Leaders who founded and built farmer cooperatives, in which small producers pool their milk, crops or purchases to gain bargaining power and better prices. The cooperative movement helped farmers escape dependence on middlemen and moneylenders and became a major force in rural development. A person belongs here when their cited article names them as a pioneer or father of the cooperative movement.
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Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel (Wikipedia)
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A follower of Mahatma Gandhi, he is regarded as the father of the cooperative movement in India, most notably in the Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union in 1946, and the Anand Co-operative movement.
Wikipedia: Prabhudas Patel
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Prabhudas Khushaldas Patel was an Indian independence activist, politician, administrator, agriculturist and a pioneer of the cooperative movement in India.
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