Co-operative identity and growth in agricultural marketing co-operatives in Tanzania

Abstract

Tanzania, joined the co-operative industry in the 1930s through agricultural marketing co-operatives. But this long journey of co-operative organization, started with a bias of selected commodities which were not consumed locally, but demanded by European industrial production and consumption. As demand for such commodities increased in Europe, there was increased growth of agricultural marketing co-operative promotion, starting with coffee. cotton, tobacco, pyrethrum and later, cashew nuts. The positive growth of co-operatives in the export sector was positive because the operational effects of the enterprise was demonstrative of a distinguished identity