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
