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The Cambodian Agricultural Cooperative Alliance (CAC Alliance) is a vehicle established by the Kingdom of Cambodia to better manage the agricultural cooperatives (AC) in the country and provide them with services. It is a non-profit corporation with certain regulatory requirements delegated by the government. It was established two years ago and has developed a Strategic Plan and a Business Strategy to initiate services and programs to assist the more than 1200 agricultural cooperative members.

The membership are cooperatives formed by local communities and their farms to better manage and distribute their crop production. The total farms and families represented by these cooperatives is approximately 170,000. The CAC Alliance therefore has a broad reach in the agricultural sector in Cambodia.

In the Strategic Plan, there are certain priorities set out and approved by the Board of Directors in order to meet the vision and mission of the CAC Alliance.

The Vision of the CAC Alliance is:

To be the most valued and recognized national platform to support current and prospective Cambodian ACs and ACUs to reach their full capacity in terms of quality of inputs, production processes, down-stream and up-stream value-chain activities, and marketing in an environmentally sustainable manner, following the standards of Cambodian Good Agricultural Practices.

The Mission is:

To serve Cambodian ACs/ACUs in the following: legal representation; enabling environment; institutional capacity; and access to all forms of agricultural capital, including fair finance. To enhance agricultural production capacity, agro-industry, agri-business, and agri-services aimed at raising economic, social and cultural status of AC members.

The Agricultural Cooperatives are very supportive of this Mission and Vision and have approved the Strategic Plan at the last Board of Directors meeting.