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What is meant by cooperative sector industry?
Topic: Ownership of industries
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A cooperative-sector industry is one owned and run jointly by its members — usually the producers of the raw material — who share the profits among themselves.
Example
e.g. the sugar cooperatives of Maharashtra or the Amul dairy cooperative of Gujarat.
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