Improving Institutional Capacity:
Strengthening Farmer Organizations in the OIC Member Countries
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1. Does the country have a co-operative law that gives legal standing to farmer
organizations?
Group Country Y/N Source Comments
Asian Countries (cont’d)
Tajikistan 
Law of Consumer Cooperation (1992); Civil Code:
Production Coops (articles 118-123); Consumer Coops
(article 128 (1999); )Law of Production Cooperatives
(2002) and Law of Cooperatives 2013
Turkey

Turkey has a rich history of cooperative legal framework
dating as far back as 1929. The evolution of the
cooperative legal framework has seen the introduction of
numerous cooperative laws. These include v.i.z i)
“Agricultural Credit Cooperatives Law; No. 1470” was
passed in 1929. ii) 1935 agricultural sales and credit
cooperatives (Laws No. 2834 and 2836); iii) 1969 The
Law on Cooperatives (No. 1163); In 1972, due to the
scope of existing legislation becoming insufficient, the
need for a new and more comprehensive law became
apparent. Therefore, Law No.1581 that emulated the
German Raiffeisen Cooperatives enacted and replaced
Law No. 2836. The Turkish Agricultural Credit
Cooperatives (ACC) came under the overall responsibility
of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs in line the
law number 3223 in 1985. As the size, scope and needs of
the ACC continued to grow, there was a proliferation of
new laws, including Law No. 1581 enacted in 1972 which
was further amended by Law No. 533 in 1995
Suriname
 Cooperative Associations Ordinance 1944
Uzbekistan
 Law of Cooperation (revised 1993-98) and Law of
Agricultural [Production] Coops (Shirkats)