Cooperatives Sow Opportunity for Poor Farmers in China’s Guizhou Province

A World Bank-financed project supports rural development and poverty reduction in one of China’s poorest provinces by organizing small-scale farmers into cooperatives and integrating them to the agricultural value chains.

• Farmer members benefit from joint processing and sales of their products, salaries from working for the coop and a dividend in proportion to the shares they own.

• Co-ops provide jobs and a source of income to rural women, returned migrant workers and older people.