Food Manufacturing Activities of the Largest Agricultural Cooperatives: Market Power and Strategic Behavior Implications

摘要: Agricultural cooperatives are often described as vertical extensions of the farm enterprise. Their primary purpose is to provide services their member-users on a nonprofit basis. These range from provision ofproduction inputs through entire set assembling, processing, and marketing required deliver agricultural products final consumers. Of course, not only providers either or services. Typically they compete with noncooperative firms in some cases other cooperatives.