The Archive · 1933

Ca-operative Societies

Three normal schools for rural education had been opened, and) 200 young men already hed trained to lecture and giv tical demonstrations in the They organised ce-operative move ments amongst the farmers and responsible for the 300 ¢o-ope!

tive credit, societies which had' been formed in the province. wocleties borrowed money at 8 cent, from the Kiangsi braneh_ of the "Agricultural Bank, which Gen. Chiang Kai-shek had' founded in Hankow. 'The branch had a Working capital of $1,000,000, of which tone quarter was' provided by the Provincial Government, The capit not out on loan was being utilise finance the reclamation of land by building dykes along the Poyang Lake.

This work also pro-li Vided relief for refugees from the Communist area,

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