The National Association of Mongolian Agricultural Cooperatives /NAMAC/ is a non-governmental organization which was re-organized by its First General Assembly in January 1992. The Supreme Council of Agricultural Cooperatives the precursor of NAMAC was founded in 1967 and played a significant role in increasing agricultural production efficiency, improving living standard of rural population and developing educational and cultural welfare. The establishment of association of agricultural cooperatives opened new opportunities not only in cooperative development also in intensifying economy and cultural development as well as it increased the production capacity of the country. Since cooperatives inter-cooperative factories and other cooperatives were merged into an association, the organization structure was tightened and democratic management principle followed activities. NAMAC re-organized during the performing process of centrally planned system started to follow new principle regarding the international standard. But still referring to the achievements of former association, cooperatives merge into the provincial branches which join with national association on voluntary base and it as one big unit works with a motto of "Consolidate Our Strength"
Mission
Be a national body to support the cooperation and mutual trust among the rural producers and to promote the favorable environment for cooperative development. Strategic&goals
1. To upgrade the management of cooperative organization 2. To develop the human resource for cooperative organization 3. To expand the number of cooperatives and strengthen their economic viability 4. To extend international relationship of cooperative organization
The member cooperatives of NAMAC comprises more than 100 thousand individual members of 38 thousand households throughout Mongolia and about 200 thousand people benefit from the cooperative activity. The cooperatives deliver consumer goods of 4 billion annual gross production by around 210 small and medium-scale ventures engaged in 20 types of businesses reaches more than 1 billion to earn sale income of 9.5-10.5 billion .
Website http://www.namac.coop/
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