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Puerto Rico in the Great Depression


Cooperatives with which the Cooperative Division of PRRA is working

From Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration Annual Report, Year Ended June 30, 1940
Admiral William Leahy, Administrator

See also, Cooperatives

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    Cooperative Table

    Name Year Organized Financing Agency Products Members Amount Invested Annual Business
    1. Asociacion Cooperativa de Productores de Vegetales de Puerto Rico 1930 Ins. Govt. Vegetables 25 $4,000 $38,625
    2. Puerto Rico Tobacco Marketing Ass'n.1 1934 Ins. Govt. Tobacco 1,688 35,400 492,578
    3. Puerto Rico Marketirig Ass'n. for Minor Crops 1935 Ins. Govt. & PRRA cotton 762 61,354 128,367
    4. Cooperative Handcrafts Inc. of P.R 2 4 1933 FERA Needlework --- 13,734 ---
    5. Associacion Azucarera Cooperativa Lafayette 1937 PRRA Sugar 751 4,875,718 2,275,708
    6. Arecibo Fruit Growers' Cooperative Association 1937 PRRA Fruit 85 106,000 35,592
    7. Asociacion Cooperativa de Productores de Hortalizas de Jayuya, Inc. 1937 PRRA Vegetables 130 7,000 35,678
    8. Primus Potteries cooperative, Inc. 2, 5 1938 FERA Earthenware --- 30,000 ---
    9. Puerto Rico Rug cooperative, Inc. 2 1938 FERA String Rugs 271 5,000 8,883
    10. Sociedad Agricola Cooperativa de P.R. 1939 PRRA Farm Supplies 723 200,000 477,206
    11. Puerto Rico Artcraft Cooperative 1939 PRRA Handcraft 203 12,500 15,011
    12. Cooperativa de Consecheros de Vegetales de Rio Grande 1939 PRRA Vegetables 125 5,000 19,640
    13. Cooperativa Azucarera Los Canos 1939 PRRA Sugar 373 955, 870 1, 045, 932
    14. Cooperativa de Cosecheros de Vainilla de Puerto Rico 3 1939 PRRA Vanilla 23 46 ---
    15. Villalba Vegetable Growers Cooperative Association 1940 PRRA Vegetables 96 5,000 30,715
    16. Cooperativa de Productores de Coco de Puerto Rico 1940 PRRA Coconuts 45 90 ---
    Total 5,300 $6,316,712 $4,603,930

    1 Application for loan pending.
    2 Cooperatives organized by Puerto Rico Self-Help corporation with FERA funds.
    3 This is a marketing cooperative with no capital invested, crop not sold yet.
    4 Could not operate under Fair Labor Standards Act requirements and is being liquidated.
    5 Has been discontinued as a cooperative and sold to private interests.