Abstract
THE authermas been closely associated with the developmesrt of the co-operativo movement in Sweden for the last twety-five years. The period was one of thanging economic and social conditions and grave crises in the farming industry. Faced with falling priaes, and often at the meroy of middlemen, Swedish farmers turned to co-operation to get them of their difficulties. The story of their efforts is related with inimate knowledge of the circumstances and many of the leading personalities. Written for British leders, the book opens with a description of typical Swedish farms in different agricultural regions. Broadly speaking, Sweden is a country of small farms worked by the owner and his family, often with forestry as a sideline. It is a livestock husbandry with the dairy cow as the centre point. Consequently, the processing and marketing of milk produces, meat and bacon take the first place in co-operative organisa-tions. The dairy co-operatives, in particular, have increased their membership fourfold in the last twenty-five years, and now have ninety-seven per cent of the farmers on their books. They control practically all milk, both for processing and retail distribution.
Farmers' Co-operation in Sweden
By Åke Gullander. Pp. ix + 152 + 11 plates. (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, Ltd., 1948.) 7s. 6d. net.
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Farmers' Co-operation in Sweden. Nature 164, 6 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164006b0
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