Teodoro Sandiko of Bulacan and Rep. Alberto Barreto of Zambales
introduced a rural cooperative bill which was the first attempt to make use of the state in
In February 15, 1915 The Sandiko bill was disapproved and it took 8 more years to be
able to pass a Rural Credit Cooperative Association Act (PA No. 2508) which was
authored by Rep. Rafael Corpuz of Zambales and Reps. Palma and Singson. PA 2508
appropriated P1 million for a fund for farmers' credit through their associations and rural
coops.
In 1916, PA No. 2508 was amended and the administration of coops by the government
was transferred from the Bureau of Commerce and Industry to the Bureau of Agriculture.
On October 19, 1916, the first rural credit cooperative association assisted by the
government was formed in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija. It was reported that state assistance
On October 20, 1916, the UP Los Banos College Cooperative was formally registered.
3. State-initiated Cooperatives
The Cooperative Marketing Law (PA No. 3425) was introduced by the Americans in 1927. It
prompted by political motives, which is to control the rising unrest among the peasantry. This law
enforced government control and intervention in operating cooperatives and gives the Bureau of
On June 7, 1940, the Commonwealth Act No. 565 created the National Trading
Corporation (NTC) to supervise cooperatives and grant them a 5-year tax holiday.
In 1941, the National Cooperative Administration (NCA) was created and it assumed the
4. Privately-initiated Cooperatives
exemplified by the organization of the Vigan Credit Union, Inc. in August 1938 at Vigan, Ilocos
Sur. Allen R. Huber who came in the Philippines in 1926 was the founder of this credit union. He
was exposed to the credit problems of the Filipino farmers. He went back to the U.S. in 1931 to
study at the University of Chicago, and became a pastor of the First Christian Church in Frankfurt,
Indiana, USA. He is the one who organized the first Protestant church-based credit union in the
United States. Huber returned to the Philippines in 1937 to collaborate with D. Howe, a
The Consumers Cooperative League of the Philippines was the first cooperative
federation which was organized in October 1938, and by 1939, there are already an estimated
number of 570 credit cooperatives, 150 farmers’ cooperatives and 48 consumers’ cooperatives.
By 1941, there were already 30 privately-initiated credit unions with some 2,000 members in
the northern region. Batac Christian Credit Union (BCCU) of Batac, Ilocos Norte was became
remarkable because its member increased to 590 within 2 years, with a capitalization of P 2,000
and loans amounting to P 38,000. Like the other Raiffeisen-type credit unions, BCCU relied on its
QUIZ
2. He became chief of the rural credit section of the Bureau of Agriculture in 1915.
and gives the Bureau of Commerce and Industry the right to organize farmers'
marketing cooperatives.
5. What is the first cooperative federation which was organized in October 1938?
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