Shanghai has set up the municipality’s first cooperative agency for dairy farmers in Fengxian District.

The agency will help farmers sell their products and ease their concerns about competition in the market, said a member of the co-op, surnamed Jiang.

“Now the agency has more than 4,000 milk cows,”Jiang said.

The city has set up 510 cooperative agencies since 2004 to show Shanghai’s 100,000 farmers advanced methods of selling their produce.

A farmer in Nanhui District, Wang Honggang, is now selling 470 tons of haricot beans a day after joining one of the co-ops, compared with 200 tons previously.

Farmers made 3 billion yuan in revenue last year through the cooperative agencies.

(Source: www.shanghai.gov.cn )