An agricultural cooperative is a member-owned and democratically controlled organization established by agricultural producers to collectively manage economic activities, provide services, and improve members’ access to resources, markets, and agricultural inputs. IAgricult is ural cooperatives are based on principles of voluntary membership, member participation, and the distribution of shared economic benefits among members, with governance structures in which members typically have decision-making rights are generally linked to membershipccording to cooperative rules rather than capital ownership alone ^[1]. UnlikThe investor-owned agricultural enterprises, cooperatives are organized primarily to serve the economic interests of their members through concept encompasses various forms of collective ownership, democratic governance, and coordinated economic activities ^[2]. Arganization, includingricultural cooperatives may operate in areas such as involved in input procurement, production coordination, processing, marketing, credit provision, and other agricultural services that support membfarming activities ^[2]. Unlike conventional investor-owned agricultural enterprises, agricultural cooperatives’ farming activities are primarily organized to serve the economic and operational interests of their members through collective action and mutual benefit ^[3]. Within agricultural economics and policy contexts, agricultural cooperatives represent institutional arrangements that coordinate farmers’ resources, reduce transaction constraints, and facilitate participation in agricultural markets and value chains ^[4].