Cooperative

The Minister of State Stavros Papastavrou visited the packaging workshop of the Social Cooperative Enterprise 3S School Synergy Snacks

Greece's agricultural population is aging. The country's farmers have a low level of training and are largely stuck in the practices and reasonings of the past, characteristics that, in combination with others, affect the productivity and competitiveness of Greece's domestic primary production sector.

Protesting farmers are not a "front" the government has to face but their problems do need to be addressed, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said.

Female producers from several fields in the southern quake-hit province of Hatay have switched to e-commerce platforms to keep their businesses running as part of the normalization process after the devastating earthquakes.

Nearly 1,4000 supermarkets operated by the Agricultural Credit Cooperatives on Aug. 15 began to offer more than 30 items, at discounted prices.

Those items include, meat, poultry, flour, sugar, rice, onions, sunflower seed oil, liquid soaps and paper towels as well as some fruits.

Ljubljana – The Slovenian Association of Cooperatives has urged the Agriculture Ministry to meet with them immediately to talk through the government’s plan to purchase this year’s entire wheat harvest. The association says that harvesting is in full swing and is about to largely end by the end of the week in case of good weather.

Executives of seven women's cooperatives in the Black Sea province of Giresun have attended a five-day entrepreneurship course with support from the governor's office and a German foundation.

A project to support and improve women cooperatives in Turkey, conducted by three ministries and funded by the European Union, has started in 24 out of the country's entire 81 provinces, daily Milliyet reported.

Turkey has ordered agricultural cooperatives to open about 1,000 new markets across the country to provide "suitable" prices for consumer goods, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Oct. 3.

"Markets run by Agricultural Credit Cooperatives are convenient in terms of prices and quality," Erdoğan told reporters after visiting an agricultural credit cooperative outlet in Istanbul.

A woman collective in the eastern Black Sea province of Giresun has taken support from the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to produce hazelnut products, jam and cornflour using heirloom seeds.

The cooperative initiative founded by eight cousins is named Ortakbahçe, which means common orchard in Turkish.