This paper aims to clarify the functional transformation of credit operations in the development
of small-scale rural agriculture cooperatives, as well as their relationship with other operations
within the cooperative. The direction of the development of the multi-purpose agriculture
cooperative and its credit undertakings are also discussed.
The study concludes that credit operations bear a close relationship with other undertakings
at each stage of the development of small-scale rural agriculture cooperatives and that they play
an important role in improving agricultural production as well as the living conditions of member
farmers, for whom the existence of the agriculture cooperative is indispensable. Finally, it is
proposed that such agriculture cooperatives return to their original purposes and goals, not as
credit-dependent cooperatives but as sales-generating cooperatives.
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