The operation scale of 64 farmers' cooperatives is over 100 million.

Xinhua News Agency, October 17 (Reporter Li Yong, correspondent Lu Yuntao) in Hunan, a major agricultural province, farmers' cooperatives are becoming an effective carrier to drive farmers to enter the "big market" from "small production". The experience exchange meeting of farmers' cooperatives held in Li County, Changde, today revealed that by the end of September this year, the total number of farmers' cooperatives in the province had reached 22904, with more than 1.85 million peasant households, and 64 cooperatives with an operating scale of more than 100 million yuan had emerged.

Farmers' cooperatives in our province started in the middle and late 1990s. After years of development, cooperatives have explored four models of "capable person-led, company-driven, brand-led and factor cooperation", with accelerated development, continuous expansion of scale and enhanced driving role. In the rural areas of our province, capable people in rural areas, leading enterprises, grass-roots agricultural technology service organizations, migrant workers returning home to start businesses, and university graduates have become a new force in leading cooperatives. Lixian Nongkang Grape Cooperative, under the leadership of the grape tycoon Wang Xianrong, integrates dozens of local grape sales brands, a fist to enter the market, achieving an annual output value of 260 million yuan.

The organization of cooperatives has developed from small-scale and decentralized to large-scale and joint-type, and a total of 102 joint societies of various types have been formed in the province. When Hunan Longping High-tech Grain Cooperative was established in 2007, it had 9 grass-roots cooperatives and more than 3000 members. Over the past six years, the cooperative has 42 grass-roots cooperatives and 12600 members, and the area of growing grain has also expanded from 12500 mu in that year to more than 210000 mu.

Whether the peasant co-operative is good or not, the "purse" of the peasants who join the co-operative is the best witness. According to statistics, last year, the surplus earned by farmers in the province from cooperatives reached 2.6 billion yuan. On average, the income of farmers joining cooperatives is more than 20% higher than that of other farmers. The Axiang Citrus Cooperative in Anhua County has registered the "Ah Xiang" citrus trademark, and its products are exported to Kazakhstan, Russia and other countries, with an output value of 130 million yuan last year, increasing farmers' income by 42 million yuan.

Farmers' cooperatives promote the development of modern agriculture by specializing in the production of agricultural products. By the end of 2012, farmers' cooperatives had transferred 5.18 million mu of land and invested more than 3 billion yuan to build agricultural facilities. More than 900 cooperatives have achieved traceability of product quality, and nearly 1,000 cooperatives have passed pollution-free and green product quality certification.