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capital of about Birr 134.3 million. The Multi-purpose cooperatives are the leading type with a
total of 2,035 basic cooperative that have about 1.15 million members and approximately Birr
107.27 million. In terms of capital and membership size Mineral, irrigation users, and dairy
farmers cooperatives respectively take 2 nd to 4 th positions after the multi-purpose cooperatives
(see Table).
Table 5. Basic Cooperatives in Oromia (up to 1998 Ethiopian fiscal year)
S/N Type of Basic No. of Basic Membership Size
Capital
Cooperatives Coops. Male Female Total In Birr
1 Multi - purpose 2,035 1,059,699 89,318 1,149,017 107,267,163
2 Dairy farm 46 1,859 775 2,632 2,471,267
3 Irrigation 167 9,205 1,191 10,396 6,127,126
4 Fruits & vegetables - 568 56 624 168,362
5 Sugar cane farming 15 1,311 453 1,764 1,938,588
6 Coffee 27 2,015 195 2,210 994,942
7 Chat 32 5,209 283 4,492 446,621
8 Fishery 25 1,1196 33 1,229 854,940
9 Animal trading 79 1,593 280 1,873 958,373
10 Animal fattening 95 2,364 431 2,795 132,789
11 Abattoir 8 201 7 208 796,856
12 Tide and skin 2 25 1 26 18,983
13 Bee keeping 10 190 5 195 170,032
14 Grain Bank - 1,577 555 2,132 1,112,490
15 Grain trade - 145 11 156 58,387
16 Seed propagating - 950 78 1,028 1,564,777
17 Forestry 21 1,752 433 2,185 395,283
18 Incense production - 83 0 83 62,044
19 Water users - 321 2 323 142,340
20 Mineral 476 34,148 1,411 35,559 6,225,438
21 Consumers 48 1,727 306 2,035 392,207
22 Craftsmen 60 969 146 1,113 378,340
23 Electric users 30 4,721 487 5,208 1,040,500
24 Animal health - 74 15 89 185,820
25 Employment
generation
- 197 94 291 367,860
26 Eco tourism - 10 2 12 1,700
27 Health post 22 9 2 11 100,00
Total 3,198 1,142,118 96,570 1,227,686 134,273,228
9. The dynamics in the sector at regional level
Child sponsorship, care and support are a more apparent dynamism observed in the NSA sector of
the region. The number of NGOs, MBA and local association engaged in these activities is
growing significantly particularly among the NNGOs. Similarly, large numbers of these NSA
also participate in the care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLW/HIV). Another
important dynamism is the expansion and growth of cooperatives that play an active role in the
economic life the rural population.
10. Networking
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