Benefits of Co-operative Marketing Societies

♤ The marketing society allows collective bargaining. The individual small farmers have weak bargaining power and so could not fetch better price for their products.

♤ Marketing cooperative advances loans to the farmers and enables them to wait for better prices. It lends them to meet their demands.

♤ Cooperative provides storage and warehousing facilities. The large scale storage allows it to obtain insurance benefits. The loss due to damages of agriculture products can be minimized.

♤ It encourages the farmers to produce standardized products and discourage them from adulterating their produce.

♤ It helps to eliminate the middlemen and so allow better price to the cultivators.