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Since 1989, Danish agriculture has found new collaboration partners in Eastern Europe. Danish farmers wanted to have contact with their new colleagues and since those early day have developed numerous forms of collaboration. This booklet is intended as a tool to help build collaboration. The fist phase of the new collaboration is to understand each others' situation. This, it appears, is not as easy as one might expect. There are differences in history, traditions, ideas and concepts. It is our experience in Danish agriculture that is very difficult to explain those things that we do not normally think about because we regard them as matters of course. In this text, we have attempted to emphasize the basics which for the last century have been the foundation for the business cooperation of Danish farmers, how Danish farmers have organized themselves in cooperative societies which own commercial cooperatives - dairies, slaughterhouses and farm supply companies. |
| It is our hope that the Danish experience may be useful, when farmers of the new democracies decide how they want to cooperate in order to manage better under market economy conditions. The text has been written by the Federation of Danish Cooperatives in collaboration with the Agriculture Council. These organizations are ready to make themselves available to those wishing to know more about Danish cooperatives. Copies of the booklet are available in the following languages from the Federation of Danish Cooperatives, Axelborg, Vesterbrogade 4A, 2nd Floor, 1620 Copenhagen V, Denmark. Tel: +45 33 121419. Fax: +45 33 126148. E-mail: hhn@landbrug.dk | |
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Updated: 19 November 1999
