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Describe briefly different types of cooperative societies.
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Solution
Types of Cooperative Societies
Cooperative societies are classified into the following six types.
(a) Consumer cooperative societies: These are formed to provide consumer goods at reasonable prices to its members.
(b) Producer cooperative societies: The objective of producer cooperative societies is to procure raw materials and other inputs at low costs and supply them to small producers.
(c) Marketing cooperative societies: These societies pool the outputs of the member and perform certain marketing functions for them such as transportation, labelling, packaging and warehousing.
(d) Farmers’ cooperative societies: Such societies are formed by small farmers who pool their resources to reap the benefits associated with large-scale operations. These societies ensure the availability of better and advanced inputs at low rates to farmers.
(e) Credit cooperative societies- These societies ensure the availability of funds to its members at comparatively low interest rates on reasonable terms.
(f) Cooperative housing societies: The aim of housing cooperative societies is to solve the problem of finding residential accommodation of its members by constructing houses for them. These societies provide its members with easy repayment schemes through which the cost of the houses can be repaid in form of installments.
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