Starting from 1876, the railway bridge over the Zambezi River on the Central Railway in East Africa was completed, allowing trains to reach the Zimbabwe region directly. To develop the inland areas, East Africa began to establish its version of agricultural cooperatives along the Central Railway as a main artery.
"This year, we plan to build over fifteen hundred new-style agricultural cooperatives along the railway line in the Zimbabwe region to promote the development of inland areas," the Minister of Agriculture said at a government work meeting.
Agricultural cooperatives are actually not a unique Eastern industry model. Such organizations exist in regions with developed small and family farms like France and Germany, essentially union-type organizations formed spontaneously by farmers.
