Established in 1916, the Farm Credit System in the United States is a federally chartered network of cooperatives and other organizations, which lends money to agricultural producers, rural homeowners and farm-related businesses and cooperatives. Now, a financial cooperative has been started in Armenia based on the same concept, heavily influenced (and supported) by the system […]

Farm Credit Armenia is Armenia’s first cooperative financial institution, providing loans to farmers and rural residents around the country. Farm Credit Armenia UCO CC is currently the only financial institution in Armenia based on true cooperative principles. Farm Credit Armenia`s member-borrowers are the owners, controllers and beneficiaries of the organization.