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Co-operatives play key roles in rural development

Joe Nyagah

In the minds of many Kenyans, cooperative movement, especially in the agricultural sector, is a corrupt, mismanaged and good-for-nothing sector. This perception has continued because the Government totally ignored the sector in 1990s. Many leaders of cooperative unions became very rich at the expense of poor farmers.

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