A Comparison of Agricultural Credit Cooperative Systems and Functions in France, Federal Republic of Germany and Japan

Abstract

An article in the June 1979 issue of The Banker's reports that several of the apex agricultural co-operative banks occupy important positions in the ranks of world banking, so far as total deposits and debentures are concerned.for example: Caisse Nationale de Credit Agricole (C N C A ), France 2nd place Norinchukin Bank (Nochu), Japan 15th place Cooperative Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleen bank (Centrale Rabobank), Netherlands 31st place Deutsche Genossenschaftsbank (D G Bank), Federal Republic of Germany 51st place Of these C N C A , Nochu and D G Bank show similarities in that they are the apex banks of co-operative three-tier banking organisations, with prim ary, secondary and national levels; the Japanese agricultural co-operative system was in fact founded on the model of the Raiffeisen credit co-operatives in Germany.