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Commentary Co-op role in rural development
By Grossman, David1
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has challenged USDA Rural Development to help build munities that “can create wealth, are self-sustaining, repopulating and thriving economically.” To plish this, seven priority areas have been set: alternative energy; strategic partnerships; regional collaboration; broadband development and continuous business creation; capital markets; community building and regional food systems.
Cooperatives can play a role in all of these efforts. They’re not only effective tools for conducting business and securing needed services for their members, they also can play a role munity building and in all types of rural development efforts, ranging from the development of local food systems to broadband access.
Consider rural utility cooperatives, which work closely with the USDA Rural Utilities Service (part of USDA Rural Development). Electric co-ops reach more than 45 million customers. That’s a huge capacity to affect change.
Through our Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBS),we support farmer cooperatives, which play a key role in creating new business opportunities for rural America’s 60 million people. Farm and rural economies are inter dependent, and value-added agriculture drives sustain able development across the most farmer co-op leaders are w